Ashley Kahn

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Liner notes author.

Ashley Kahn is the author of Kind of Blue: The Making of the Miles Davis Masterpiece, A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album, and other titles.
He teaches music history and journalism at New York University.

ALBUMS

The Carnegie Hall Concert

2024, 2x Vinyl,

Free Jazz/Post Bop/Modal

John Coltrane With Eric Dolphy

Evenings At The Village Gate

2023, 2x Vinyl Gatefold,

Merci Miles! (Live At Vienne)

2021, 2x Vinyl,

Avant-garde Jazz/Fusion

A Love Supreme: Live In Seattle

Offering: Live At Temple University

Avant-garde Jazz

Barbecue Bob And The Spareribs

Oedipus Rex / My Barbecue Baby

1984, 7", Rib Records

Revival (Live At Pookie's Pub)

2022, 3x Vinyl 180g, Tri-fold jacket,

Derek & The Dominos

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs

2011, Box Set 40th Anniversary Edition, CD, CD, DVD, 2x CD, 2x Vinyl,

APPEARANCES +

Sullivan Fortner

Southern Nights

2025, CD, Album, Artwork Records (2),

Birth Of The Blue

Miles '54 (The Prestige Recordings)

Ornithology: The Best Of Bird

2024, Vinyl 180g,

Just Won't Burn

Thelonious Monk

Brilliant Corners

The Story Of Quincy Jones

2022, LP, Album, RE, 180 + 2xLP, Album, 180 + LP, Album,, Vinyl Me, Please,

Chet Baker Trio

Live In Paris: The Radio France Recordings 1983-1984

2022, 3x Vinyl 180 Gram

Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers* With Thelonious Monk

Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers With Thelonious Monk

Blue Train: The Complete Masters

The Miles Davis Quintet

Relaxin' With The Miles Davis Quintet

Dave Liebman, Richie Beirach*

Empathy (Five Improvised Soundscapes 2016-2020)

2021, 5xCD + Box, Jazzline,

Contemporary Jazz/Free Improvisation/Free Jazz

Kirtan: Turiya Sings

Madeleine Peyroux

Ornette Coleman

Genesis Of Genius: The Contemporary Albums

Impulse Records (Music, Message And The Moment)

Archie Shepp & Jason Moran

Let My People Go

Barney Wilen Quartet Feat. Tete Montoliu

Barney And Tete (Grenoble '88)

2020, Vinyl 180 Gram,

Giant Steps (60th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)

2019, CD, Album, Promo, Sony Records Int'l,

Contemporary Jazz/Modal

Trane's Delight

Coltrane '58: The Prestige Recordings

Post Bop/Modal/Soundtrack

Emmet Cohen Trio With Russell Hall (5) & Kyle Poole

Dirty In Detroit

Swing/Bop/Post Bop

The Complete Birth Of The Cool

2019, Vinyl, Vinyl, All Media,

JazzCD.No Jazz From Norway 2018 8th Set

2018, 3xCD, Comp, Promo, Norsk Jazzforum

Spiritual Eternal: The Complete Warner Bros. Studio Recordings

2018, 2xCD, Comp, RM, Real Gone Music

Claudio Fasoli N. Y. 4et

2018, CD, Album, Abeat Records, Abeat Records

Miles Davis & John Coltrane

The Final Tour: Copenhagen, March 24, 1960

2018, Vinyl Red,

Miles Davis & John Coltrane

The Final Tour: Paris, March 21, 1960

2018, 2x Vinyl 180g,

Ascenseur Pour L'Échafaud

The Chic Organization 1977-1979

Jeff Goldblum & The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra

The Capitol Studios Sessions

2018, 2x Vinyl Gatefold,

Easy Listening/Cool Jazz

Chasing Trane - The John Coltrane Documentary (Original Soundtrack)

2018, 2x Vinyl,

Bop/Modal/Soundtrack/Post Bop

Mood Indigo: The Complete Bethlehem Singles

Both Directions At Once: The Lost Album

Miles Davis & John Coltrane

The Final Tour (The Bootleg Series, Vol. 6)

Dave Liebman* / Joe Lovano

Compassion (The Music Of John Coltrane)

2017, CD, Album, Resonance Records,

Contemporary Jazz/Post Bop/Free Jazz

Alice Coltrane, Turiyasangitananda

The Ecstatic Music Of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda

The Bill Evans Trio

On A Monday Evening

Cool Jazz/Post Bop

Miles Davis Quintet*

Freedom Jazz Dance (The Bootleg Series Vol. 5)

2016, 3x CD Digipack,

Hard Bop/Post Bop

Tedeschi Trucks Band

The Complete Prestige 10-Inch LP Collection

The Atlantic Years – In Mono

Hard Bop/Modal/Post Bop

Oliver's Cinema - Act 2

2015, CD, Album, V-Flow,

Jazz-Rock/Fusion

The Last Word (The Warner Bros. Years)

Max*, Diz*, Charlie*, Bud*, Mingus*

Jazz At Massey Hall: The 10-Inch LP Collection

At Newport 1955-1975 (The Bootleg Series Vol. 4)

