“[Gene] Lees founded his Jazzletter in 1981. He has written, edited, and published it with the rigor of an old fashioned-managing editor who enforces high standards of accuracy, clarity and fairness—he once threw out one of his own pieces at press time on grounds of lack of objectivity—and with the passion of an editorial page editor who cares about his community.”
Doug Ramsey, Singers and the Song II by Gene Lees, Foreword to the Second Edition (1999)
Gene Lees Jazzletter
“[Gene] Lees founded his Jazzletter in 1981. He has written, edited, and published it with the rigor of an old fashioned-managing editor who enforces high standards of accuracy, clarity and fairness—he once threw out one of his own pieces at press time on grounds of lack of objectivity—and with the passion of an editorial page editor who cares about his community.”
Doug Ramsey, Singers and the Song II by Gene Lees,
Foreword to the Second Edition (1999)