George Avakian

George Avakian's contributions to jazz have been huge through the years. He was a jazz critic as early as 1937, wrote about jazz for Mademoiselle and Pic during 1946-48, helped revise Charles Delauney's famous Hot Discography when it was first published in the U.S. in 1948 and contributed to both Down Beat and Metronome. Avakian's greatest importance is as a producer. He put together one of the ...more