Ashley Kahn: How do you listen to new music?

Our latest guest is Ashley Kahn, author, educator, and deep thinker! He and Mike discuss how people discover and listen to music today and how it differs from the past. More info for this episode: Paul Simon's Graceland (YouTube) Dr John - There Must Be A Better World Somewhere (YouTube) International Society of Jazz Arrangers & Composers John Beasley - pianist Tuesday's Just As Bad Radio Show Hot Tuna Blues (YouTube) The Universal Tone By Ashley Kahn Monty Alexander - pianist Montreux Alexander (YouTube) Kenny Banks Jr - Take 5 (YouTube) Theo Croker From Wikipedia: Ashley Kahn (b. 1960) is an American music historian, journalist, and producer. He was born in the Bronx, New York, and was raised in Cincinnati. Kahn graduated from Columbia University in 1983. While attending Columbia, he hosted a jazz and blues radio show on WKCR, and was known on the air as "The Cincinnati Kid." In 2014, Kahn co-authored the autobiography of Carlos Santana, titled The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story To Light. To date, his most critically acclaimed books have been on two major jazz albums, Kind of Blue by Miles Davis and A Love Supreme by John Coltrane. He pens articles, interviews and other features on music, and is a prolific liner note writer for a variety of music labels, and for which he has earned three ASCAP/Deems Taylor awards, and three Grammy nominations. In 2015, he was awarded a Grammy for his album notes to the John Coltrane release Offering: Live at Temple University.