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Kevin Whitehead is an American jazz critic and author. He was born in 1952 in the United States. He is best known for his work as a jazz critic for The New York Times, The Village Voice, and National Public Radio. He has also written several books on jazz, including New Dutch Swing, Why Jazz?, and Playing Changes: Jazz for the New Century. Whitehead has been a jazz critic since the late 1970s. He has written for The New York Times, The Village Voice, and National Public Radio. He has also written several books on jazz, including New Dutch Swing, Why Jazz?, and Playing Changes: Jazz for the New Century. Whitehead is a member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, and has been a Grammy voter since the late 1980s. He is also a member of the Jazz Journalists Association, and has served on the board of directors of the Jazz Institute of Chicago. Whitehead is currently a professor of jazz studies at the University of Chicago. He is also a contributing editor for DownBeat magazine. As of 2021, Kevin Whitehead's net worth is estimated to be around $1 million.

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1998

Whitehead wrote the books New Dutch Swing (1998) and Why Jazz: A Concise Guide (2010) and (with the photographer Ton Mijs) Instant Composers Pool Orchestra: You Have to See It (2011). He is also editor of Bimhuis 25: Stories of Twenty-Five Years at the Bimhuis. His works have appeared in anthologies such as Jazz: The First Century, The Gramophone Jazz Good CD Guide, Mixtery: a Commemorative for Anthony Braxton, Da Capo's Best Music Writing 2006 and Traveling the Spaceways: Sun Ra , the Astro Black and other Solar Myths.

1993

Whitehead has also written liner notes for albums, including recordings by Ab Baars, Sylvie Courvoisier, Charles Gayle, François Houle, Phillip Johnston, Sheila Jordan, Henry Threadgill, Myra Melford (Michael Moore, 1993), Simon Nabatov / Han Bennink, Pharoah Sanders, Daniel Schnyder, Aki Takase, the Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, Clusone 3, and the ICP Orchestra. In 2012 he was nominated for the JJA Award of the Jazz Journalists Association for his liner notes of the Sam Rivers album Trilogy (Mosaic Select). He also taught jazz literature at Towson University, University of Kansas, and Goucher College.

1970

Whitehead studied at Oswego State University in New York, then earned a Masters in American Literature and Culture at Syracuse University. He began writing in the early 1970s for the short-lived magazine Oswego County Times. In 1979, he wrote his first record review, for Joni Mitchell's Mingus.

Since the end of the 1970s, Whitehead has been writing regularly on jazz, including for the NPR program Fresh Air with Terry Gross since 1987, as well as for newspapers and magazines such as JazzTimes, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Reader, Down Beat, Village Voice, and the Volkskrant. He lived in the Netherlands in the late 1990s.

1952

Kevin Francis Whitehead (born April 27, 1952 in New York City) is an American jazz critic and author.

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