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He was a formidable, prolific, and insightful chronicler of great American artists.
She read Terrys writing in theKansas CityStar, where hed landed an internship while still in college.
After his mentor, the music critic John Haskins, died, Terry replaced him.
(Terry was, after Roger Ebert, probably the single most influential champion of my own writing.)
First, Terry pushed him to blog (You know too much about jazz.
you should probably write about it.
After Terrys death, many of the testimonials were about how helpful he was to others.
He seemed to be ego-free when it came to praising fellow writers.
He seemed to be able to get along with pretty much anybody.
He can be quite difficult, he said, but Im an oil-on-troubled-water kind of guy.
He added, I wouldnt dream of accepting payment.
He called him a couple more times in the weeks after that.
Turns out they knew a lot of the same people from the mid-20th-century Kansas City jazz scene.
Dad was over the moon.
you’re gonna wanna go out in the forest and find it.
He elaborated on the idea in 2019 to the Kansas City public-radio affiliateKCUR.
Theater is an activity that people do on the highest level of seriousness and attainment throughout the country.
No, it happens here, its made here.
He and I had been corresponding regularly via Twitter DMs about our wives health problems.
Hilary had been dealing with respiratory problems for over a decade.
