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  The Leonard Feather Scrapbooks - Feather Obituary
Leonard Feather, who passed away on September 22, nine days after his 80th birthday, always insisted that John Hammond was the most important of all jazz critics.
A singular aspect of Feather's encyclopedias (four volumes and two yearbooks) was the accent on stylistic influence and musicians' perspective; his poll queries attempted to suss out the generational and lateral connections that soon became a constant in jazz criticism.
Leonard was a sober writer; sometimes dour; he had little patience with the glib hyperbole that is forever uncovering "perfect" solos and dubbing every musician "jazz's greatest" this or that.
www.leonardfeather.com /feather_obituary.html   (1574 words)

  
 Dinah Washington, Live at Birdland 1962, Liner Notes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Feather had been friends ever since he produced her album in 1959, and she could not wait to inform him that she was recording a new album and I was producing it.
In many album liner notes Leonard Feather had written for Dinah, one thing he kept repeating was "there was no voice like Dinah's and never will be." I do agree that hers was one of the most recognizable and possibly the most powerful among the singers of her generation.
Leonard Feather could not place the names at that moment by hearing it in a small radio-cassette player, but told me that he would listen to the tape at home later.
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 Lorraine Feather - New York City Drag   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Feather setting her own wickedly clever lyrics to the quirky music of the legendary Fats Waller.
Feather's voice is a delight: supple, Pure, sensuous, wide ranging; her diction excellent -- an absolute necessity for following her 100-words-a-minute words on the uptempo numbers.
Feather pays own special tribute to Waller in her re-fashioned "Numb Fumblin'" which she calls "In Living Balck and White": "He was a rascal to remember and he's captured here in living fl and white, a cutie on his left, an empty brandy bottle on his right."
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 NYTimes
Feather concludes that they are, without mentioning the lofts and small theaters and concert halls where the younger fl jazz musicians play.
Feather's concern with establishing the ''seriousness'' of jazz is a recurring theme, but most of his pieces are too frothy to add much to the music's reputation.
Feather, whose chronicle of the past five years utterly ignores the avant-gardes of both the 60's and the 70's, Mr.
partners.nytimes.com /books/00/04/23/nnp/giddins-blue.html   (1009 words)

  
 Club Kaycee -- Kansas City Jazz History -- Leonard, Harlan "Mike"
Hayes, Leonard and Jesse Stone rehearsed the band rigorously, biding their time until the annual spring battle of the bands at Paseo Hall in May of 1932.
In 1934, Hayes left the band after a dispute with the musicians union and Leonard assumed leadership of the group.
Leonard later recruited younger players in Kansas City including Henry Bridges and Jimmy Keith on reeds; Fred Beckett, trombone; and veteran drummer Jesse Price.
www.umkc.edu /orgs/kcjazz/jazzfolk/leonh_00.htm   (311 words)

  
 The Leonard Feather Scrapbooks - Chapter 1 Arrivals
Leonard Feather was born in 1914 in Hampstead, a suburb of London, to upper-middle-class Jewish parents.
It was Leonard Feather's unusual destiny to spend a lifetime chronicling the coming of age of the American art form known as jazz.
The multi-faceted nature of his contribution was detailed well by writer Gary Giddins in The Village Voice after Leonard's passing in 1994.
www.leonardfeather.com /feather_1.html   (175 words)

