Feather, Leonard Geoffrey

Feather, Leonard Geoffrey
▪ 1995

      British jazz critic and songwriter (b. Sept. 13, 1914, London, England—d. Sept. 22, 1994, Los Angeles, Calif.), compiled the standard reference work The Encyclopedia of Jazz (1955), a several-times revised and expanded work offering histories, musical analyses, and thousands of biographies, and he served (from the 1960s until the 1990s) as the influential jazz critic for the Los Angeles Times. Feather contributed articles on music to the British publication Melody Maker before he embarked on a career as a record producer and migrated to the U.S. in the late 1930s. While serving as a publicist for Duke Ellington during the early 1940s, he bitterly feuded with jazz traditionalists who decried the emergence of bebop, a style he highly praised in his well-regarded book Inside Be-bop (1949). Besides composing such songs as "Evil Gal Blues" and "Blowtop Blues," which Dinah Washington recorded, and "How Blue Can You Get?," a B.B. King hit, Feather played piano on recordings by major artists. During his tenure at the Los Angeles Times, Feather championed younger musicians and harshly criticized avant-garde jazz. He also taught at various universities in California.

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