Ashley Kahn

Ashley Kahn (b. 1960) is an American music historian, journalist, and producer. He was born in the Bronx, New York, and was raised in Cincinnati. Kahn graduated from Columbia University in 1983. While attending Columbia, he hosted a jazz and blues radio show on WKCR, and was known on the air as "The Cincinnati Kid."

In 2014, Kahn co-authored the autobiography of Carlos Santana, titled The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story To Light.

In 2015, Kahn was awarded a Grammy for his album notes to the John Coltrane release Offering: Live at Temple University.

In 2026, Kahn won a Grammy for his album notes for Miles ’55: The Prestige Recordings by Miles Davis.

To date, his best books have been on two jazz albums, Kind of Blue by Miles Davis and A Love Supreme by John Coltrane. He pens articles, interviews and other features on music and is a liner note writer for a variety of music labels for which he has earned three ASCAP/Deems Taylor awards, and three Grammy nominations.

He currently teaches at New York University Tisch School of the Arts's Clive Davis Institute for Recorded Music.