[Dixielandjazz] Fw: An article from globeandmail.com

[Jack Mitchell]

>Hi all,

Here's a link re
GENE LEES, 82 / Musician, Lyricist, writer and photographer which is of 
interest.

> Canadian-born jazz authority, author, singer, songwriter Gene Lees has 
> died at his home in Ojai, Calif., at the age of 82.Born Frederick Eugene 
> John Lees, he began as a freelance journalist in the late 1940s, working 
> for the Hamilton Spectator, the Toronto Telegram, and the Montreal Star, 
> and for American magazines Stereo Review and High Fidelity. By the 
> mid-50s, he was a music critic at for the Louisville (Kentucky) Times, and 
> left there in 1959 to edit the Chicago jazz magazine Down Beat until 1962.
> <http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20100424.OBLEES24ATL/EmailTPStory/Obituaries>

Best wishes
Jack Mitchell