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Keeping Blue Note in the green; The famed jazz label is riding high, thanks in large part to its CEO.(FEATURES)(ARTS)
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Byline: Kim Campbell Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
NEW YORK -- When singer Norah Jones's debut album took off in 2002, selling millions worldwide, Bruce Lundvall's phone wouldn't stop ringing.
The affable record executive is head of one of the best-known jazz labels in America, Blue Note Records. But the success of Ms. Jones's beguiling "Come Away With Me" brought artists from many other genres to his door. He found himself having to tell pop musicians and rock groups that he simply couldn't sign them.
"I had meetings with people and I got demos ...
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