Ashley Kahn

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Ashley Kahn (* 1960 ) works as a freelance writer, producer, tour manager and publicist. His work as a music editor for VH1 , the anthology Rolling Stone: The Seventies (Little, Brown), and as the primary source of information on The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide (Random House) are widely read releases.

His articles have appeared in a wide variety of newspapers and magazines including The New York Times , TV Guide, Jazz Times, MOJO (UK), The Guardian (UK), Jazz (France), GQ (Japan). He has also worked for radio and television and as a tour manager for Paul Simon , Ladysmith Black Mambazo , Cassandra Wilson , Debbie Harry and the Jazz Passengers and Britney Spears . He lives in New Jersey / USA.

His best-known books include “ Kind of Blue - The Making of a Masterpiece” and “ A Love Supreme - Coltrane's Legendary Album”, both of which provide deep and detailed insights into the genesis of these two important jazz albums. As a liner notes writer, he received several Grammy nominations (2004, 2011) and won a Grammy Award in 2015 for his design of the John Coltrane album Offering: Live at Temple University .

Works

  • Kind of Blue - The making of a masterpiece . Rogner and Bernhard Verlag, Hamburg 2002. ISBN 3-8077-0176-1
  • A Love Supreme - John Coltrane's legendary album . Rogner and Bernhard Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004. ISBN 3-8077-0030-7
  • The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records . WW Norton, 2006. ISBN 0-393-05879-4
    • Impulses! The label that Coltrane created . Rogner and Bernhard Verlag, Berlin 2007. ISBN 3-8077-1026-4
  • The Color of Jazz: Album Cover Photographs by Pete Turner . Rizzoli International, 2006. ISBN 0-8478-5798-0
  • The Blue Note Years: The Photographs of Francis Wolff & Jimmy Katz . Jazzprezzo, 2009. ISBN 3-9810250-8-3
  • The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story To Light - Carlos Santana's autobiography, Little, Brown, 2014. ISBN 0-316-24492-9

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ John Coltrane's two-disc archival release "Offering: Live at Temple University" was awarded the Grammy for best album notes , LA Times, February 8, 2015, accessed September 28, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Kahn, Ashley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer, journalist, producer, tour manager
DATE OF BIRTH 1960