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Article: Singing the praises of Atlantic Records' cofounder
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 2, 2007
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TELEVISION REVIEW
Atlantic Records:The House That Ahmet Built
On: WGBH, Channel 2,as part of "American Masters"
Time: Tonight, 9-11
The great impresario of the first half of the 20th century was
Sergei Diaghilev, whose Ballets Russes brought human kineticism to
new heights.
For Diaghilev's counterpart as the great impresario of the second
half of the century, here's a vote for Ahmet Ertegun. Diaghilev gave
the world Nijinsky, but Ertegun gave it a new pair of ears. As
cofounder and guiding light of Atlantic Records, the single most
important label in the first decades of R&B and rock 'n' roll, he
helped bring human kineticism to very different, sonic, heights.
Ertegun, who died in December ...