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Monthly concerts followed, establishing what became known as  [a=Jazz At The Philharmonic] (JATP). Tours followed in the US and Canada from 1946 (continuing until 1957, the last was the eighteenth US tour, though JATP briefly resumed a decade later), in Japan during 1953 with 20 concerts and Europe from 1952, continuing with European concerts during the next decade. Granz insisted on non-segregated audiences, dropped certain bookings because venues resisted, and was responsible for the first racially integrated concerts in some American cities. Some concerts were recorded and first distributed under the [l384921] banner, others were unofficially recorded.\r\n\r\nIn  June 1947, he established [l76719] (initially within [l39357] as head of their jazz department, though Granz retained the rights to his JATP recordings), and in spring 1954, [l122392] after his links to Mercury ended, which he ran alongside [l386299], a label for early jazz. 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