Ashley Kahn
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Ashley Kahn is an American music historian, journalist and producer.
Kahn has made different jobs related to music in his career: from deejay to video producer and freelance writer, from road manager to concert producer and TV music editor (for VH1)...
As a road manager, he has been touring with jazz musicians like Henry Threadgill, Cassandra Wilson or Greg Osby, with African artists like Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Hugh Masekela or Lucky Dube, with rock artists like Paul Simon and Peter Gabriel, and with pop stars like Britney Spears.
His most critically acclaimed books have been on two major jazz albums, Kind Of Blue from Miles Davis and A Love Supreme from John 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.
[edit] 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 with John Swenson, 1999 for the first edition, Random House, ISBN 0-679-76873-4
- Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece, foreword by Jimmy Cobb, 2001, Da Capo Press, USA, ISBN 0-306-81067-0
- A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album, foreword by Elvin Jones, 2002 for the first edition, Viking Penguin, USA, ISBN 0-670-03136-4
