ABSTRACT
The son of the World War II-era Turkish ambassador to the United States, Ertegunalong with older brother Nesuhi-developed a lifelong love of American jazz music as a youth. His passion for the genre led to the formation of Atlantic Records in 1947 in partnership with New York jazz collector Herb Abramson. Peter Guralnick, in Sweet Soul Music, noted that the label “was nurtured by a combination of creative enterprise, cultural sophistication, business acumen, and good taste that would have been rare in any field but that has been practically unheard of in the music industry.”
