Gitler, Ira
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Name (Hebrew)
גיטלר, איירה
Name (Latin)
Gitler, Ira
Date of birth
1928-12-18
Date of death
2019-02-23
Field of activity
Editing
Hockey
Jazz
Journalism
Musical criticism
Musicology
Sound recording industry
Occupation
Hockey coaches
Hockey players
Music critics
Music journalists
Music teachers
Musicologists
Sound recording executives and producers
Sportswriters
Editors
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
Biographical or Historical Data
b. 1928
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Sources of Information
- Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02(b. 1928)
- Washington post WWW site, viewed Feb. 27, 2019(Ira Gitler, who turned his childhood obsession with jazz into a career as a major behind-the-scenes figure, as a critic, magazine editor, record producer and historian who documented the rise of modern jazz, died Feb. 23 [2019] in Manhattan. He was 90. Mr. Gitler began writing about jazz while in high school in New York and later became a fixture at Prestige Records, where he helped produce albums by Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins and the Modern Jazz Quartet. At various times, he was the New York editor of DownBeat magazine, a jazz concert producer, and a professor at several colleges. Throughout his life, Mr. Gitler had a parallel career as a leading authority on ice hockey. He wrote several books on the sport, contributed articles frequently to the New York Rangers program and was a co-author of a 1969 history, "Hockey! The Story of the World's Fastest Sport." Mr. Gitler was an amateur hockey player and coach into his 70s. His team, Gitler's Gorillas, won many championships in a New York amateur league and was featured in the New Yorker magazine. Ira Gitler was born Dec. 18, 1928, in Brooklyn. He taught jazz history at New York's City College, the Mannes School of Music and, for 20 years, at the Manhattan School of Music)
- His Jazz masters of the forties, 1966.
Wikipedia description:
Ira Gitler (December 18, 1928 – February 23, 2019) was an American jazz historian and journalist. The co-author of The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz with Leonard Feather—the most recent edition appeared in 1999—he wrote hundreds of liner notes for jazz recordings beginning in the early 1950s and wrote several books about jazz and ice hockey, two of his passions.
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