BOOKS
Every Song Ever: Twenty Ways to Listen in an Age of Musical Plenty. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2016. (Order 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