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December 20, 2006
Ahmet Ertegun
Ahmed Ertegun was the teenage son of the Turkish ambassador to the United States in the mid-1930s when he fell in love with American jazz.
He befriended the mostly black musicians who frequented the music clubs in Washington DC and eventually started his own record label.
Atlantic Records grew into a billion dollar industry while bringing the music of American blacks to the world.
Ertegun, at age 83, fell and hit his head at a Rolling Stones concert in Manhattan on October 29, 2006. He died of that injury seven weeks later.
Seattle Times; 17 December, 2006; page B5; 'Atlantic Records founder shaped U.S. music scene'
Posted by williamfrick at December 20, 2006 11:48 PM