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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The producer, who retired four years ago, won a Grammy in 1989 for his work on Folkways - A Vision Shared: A Tribute to Woody Guthrie And Leadbelly.

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In the decade before World War II, he and his father, the famed folklorist and collector John Lomax, took several historic trips through the South collecting material while working for the Library of Congress, making the first recordings of Muddy Waters and Fred McDowell, and capturing other legends like Jelly Roll Morton and Huddie "Leadbelly" Ledbetter.

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