Avant-Garde
1967
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Apr 29, 2024 · Among those in the audience was Nesuhi Ertegun who had taken his younger brother Ahmet to witness “the King of Jazz” as the newspapers dubbed the Duke; Ahmet would later co-found Atlantic...
May 17, 2024 · Producer Nesuhi Ertegun suggested to Charles Mingus that he record a blues album to respond to critics who claimed his music didn’t swing enough. Mingus, not one to easily give into commercial pursuits, appreciated the challenge but was equally interested in showing that “blues can do more than swing.”
May 9, 2024 · It was into Icarus’s wobbly wings that Nesuhi Ertegun, co-chairman of Swan Song’s distributor Atlantic Records and brother of the label’s president Ahmet, was thrown. “Just boys being boys ...
May 8, 2024 · He suggested to Nesuhi Ertegun (the jazz-loving brother of label president Ahmet Ertegun) that Atlantic begin to issue unreleased recordings that were part of the Atlantic vault by John Coltrane, Warne Marsh, and many others. Atlantic had no interest at the time.
3 days ago · On May 22, 1959, Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, Charlie Haden, and Billy Higgins entered the studio to record music that set the stage for avant garde music to come
2 days ago · However, the lack of success and support he had received almost drove him to quit before Atlantic producer Nesuhi Ertegun offered him the contract that allowed him to record The Shape of Jazz to Come.
Apr 28, 2024 · “By that time, I was a staff producer at Atlantic and got a call from New Audiences detailing plans of a January 19, 1974, Mingus concert at Carnegie Hall and asking why Mingus was taking a low-budget recording deal for it from Mercury Records. I immediately went to Nesuhi Ertegun about the situation.
