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Ahmet Ertegun Dies

This one is a MAJOR loss. A foreigner from a country like Turkey, comes to America and shows us the roots of OUR music for over a half century. From Ray and Aretha through Janis and Collins to the likes of Eminem, single names that light us up are the people that he brought to us. An exceptional ear with exceptional abilities to do something with it.

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.....At the age of 10, Ahmet went to the London Palladium with his older brother, Nesuhi, to hear Duke Ellington. The experience was life-altering. As he later told interviewers, he had never before seen black persons or heard such vibrant music.
``I had never heard anything as glorious as those beautiful musicians, wearing great white tails playing these incredibly gleaming horns with drums and rhythm sections unlike you ever heard on records,'' he told the online Slate magazine in 2005. ``In those days, they recorded the drums and the bass very, very softly so it wouldn't break the grooves of the 78 rpm records. So I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.'' ....

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?...YzltYg&refer=us

RIP Ahmet...I barely knew ye!

I didn't know all that, PF. Thanks for sharing it ... and ... like Lixy ...

RIP Ahmet!

Yes indeed. One of the larger figures in the business.

RIP sir.

One of the true greats, mostly unknown to the general public, but a giant to those of us who, like Ahmet, just loved the music...

Couple of side notes, the late Frank Zappa admired the man enough to name one of his sons Ahmet (not that the namesake always appreciated that in school), & Paul Schaffer, David Letterman's musical director, enjoyed having the band play the old blues classic, "I'm In Love Again", substituting the name "Ahmet Ertegun" as an inside joke...

A huge loss to the music world. I first learned about Ahmet as the founder of Atlantic Records and the producer for the Buffalo Springfield. I had to chuckle when this great man was portraied in the movie RAY.R.I.P Ahmet Ertegun

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Originally Posted by lakritze

I don't remember his role in the move. I'll have to watch it again.

I hadn't heard of him before but there's some great stories in this thread. :) LOL @ Paul Schaffer