[78-L] Gene Lees obit

[Bill McClung]

He never gets in the way when I read him.   I guess I am so focused on the
musicians he is writing about that things just unfold through his eyes and I
usually don't see him at all.  I simply enjoy his writing and since I never
met him I'm not having to see through anything else.  As I read my mind just
edits him out.

The first two books of his I read were "Meet Me at Jim & Andy's" from 1988
and "Waiting for Dizzy" from 1991 in which he is pretty transparent.  With
his later books you do see more of him so maybe I just learned to see
through him early and just kept on seeing through him.




On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 4:25 PM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>wrote:

>
> Did you learn more than you want to know about Gene himself? That was
> always a problem with his writing. Sorry, I refuse to join in the hosannas,
> although I was able to get through his Woody Herman bio.
>
>
>
> Definitely not a fan..we put up with his ego and his "I was there" radio
> interviews and a little of him went a long way. He never heard of STFU and
> let the subject speak for itself.
>
>
>
> dl
>
> > Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:42:49 -0500
> > From: bmcclung78 at gmail.com
> > To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> > Subject: Re: [78-L] Gene Lees obit
>  >
> > I've only been reading Gene Lees for a couple of years and find him to be
> > one of the most enjoyable and informative writers I have ever read. "Meet
> > Me at Jim & Andy's" is an absolute delight. I'm writing of him in the
> > present tense because he lives on my bookshelves and in the way I see him
> > and the musicians he wrote about and he will for a long, long time.
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > In today's NYT:
> > >
> > >
> > > http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/arts/27lees.html?hpw
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