Kevin Whitehead

Book Review: “Play the Way You Feel” — Jazz on Film, Music and Myth

May 4, 2020
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Play The Way You Feel is the best volume around on the uneasy relationship between film and jazz.

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Fuse Book Review: Why Jazz? How Now?

January 31, 2011
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People who love jazz should read jazz history books periodically, and Kevin Whitehead, jazz critic on NPR’s “Fresh Air” with Terry Gross, has done a great service in giving us a What, Who, Where, and When book with insight and ingenuity. Why Jazz?: A Concise Guide by Kevin Whitehead. Oxford University Press, 136 pp. of…

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