Peter Levinson

Levinson took his bachelor's at the University of Virginia, where he wrote on jazz in the university paper. ==Career==

After completing service in the Army in Korea, he wrote freelance on jazz music in New York City and took a job at Columbia Records in the late 1950s. He also helped orchestrate the 1986 introduction of a postage stamp in honor of Duke Ellington. Late in his career, Levinson began writing biographies, completing works on Harry James, Nelson Riddle, and Tommy Dorsey. A biography of Fred Astaire was completed just before his death, and was published in 2009: ''Puttin' on the Ritz: Fred Astaire and the Fine Art of Panache,'' St. Martin's Press ; ; . ==Later life and death==

Levinson contracted amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in 2006, which prevented him from speaking; he used a type-to-speech computer and continued writing. He died at the age of 74 after a fall at his home in Malibu, California on October 21, 2008. ==Bibliography==