Ira Gitler

One of the world's #1 bebop fans, Ira Gitler's enthusiasm for the music has been a consistent feature of his prolific writing through the years. As a staff producer for Prestige during 1950-55, Gitler worked as a producer on many dates and generally wrote the colorful liner notes. He helped Leonard Feather out on his original Encyclopedia of Jazz and his role in subsequent Encyclopedias grew to ...more