Author

Michael Ullman

Michael Ullman is the author of Jazz Lives (Putnams) and has been a contributing editor to High Fidelity and Fanfare magazines.

CONTRIBUTIONS

Nonfiction

Dec 01 1987

The Kid from Red Bank

By the time he died in April of 1984, Count Basie had led a big jazz band for almost fifty years. A dermined man with a shy, evasive smile, he epitomized swing, and every time he played he seemed to reiterate the importance of the blues.