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data-file-width="848" data-file-height="1103" /></a><figcaption>JATP concert announcement 1956</figcaption></figure> <p><b>Jazz at the Philharmonic</b>, or <b>JATP</b> (1944–1983), was the title of a series of jazz concerts, tours and recordings produced by <a href="/wiki/Norman_Granz" title="Norman Granz">Norman Granz</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Longreads_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Longreads-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Over the years, "Jazz at the Philharmonic" featured many of the era's preeminent musicians, including <a href="/wiki/Louie_Bellson" title="Louie Bellson">Louie Bellson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ray_Brown_(musician)" title="Ray Brown (musician)">Ray Brown</a>, <a href="/wiki/Benny_Carter" title="Benny Carter">Benny Carter</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nat_King_Cole" title="Nat King Cole">Nat King Cole</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sonny_Criss" title="Sonny Criss">Sonny Criss</a>, <a href="/wiki/Buddy_DeFranco" title="Buddy DeFranco">Buddy DeFranco</a>, <a href="/wiki/Harry_Edison" title="Harry Edison">Harry "Sweets" Edison</a>, <a href="/wiki/Roy_Eldridge" title="Roy Eldridge">Roy Eldridge</a>, <a href="/wiki/Herb_Ellis" title="Herb Ellis">Herb Ellis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ella_Fitzgerald" title="Ella Fitzgerald">Ella Fitzgerald</a>, <a href="/wiki/Stan_Getz" title="Stan Getz">Stan Getz</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dizzy_Gillespie" title="Dizzy Gillespie">Dizzy Gillespie</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lionel_Hampton" title="Lionel Hampton">Lionel Hampton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bill_Harris_(trombonist)" title="Bill Harris (trombonist)">Bill Harris</a>, <a href="/wiki/Coleman_Hawkins" title="Coleman Hawkins">Coleman Hawkins</a>, <a href="/wiki/J._C._Heard" title="J. C. Heard">J. C. Heard</a>, <a href="/wiki/Billie_Holiday" title="Billie Holiday">Billie Holiday</a>, <a href="/wiki/Helen_Humes" title="Helen Humes">Helen Humes</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Modern_Jazz_Quartet" title="Modern Jazz Quartet">Modern Jazz Quartet</a>, <a href="/wiki/Illinois_Jacquet" title="Illinois Jacquet">Illinois Jacquet</a>, <a href="/wiki/J._J._Johnson" title="J. J. Johnson">J. J. Johnson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hank_Jones" title="Hank Jones">Hank Jones</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jo_Jones" title="Jo Jones">Jo Jones</a>, <a href="/wiki/Barney_Kessel" title="Barney Kessel">Barney Kessel</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ken_Kersey" title="Ken Kersey">Kenny Kersey</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gene_Krupa" title="Gene Krupa">Gene Krupa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lou_Levy_(pianist)" title="Lou Levy (pianist)">Lou Levy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Meade_Lux_Lewis" title="Meade Lux Lewis">Meade Lux Lewis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shelly_Manne" title="Shelly Manne">Shelly Manne</a>, <a href="/wiki/Fats_Navarro" title="Fats Navarro">Fats Navarro</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Parker" title="Charlie Parker">Charlie Parker</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oscar_Peterson" title="Oscar Peterson">Oscar Peterson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Flip_Phillips" title="Flip Phillips">Flip Phillips</a>, <a href="/wiki/Buddy_Rich" title="Buddy Rich">Buddy Rich</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Shavers" title="Charlie Shavers">Charlie Shavers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Willie_Smith_(alto_saxophonist)" title="Willie Smith (alto saxophonist)">Willie Smith</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sonny_Stitt" title="Sonny Stitt">Sonny Stitt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Slim_Gaillard" title="Slim Gaillard">Slim Gaillard</a>, <a href="/wiki/Clark_Terry" title="Clark Terry">Clark Terry</a>, <a href="/wiki/Tommy_Turk" title="Tommy Turk">Tommy Turk</a>, <a href="/wiki/T-Bone_Walker" title="T-Bone Walker">T-Bone Walker</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ben_Webster" title="Ben Webster">Ben Webster</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lee_Young" title="Lee Young">Lee Young</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lester_Young" title="Lester Young">Lester Young</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Trummy_Young" title="Trummy Young">Trummy Young</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Concerts_and_tours">Concerts and tours</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jazz_at_the_Philharmonic&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Concerts and tours"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The very first concert was held on Sunday, July 2, 1944, at the <a href="/wiki/Philharmonic_Auditorium" class="mw-redirect" title="Philharmonic Auditorium">Philharmonic Auditorium</a>, <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles,_California" class="mw-redirect" title="Los Angeles, California">Los Angeles</a>, and featured <a href="/wiki/Illinois_Jacquet" title="Illinois Jacquet">Illinois Jacquet</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jack_McVea" title="Jack McVea">Jack McVea</a>, <a href="/wiki/J._J._Johnson" title="J. J. Johnson">J. J. Johnson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shorty_Sherock" title="Shorty Sherock">Shorty Sherock</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nat_King_Cole" title="Nat King Cole">Nat King Cole</a>, <a href="/wiki/Les_Paul" title="Les Paul">Les Paul</a>, Johnny