Author: seabreeze
Date: 2017-08-24 20:47
"A Closer Walk" is definitely the work of William Neeley, a novelist, journalist, and actor, and that book is sometimes listed as one of his published works even though the cover had Pete Fountain as the author. It was common knowledge that the book was more of an "as told to Neeley in conversations with Fountain" kind of production than a strict autobiography, though not formatted or marketed in that way.
Charles Suhor was more of a specialist in writing about jazz musicians and a great resource for his documentation of the growth of modern jazz in the Crescent City. Suhor would know more about the "beat on the street" details of the jazz life in the city than Neeley, whose interests were very far reaching, even into writing extensively on race car driving. Suhor was very interested in jazz education in the New Orleans school system.
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