Leonard Feather

Leonard Feather (born Sept. 13, 1914, London, Eng.—died Sept. 22, 1994, Encino, Calif., U.S.) was a British-born American jazz journalist, producer, and songwriter whose standard reference work, The Encyclopedia of Jazz, and energetic advocacy placed him among the most influential of jazz critics. A writer for English popular music journals in the early 1930s, Feather moved to the United States in 1935 and soon thereafter began producing records by major artists, including saxophonists Benny Carter...