Nat Hentoff, the dean of jazz essayists who in the 1950s applied modern feature-writing techniques to musicians who up until that point had been treated as little more than hip novelties by many trade journalists, died of natural causes on Jan. 7. He was 91.
As an intellectual, Nat was many things, including a critic, a civil libertarian, a writer keenly…
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