Norman Granz

For years, Jazz At The Philharmonic albums were the only ones of their kind.

Ellington is a writer and arranger, as well as a musician and leader. He does movie sound tracks.

In 1958, I decided that I was going to live in Europe permanently. So in 1959 I moved to Lugano, Switzerland.

I think I was supposed to play jazz.

The same aspirations to celebrate and uplift the spirit that drove the Egyptians to build the pyramids are still driving us. The things we're doing differ only in magnitude.