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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.'' ....
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