Scott Yanow

One does not set out to be a jazz writer like one would to be a doctor or a lawyer. It just seems to happen. I was born on October 4, 1954, in the Bronx, New York. From the time I was two until I was 11, I lived in Long Island, New York, and then I spent the next five years living in the wastelands of Thousand Oaks and Newbury Park, 30-40 miles outside of Los Angeles. I spent my junior high and ...more