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Ralph Joseph Gleason (March 1, 1917 – June 3, 1975) was an American music critic and columnist. He contributed for many years to the San Francisco Chronicle, was a founding editor of Rolling Stone magazine, and cofounder of the Monterey Jazz Festival. [1] A pioneering jazz and rock critic, he helped the San Francisco Chronicle transition into ...
Jun 4, 1975 · Ralph J. Gleason, a pioneer jazz critic and an editor and a founder of Rolling Stone magazine, died yesterday of a heart attack at Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley, Calif. He was 58 years old. A ...
May 23, 2016 · Ralph J. Gleason is my hero. It's impossible to put an exact date on it, but I think I started reading his column in Rolling Stone in the summer of 1973. I was 14 years old and already immersed in ...
- Felix Contreras
May 16, 2009 · By Joel Selvin, Special to The Chronicle May 16, 2009. Jean Rayburn Gleason, wife of former Chronicle pop music critic Ralph J. Gleason, died at her Berkeley home on May 5 after suffering a fall ...
May 23, 2016 · Conversations In Jazz: The Ralph J. Gleason Interviews is a collection of Q&A styled sit-downs with a handful of the greatest jazz minds of the 20th century. For many of those musicians, RJG crossed over from critic to friend because of his particular skill at understanding and interpreting their music better than the average critic — and many of these interviews have never been published ...
- Felix Contreras
When the great bandleader Duke Ellington died in 1974, longtime Chronicle critic Ralph J. Gleason wrote a lengthy appreciation for Rolling Stone. Gleason, who began his career writing about jazz ...
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Ralph J. Gleason was a pioneer in music criticism. He published his first reviews in 1934, when he was a student at Columbia University, and by 1950, he was the first full-time jazz critic working for a major newspaper. Gleason's interests extended beyond jazz into comedy, folk, rock and politics. Thomas Cunniffe reviews two new collections of Gleason's work which cover the late journalist's ...
