Browse: Gene Lees (author)

There are five requisites for a readable and valuable book on jazz: enthusiasm, wit, insight, compassion, and technical knowledge of the music. Gene Lees has them all. -- Leonard Feather — Los Angeles Times More…

the kind of book that makes you want to go and listen to all the records — The New York Times More…

The way the essays flow together, Singers and the Song has the sweep of a jazz-orchestral suite organized around recurrent motifs — The New York Times More…

Lees, well-known as a music critic and songwriter in America, met many of the great names in jazz in its comforting depths. Here he draws on his close acquaintanceship with some of them - Duke... — Sunday Times More…