Judges and Judiciary
May 4, 2010
Goodbye to An Extraordinary Writer
Presiding Justice Arthur Gilbert pays tribute to a good friend who was one of the nation's great jazz critics and lyricists.
2nd Appellate District, Division 6
Arthur Gilbert
Presiding Justice, 2nd District Court of Appeal, Division 6
UC Berkeley School of Law, 1963
Arthur's previous columns are available on gilbertsubmits.blogspot.com.
UNDER SUBMISSION
Last week a good friend of mine, Gene Lees, passed away. He was one of the nation's great jazz critics and lyricists. His output was prodigious. He was a newspaper columnist, former editor of DownBeat Magazine, an author of numerous biographies that included Dizzy Gillespie, Woody Herman, Oscar Peterson and Johnny Mercer. He had just put the finishing touches on a biography of Artie Shaw shortly before his death. He ...
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