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1638. Balliett, Whitney. American Musicians: Fifty-Six Portraits in Jazz. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986. x, 415 pp. ISBN 0-19-503758-8. Most of these essays were first published, though in somewhat different forms, in The New Yorker. Those on women are "Out Here Again" on Mary Lou Williams, and "The Key of D is Daffodil Yellow: Four Scenes from the Life of Marian McPartland," both "day in the life of ... " articles.