and a third, "Yesterday I Heard The Rain", with a group of jazz all-stars led by Don Thompson. Death Lees died of a stroke on April 22, 2010, at his home in Ojai, California. His wife, Janet, planned to continue the Jazzletter after his death, but this did not materialize. She died in 2013. Bibliography The Modern Rhyming Dictionary: How to Write Lyrics A Practical Guide to Lyric Writing for Songwriters and Poets (1987), Meet Me at Jim & Andy's: Jazz Musicians and Their World (1988), Waiting for Dizzy (1991), Cats of Any Color: Jazz Black and White (1994), You Can't Steal a Gift: Dizzy, Clark, Milt and Nat (2001), Friends Along the Way: A Journey Through Jazz (2003), Arranging the Score: Portraits of the Great Arrangers (2000) ISBN 0304704881 Singers & The Song (1987), Biographies Johnny Mercer – Portrait of Johnny: The Life of John Herndon Mercer (2004), Oscar Peterson – Oscar Peterson: The Will to Swing (1988, revised 2000), Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe – Inventing Champagne: The Worlds of Lerner and Loewe (1990), Woody Herman – Leader of the Band: The Life of Woody Herman (1995), Biographies as co–author Henry Mancini – Did They Mention the Music?: The Autobiography of Henry Mancini (1989), Novel And Sleep Till Noon (1967) Song Lake Summer (2008) Discography as a singer 1970s: Gene Lees Sings the Gene Lees Songbook 1998: Gene Lees Sings Gene Lees 1999: Leaves on the Water (with Roger Kellaway) 2000: Yesterday I Heard the Rain (with Don Thompson) References External links Gene Lees' Jazzletter online 1928 births 2010 deaths Berklee College of Music alumni Canadian biographers Male biographers Canadian expatriates in the United States Canadian journalists Canadian male novelists Canadian memoirists Canadian music critics Canadian music journalists Canadian radio personalities Canadian singer-songwriters Jazz writers Musicians from Hamilton, Ontario Canadian lyricists Writers from Hamilton, Ontario 20th-century Canadian novelists 20th-century Canadian male singers 20th-century Canadian translators 20th-century Canadian male writers Canadian male non-fiction writers