- Ashley Kahn
Ashley Kahn is an American music historian,
journalist , and producer.Kahn has had various music-related jobs, including
deejay , video producer, freelance writer, road manager, concert producer, and television music editor (forVH1 ).As a road manager, he has toured with
jazz musicians such asHenry Threadgill ,Cassandra Wilson , andGreg Osby ; with African artists such asLadysmith Black Mambazo ,Hugh Masekela , andLucky Dube ; with rock artists such asPaul Simon andPeter Gabriel ; and with pop stars such asBritney Spears .His most critically acclaimed books have been on two major jazz albums, "
Kind of Blue " fromMiles Davis and "A Love Supreme " fromJohn Coltrane .Apart from his books, his contributions as a journalist have appeared in the "New York Times ", "Downbeat ", "Jazz Times ", "Rolling Stone " in the USA, "Mojo" and "New Statesman " in the UK, "GQ" in Japan, among others.Bibliography
*"Rolling Stone: The Seventies", with
Rolling Stone ,Holly George-Warren ,Shawn Dahl , 1998 for the first edition, Little Brown & Co, USA, ISBN 0-316-75914-7
*"The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide" withJohn Swenson , 1999 for the first edition, Random House, ISBN 0-679-76873-4
*"Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece", foreword byJimmy Cobb , 2001, Da Capo Press, USA, ISBN 0-306-81067-0
*"A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album", foreword byElvin Jones , 2002 for the first edition, Viking Penguin, USA, ISBN 0-670-03136-4
*"The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records". (2006) W. W. Norton, ISBN 0393058794
*"The Color of Jazz: Album Cover Photographs by Pete Turner". (2006) Rizzoli International, ISBN 0847857980External links
* [http://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/mainHTML.cfm?page=kahn.html Interview on the "Kind of Blue" book]
* [http://www.alovesupremethebook.com/ Official website of the "A Love Supreme" book]
* [http://www.jerryjazzmusician.com/mainHTML.cfm?page=kahn-als.html Interview on "A Love Supreme" book]
* [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4847621 Biography at National Public Radio]
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