Donald Fagen of Steely Dan, in an interview with New York magazine said that, "Ed Beach on WRVR would do this very scholarly afternoon show, and I'd listen to that when I came home from school." Fagen cited Beach, as well as Mort Fega and Jean Shepherd, as a major influence on his Nightfly character from the successful album of that same name.
Read the article on Ed Beach in JazzTimes here.
More on Ed Beach from the Jazz Lives blog.
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