Grossman, Albert B (1926–1986)

US popular music manager, impresario, and recording executive. He is best known for managing Bob Dylan (1962–69). He codirected the first Newport Folk Festival (1959), created the group Peter, Paul and Mary, and managed Janis Joplin to stardom (1968).

During the 1960s he revolutionized personal management, winning major increases in artists' royalties and control of publishing rights and elevating folk singers into the pop field. He was the most influential and respected manager of his day. His stable also included The Band, Paul Butterfield, the Electric Flag, Gordon Lightfoot, and Richie Havens.

Grossman was born in Chicago, Illinois. He graduated in economics from Roosevelt College and worked for the Chicago Housing Authority before opening the seminal Gate of Horn folk music club in Chicago in the mid-1950s. He moved to New York City in the late 1950s. After Joplin's her death (1970), he moved to Bearsville, New York, where he established Bearsville Studio and Records and opened two restaurants.