  
 NPR : LEonard FEather, one of the world's most prominent jazz critics died of pneumonia, yesterday a...
LEonard FEather, one of the world's most prominent jazz critics died of pneumonia, yesterday a...
Fresh Air from WHYY, September 23, 1994 · 2: LEonard FEather, one of the world's most prominent jazz critics died of pneumonia, yesterday at the age of 80.
Feather also produced about 200 recording sessions, composed for many of the musicians he worked with, and even played piano on some of their sessions.
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 'F' ENTRIES - Page 2 on the COMPOSERS - LYRICISTS DATABASE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Feather appeared, as jazz expert, on a number of radio shows including the 'RCA Victor Show' and 'The Lower Basin Street Chamber Music and Jazz Society' program.
As Esquire Magazine's Jazz authority, Feather was instrumental in both helping to choose the winners, but also in presenting the prizes and in arranging to have record albums released.
Leonard was 80 years of age when he died, just 8 days after his birthday.
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 Jazz | All About Jazz
A successful career as a TV lyricist and a gig as drummer for a smooth jazz group were sensible reasons for Lorraine Feather and her husband Tony Morales, respectively, to stay rooted in Southern California.
Now Feather, who worked as a singer-and-dancer decades ago in Jesus Christ Superstar and later appeared at jazz festivals in the group Full Swing, is having to reconfigure herself as a solo act, supporting sales of New York City Drag and other albums to come.
As renowned as Leonard Feather was for his jazz scholarship and criticism, many fans don't know that he was also a fine songwriter and arranger.
www.allaboutjazz.com /artists/lfeather.htm   (1136 words)

  
 Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz, Leonard Feather & Ira Gitler
From birth dates to gig dates and from recordings to television specials, Leonard Feather and Ira Gitler have left no stone unturned in their quest for accurate, detailed information on the careers of 3,300 jazz musicians from around the world.
LEONARD FEATHER, one of the deans of jazz criticism, is a widely respected figure in jazz writing.
He moved to New York from England in the 1930s and made a significant career in jazz here as a journalist, producer, lecturer, broadcaster, musician, and writer of hundreds of jazz compositions.
www.jazzscript.co.uk /books/biogencyl.htm   (451 words)

  
 Miles Ahead: Charlie Parker Interviews
Leonard [Feather] says here that "Mop, Mop" was one of the things that you threw off and then, finally, I don't know who.., somebody else...
FEATHER: Yeah, well, I think that maybe Cab is going to think twice about whether it was a good idea to have that article appear in...
FEATHER: Well, that's true, but I haven't talked to him since the article came out, and I'd be very interested to hear what he has to say about the musicians' reaction to that article, because there's going to be a pretty violent reaction, just as yours is.
www.plosin.com /milesAhead/BirdInterviews.html   (7578 words)

  
 Search Results for feather - Encyclopædia Britannica
Like the scales of reptiles, and those on the feet of birds, feathers are made of keratin, a fibrous protein also found in hair.
For many years golf balls were made from wood, but in the early 17th century feather balls were introduced and were hailed as an advance.
Discusses the use of feathers and whole birds for accessories, excessive hunting practices, subsequent devastation of native bird populations, and the formation of the Audubon society.
www.britannica.com /search?query=feather&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT   (496 words)

  
 Leonard, Benny on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Leonard, a master boxer and hard puncher, fought in 209 professional bouts, losing only 5.
He was lightweight champion from 1917 until 1925, when he retired as undefeated champion.
(Leonard Feather, jazz critic, author and songwriter) (Brief Article) (Obituary)
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 THE ARTS / El Grenada singer breathes life into Waller tunes
A career as a TV lyricist and a gig as drummer for a smooth jazz group were sensible reasons for Lorraine Feather and her husband, Tony Morales, to stay rooted in Southern California.
A home with an ocean view had been her dream ever since she'd been a child in the 1950s, living with her British-born father, legendary jazz critic Leonard Feather, and her mother, former big band singer Jane Feather, on Riverside Drive in Manhattan.
Listening to these noisy birds Lyrics come to Feather while she's perched on the loveseat in her living room, staring out over the deck, planting in her garden, or walking around El Grenada.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/02/22/PN145237.DTL   (1119 words)

  
 World Music--Selected References at CSUN Library Compiled by Monica J. Burdex
Feather, Leonard G. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz.
Leonard Feather and Ira Gitler, with the assistance of "Swing Journal", Tokyo.
("This book is based in part on Leonard Feather's Encyclopedia of Jazz, The New Encyclopedia of Jazz, The Encyclopedia of Jazz in the Sixties, and on a subsequent work by Mr.
library.csun.edu /mburdex/worldmusic.html   (609 words)

