Ashley Kahn is an American music historian, journalist, and producer.
While attending Columbia, he hosted a jazz and blues radio show on WKCR, and was known on the air as "The Cincinnati Kid.
"[1] In 2014, Kahn co-authored the autobiography of Carlos Santana, titled The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story To Light.
To date, his most critically acclaimed books have been on two major jazz albums, Kind of Blue[2] by Miles Davis and A Love Supreme by John Coltrane.
[6][7] In 2015, he was awarded a Grammy for his album notes to the John Coltrane release Offering: Live at Temple University.