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Gene Lees

Canadian music critic, biographer, lyricist, and journalist.

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Born 8 February 1928
Died 22 April 2010

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  • Cover of: Jazz lives: 100 portraits in jazz

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  • Cover of: Oscar Peterson: the will to swing

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  • Cover of: Cats of any color: jazz black and white

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  • Cover of: The modern rhyming dictionary: how to write lyrics : including a practical guide to lyric writing for songwriters and poets

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    First published in 1991 — 4 editions
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    First published in 1995 — 3 editions
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    First published in 1966 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Meet me at Jim & Andy's: jazz musicians and their world

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  • Cover of: You Can't Steal a Gift: Dizzy, Clark, Milt, and Nat

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  • Cover of: Oscar Peterson: The Will to Swing

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  • Cover of: Singers and the song II

    First published in 1998 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Singers and the song

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  • Cover of: The Musical Worlds of Lerner and Loewe

    First published in 1991 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Arranging the Score: Portraits of the Great Arrangers (Bayou)

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  • Cover of: Song lake summer

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Born 8 February 1928
Died 22 April 2010

Subjects

Biography, Jazz musicians, Jazz musicians, biography, Jazz, Biographies, History and criticism, Musiciens de jazz, New York Times reviewed, Popular music, Composers, History, Race relations, United states, race relations, Histoire et critique, Jazz, history and criticism, Librettists, Popular music, history and criticism, Singers, Singers, united states, United States, Antisemitism, Arrangement (music), Arrangers (Musicians), Arrangeurs, Biographie

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United States, Canada

People

Clark Terry, Dizzy Gillespie (1917-1993), Milt Hinton, Alan Jay Lerner (1918-), Dizzy Gillespie (1912-), Frederick Loewe (1901-1988), Nat "King," Cole (1917-1965), Nat King Cole (1917-1965), Oscar Peterson (1925-), Oscar Peterson (1925-2007), Woody Herman (1913-1987)

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Alternative names

  • Frederick Eugene John Lees

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May 22, 2024 Edited by kathrinpassig added dates of birth, death, alternative name, VIAF, ISNI, Wikidata IDs
September 2, 2008 Edited by RenameBot fix author name
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import