Ahmet Ertegun

I'm a little late...but this post is a great tribute to Ahmet Ertegun, truly one of the great figures of the past fifty years in the music industry.

As Dave Marsh writes,

So the man wasn't perfect. But the music is. In the greatest era of American music that has ever been, Ahmet Ertegun took his passion and brought that music into the world-the whole world, not just black America, not just America, for that matter--and showed the rest of us how great it could be. The music lasted. So should his memory.