- Balliett, Whitney Lyon
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▪ 2008American writerborn April 17, 1926 , New York, N.Y.died Feb. 1, 2007 , New York Citybecame the most influential of all jazz critics by describing the music and its musicians with vivid, sensual metaphors. During 1957–2001 The New Yorker published more than 550 articles by him, most notably his concert and record reviews and interviews. He was a musical adviser for the historic 1957 CBS-TV special The Sound of Jazz, and he collected his articles in a series of books, beginning with The Sound of Surprise (1959) and including American Singers (1979) and American Musicians (1986).
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