Articles by Toby Gleason
Great Jazz Deserves To Be Heard And Seen At It's Best
by Toby Gleason
Why I'm filing a mass take-down notice on YouTubeFor several decades, my father committed himself to championing the popular emergence of jazz, and engendering proper respect for the musicians who devoted their careers and lives to the music that had long been dismissed to the sidelines of main stream American culture. Ralph J. Gleason is known by many as the long-running jazz critic of the San Francisco Chronicle, co-founder of Rolling Stone Magazine and the Monterey Jazz Festival, ...
read moreRalph J. Gleason's Jazz Casual
by Toby Gleason
(This article was first published at All About Jazz in May 1999) Various ArtistsJazz CasualRhino / WEA1999In 1959, Ralph Gleason had made his reputation as one of the leading Jazz critics of his generation; writing out of his Berkeley home for the San Francisco Chronicle and syndicated in as many as sixty-five papers around the U.S. and Europe. He was the author of liner notes for dozens of Jazz ...
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