Whitney Balliett
Whitney Balliett died this morning. Balliett was one of the most gifted and persuasive writers about jazz music. I guess I started reading his New Yorker pieces almost fifty years ago and I own half a dozen or so books in which most of them were collected over the years. Sometimes his writing infuriated me [...]
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