The New Yorker Jazz Critic Whitney Balliett Thanks A Fellow Critic For Warning Me About Sly Old [Lee] Konitz"

ALS. 1pg. 4 x 7 . July 31, 1980. New York, NY. An autograph letter signed Whitney on stationery of The New Yorker, the magazine for which Balliett wrote for almost five decades. The letter is addressed to fellow jazz critic Joe Goldberg (1932-2009), author of Jazz Masters of the Fifties: Dear Joe: Thanks. And thanks for warning me about sly old Konitz, about whom Ive been thinking of doing a piece. He must have been trying to say something, and maybe thats the way it came out. Hope you are well. Yours, Whitney. Konitz refers to jazz composer and saxophonist Lee Konitz (b. 1927). The letter is in fine condition with very minor wrinkling.