Starting in the mid-1940s, George Avakian spent decades shaping how jazz was recorded and regarded. As a pop and jazz LP producer, George was a visionary at a time when several recording technologies and formats were emerging and competing in the first decade of the LP era. [Photo above of George Avakian in the late 1940s by William P. Gottlieb]
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