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Lees, Gene

LC control no.n 81027835
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Personal name headingLees, Gene
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Variant(s)Lees, Eugene Frederick John
See alsoMorgan, Max
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Associated countryCanada United States
Birth date1928-02-08
Death date2010-04-22
Place of birthHamilton (Ont.)
Place of deathOjai (Calif.)
Profession or occupationLyricists
Music critics Journalists
Found inHis And sleep until noon, 1966.
His Pilot's journal, 1997: CIP t.p. (Max Morgan) data sheet (pseudonym for Gene Lees)
Phone call to Chronicle Books, Apr. 24, 1997 (the jazz critic Gene Lees is writing this fictional work under pseud. of Max Morgan)
Singers and the song, 1998: t.p. (Gene Lees) p. 220 (b. Feb. 8, 1928)
Los Angeles times WWW site, Apr. 26, 2010 (in obituary dated Apr. 24: Gene Lees; Eugene Frederick John "Gene" Lees; b. Feb. 8, 1928, Hamilton [Ont.]; d. Thursday [Apr. 22, 2010], Ojai, aged 82; jazz historian and critic known for his pugnacious, highly personal essays and biographies of such jazz greats as Oscar Peterson, Woody Herman, and Johnny Mercer)
Wikipedia, November 19, 2018 (Gene Lees; Canadian music critic, lyricist, and journalist; lived in Canada before moving to the United States)
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Information from 678 converted Dec. 12, 2014 (music critic; lyricist)