Howard Reich has been an award-winning Chicago Tribune arts critic and writer since 1983 and is the author of The First and Final Nightmare of Sonia Reich, Let Freedom Swing, and Jelly's Blues, written with William Gaines.
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When a lanky, unpretentious, incredibly gifted, twenty-three-year-old Texan took Moscow by musical storm in 1958, it launched a sensational career that began at the age of thirteen and was to span over four decades. At the height of the Cold War, this fri... SEE MORE