Bruce Lundvall

American record company executive
Born September 13, 1935 in Cliffside Park, New Jersey
Died May 19, 2015 in Ridgewood, New Jersey, USA.
He began his music career in marketing at Columbia in 1960 where he remained for 21 years, becoming President of the domestic division of CBS in 1976. He then moved to Elektra in 1982, where he became President of Elektra Records and the newly created Elektra Musician jazz label. In 1984, he was approached with an offer to create EMI-Manhattan Records, a pop music label based on the East Coast for EMI, as well as reviving the suspended Blue Note jazz label. Signed Wynton Marsalis twice, to Columbia in the early-1980s and then Blue Note in the early 2000s. Ceased being president of Blue Note in 2010.