BOOKS
Every Song Ever: Twenty Ways to Listen in an Age of Musical Plenty. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2016. (Order here. Spotify playlist for nearly all music referenced in the book here.)
The Jazz Ear: Conversations Over Music. Times Books, New York, 2008. (Order here.)
Coltrane: The Story of a Sound. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2007. Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism. (Order here.)
The New York Times Essential Library: Jazz. Times Books, New York, 2002. (Order here.)
ARTICLES
New York Review of Books * Esquire * Slate * Pitchfork * Rolling Stone * 4Columns * Granta * Bookforum * Jazz Times
Ben Ratliff’s New York Times author page contains over 3200 bylines–criticism, profiles, reviews, interviews, obituaries, podcasts–including
Circuit des Yeux/Haley Fohr/Jackie Lynn
Arthur Russell’s archives and the key to “World of Echo”
Streaming music, playlists, algorithms, and “discovery”
The Prarie View A&M University Marching Storm band
The history of the trio elétrico in Salvador da Bahia’s carnaval