Bruce Lundvall, is an American record company executive, best known for his period as the President/CEO of the Blue Note Label Group, reporting directly to Eric Nicoli, the Chief Executive Officer of EMI Group. He has three sons, and two grand-daughters. He is married to Kay Lundvall.
I was a big record collector, a bad saxophone player and all I wanted to do was be in the music business.
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Fact
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He was (1) Chairman, Recording Industry Association of America. (2) Chairman, Country Music Association. (3) Director, National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.
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Two Lifetime Achievement Awards from The Jazz Foundation, and Down Beat.
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Two Awards: (1)UCLA Gershwin Award, and (2) Grammy Trustees Award.
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Bucknell University was his Alma mater, where he studied commerce and finance.
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As a teenager, he collected jazz records and frequented the jazz clubs on 52nd Street in Manhattan. As a student at Bucknell University, he wrote about jazz in the school newspaper and hosted a weekly radio show.
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His father was a mechanical engineer. His mother came from a family of amateur musicians.
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He served as chairman of the Recording Industry Association of America and chairman of the Country Music Association.
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He served in the Army in the early years of the Cold War, doing counterintelligence work in Germany.
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He was a record executive who headed the Blue Note label for 25 years. It had been an important jazz label for decades, but had been dormant for several years when he revived it under the umbrella of EMI Records in 1984.
Producer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Norah Jones: Live in New Orleans
2003
Video documentary executive producer
An Evening with Lena Horne
1994
TV Movie executive producer
One Night with Blue Note
1985
Video executive producer
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Blue Note - A Story of Modern Jazz
1997
TV Movie documentary special thanks
Cafe Society
1995
special thanks: Blue Note Records
Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser
1988
Documentary additional thanks
'Round Midnight
1986
special thanks
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Sid Bernstein Presents...
2010
Documentary
Himself
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
The 58th Annual Grammy Awards
2016
TV Movie
Himself - In Memoriam
Nominated Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1995
CableACE
CableACE Awards
Performing Arts Special or Series
An Evening with Lena Horne (1994)
Known for movies
An Evening with Lena Horne (1994) as Producer
Norah Jones: Live in New Orleans (2003) as Producer
$16 Million
