Kevin Whitehead
Kevin Whitehead is the jazz critic for NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross. Currently he reviews for The Audio Beat and Point of Departure.
Whitehead's articles on jazz and improvised music have appeared in such publications as Point of Departure, the ChicagoSun-Times, Village Voice, Down Beat, and the Dutch daily de Volkskrant.
He is the author ofPlay the Way You Feel: The Essential Guide to Jazz Stories on Film (2020), Why Jazz: A Concise Guide (2010), New Dutch Swing (1998), and (with photographer Ton Mijs) Instant Composers Pool Orchestra: You Have to See It (2011).
His essays have appeared in numerous anthologies including Da Capo Best Music Writing 2006, Discover Jazz and Traveling the Spaceways: Sun Ra, the Astro-Black and Other Solar Myths.
Whitehead has taught at Towson University, the University of Kansas and Goucher College. He lives near Baltimore.
- With 'Some Kind Of Tomorrow' 2 Jazz Musicians Improvise Together Over Zoom
- Joshua Abrams' Chameleonic Quartet Gets Exuberantly Ornery On 'Cloud Script'
- Remembering The Jazz Legends Who Died In 2020
- Tenor Sax George Coleman Shines On Newly Released Live Record, 'In Baltimore'
- Sonny Rollins Plays His Heart Out In A Newly Discovered Live Recording
- Pianist Keith Jarrett On The 'Calling' That Drew Him To Jazz
- With 'Pedernal,' Susan Alcorn Expands Pedal Steel Guitar's Range
- Cornet Player Ron Miles Embraces His Pop Influences On 'Rainbow Sign'
- Latin Jazz Album 'El Duelo' Features Lively Solos And Moments Of Surprising Beauty
- Temporary Trio Creates A Quirky Groove On 'General Semantics'
- Artemis Brings Together An International, Inter-Generational Band Of Women
- French-Canadian Clarinetist François Houle Bridges The Border With 'RECODER'