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American jazz critic (1926–2007)

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Whitney Lyon Balliett (April 17, 1926 – February 1, 2007) was a jazz critic and book reviewer for The New Yorker who was published by the journal from 1954 until 2001.

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A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.