Ira Gitler (December 18, 1928 – February 23, 2019) was an American jazz historian and journalist. The co-author of The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz with Leonard Feather—the most recent edition appeared in 1999—he wrote hundreds of liner notes for jazz recordings beginning in the early 1950s and wrote several books about jazz and ice hockey, two of his passions.
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18 December 1928 Brooklyn, New York
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Died |
23 February 2019 (aged 90) New York, USA
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Zodiac | Sagittarius |
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