Whitney Balliett

PROFILE of singer Rosemary Clooney, that traces the peaks and valleys of her personal life and career, from 1945 when she began at an Ohio radio station, …

PROFILE of Julius Monk, 79, one of the most successful supper club impresarios who emerged after the end of Prohibition. Monk (no relation to Thelonius) …

PROFILE of jazz trombonists Jimmy Knepper. The tenor saxophonist and pianist Loren Schoenberg played with him on Staten Island, and said of him recently, …

PROFILE of harpist Daphne Shih. She has a trio, Hellman's Angels(Eddie Berg on guitar, Lyn Christie on bass). She has appeared every Tuesday(when she …

PROFILE about the virtuoso drummer Louis Bellson, who at 65 is not only the last of the great swing drummers but the most commanding of all living …

PROFILE of Mel Powell. There are two of him. One played brilliant piano and wrote brilliant arrangements for great Benny Goodman band of 1941 & 1942 - and …

PROFILE of painter Jon Schueler& his wife Magda Salvesen, who divide their time between N.Y. &Mallaig, Scotland. Gives autobiographical information about …

PROFILE of Lola Szladits, curator of the Berg Collection housed at the New York Public Library. It is formally known as the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg …

PROFILE of Jean Bach, the woman who produces the"Arlene Francis Show," a radio interview program that has been heard 5 days a week over WOR for the past 23…

PROFILE of Bradley Cunningham owner of the New York bar and restaurant called Bradley's which is located on University Place between 10th and 11th …

PROFILE of Michael Moore, jazz bassist. Describes his style, which is lyrical and melodic. He lives on Thompson St., in SoHo, with Anita Gravine, his …

PROFILE of three New York drummers: Tommy Benford, Freddie Moore and Sonny Greer. Tells about the changing style of jazz drumming in the twenties and …

PROFILE of Anita Ellis, American popular singer. Tells about acute stagefright Miss Ellis suffers from. Describes her apartment on East End Ave., which she…

PROFILE of Hugh Shannon, who considers himself a "saloon" singer, although his admirers include some of the wealthiest people in the world. Writer listened…

Whitney Balliett on the brilliance of the jazz saxophonist and composer Charlie Parker.

PROFILE of Harvey Phillips, virtuoso tubist and professor of music at Indiana University. Many of Phillips' colleagues rank him as the finest living …

PROFILE of jazz guitarist Jim Hall. Hall and bass player Jack Six will be performing together in April at Sweet Basil, on 7th Ave. Writer interviewed …

PROFILE of Ruby Braff, 47, the most intense, inventive, & eloquent trumpeter/cornettist we have. He came to the fore in the mid-1950's, with a style …

PROFILE of Tony Bennett, who has become the most widely admired American popular singer. Writer spends a few days with him, at his East Side apartment, in …

PROFILE of Robert Elliott & Ray Goulding, who, as "Bob and Ray" have introduced to radio, television & theatre a unique company of comic characters, among …

PROFILE of Alec Wilder, 66-year-old composer. He is a unique & adventurous composer, who has written a huge body of music, both popular & formal, most of …

PROFILE of singer Blossom Dearie. Writer spends a day with her, visiting her at her Greenwich Village apt., going with her to a recording session, having …

PROFILE of John Gordon, one of the few first-rate Americana folk-art antique dealers. Gordon, who runs his business almost singlehandedly, has been in the …

PROFILE of jazz pianist Marian McPartland. According to her, becoming a jazz musician in her time with her sex & background was like pulling teeth. Tells …

PROFILE of Mabel Mercer, who at 72, remains the matchless but largely unknown "doyenne" of American popular singing. She has been holding forth at the St. …

Lengthy mention in REPORTER AT LARGE about the writer's house, which he rents, in Old Brookville, L.I. It stand 11 feet from a heavily travelled …

PROFILE of the Modern Jazz Quartet. Percy Heath is the bass player in the group. He was born in Wilmington, N. Carolina, in 1923, then moved to …

PROFILE on two night club owners, Max Gordon & Barney Josephson. Josephson now runs a place called The Cookery, in the Village, but from 1938-1948 he owned…

Whitney Balliett’s 1971 profile of the jazz musician Charles Mingus. “My book was written for black people, to tell them how to get through life,” Mingus said.

PROFILE of Red Norvo, jazz musician. He plays the vibraharp, a name coined by the Deagan Co., who invented the instrument in 1927, & still supplies him …

PROFILE of Elvin Jones, the jazz drummer, describes a jazz session at Pookie's Pub. A juke box played Billie Holiday singing "My Yiddishe Mama." The …

PROFILE of jazz drummer, Buddy Rich, who last fall brought a new fourteen-piece band into Basin Street East. He enlisted in the Marines in 1942. He was the…

PROFILE of Henry (Red) Allen, the 58-year-old New Orleans trumpeter & singer who is among the last of the first-rate New Orleans musicians. Writer visited …

PROFILE of Earl "Father" Hines, the consumate pianist & peer of Louis Armstrong, Jack Teagarden and Coleman Hawkins. Late last winter he gave a concert at …

PROFILE of Mary Lou Williams, pianist, arranger and composer, who is now appearing at the Hickory House.