![]() On September 29, 2007, he hosted his last edition of The Jazz Image on Minnesota Public Radio, which he has run since 1973. He began his career in the Twin Cities area of Minnesota, but spent time in other places such as at WOV radio in New York City. Leigh Kamman (1922 – 2014) was an American radio host who has focused bringing jazz music to the airwaves for his career, which spans more than six decades. Bill talks about his early life in music, Don Elliott, definition of jazz and his motivation for playing. Leigh Kamman interviews Bill Evans after a 1976 performance at the Longhorn Bar in Minneapolis, MN. For the last two years I have been trying without success to find a way to write an extended portrait of Bill.” Here one of his Jazzletters: “Inside The New Bill Evans Trio”: Down Beat 1962. His life, Helen’s, and my own were too closely involved for too long a time. ![]() Jazzletter by Gene Lees (Febru– April 22, 2010)Īsking Gene Lees why he didn’t wrote the definitive work on Bill Evans? “It is difficult for me to write about Bill.
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