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Origin  Chicago, Illinois
Genres  Jazz
Role  Record producer
Name  Jack Tracy

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Born  July 27, 1926 Minneapolis, Minnesota, US (1926-07-27)
Occupation(s)  Record producer, music journalist
Died  December 21, 2010, Nooksack, Washington, United States
Similar People  Ahmad Jamal, James Moody, Benny Golson, Art Farmer, Vernel Fournier

Education  University of Minnesota

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Jack Tracy (July 27, 1926, Minneapolis, Minnesota – December 21, 2010, Nooksack, Washington) was an American jazz producer and journalist.

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Early years

Tracy enlisted in the Navy in World War II and served as a medic treating and caring for the returning wounded. When he graduated from the University of Minnesota, love for words and music led him to a job in Chicago at Down Beat magazine, where he was editor from 1953-58.

Music industry

Tracy left the magazine to produce for recordings for the Mercury, Argo, Limelight, and Liberty record labels. In 1959, he worked for record label head Leonard Chess of Chess Records. In 1961, Quincy Jones convinced him to rejoin Mercury as an A&R man in Los Angeles. Artists he worked with included Dizzy Gillespie and Sarah Vaughan, Roland Kirk and Oscar Peterson, Woody Herman, Cannonball Adderley, John Coltrane, Del Close, Harry Nilsson, Mike Nichols and Elaine May, and Terry Gibbs. In 1963, he collaborated on an anecdotal memoir of jazz humor, Laughter from the Hip.

References

Jack Tracy Wikipedia