Whitney Lyon Balliett (April 17, 1926 – February 1, 2007) was a jazz critic and book reviewer for The New Yorker and was with the journal from 1954 until...

(born 1955), American writer Mrs. L. Dow Balliett (1847-1929), American writer, clubwoman Whitney Balliett (1926–2007), American jazz critic and book...

Books in 2006.[citation needed] Balliett was born to Elizabeth Platt and Whitney Balliett. She was born Elizabeth Balliett, but her mother started calling...

special effects", although the review lamented a lack of comic relief. Whitney Balliett of The New Yorker wrote in a negative review that the film "converts...

artistry of a race with the same grasp of sound and movement that Whitney Balliett brings to jazz in his 'New Yorker' profiles [...] no mean accomplishment...

NY: Dover Publications, 1966. (Access Page 320 from Google Books.) Whitney Balliett (2006), "Back from Valhalla", American Musicians II, Univ. Press of...

Ten Thousand Things, and named it one of the best books of the year. Whitney Balliett of The New Yorker wrote: "Mrs. Dermout, in the manner of Thoreau and...

Jones, which was reviewed by the New Yorker, Whitney Balliett as the best of the CDs at that time, Balliett said that—while, most of the numbers were "played...

Smight, and produced by Robert Herridge. Jazz writers Nat Hentoff and Whitney Balliett were consultants. The Sound of Jazz features performances by musicians...

électronique. Farmer's playing around this time is summarized by critic Whitney Balliett, commenting on his performance on Hal McKusick's 1957 album Hal McKusick...

range, which Howard Cohen of the Miami Herald described as "peerless". Whitney Balliett wrote, "Streisand wows her listeners with her shrewd dynamics (in-your-ear...

granite worthies as Stanley Baker and Jack Hawkins head the cast." Whitney Balliett of The New Yorker wrote that the film had "not only refurbished all...

hour-long documentary. In a piece published in The New Yorker, jazz critic Whitney Balliett praised Bach's film as "a brilliant, funny, moving, altogether miraculous...

employed far fewer musical quotations than earlier in his career. Critic Whitney Balliett wrote of Tatum's style, "his strange, multiplied chords, still largely...

never been the same since," he told long-time New Yorker jazz critic Whitney Balliett in 1969. "That man was and is the greatest hot-trumpet player in jazz...

held in high critical esteem during his career and after his death. Whitney Balliett, jazz critic for The New Yorker, wrote of Rushing that, "His supple...

where she met her future husband, clarinetist Peanuts Hucko. The Whitney Balliett review of the festival published in The New Yorker included the statement:...

NJ: Princeton University Press. Gopnik, Adam (February 12, 2007). "Whitney Balliett". The Talk of the Town. Postscript. The New Yorker. 82 (49): 31. —...

Harris Enjoying Jazz 1961 33 Samuel Charters The Country Blues 1961 34 Whitney Balliett The Sound of Surprise: 46 Pieces on Jazz 1961 35 Martin Williams The...

like he knew what you were going to play before you did yourself." Whitney Balliett commented: "Catlett was supremely subtle. He implied more than he stated...

leaving jazz. In an interview with The New Yorker magazine jazz critic Whitney Balliett, Powell said: "I have decided that when I retire I will think through...

of the bus and behind it would dispense the stuff to colleagues.' Whitney Balliett wrote that Chaloff had 'a satanic reputation as a drug addict whose...

events. The book also contains Pepper's discography to June 1979. Whitney Balliett, critic and reviewer for The New Yorker, commented that Pepper's writing...

urgent, human roughness." As for Eldridge's singing style, jazz critic Whitney Balliett describes Eldridge as "a fine, scampish jazz singer, with a light,...

performance at New York's Village Vanguard night club, The New Yorker critic Whitney Balliett wrote that Rollins "had changed again. He had become a whirlwind. His...

2021. Balliett, Whitney (1998), American Musicians II: Seventy-Two Portraits in Jazz, New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-512116-3. Balliett, Whitney...

was. Brand, pp. 17-18. Discussing Manne's recording with Bill Evans, Whitney Balliett writes: "Unlike Elvin Jones and Philly Joe Jones and Billy Higgins...

bands for a series of small group sessions, "nearly a third of which," Whitney Balliett has argued, "are among the best of all jazz recordings"; see Michael...

Beat. p. 82. Bibliography Balliett, Whitney (2000). Collected Works: A Journal of Jazz 1954–2000. Granta Books. Balliett, Whitney (1986). American Musicians:...

Cornell included Louis Auchincloss, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Harold Bloom, Whitney Balliett, and Helen Vendler. Sale had three sons: William M. 3d of St. Louis...