Illustrations
Following page 114 1. Norman Granz and his parents, Morris and Ida Clara, ca. 1924 2. Granz in the 1935 Roosevelt High School yearbook 3. Granz after the first Jazz at the Philharmonic concert, July 2, 1944 4. The budding impresario in 1945 5. Still from the 1944 short film Jammin’ the Blues 6. The spring 1947 Jazz at the Philharmonic tour 7. Granz conversing with Lester Young, 1950 8. Charlie Parker and Johnny Hodges, June 1952 9. Fred Astaire in Granz’s studio to record The Astaire Story, December 1952 10. Oscar Peterson on the road during an early (mid-1950s) Jazz at the Philharmonic tour 11–12. Lester Young on the road, mid-1950s; Phillips’s handwritten caption quoting a threat of Young’s. 13. Ella Fitzgerald, her assistant Georgiana Henry, Illinois Jacquet, and Dizzy Gillespie after their arrest in Houston, Texas, 1955, for allegedly gambling backstage
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14. Jazz at the Philharmonic musicians being paraded through Tokyo upon the arrival of the tour in November 1953 15. Granz with Buddy Rich in Gjon Mili’s studio, September 1950 16. Granz on the December 15, 1954, cover of Down Beat 17. Granz and Ella Fitzgerald at the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival 18. Granz in the studio, late 1950s 19. Picasso and Granz playing ping-pong at the artist’s home in the south of France, probably sometime in the late 1960s 20. Picasso, portrait of Granz, 1969 21. Count Basie and Ella Fitzgerald during a concert in San Antonio in December 1979 22. Norman Granz in his office in Beverly Hills in 1987, posing before a Picasso sketch of Ella Fitzgerald 23. Norman and Grete Granz during the impresario’s final years 24. Granz on the balcony of his apartment about four months before his death of cancer on November 22, 2001