Leonard Feather (1914 – 1994) was hailed as “the Dean of Jazz Journalists.” He critiqued artists for Downbeat , Melody Maker , Wire , and his own weekly syndicated column for the Los Angeles Times . He authored works including The Jazz Years: Ear Witness to an Era and The Encyclopedia of Jazz . Feather also played piano and composed works recorded by Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, and Sarah Vaughan, to name a few. On this 1988 Piano Jazz , he solos on “Lost in the Stars” and