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Ira Gitler

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American sports journalist and music critic (1928-2019)

United StatesWritersLived 1928 to 2019 · aged 90
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Ira Gitler was an American jazz historian and journalist. The co-author of The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz with Leonard Feather - the most recent edition appeared in 1999 - he wrote hundreds of liner notes for jazz recordings beginning in the early 1950s and wrote several books about jazz and ice hockey, two of...

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Awards 2

Guggenheim Fellowship
NEA Jazz Masters

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Ira Gitler was an American jazz historian and journalist. The co-author of The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz with Leonard Feather - the most recent edition appeared in 1999 - he wrote hundreds of liner notes for jazz recordings beginning in the early 1950s and wrote several books about jazz and ice hockey, two of his passions.

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Country
United States
Category
Writers
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Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1928 to 2019 · aged 90
Wikipedia
14 languages

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