Nesuhi Ertegün

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Nesuhi Ertegün.
Photography by William P. Gottlieb .

Nesuhi Ertegun (* 26. November 1917 in Istanbul , Ottoman Empire ; † 15. July 1989 in New York City ) was a jazz - producer who primarily through his work with Atlantic Records became known.

Life

Ertegün grew up in Washington, DC when his father, Münir Ertegün, became Turkish Ambassador to the United States. Between 1941 and 1944 he worked there as a promoter of jazz concerts. He then moved to Los Angeles , where he started his own label in the form of Crescent Records, later called Jazzman . On Jazzman he produced Kid Ory and Jelly Roll Morton, among others . From 1951 to 1954 he also directed the first ever jazz course at UCLA . After that, Ertegün worked for Good Time Jazz and Contemporary Records for a while .

Years with Atlantic

Ertegün moved to New York in 1955 to take a job at Atlantic , his younger brother Ahmet's label . At Atlantic , Nesuhi Ertegün mainly worked in the label's jazz department, which he had set up himself. The performers he produced included John Coltrane ( Giant Steps ), Charles Mingus , the Modern Jazz Quartet , Ornette Coleman , Hank Crawford , Eddie Harris, and many more; He also produced rhythm and blues albums by Ray Charles , Bobby Darin , the Drifters and Roberta Flack . Later he also took part on an international level so that the label could make a profit in other countries. After the merger of Warner Brothers Records , Elektra and Atlantic in 1971, he headed WEA International for a while .

On July 15, 1989, Nesuhi Ertegün died of cancer in New York and was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991 in the Lifetime Achievement category . In honor of Nesuhi Ertegün, his brother Ahmet and his wife Mica founded the Ertegün Jazz Hall of Fame .

Art collection

Nesuhi Ertegün was an avid collector of surrealist art. His collection was exhibited together with that of his friend Daniel Filipacchi at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York in 1999 under the title Surrealism: Two Private Eyes, the Nesuhi Ertegun and Daniel Filipacchi Collections . The New York Times described the exhibition as a feast for gourmets, ... large enough to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum from the ceiling to fill up to the lobby with a powerful exhibition.

Cosmos New York

Ertegün founded the soccer club New York Cosmos in 1971 together with his brother Ahmet . The club became known through the engagement of internationally known players and coaches such as Franz Beckenbauer , Pelé and Hennes Weisweiler . The club won the US championship of the NASL five times between 1972 and 1982.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography at Jazz Hall of Fame
  2. ↑ Nesuhi Ertegün Jazz Hall of Fame
  3. ^ Grace Glueck: ART REVIEW; Trolling the Mind's Nooks and Crannies for Images. New York Times, June 4, 1999, accessed July 23, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Ertegün, Nesuhi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz producer of Turkish descent
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Istanbul , Turkey
DATE OF DEATH July 15, 1989
Place of death New York City , USA