Miller, <a href="/wiki/Meade_Lux_Lewis" title="Meade Lux Lewis">Meade Lux Lewis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bumps_Myers" title="Bumps Myers">Bumps Myers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joe_Sullivan" title="Joe Sullivan">Joe Sullivan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Buddy_Rich" title="Buddy Rich">Buddy Rich</a>, <a href="/wiki/Randall_Miller" title="Randall Miller">Randall Miller</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Bud_Hatch&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bud Hatch (page does not exist)">Bud Hatch</a>, <a href="/wiki/Marie_Bryant" title="Marie Bryant">Marie Bryant</a>, <a href="/wiki/Red_Callender" title="Red Callender">Red Callender</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lee_Young" title="Lee Young">Lee Young</a>, and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Carolyn_Richards&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Carolyn Richards (page does not exist)">Carolyn Richards</a>. Illinois Jacquet, Nat King Cole and Les Paul, in particular, created a sensation. The title of the concert had been shortened by the printer of the advertising supplements from "A Jazz Concert at the Philharmonic Auditorium" to "Jazz at the Philharmonic". Norman Granz organized the concert with about $300 of borrowed money. Only one copy of the first concert program is known to exist.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Jazz tenor saxophonist <a href="/wiki/Flip_Phillips" title="Flip Phillips">Flip Phillips</a> played at all the JATP concerts from 1946 to 1957. </p><p>Norman Granz recorded many JATP concerts, and sold or leased (from 1945 to 1947) the recordings to Asch/Disc/Stinson Records (record producer <a href="/wiki/Moses_Asch" title="Moses Asch">Moses Asch</a>'s labels). Later, from 1948 to 1953, Granz leased the Jazz at the Philharmonic recordings to <a href="/wiki/Mercury_Records" title="Mercury Records">Mercury Records</a>, and later issued/reissued them on Norgran (founded 1953), from 1953 on <a href="/wiki/Clef_Records" title="Clef Records">Clef</a> (founded 1946), and from 1956 on <a href="/wiki/Verve_Records" title="Verve Records">Verve</a> (founded 1956), which at the time, were his own labels. </p><p>In 1961, Granz sold Verve (which by then had absorbed the catalogues of his earlier labels, Clef Records and Norgran Records, as well as material previously licensed to Mercury Records) to <a href="/wiki/MGM_Records" title="MGM Records">MGM Records</a> for $3.1 million. </p><p>In the 1970s, Granz kept the spirit of the JATP alive on his many jam session style records for his <a href="/wiki/Pablo_Records" title="Pablo Records">Pablo label</a> (founded 1973), also used for previously unissued JATP concerts. In 1987, he sold Pablo to <a href="/wiki/Fantasy_Records" title="Fantasy Records">Fantasy Records</a>. </p><p>The JATP concerts featured <a href="/wiki/Swing_music" title="Swing music">swing</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bebop" title="Bebop">bebop</a> musicians. They were among the first high-profile performances to feature racially integrated bands, and Granz cancelled some bookings rather than have the musicians perform for segregated audiences. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Tours">Tours</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jazz_at_the_Philharmonic&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Tours"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>JATP Tours - USA and Canada (1945–1957): </p> <ol><li>1st National Tour: Late Fall/Winter of 1945–46.</li> <li>2nd National Tour: Spring, 1946.</li> <li>3rd National Tour: Fall, 1946.</li> <li>4th National Tour: Spring, 1947.</li> <li>5th National Tour: Fall, 1947.</li> <li>6th National Tour: Spring, 1948.</li> <li>7th National Tour: Fall, 1948.</li> <li>8th National Tour: Spring, 1949.</li> <li>9th National Tour: Fall, 1949.</li> <li>10th National Tour: Fall, 1950.</li> <li>11th National Tour: Fall, 1951.</li> <li>12th National Tour: Fall, 1952.</li> <li>13th National Tour (USA, Canada, Hawaii, Australia and Japan): Fall, 1953.</li> <li>14th National Tour: Fall, 1954.</li> <li>16th National Tour (Note: the 15th National Tour, in the fall of 1955, was renamed: 16th National Tour, just weeks before the start of the JATP Tour): Fall, 1955.</li> <li>17th National Tour: Fall, 1956.</li> <li>18th National Tour: Fall, 1957.</li></ol> <dl><dt>JATP Tours - Europe (1952–1959)</dt> <dd></dd></dl> <ul><li>1st European Tour: Spring, 1952.</li> <li>2nd European Tour (Only two concerts in the UK: London, March 8 at Gaumont State Kilburn): Spring, 1953.</li> <li>3rd European Tour: Spring, 1954.</li> <li>4th European Tour: Spring, 1955.</li> <li>5th European Tour: Spring, 1956.</li> <li>6th European Tour: Spring, 1957.</li> <li>7th European Tour (1st UK Tour!): Spring, 1958.</li> <li>8th European Tour: Spring, 1959.</li></ul> <p>After the JATP concerts in the fall of 1957, "Jazz at the Philharmonic" ceased touring the United States and Canada (with the exception of one final North American Tour in 1967), but continued intermittently mainly in Europe and Japan until 1983, with the last JATP concerts being performed in October, 1983, in Tokyo, Japan. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jazz_at_the_Philharmonic&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Recordings held by Verve Records of the first five years (1944–1949) of JATP have been issued in a Deluxe 10-CD Box Set. </p><p>The Jazz at the Philharmonic recordings were selected by the <a href="/wiki/Library_of_Congress" title="Library of Congress">Library of Congress</a> as a 2010 addition to the <a href="/wiki/National_Recording_Registry" title="National Recording 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