  
 Robert Magnusson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Leonard Feather of the Los Angeles Times wrote: "His solos are models of creative, spontaneous artistry.
His tone is full, rich and consistent; he is one of those masters who can achieve effortlessly any phrase that comes to his mind.
Adding to his many achievements, Bob wrote a book, "The Art of the Walking Bass," which was published by the Hal Leonard Publishing Company in 1999.
www.ptloma.edu /music/String/stringplayer/faculty/rmagnus.htm   (412 words)

  
 GABOR SZABO: PERFORMANCES 1974 - 1981
Leonard Feather reviews a post-Hungary Szabo performance at Donte's (during the weekend of 11/8-11/10) for the November 23, 1974, issue of Melody Maker (and in the November 15, 1974, Los Angles Times under the headline "Gabor Szabo Quartet Borders On Boredom").
Feather calls the performance monotonous and accuses Szabo of failing "to live up to the standards of which he has shown himself capable in earlier years." Songs performed included "Rambler," the show's opener, "It's So Hard To Say Goodbye," "Mizrab" and Szabo's "perennial and charming blues theme" ("Comin' Back").
Although Leonard Feather reported that Szabo had announced his retirement in late 1980, the guitarist was actually playing some of the most creative and challenging music of his career at this time.
www.dougpayne.com /p74_81.htm   (1987 words)

  
 Leonard Feather Encyclopedia of Jazz
Leonard Feather and Ira Gitler have compiled the biographies of 3,300 jazz musicians from around the world.
Leonard Feather is considered one of the deans of jazz criticism (another one was German "jazz pope" Joachim-Ernst
Leonard Feather and Ira Gitler: The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz.
www.cosmopolis.ch /english/cosmo5/feather.htm   (217 words)

  
 Jazz Valve & Slide Trombone Player Mike Fahn
But Mike Fahn qualifies, at least to the ears of this reviewer, and to those of the late Leonard Feather.
Feather has praised Fahn for his “bronzed, burnished sound” and his “technique and ideas to spare, with each note in the right place at the right instant.”
Given the right exposure, Fahn could well be responsible for a renaissance of a horn too long neglected in jazz circles.
www.mikefahn.com /reviews.html   (1646 words)

  
 Susannah McCorkle
Susannah was widely acclaimed as one of the finest jazz-pop singers in the country.
Her 1987 release Dream featuring Frank Wess was "pick of the week" in the New York Times and Billboard, rated five stars from Leonard Feather in the Los Angeles Times, and won rave reviews from People and Stereo Review.
Leonard Feather called it "The best vocal album of the year" and named her "Singer of the Year" in the Los Angeles Times.
www.riverwalk.org /profiles/mccorkle.htm   (435 words)

  
 White Feather's Realm
I fight for all Indian Rights and Leonard Peltier is a Brother I have fought for everyday in one way or another for the past 29 years.
The LEONARD PELTIER SOLIDARITY ACTION CIRCLE is a group of thousands of people from all over the World who stand United and In Solidarity with LEONARD PELTIER.
Leonard Weinglass, Mumia's lead attorney, will be filing a habeus corpus appeal in Federal Court on Friday October 15, 1999.
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 Jazz Link Enterprises   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
In the few years that Leonard, his wife, Jane, and I became friends, my admiration for him as one who recorded not only the audible sounds of jazz, but carefully constructed the early years of written jazz history, too, grew enormously.
Even though Leonard has been dead for close to a decade now (in 2003), his work lives on.
While not all of the information is accurate (some birthdays, for example, appear in the wrong months), about 98% of everything that Leonard put his name to is correct.
www.jazzlinkenterprises.com /birthdays/birthdays.html   (583 words)

