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Dominic "Dom" Cerulli (born February 7, 1927 in Winthrop , Massachusetts , † October 23, 2012 in Tarrytown (New York) ) was an American journalist, author and music official.

Life

Cerulli served in the US Navy during World War II and was stationed in the Pacific. After completing his college education at Northeastern University , he worked in the post-war period as a reporter for United Press International and The Boston Globe , for which he wrote reports such as the 1952 Senate candidacy for John F. Kennedy or Dwight D. Eisenhower's 1956 presidential campaign. Cerulli was then one of the editors of the jazz magazine Down Beat . Then he was in 1959 for a number of major labels active: As head of the Department of Advertising and Public Relations on the east coast for Warner Bros. Records, in 1961 as an advertising manager for RCA and later for Columbia Records , where he met John Hammond worked .

In 1960 he was co-editor of The Jazz Word (Ballantine Books). Cerulli created the LP series Jazz Essentials for Verve Records in the early 1960s . He was also a founding member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS) on the east coast of the USA; also their long-standing board of governors . Cerulli has also written articles for magazines such as Playboy , Show Business Illustrated and International Musician . From the 1950s to the 1970s he also wrote a variety of liner notes for albums by Manny Albam , Red Allen , Art Blakey , Ruby Braff , John Coltrane ( Africa / Brass , 1960), Marian McPartland , Oscar Peterson , Buddy Rich , Johnny Richards and Max Roach . In 1966 he was nominated for a Grammy for his liner notes on the album Voice of the Uncommon Man, narrated by Adlai Stevenson . Musicians Cerulli has worked with throughout his career include Stan Getz ( jazz samba ), Louis Armstrong , Barbra Streisand , Antônio Carlos Jobim, and Quincy Jones .

In his later years Cerulli acted as creative director of the publishing house Grolier Publishing, he also advised the advertising agencies NW Ayer and Y&R as well as the magazine Reader's Digest , for which he put together a number of compilations with jazz and big band music. In the 1970s he produced the radio series Women on the Move . In the 1990s he worked for Smithsonian as a consultant on the publication of several jazz compilations. Cerulli died in October 2012 at the age of 85.

publication

  • Dom Cerulli, Burt Retail, Mort Nasatir (Eds.) The Jazz Word . Ballantine Books, New York City 1960.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Obituary in JazzTimes
  2. ^ Billboard of February 23, 1959
  3. ^ Billboard of March 6, 1961
  4. ^ Billboard dated November 26, 1966
  5. ↑ Dom Cerulli at Discogs (English)
  6. ^ Billboard of May 4, 1974
personal data
SURNAME Cerulli, Dom
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cerulli, Dominic (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist, author and music official
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Winthrop , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 2012
Place of death Tarrytown (New York)