Whitney Balliett
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.
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American Musicians II
Seventy-one Portraits in Jazz
University Press of Mississippi
All of the jazz profiles Whitney Balliett wrote for the New Yorker
American Singers
Twenty-seven Portraits in Song
University Press of Mississippi
A complete collection of profiles on singers that Balliett wrote for the New Yorker
New York Voices
Fourteen Portraits
University Press of Mississippi
Profiles of the artists, music makers, and movers and shakers who created New York City’s vibrant cultural landscape
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