Nat Shapiro

Nat Shapiro (born September 27, 1922 in New York City , † December 15, 1983 there ) was an American jazz writer and producer.

Nat Shapiro began working in the music industry in the late 1940s; from 1948 to 1950 he was a manager at Mercury Records responsible for advertising. For the collecting society Broadcast Music Incorporated he worked for public relations in 1955/56. From 1956 to 1966 he was head of the Artists and Repertoire department at Columbia Records , where he was involved in the production of numerous albums, such as by Nina Simone , Phil Woods and Michel Legrand . In Germany he became known in the late 1950s through the book Jazz told - Hear me talkin to ya , translated by Werner Burkhardt , which he published in 1955 with Nat Hentoff after interviews with jazz musicians. In 1957 he was co-editor with Hentoff of The Jazz Makers - Essays on the Greats of Jazz ; In 1978 Shapiro edited the Encyclopedia of Quotations about Music .

Works

• Hear me talkin to ya . Penguin, London, 1955 (with Nat Hentoff), Dt: Jazz - told. Hear me talkin't to ya . Foreword by J.-E. Berendt . Nymphenburger Verlagshandlung, Munich, 1959
• The Jazz Makers - Essays on the Greats of Jazz . Rinehart & Company, New York, 1957 (with Nat Hentoff)
• Popular Music. An Annotated Index of American Popular Songs, Vol. I - VI (1920-1969) and in continuation of Ernst Pollock Vol. VII-VIII (1970-1979)
• Encyclopedia of Quotations about Music (Doubleday, 1978) ISBN 0-7153-7611-X
• Whatever it is, I'm against it: An encyclopedia of classical and contemporary abhorrence . Simon and Schuster , New York, 1984. ISBN 0-671-50837-7

Web link / source

• Nat Shapiro at Allmusic