Granoff School of Music

The Granoff School of Music is a music school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded by Isadore Granoff (1901 - 2000), a Ukrainian immigrant.

Alumni of Granoff include Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Fortune, and John Coltrane.cite book | last = Bird | first = Christiane | title = Da Capo Jazz and Blues Lover's Guide to the U. S |publisher = Da Capo Press | location = New York |page=188| year = 2001 | URL=http://books.google.com/books?id=ub99o7hy08QC&pg=PA188&lpg=PA188&dq=Granoff+School+of+Music&source=web&ots=BH0ECEPo4W&sig=NZSk48yljQ1yu_qWD43QOuN78MQ&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=7&ct=result#PPA188,M1 |isbn = 0306810344 ] Cite web|url=http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=29745|title=Sonny Fortune: Thank God For That Day Job|accessyear=2008|accessmonthday=July 29|publisher=All About Jazz |year=2008|author=Chuck Koton] Cite web|url=http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/nov2000/mcty-n01.shtml|title=McCoy Tyner with Stanley Clarke and Al Foster —piano trio in the spirit of Coltrane|accessyear=2008|accessmonthday=July 29|publisher= WSWS.org|year=2000|author=Philip Sprake] Some of his students later became well-known Classical, Jazz, Swing, big band and Latin musicians.Cite web|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2005/apr/30/guardianobituaries.arts|title=Percy Heath|accessyear=2008|accessmonthday=July 29|publisher=The Guardian|year=2005|author=John Fordham]

Granoff's studio originally was in his south Philadelphia row-house at 8th and Porter streets, where the parlor served as waiting room, and the lessons were given in the adjoining dining room, furnished with a couple of music stands and an old upright piano.Fact|date=July 2008 In 1928, he relocated his studio to the Presser building at 17th and Chestnut streets in central Philadelphia. The upper stories of that building were partitioned, and contained studios for voice and instrumentalists. It was here that his studio, originally for lessons in classical violin, metamorphosed, in the late 1930s, into the broader music school.Fact|date=July 2008 Granoff sold the music school in 1970.

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