Turkish-born Ahmet Ertegun founded Atlantic Records in 1947, providing an early platform for jazz, soul and blues musicians, including John Coltrane, Leadbelly and Dizzy Gillespie.

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For his eclectic talent and accomplishments as a musician, poet, painter, and composer, Lake won the 2006 Mellon Jazz Living Legacy Award from the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation.

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Yet his quartet, which combines a Polish trumpeter and a Cuban pianist with two New Yorkers, doesn't argue for the superiority of jazz or musicians on either side of the Atlantic.

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