  
 CD Baby: LORRAINE FEATHER: The Body Remembers
She began as an actress and dancer in New York and was in "Jesus Christ, Superstar." She sang with and wrote for vocal trio Full Swing during the '80s, recording three albums with the group and performing at the Monterey, Playboy and Kool Festivals.
Features abundantly talented singer-composer-lyricist Lorraine Feather (daughter of jazz critic Leonard Feather) making her solo debut to distinctive beats created by Russ Freeman, David Benoit, Don Grusin, Tony Morales...Feather's clever, vocally over-dubbed, musically punctuated tales frequently evoke chuckles.
The most electrifying segment of this successful set of collaborations is the fund of rich, manifestly brilliant lyrics by Lorraine Feather which connect and illuminate the various items in the recital.
www.cdbaby.com /cd/feather   (512 words)

  
 Lades: Re: Bird,KLON,Mary Lou Williams
I caught Phil Woods two years ago and he played a beautiful thing, "I Remember Bird," written "believe it or not, by Leonard Feather." Phil's words.
He went on to make a very funny crack, but what the heck, in the interim Leonard's left us, so I'll resist passing it on.
Poston played a Leonard Feather interview with Bird, in which he claims that he was using the benny himself and the coffees inadvertently got switched.
www.angeltowns.com /town/ladenso1/RBird/ReBirdKLONMaryLouWilliams.html   (1055 words)

  
 Louis Armstrong Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Reactions to Louis Armstrong, in: Leonard Feather: The Encyclopedia of Jazz, New York 1960 [book: Bonanza Books], p.
Leonard Feather: There's a Lot in Me the Public Hasn't Heard!
Leonard Feather: Armstrong derriere le rideau, in: Jazz Magazine, #118 (1965), p.
www.darmstadt.de /kultur/musik/jazz/Jazzindex/index-armstrong-60s.htm   (3114 words)

  
 The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz - Questia Online Library
Leonard Feather & Ira Gitler with the assistance of Swing Journal, Tokyo
Contributors: Leonard Feather - author, Ira Gitler - author.
Choose a subscription plan to save tons of time, stress and hassle, and do better research, faster.
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 Leonard Feather: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more ||| Music.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Leonard Feather: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more
Leonard Feather [+] was best-known as easily the most famous jazz critic in the world, writing at least ten jazz books (including the famed Encyclopedia of Jazz series) and thousands of liner notes, along with articles and reviews for all of the jazz magazines and most of the daily newspapers.
Feather, who was very modest about his piano playing, produced many important sessions from the late '30s on but his inclusion in this book is due to his skills as a lyricist/composer.
www.music.com /person/leonard_feather/1   (199 words)

  
 Julie Kelly
The late, respected jazz critic Leonard Feather once said of jazz singer Julie Kelly, "Julie Kelly radiates a sense of joy and spontaneity.
Listening to her, you are reminded that jazz singing is still alive and well!" Feather's successor at the Los Angeles Times, the veteran critic Don Heckman, referred to Kelly as having, "one of the finest vocal jazz instruments of the '90's".
Julie can be found in Leonard Feather's Encyclopedia of Jazz.
www.julie-kelly.com /html/mediakit.htm   (679 words)

  
 Feather (1984) From Satchmo to Miles: Leonard Feather ; new foreword by the author
Feather (1984) From Satchmo to Miles: Leonard Feather ; new foreword by the author
From Satchmo to Miles: Leonard Feather ; new foreword by the author
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 Jazz Information
A mixed band selected by Leonard Feather, English swing critic who is now in New York, will make four sides this afternoon (December 1st) for the Bluebird label.
Four original numbers have been written for the session by Feather, who has also sketched out skeleton arrangements.
Danny Polo is also expected to record shortly as a member of Joe Sullivan's combination, probably for the Vocalion label.
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Andrea Baker has received rave reviews from music critics including Leonard Feather, Zan Stewart and Bill Kohlhasse of the Los Angeles Times, Scott Yanow of JAZZ NOW Magazine and Tim Price of Jazz Player Magazine.
She was the production advisor for The Art of Jazz Saxophone distributed by Hal Leonard.
After a move to Los Angeles he began extensive work on tenor sax, receiving raves from Leonard Feather who proclaimed him "a ruling master of the tenor sax" in the LA Times.
www.steveandandreajazz.com /bio.html   (680 words)

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