Kevin Whitehead

Kevin Whitehead (M.A., Syracuse University) is Lecturer in American Studies and English and a music journalist specializing in jazz and European improvised music. He is the author of New Dutch Swing (1998) and editor of Bimhuis 25: Stories of Twenty-five Years at the Bimhuis (1999). His publications include articles in The Cartoon Music Book (2002), Jazz: The First Century (2000), Mixtery: a Festschrift for Anthony Braxton (1995), and Down Beat: 60 Years of Jazz (1995). He is jazz critic for National Public Radio's daily show Fresh Air and an editorial advisor and contributor to the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (2001). Kevin has also written about music for many publica-tions including the Village Voice, Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Reader, and the Dutch daily de Volkskrant. As an improvising musician he has recorded for the Atavistic and Hatology labels.He's at work on a book about jazz in relation to other musical genres.