Jazz at Lincoln Center
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Jazz at Lincoln Center is part of Lincoln Center in New York City. The organization was founded in 1987 and opened at Time Warner Center in October 2004. Wynton Marsalis is the artistic director and the leader of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.
Sign outside Jazz at Lincoln Center
Peter Jay Sharp arcade
Rose Theater
Nesuhi Ertegun
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Nesuhi Ertegun was a Turkish-American record producer and executive of Atlantic Records and WEA International.
Nesuhi Ertegun (right) and his brother Ahmet Ertegun in the record room at the Turkish Embassy in Washington, D.C. (around 1940)
Ertegun's first credit on a record appeared in December 1942 on Jazz Man Records, a label he later purchased
Ertegun founded his first label, Crescent Records, with the express purpose of recording Kid Ory's Creole Jazz Band (August 1944)