─Founded Verve Records, the most influential label in jazz, and released 500 albums in 4 years
─The managerial power behind Ella Fitzgerald and Oscar Peterson
─Granz has three goals in life... to fight racism, give listeners a good product,
and to earn money from good music
─Took his Jazz At The Philharmonic concert tour from America to Europe and Japan
─More than half of all jazz released in America between 1956 and 1959 was produced by Norman Granz
─Had the world's largest private collection on Picassos
These are the beginning words of this documentary about
the legendary impresario / producer Norman Granz (1918-2001)
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