Whitney Balliett (1926-2007) wrote for the New Yorker for fifty years and was its jazz critic for over forty years. He is author of many books, including American Musicians II: Seventy-one Portraits in Jazz, American Singers: Twenty-seven Portraits in Song, and Collected Works: A Journal of Jazz, 1954-2001. He received an award for excellence in literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and three of his books on jazz have won awards from ASCAP.
Balliett brings a poet's burning glass to his reflections on the
art of music-making.--James T. Maher
He brings a poet's burning glass to his reflections on the art of
music-making.--James T. Maher
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