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Hugh W. Wyatt, is an American investigative journalist, author, and music critic. For three decades, his articles and music reviews appeared in The New York Daily News where he was the first person of color to be a reporter. He was the founder, editor, and publisher of The Medical Herald and The Spiritual Herald newspapers and a founder of the Inner City Broadcasting Corporation, which owned WBLS-FM radio and the Apollo Theatre in New York City.

Wyatt is the author of two works of non-fiction, published by Kamama Books: Sonny Rollins: Meditating on a Riff, a biography of jazz musician Sonny Rollins, and Phoebe’s Fantasy, which focuses on the role Phoebe Jacobs played in advancing the careers of black jazz artists.

Career
Wyatt's career as a musician includes performing with

Wyatt's essay on Sonny Rollins' Saxophone Colossus was added to the National Registry of the Library of Congress in 2016.