Ashley Kahn
Historian, Author, and Professor
NYU, Clive Davis Institute for Recorded Music
Ashley Kahn is a two-time Grammy-winning music historian and author, a prolific writer of album liner notes, and a producer of recordings and documentaries. His books include titles on legendary albums (John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme, Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue), on a record label (The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records), and Carlos Santana’s autobiography, The Universal Tone. He has received numerous honors, including a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Jazz Journalists Association in 2023. He teaches at New York University’s Clive Davis Institute for Recorded Music and speaks at a variety of music festivals, conservatories, and music programs around the world.