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Like in any other art forms or specialist areas, as soon as one develops an interest in jazz and starts reading about it, certain names stick to one's mind, even without knowing who they refer to or why they are important. Normally this starts with musicians, but if the beginner's hunger is still what it was when I was getting started (when it wasn't so easy to get hold of things but the music came with art covers and liner notes), one reads everything remotely connected with jazz. I guess things have changed now, but recording credits and liner notes used to make names like Norman Granz, Michael Cuscuna, Rudy Van Gelder or Nat Hentoff part of your jazz vocabulary pretty quickly, depending on what you listened to.
Like in any other art forms or specialist areas, as soon as one develops an interest in jazz and starts reading about it, certain names stick to one's mind, even without knowing who they refer to or why they are important. Normally this starts with musicians, but if the beginner's hunger is still what it was when I was getting started (when it wasn't so easy to get hold of things but the music came with art covers and liner notes), one reads everything remotely connected with jazz. I guess things have changed now, but recording credits and liner notes used to make names like Norman Granz, Michael Cuscuna, Rudy Van Gelder or Nat Hentoff part of your jazz vocabulary pretty quickly, depending on what you listened to.
