Nat Shapiro

Nat Shapiro ( born September 27, 1922 in New York City; † December 15, 1983 ) was an American jazz writer and producer.

Nat Shapiro began in the late 1940s to work in the music industry; 1948 to 1950 he was Manager at Mercury Records for advertising. For the collecting society Broadcast Music Incorporated, he was 1955/56, working for public relations. After that, he was director from 1956 to 1966 for the area of ​​Artists and Repertoire at Columbia Records label, where he worked on the production of numerous albums, such as Nina Simone, Phil Woods and Michel Legrand. In Germany he was told the late 1950s through the translated by Werner Burkhardt book Jazz - Hear me talkin ' to ya known, which he published in 1955 with Nat Hentoff according to interviews with jazz musicians. In 1957 he was co-editor of the work with Hentoff The Jazz Makers - Essays on the Greats of Jazz; 1978 Shapiro edited the Encyclopedia of Quotations about Music.

Works

  • Hear me talkin ' to ya. Penguin, London, 1955 ( with Nat Hentoff ), Dt: Jazz - told. Hear me talkin'to ya. Foreword by J.-E. Berendt. Nymphenburg Verlagshandlung, Munich, 1959
  • The Jazz Makers - Essays on the Greats of Jazz. Rinehart & Company, New York, 1957 ( with Nat Hentoff )
  • Popular Music. An Annotated Index of American Popular Songs, Vol I - VI (1920-1969) and volume in the continuation of Ernst Pollock VII- VIII (1970-1979)
  • Encyclopedia of Quotations about Music ( Doubleday, 1978) ISBN 0-7153-7611- X
  • Whatever it is, I'm against it: abhorrence An encyclopedia of classical and contemporary. Simon and Schuster, New York, 1984. ISBN 0-671-50837-7

Web link / source

  • Nat Shapiro at Allmusic
  • Music critic
  • Jazz producer
  • Jazz Author
  • Americans
  • Born in 1922
  • Died in 1983
  • Man
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