Atlantic Records: The House That Ahmet Built
Ahmet Ertegun, a young Turk with an immigrant's passion for the African-American music he heard in the rigidly segregated Washington, DC, of the 1940s, soon recognized that "all popular music stems from Black music, be it jazz or rock n' roll or rap." He exported these endemic sounds to England, where they merged with the European sensibility, and he imported that fusion back across the ocean. It was a revolutionary new genre, single-handedly influencing the future direction of contemporary music. The program profiles the man who discovered Ray Charles, introduced Eric Clapton to Aretha Franklin and fell asleep on Mick Jagger.
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