Albert Grossman

Albert Bernard Grossman ( born May 21, 1926 in Chicago, † January 25, 1986 in London, England) was an American music manager and impresario who was especially successful in the 1960s and 1970s. Among the artists he had under contract, included, inter alia, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, The Band, Paul Butterfield, Bob Gibson, and Peter, Paul and Mary.

Grossman had a degree in economics. He worked for the " Chicago Housing Authority " before he opened the Folk Club " The Gate of Horn " in Chicago. In addition, he established an artists' agency. In 1959 he initiated together with George Wein, the Newport Folk Festival.

In 1969 he built the " Bearsville Recording Studio " near Woodstock ( New York ), which was continued after his death by his widow Sally Grossman (she's on the cover of Bob Dylan's Bringing It All Back Home as the woman in red to see ). The following year he founded the label Bearsville Records.

Grossman can be seen in the film Dont Look Back, a documentary in 1965 while Bob Dylan's tour of England was born.

Albert Grossman died in 1986 on a flight on the Concorde from New York to London of a heart attack. He is buried in Woodstock (New York).