- Whitney Balliett
Whitney Lyon Balliett (
17 April 1926 –1 February 2007 ) was ajazz critic for the "New Yorker" and was with the journal from 1954 until 2001.Born in Manhattan and raised in
Glen Cove, Long Island , Balliett attendedPhillips Exeter Academy , where he learned to played drums in a band he summed up as “baggy Dixieland”; he played summer gigs at a Center Island yacht club.He was drafted into the Army in 1946, interrupting his freshman year at
Cornell University , to which returned to finish his degree in 1951 and where he was a member of TheDelta Phi Fraternity. He then went on to a job at "The New Yorker ", where he was hired by Katherine White, one of the magazine’s fiction editors.Acclaimed for his literary writing style Whitney Balliett died on
1 February 2007 , aged 80, fromcancer , survived by his wife and five children.Bibliography
*"Improvising: Sixteen Jazz Musicians and Their Art", 1977, Oxford University Press
*"Night Creature: A Journal of Jazz 1975-1980", 1981, Oxford University Press
*"American Musicians: Fifty-Six Portraits in Jazz", 1986, Oxford University Press
*"American Singers: Twenty-seven Portraits in Song", 1988, Oxford University Press
*"Collected Works: A Journal of Jazz 1954-2000", 2000, St. Martin's Press
External links
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2005883,00.html "Guardian" obituary,
7 February 2007]
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