Kevin Whitehead
Kevin Francis Whitehead (born April 27, 1952) is an American jazz critic and author.
Biography
Born in
Since the end of the 1970s, Whitehead has been writing regularly on jazz, including for the
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.
Whitehead has also written
As an improvisational musician, Whitehead played in the free jazz group Starship Beer, as well as appearing at New York's Knitting Factory, Chicago's Empty Bottle and HotHouse, and the Amsterdam Zaal 100. He lives near Baltimore.
Publications
- New Dutch Swing: An in-depth examination of Amsterdam's vital and distinctive jazz scene. Billboard Books, New York 1998, ISBN 0-8230-8334-9.
- Kevin Whitehead, Herman te Loo, OCLC 67738497.
- Why Jazz?: A Concise Guide. Oxford University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-19-973118-3.
References
- The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. 2nd edition, ed. Barry Kernfeld.
- ^ "2012 Nominees & Winners". JJA Jazz Awards 2017. Archived from the original on October 8, 2018. Retrieved June 13, 2017.