Ashley Kahn
Ashley’s Contributions
12/14/12 Concerts
Review: Barcelona Jazz Festival 2012
Doing it right with a varied, international focus
03/19/12 Before & After
Before & After with Rudresh Mahanthappa
At the Barcelona festival, an in-depth discussion of sax music and cultural fusion
01/04/12 Concerts
Umbria Jazz Winter Festival, December 2011
Smaller in scale than Perugia, Orvieto's fest offers the best of Italy
10/24/11 Features
Charles Lloyd: We Must Sing the Song
An icon continues his lifelong pursuit of melody
January/February 2008 Features
Pharoah Sanders: Jewels of Thought
It’s a spring afternoon in a comfortable section of South Central Los Angeles. The richly textured tone of a tenor saxophone wafts across the lawn of a two-story house, blending with the dull hum of I-10 not far off. The moment suggests a number of things...
September 2006 Features
After Hours: New York's Jazz Joints Through the Ages
Many of the legendary Manhattan nightspots where jazz musicians got their start are long gone but certainly not forgotten. It’s hard to imagine the careers of Duke Ellington, Miles Davis or Dizzy Gillespie without the Cotton Club, the Royal Roost or the...
March 2006 News
Sonny Stitt and Sonny Rollins: Tales of Two Sonnys
Producing a jazz album can be a bitch, especially if the producer and artist are not hitting it off. One might enter the studio with the necessary musical experience, technical know-how and appreciation for the musicians--and all the equipment's tweaked...
November 2005 Features
Roy Haynes: Snap Crackle
The legendary bebop drummer turned 80 earlier this year. Ashley Kahn caught up with Haynes to find out about his Fountain of Youth.
September 2005 News
Michael Cuscuna: The Art of the Reissue
If online bulletin boards and listserv groups are an accurate measure, discussion of record-company reissue policies is a sure-fire blood-boiler for jazz fans. Start a thread on any deserving artist long absent from the retail racks—old, obscure or out of...
03/14/05 Concerts
John Scofield & Brad Mehldau
It can’t be helped. For at least the next few seasons, the three venues at Columbus Circle that now house Jazz at Lincoln Center (Rose Theater, Allen Hall, Dizzy’s) will upstage the stars and merit mention. This review is no exception and hey, even Scofield...
12/14/04 Concerts
McCoy Tyner, Stanley Clarke & Billy Cobham at the Blue Note
What would they play? Would they plug in? In my mind the notion of the tight, sold-out quarters of the Blue Note turning into a pressure cooker of fusion-era amplification had me enthralled -- and scared. But when I spied an acoustic bass being held aloft...
November 2004 Features
Elvin Jones: The Company of Thunder
Highlights of the singular drummer’s career are represented in this timeline tribute compiled by Ashley Kahn with additional reporting by Nate Chinen
October 2004 Features
Alice Coltrane: Transcendence
Her first album in 26 years, Translinear Light, is more than just a return to the spotlight for John Coltrane’s wife. Alice Coltrane invited her son Ravi as well as Charlie Haden and Jack DeJohnette to the recording session, and the results are as stunning...
June 2004 Features
Charles Lloyd and Billy Higgins: The Seekers
Lifelong friends and occasional collaborators, saxophonist Charles Lloyd and drummer Billy Higgins are kindred spirits. With the death of Higgins in 2001, it seemed like we had heard the last of their special musical bond—but a new ECM album of home-recorded...
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ReportAbout Ashley Kahn
Ashley Kahn can be heard on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition and is the author of A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane’s Signature Album, Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece and, most recently, The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records.