Some details of Atkins' life are obscure to jazz writers, with his dates of birth and death unknown.

The Jazz Rag recently described Chilton as "one of the world's top jazz writers".

For decades, jazz writers have written about the lack of connection between his sweet, vulnerable ballad work and his rough, insulting personality.

Jim Godbolt, 90, jazz writer and historian.

Her 1991 release Without Warning was critically acclaimed among jazz writers.

The cause was cancer, said Floyd Levin, a jazz writer and friend.

Also known as a jazz writer and educator.

Brian Priestley (born 10 July 1940) is an English jazz writer, pianist and arranger.

Richard Cook, 50, British jazz writer, cancer.

He has been branded by some the bad boy of jazz writers, mostly for his 1987 biography of Duke Ellington.