Bruce Lundvall

Bruce Lundvall (* September 13, 1935 in Englewood, New Jersey) is an American music producer, especially as President (CEO) of Blue Note Records is known.

Life and work

Lundvall grew up in New Jersey in Cliffside Park. He studied from 1953 business administration from Bucknell University in Pennsylvania and went to the final in 1957 initially for the U.S. Army and from 1960 to Columbia Records. There he produced jazz musicians ( such as Herbie Hancock, Stan Getz, McCoy Tyner, Al Di Meola, Dexter Gordon) and brought it up to the head of the U.S. division ( Domestic Division ) of the parent company CBS (1976). In 1982 he moved to Elektra Records as President, where he established a jazz division ( Elektra Musician). In 1984 he moved to EMI Group and took over the Blue Note label. He lived the last years of Alfred Lion, with whom he had already applied for this job right after graduation in vain for a job. Among other things, he brought Norah Jones, Cassandra Wilson and Dianne Reeves to Blue Note and also brought Wynton Marsalis Columbia to Blue Note. At EMI, he has also built up the pop- Unterlabel Manhattan Records and directed the classical label Angel Records. He is the CEO of EMI Jazz and Classics.

He was Chairman ( Chairman ), the Recording Industry Association of America ( RIAA ), the Country Music Association (CMA ) and director of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences ( NARAS ).

Lundvall was recognized in 1998 with the downbeat Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2009 he received the first Bruce Lundvall Award at the Jazz Festival of Montreal, with the other personalities were honored by him, who is credited with the Jazz. 2011 awarded him the Recording Industry with its Trustees Award.

Lundvall lives in Wyckoff, New Jersey. He is married and has three children.