Norman Granz's interest in jazz began at the age of 19. In 1942, he organized
concerts at the Trouville club in Los Angeles, where he met Billie Holiday.
After supervising the film "Jammin' The Blues" (1944) with Lester Young, Norman
Granz organized the first Jazz At The Philharmonic (JATP) concerts in the Los
Angeles auditorium. These concerts were an opportunity for musicians of all
stripes to get to know each other or to meet again, and to hold long jam
sessions. Granz bridges the widening gap between the classical and modern
generations, on the bangs of the journalistic criti...