Ira Gitler

Journalist, Author

1928 –

85

Who is Ira Gitler?

Ira Gitler is an American jazz historian and journalist. Perhaps best known for The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz written with Leonard Feather—the most recent edition appeared in 1999—he has written hundreds of liner notes for jazz recordings since the early 1950s and is the author of dozens of books about jazz and ice hockey, two of his passions.

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Born
Dec 18, 1928
New York City
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Lived in
  • New York
  • Brooklyn

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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