Don Armstrong’s The Life and Writings of Ralph J. Gleason: Dispatches from the Front is long overdue. Unique among music writers, Gleason is the only critic from the pre-rock era (born in 1917, his first published jazz review appeared in 1936) who made the professional—and more crucially, the emotional—leap into rock ‘n’ roll before it … Continue reading Interview with Don Armstrong, author of ‘The Life and Writings of Ralph J. Gleason’
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