This article originally appeared on Doug Ramsey’s Rifftides blog, published by ArtsJournal.com. Gene Lees died on April 22. We lost a writer…
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Doug Ramsey
Doug is a recipient of the lifetime achievement award of the Jazz Journalists Association. He lives in the Pacific Northwest, where he settled following a career in print and broadcast journalism in cities including New York, New Orleans, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, San Antonio, Cleveland and Washington, DC.