United States, Music Critic April 17, 1926 – February, 1, 2007.
Whitney Lyon Balliett was a jazz critic and book reviewer for the New Yorker and was with the journal from 1954 until 2001.
A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.
The brilliant explosion known as Benny Goodman went off in 1935, and it hasn´t gone out yet.
Critics are biased, and so are readers. (Indeed, a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.) But intelligent readers soon discover how to allow for the windage of their own and a critic's prejudices.
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