Ben Ratliff
Ben Ratliff is a staff critic at The New York Times, where he has been writing about jazz and pop music since 1996. He is the author of three books, including "Coltrane: The Story of a Sound" (FSG, 2007), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism. His writing has appeared in Granta, Rolling Stone, Spin, The Village Voice, Slate, Lingua Franca, and other publications.
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Very Clearly, a Woman You Don’t Want to Mess With
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Gil Scott-Heron: The Godfather of Rap
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Present at the Counterculture’s Creation
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They Put the Face on an American Sound
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Best Music of 2011
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A Young Pianist, Holding Listeners Close
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Pulling the Plug on the Old Strutting
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A Fresh Devotion to the Older Ways
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Animation Joins Jazz At the Next Wave Festival
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A Voice of Gray Moods, Joined by 100 Whistlers
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Flamenco Fusion With Argentine Flair Salted by Traditional Modes
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High-Tech Experiment From Inside the Box
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Controlling Her Voice, and Her World
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A Hit Maker’s Life and Lyrics
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Paul McCartney, Pop Music History in Person, and in Detail
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They’ve Arrived, Like Old Times
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A New Album by Mick Jagger and Friends
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Metallica Earns Its Top Billing of the Big Four
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Chunks of Memory, Reassembled Onstage
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Imagining the Rolling Stones Without Keith Richards
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At Newport, Rain Rules the Day
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Bonnaroo: The Final Night
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Jazz in June: Sorting Through the Abundance
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Unconscious Lessons of a Jazzman
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Strumming Solo, With the Reverb of a Full Band
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What Lurks Under the Splashiness
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The Musical Rhythms in Images Out of Time
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Jammed Sessions Abound at a Village Jazz Festival
