Poetic Obituaries: Whitney Balliett, 80, a jazz reporter

who spent more than four decades writing thousands of graceful and definitive stories for the New Yorker magazine and helped create one of the finest jazz programs on television, died Feb. 1 at his home in Manhattan, N.Y. He had liver cancer.

from The Washington Post: Whitney Balliett; Jazz Reporter Known for Poetic Prose

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