Jack Tracy

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Jack L. Tracy (born July 27, 1926 in Minneapolis , Minnesota , † December 21, 2010 in Nooksack , Washington ) was an American music editor, writer and record producer .

Life

Tracy grew up in Minneapolis and graduated from the University of Minnesota School of Journalism in 1949 . He began his professional career in Chicago as editor of the jazz magazine Downbeat ; in 1954 he wrote a series about drug use in the music scene. After nine years at Downbeat, including six years as Executive Editor , he worked as a producer for the Chess Records label and its jazz sub-label Argo from 1958 ; There he was responsible for albums by Ahmad Jamal Ramsey Lewis , Dodo Marmarosa ( Dodo's Back ) and also the first recordings of Benny Golson / Art Farmer -Jazztet such as Meet the Jazztet (1960).

From the end of the 1950s, Tracy worked as A&R at Mercury Records , where he worked in the jazz and pop area - u. a. Recordings by Lee Hazlewood and Harry Nilsson  - supervised (he took over from Bob Shad as head of Mercury's jazz sub-label EmArcy in 1958 ) and from 1962 headed their Los Angeles branch . He was also responsible for the jazz sub-label Limelight Records and produced a. a. Recordings with Cannonball Adderley / John Coltrane , Art Blakey , Terry Gibbs , Roland Kirk ( Rip, Rig and Panic ) or Gerry Mulligan . Tracy produced from 1966 for the label Liberty Records , World Pacific and Fantasy Records ; until the 1970s he was responsible for the production of over 300 albums. With Leonard Feather he published the book Laughter from the Hip with Da Capo in 1979 . In his later years he worked as a freelance writer and music critic (including for the blog Rifftides ) on the west coast of the USA.

Tracy is not to be confused with the Sherlock Holmes researcher of the same name .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Lopes: Signifying deviance and transgression - Jazz in the popular imagination .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.gl.iit.edu  
  2. ↑ Billboard 1959
  3. ^ Billboard 1960
  4. ↑ Chess Records . Jazz in Chicago
  5. ↑ Information about Harry Nilsson / Jack Tracy ( memento of the original from November 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.harrynilsson.com
  6. ^ Billboard 1966
personal data
SURNAME Tracy, Jack
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tracy, Jack L.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American music editor and producer
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Minneapolis , Minnesota
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 2010
Place of death Nooksack , Washington