Hard Bop/Post Bop/Jazz-Rock/Fusion

Henry Butler - Steven Bernstein & The Hot 9

2014, 2x Vinyl 180 Gram,

Ragtime/Dixieland

John Coltrane & Friends*

Sideman: Trane's Blue Note Sessions

Allen Toussaint

The Ellington Suites

Cannonball Adderley

The Very Best Of Cannonball Adderley

2012, CD, Comp, Riverside Records, Fantasy,

The Very Best Of Miles Davis Electric (Live)

2012, CD, Comp, Columbia, Legacy

The Complete Albums Collection

Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Max Roach, Charlie Mingus*

The Quintet: Jazz At Massey Hall

Death Might Be Your Santa Claus

Sermon/Gospel/Holiday

Rarities From The Vault

2011, 2xCD, Comp, Legacy,

Miles Davis Quintet*

Live In Europe 1967 - Best Of Bootleg Vol. 1

2011, CD, Album, Comp, Columbia, Legacy,

Hard Bop/Post Bop

Miles Davis Quintet*

Live In Europe 1967 (The Bootleg Series Vol. 1)

2011, 3x CD, DVD,

Hard Bop/Post Bop

The Definitive Miles Davis On Prestige

Miles Davis Quintet*

Live In Europe 1967 - Best Of The Bootleg Series Vol. 1

Hard Bop/Post Bop

Bill Evans Trio*

Bootleg Vol II - From Memphis To Hollywood

Country/Rockabilly/Rock & Roll

Booker T. & The M.G.'s*

McLemore Avenue

Thelonious Monk Septet

1986-1991 The Warner Years

2011, 5x CD, Box Set,

Post Bop/Jazz-Rock/Jazz-Funk/Fusion/Contemporary Jazz/Future Jazz/Big Band

Stan Getz Quintets*

The Clef & Norgran Studio Albums

2010, 3xCD, Comp, Mono, RM + Box, Ltd, Verve Records, Hip-O Select

Luis Perdomo With Drew Gress And Jack DeJohnette

2010, CD, Album, RKM Music,

Contemporary Jazz/Post Bop

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

Jazz At Oberlin

Christian Scott

Yesterday You Said Tomorrow

Otis Redding & His Orchestra*

Live On The Sunset Strip

Disney Jazz Volume 1 Everybody Wants To Be A Cat

Soundtrack/Contemporary Jazz/Bop/Cool Jazz/Latin Jazz

2009, 5xCD, Comp, RM + Box, Prestige,

The Derek Trucks Band

Blues Rock/Modern Electric Blues/Southern Rock

Standard Coltrane

Live In '65 & '68

2008, DVD-V, Mono, B&W, Naxos,

Joe Lovano, Dave Liebman*, Ravi Coltrane : Saxophone Summit

Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz

You And The Night And The Music

2007, CD, Album, 18th & Vine

2007, 2xCD, Comp, RM, Verve Records

Jazz Icons - A DVD Series Of Vintage Unseen Concerts From The Timeless Legends Of Jazz

2007, 8xDVD-V, Comp, Mono, RM, Dol + Box, Mono, Jazz Icons, Naxos,

Post Bop/Modal/Cool Jazz/Big Band/Swing/Vocal/Ballad/Bop

Steve Kuhn Trio

Live At Birdland

Contemporary Jazz

A Life In Time (The Roy Haynes Story)

2007, 3x CD, DVD,

Bop/Hard Bop/Post Bop/Fusion/Contemporary Jazz/Avant-garde Jazz

My Favorite Things: Coltrane At Newport

Modal/Hard Bop/Instrumental

The Impulse Story

The Impulse Story

The Impulse Story

The Impulse Story

Pharoah Sanders

The Impulse Story

The Impulse Story

The Impulse Story

Free Jazz/Soul-Jazz/Modal

The Impulse Story

The Impulse Story

The Impulse Story

The House That Trane Built: The Story Of Impulse Records

Hard Bop/Soul-Jazz/Free Jazz

2005, 2x CD UML Pressing,

Big Band/Swing/Cool Jazz/Vocal

One Down, One Up (Live At The Half Note)

Impulsive! Revolutionary Jazz Reworked

Love You Madly + A Concert Of Sacred Music At Grace Cathedral

2005, DVD Dolby Digital,

Swing/Big Band/Vocal

Harry Belafonte

The Essential Harry Belafonte

Thelonious Monk Quartet* With John Coltrane

At Carnegie Hall

Four Women: The Nina Simone Philips Recordings

Free Jazz/Post Bop/Modal

World Saxophone Quartet

25th Anniversary - The New Chapter

2001, CD, Album, Justin Time

Sketches Of Spain

Johnny Copeland

Ain't Nothin' But A Party

Texas Blues/Modern Electric Blues

Professor Longhair

House Party New Orleans Style (The Lost Sessions 1971-1972)

Louisiana Blues/Delta Blues

Early In The Morning

1985, LP, Album, A-Okay Records

When A Guitar Plays The Blues

High Compression

Chicago Blues/Harmonica Blues/Electric Blues

Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble*

Music From And Inspired By Miles Davis: Birth Of The Cool

Big Band/Bop/Fusion/Hard Bop/Jazz-Funk/Modal/Soundtrack

Saxophone Summit, Joe Lovano, Dave Liebman*, Ravi Coltrane

Free Jazz/Contemporary Jazz