Died On This Date (March 9, 2009) Hal Gaba / Co-owned Concord Music Group
themusicsover Hal Gaba
January 22, 1946 – March 9, 2009
Hal Gaba was an entertainment industry veteran who, over the course of his career, was an acquisitions consultant for Norman Lear and Bud Yorkin’s Tandem production company, ran Embassy Pay Television Unit, and owned multimedia holding company, ACT III Communications. Over the last ten years of his life, he was the CEO and C0-owner of Concord Music Group, the acclaimed independent jazz label. Hal Gaba was 63 when he died of cancer on March 9, 2009.