Fact #55182
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Jazz impresario, manager and record producer Norman Granz is born in Los Angeles, California, USA. Earning himself the soubriquet 'the first jazz millionaire', Granz will found the historic Jazz At The Philharmonic concerts, launch and run four record labels, including Verve Records, and manage the careers of Ella Fitzgerald and Oscar Peterson, to name but two.