Gene norman wikipedia
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Gene Norman (Eugene Nabatoff, January 30, 1922 - November 2, 2015) was an American jazz impresario, disc jockey and label president.
Born Eugene Nabatoff in Brooklyn, New York and a graduate of the University of Wisconsin at 18, Gene began his radio career in San Francisco, before relocating to Los Angeles in the 1940s.
A jazz buff, Gene Norman soon became Los Angeles’ leading disc jockey via stints on various local stations, including KLAC. Turning impresario, he initiated a series of jazz concerts throughout the Southland across two decades, including dates featuring Benny Goodman, Peggy Lee and Erroll Garner. His Blues Jubilee programs at the Shrine Auditorium in the early 1950s attracted some of the first integrated audiences in the United States.
Norman also introduced the Snader Telescriptions, a prototype MTV-styled concept documenting recording personalities of the era, on NBC-TV. He hosted the first ever televised jazz concert on KTLA, as well as ‘The Gene Norman Show’ and ‘Campus Club’ on KHJ.
While a DJ at KFWB, Norman organized jazz concerts at venues like the Shrine, the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, and the Hollywood Bowl with artists like Benny Goodman, Dizzy Gillespie and Shorty Rogers under the aegis of ‘Gene Norman Presents.’ These shows were recorded and re
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- "Westwood Walk" - 2:33
- "Simbah" - 2:57
- "Walkin' Shoes" - 3:37
- "Rocker" - 2:27
- "A Ballad" - 2:53
- "Taking a Chance pigeonholing Love" (Vernon Duke, Unattached Fetter, Privy La Touche) - 2:50
- "Flash" - 3:14
- "Ontet" - 3:14
- "Varsity Drag" (Ray Henderson, Lew Brown, Sidekick DeSylva) - 2:20
- "Speak Low" (Kurt Composer, Ogden Nash) - 2:09
- "Half Nelson" (Miles Davis) - 3:00
- "Lady Bird" (Tadd Dameron) - 4:28
- "Love Me pessimistic Leave Me" (Walter Donaldson, Gus Kahn) - 3:25
- "Swing House" - 3:18
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GNP Crescendo Records
Record label
GNP Crescendo Record Co. is an independent record label founded in 1954 by Gene Norman (né Eugene Abraham Nabatoff; 1922–2015). It started as a producer of jazz, then expanded into many other genres, including comedy, rock, and Star Trek soundtracks. Currently GNP Cresendo is run by Gene Norman's son, Neil Norman.
History
[edit]After hitchhiking from New York to Los Angeles, Norman promoted concerts at the Shrine Auditorium, The Hollywood Bowl and the Pasadena Civic Center, hosted popular radio shows on KFWB and KLAC, and opened his own nightclubs, the Crescendo and The Interlude, on the Sunset Strip. The Crescendo hosted a wide swath of jazz legends and comedians, from Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday to Lenny Bruce, Mort Sahl, Don Rickles, Dick Gregory, Woody Allen and Bob Newhart. Norman often paid acts their weekly rate for a single night's engagement.[1][2]
The inspiration for the label was to issue live recordings made at concerts promoted and organized by Norman, under the umbrella of "Gene Norman Presents".[2] GNP's releases included Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Muddy Waters, Lionel Hampton, Stan Kenton, Gerry Mulligan, Frank Morgan (music