Ira Gitler, a jazz author, critic and producer who was an intimate eyewitness to post-war jazz and whose prolific liner notes starting in the early 1950s appeared on more albums than most jazz musicians recorded, died on February 23. He was 90.
Ira was perhaps best known for writing Leonard Feather's Encyclopedia of Jazz volumes starting in the 1950s. Ea…
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