[Dixielandjazz] Re: Leonard Feather (an encounter with Miles Davis)

Dan Augustine ds.augustine@mail.utexas.edu
Sun, 12 Jan 2003 17:39:43 -0600


>From: JimDBB@aol.com
>Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 15:44:50 EST
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>I have been asked to post a piece wherin I related an encounter with 
>MIles Davis that had some significance to me.  This was in a piece I 
>wrote on Leonard Feather, a prominent jazz critic years ago.
>
>from   www.jazzinstituteofchicago.org     under jazzgram click on Commentary
>
>Leonard Feather
>
>by <mailto:JimDBB@aol.com>Jim Beebe
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Jim and DJML--
     This article is one of the best things i've read on jazz and jazz 
criticism. I'm going to forward it to every jazz musician i have an 
address for.
     Unlimited thanks to Jim Beebe for writing it and for sending it 
to us. Bravo.  This is the stuff the internet was made for.

     Dan
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