Ashley kahn biography

Ashley Kahn is an American music historian, journalist, and producer.
Ashley Kahn is an American music historian, journalist, and producer.
Ashley Kahn is a Grammy-winning music historian, author and producer, a wearer of hats, is wary of autocrats, loves jazz but is allergic to cats.

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Ashley Kahn

Love, Secrets, and Second Chances—February’s Must-Read Books Await!

Ashley Kahn is a journalist and editor who has contributed articles to the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Mojo, and other publications. He lives in Fort Lee, New Jersey.

Series

Books:

The House That Trane Built, June 2006
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Kind of Blue, September 2001
The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece
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Ashley Kahn ’83 Brings Music to Life

Known on-air as “The Cincinnati Kid” in his WKCR days, Ashley Kahn ’83 has gone from WKCR to the Grammy Awards. With three Grammy nods and a 2015 win for the third nomination under his belt, Kahn has mastered an art that may not immediately come to mind when thinking about music: album notes.

Album notes — also called liner notes — are historical, social, political and/or personal writings that are released with an album to help the listener better understand the context of the work. “My words are attached to this piece of music that’s being brought into the world for the first time — I better get it right,” says Kahn with a laugh while explaining his approach to writing album notes, adding that he looks at the process as creating a frame for readers to reference the music.

In addition to writing album notes, Kahn is a prolific music journalist and an adjunct instructor in NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts’ Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, teaching music history and criticism. Kahn’s 2015 Best Album Notes Grammy was for his writing

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ASHLEY KAHN.
I have fallen in love with Italy!

A few months ago, during the presentation of his latest book (“Il rumore dell’anima, scrivere di jazz, rock, blues”, by Il Saggiatore), Ashley Kahn met his readers and fans at the “Casa del Jazz” of Rome. It was a good time for anecdotes, personal stories, curious things that changed the course of the music (and the writer was a direct witness!). We had the opportunity to speak directly with who is considered one of living “sources” of music (especially for jazz).

From an encounter like that one, you could draw innumerable ideas to deepen topics in the most varied directions. However, one of his phrases in particular remained impressed to me! He said to consider his work completed only when one of his readers, guided by the writing, decides to put aside the book or the article and going to find out more about the artist mentioned, listening to his music or going to one of his concerts.

On the other hand, it is worth remembering that music and creativity, according to Ashley Kahn, can not be rationally governed; t