Quote of the day
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
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)