Ashley Kahn


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    Morgenstern, making a point while being interviewed by Monk Rowe for the Fillius Jazz Archive at Hamilton College.

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    “I don’t focus on the harshness of the music business,” Lloyd says. “I focus on the profundity of what we’re doing because that’s the real stuff. You can change the world with that.”

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    “You gotta go out on a limb and book people who you know people need to see, need to experience,” says Christian McBride of curating the Newport Jazz Festival.

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    ​“She reminds me of my childhood and makes we want to cry,” Cécile McLorin Salvant, pictured here with writer Ashley Kahn, said of Dianne Reeves.

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    “Being president of Blue Note has been one of the coolest things that ever happened to me,” Was said. “It’s a gas to serve as one of the caretakers of that legacy.”

    Don Was: Talkin’ Blue Note at 85

    Sitting with Don Was is a comfortable and unhurried exercise. He may seem slightly reserved at first, but ideas and…

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    ​Albert “Tootie” Heath with friends en route to a live Blindfold Test at New York University in spring of 2018. From left: Ashley Kahn, Russell Hall, Heath, Jimmy Cobb and Emmet Cohen.

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    ​The Century Room in downtown Tucson, Arizona, was born in 2021.

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    Cuscuna played a singular role in the world of jazz as a producer of new jazz, R&B and rock recordings; as co-founder of a leading reissue record label; as a historian, journalist and DJ; and as the man who singlehandedly kept the Blue Note label on life support.

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    Rome’s Casa del Jazz delivers a tremendous outdoor summer season from one of the city’s beautiful locales.

    A Jazz Home in Rome

    The trees stand majestic and tall, twisting 75 feet into the air — 23 meters by local measure — with leafy canopies…

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    Henry Threadgill performs with Zooid at Big Ears in Knoxville, Tennessee.

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    Bill Frisell and writer Ashley Kahn at this year’s North Sea Jazz Fest.

    Blindfold Test: Bill Frisell

    Fortunate and few are the jazz headliners with options like guitar maestro Bill Frisell, who can choose to lead various…

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    Endea Owens takes the Blindfold Test with writer Ashley Kahn onstage at this summer’s NorthSea Jazz Festival.

    Blindfold Test: Endea Owens

    At this early stage of her career, the bassist and bandleader Endea Owens — a product of the Detroit music scene…

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    ​Christian McBride and writer Ashley Kahn meet for a DownBeat Blindfold Test hosted by New York University’s Jazz Studies program.

    Blindfold Test: Christian McBride

    Christian McBride turned 51 this May 31 and is still pushing far beyond what many might consider conventional career…