Ira Gitler

Ira Gitler (December 18, 1928 – February 23, 2019) 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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Credited on 7,692 releases.

Frequent collaborators: Miles Davis, Various, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, Jackie McLean, The Modern Jazz Quartet.

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