Quote of the day
A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
Gene Lees

Born: February 8, 1928
Died: April 22, 2010 (aged 82)
Bio: Frederick Eugene John "Gene" Lees was a Canadian music critic, biographer, lyricist, and former journalist. Lees worked as a newspaper journalist in his native Canada before moving to the United States, where he was a music critic and lyricist.
Known for:
- Singers and the song (1987)
- Oscar Peterson (1988)
- Cats of any color (1994)
- Waiting for Dizzy (1991)






