Stanley Crouch, Recently Fired from JazzTimes Magazine

Daniel King wrote about JazzTimes ending Stanley Crouch's column shortly after it published his April 2003 piece "Putting the White Man in Charge," in which Crouch argued that white critics elevated white musicians beyond their abilities.

The article quoted the e-mail ending the column, which said it had "run its course," and examined whether the decision was connected to that piece.

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