Hentoff
Americannoun
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Among her many ventures to champion the jazz music she loves so much is A&R for iconic jazz label Candid Records, founded by the great jazz writer Nat Hentoff in 1960.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2025
One man tells Hentoff that Marie was different from the other doctors.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 6, 2023
“When someone like Glenn Miller or Artie Shaw dies and a sideman takes over the band, it’s called a ghost band because it just isn’t the same,” Hentoff told The Post in 1999.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 27, 2022
Nat Hentoff enters the world of Maurice Sendak, the author of “Where the Wild Things Are.”
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 17, 2019
Mr. Tomasky said that he and the other organizers started planning the reunion in January, when two of the paper’s flagship writers, Nat Hentoff and Wayne Barrett, died within 12 days of each other.
From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 2017
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