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(1928-2019) Ira Gitler was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Manhattan, New York.

Full Name

Ira Gitler

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1928

BIRTH

Ira Gitler was born in Brooklyn, New York, on December 18, 1928.

1966

LITWORK

Jazz Masters of the 40s
Macmillan Publishing Company
0025439502 / 978-0025439504
Nonfiction.

1968

LITWORK

Make the Team in Ice Hockey
Grosset & Dunlap

Nonfiction.

1969

LITWORK

Hockey! the Story of the World's Fastest Sport
New York: Macmillan
0025082809 / 978-0025082809
Nonfiction written with Richard Beddoes and Stan Fischler.

1974

LITWORK

Blood on the Ice: Hockey's Most Violent Moments
Chicago: Henry Regnery Company
0809290782 / 978-0809290789
Nonfiction.

1976

LITWORK

The Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Seventies
New York: Horizon Press
0818012153 / 978-0818012150
Nonfiction written with Leonard Feather.

1978

LITWORK

Ice Hockey A to Z
New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
0688518427 / 978-0688518424
Nonfiction.

1985

LITWORK

Swing to Bop: An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s
Oxford University Press
0195036646 / 978-0195036640
Nonfiction.

1999

LITWORK

The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz
New York: Oxford University Press
0195074181 / 978-0195074185
Nonfiction written with Leonard Feather.

2001

LITWORK

The Masters of Bebop: A Listener's Guide
New York: Da Capo Press
0306810093 / 978-0306810091
Nonfiction.

2019

DEATH

Ira Gitler died at a nursing facility in Manhattan, New York, on February 23, 2019.

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