Ertegun, Ahmet M.
(*1923)
Ertegun, Ahmet M. (31 July 1923–) The son of the World War II-era Turkish ambassador to the United States, Ertegun— along with older brother Nesuhi—developed a lifelong love of American jazz music as a youth. His passion for the genre led to the formation of Atlantic Records in 1947 in partnership with New York jazz collector Herb Abramson. Peter Guralnick, in Sweet Soul Music, noted that the label “was nurtured by a combination of creative enterprise, cultural sophistication, business acumen…