Bruce Lundvall

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Bruce Gilbert Lundvall (born September 13, 1935 in Cliffside Park , New Jersey , † May 19, 2015 in Ridgewood , New Jersey) was an American music producer who was best known as the President ( CEO ) of Blue Note Records .

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Lundvall grew up in Cliffside Park, New Jersey. From 1953 he studied business administration at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania and after graduating in 1957 he went first to the US Army and from 1960 to Columbia Records . There he produced jazz musicians (such as Herbie Hancock , Stan Getz , McCoy Tyner , Al Di Meola , Dexter Gordon ) and made it to head of the US division ( Domestic Division ) of the parent company CBS (1976). In 1982 he moved to Elektra Records as president , where he built up a jazz division ( Elektra-Musician ).

In 1984 he moved to the EMI Group and took over their label Blue Note Records , which he managed until 2010. He lived through the last few years of Alfred Lion , to whom he had applied for a position immediately after graduating. Among other things, he brought Norah Jones , Cassandra Wilson and Dianne Reeves to Blue Note and also brought Wynton Marsalis from Columbia to Blue Note. At EMI he also built up the pop sub-label Manhattan Records and headed the classic Angel Records label . For a time he was CEO of EMI Jazz and Classics . He also served as chairman of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the Country Music Association (CMA), and director of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS).

Lundvall received the Down Beat Lifetime Achievement Award in 1998. In 2009 he received the first Bruce Lundvall Award at the Montreal Jazz Festival , which was awarded to other personalities who have made a contribution to jazz. In 2011 the Recording Industry presented him with their Trustees Award .

Lundvall was married and had three sons. He died on May 19, 2015 at the age of 79 in an assisted living facility in Ridgewood, New Jersey, of complications from Parkinson's disease . In August 2014 he organized a benefit concert with Norah Jones, Dianne Reeves, Ravi Coltrane , Chucho Valdés , Bill Charlap and Renee Rosnes for the benefit of the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Nate Chinen: Bruce Lundvall, Who Revived Blue Note, Dies at 79. In: The New York Times of May 20, 2015 (English, accessed May 21, 2015).
  2. ^ Bucknell Magazine: Bruce Lundvall '57 - A jazz story. Retrieved July 2, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Bruce Lundvall Award ( Memento from May 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ News. April 30, 2017, accessed July 2, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Bruce Lundvall, Blue Note Records Veteran, Beloved Jazz Executive, Dead at 79. Retrieved July 2, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Bruce Lundvall, Longtime Blue Note President, Dies At 79 , All About Jazz May 20, 2015, accessed May 20, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Lundvall, Bruce
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lundvall, Bruce Gilbert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American music producer
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Cliffside Park , New Jersey
DATE OF DEATH 19th May 2015
Place of death Ridgewood , New Jersey