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Few music writers had the resume of San Francisco's Ralph J. Gleason: Columbia University School of Journalism; critic at the San Francisco.

Studs interviews jazz and pop critic, and founding editor of "Rolling Stone" magazine, Ralph Gleason while in Berkeley, California (3 parts).

Gleason is a collection of the writings that appeared in his newspaper columns for The San Francisco Chronicle, the alternative magazine.

As the story began to break in the various rock-oriented underground papers and in the overground columns, it developed that the Stones.

Remembering music critic Ralph J. Gleason.

Gleason is a collection of the writings that appeared in his newspaper columns for The San Francisco Chronicle, the alternative magazine..

Few music writers had the resume of San Francisco’s Ralph J. Gleason: Columbia University School of Journalism; critic at the San Francisco Chronicle, where, in 1950, his criticism of popular music was the first such column in an American daily newspaper (before Gleason, newspapers regularly reviewed classical music only); produced the Jazz Casual television show for public television; witnessed and reported on all of the happenings of San Francisco during a time now known as the “San Francisco Renaissance,” when Gleason effectively connected the diverse endeavors of the era’s progressive musicians, literary figures, and comedians into an artistic aesthetic; co-founder of the Monterey Jazz Festival; writer on many a jazz record liner note (the next time you pull out Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew, check out Gleason’s poetic description); contributing writer to Ramparts; co-founder of Rolling Stone magazine.

John Gennari, author of Blowin’ Hot and Cool: Jazz and its C