Recorded Music
 | Ashley Kahn |
Courses
Topics in Recorded Music: Miles Davis
Topics in Recorded Music: Aretha Franklin and Soul Music
Writing about Popular Music
Education
B.A. English, Columbia University
Biography
Ashley Kahn is an author, music journalist and radio producer whose voice is often heard on National Public Radio's “Morning Edition,” and whose books include Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece; The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records; and A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane’s Signature Album. He also teaches courses on music history at the Clive Davis Department of Recorded Music at New York University.During a thirty-year career in the music business, Kahn has served as a music editor at VH1, the primary editor of Rolling Stone: The Seventies (Little, Brown), a deejay on a variety of radio stations, and – for a ten-year stint –tour manager for a multitude of music groups, including: Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Debbie Harry & the Jazz Passengers and Britney Spears. He is currently working on a 70-year history of the well-known Blue Note jazz label, titled Somethin’ Else: The Story of Blue Note Records and the Birth of Modern Jazz.
