Max Gordon

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Max Gordon

1903-1989 PO

Max Gordon (12 March 1903 – 11 May 1989) was a jazz promoter who founded the Village Vanguard jazz club in New York City.Born in Svir, Vilna Governorate (now in Myadzyel Raion, Belarus), in an area which belonged to Poland from 1921 to 1939, Gordon emigrated to the United States in 1926 and settled with his family in Portland, Oregon, where he later attended Reed College.Defying his parents' wishes that he become a lawyer, he moved to New York and eventually opened the Vanguard in 1935. The Vanguard initially offered comedy and poetry, segueing into folk music and jazz in the 1950s.

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