Ben Ratliff

Ben Ratliff is the author of books including Every Song Ever: Twenty Ways to Listen In An Age of Musical Plenty (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016) and Coltrane: The Story of a Sound (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007). He was a pop and jazz critic at the New York Times for 20 years and teaches at New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study.

Ben Ratliff is the author of books including Every Song Ever: Twenty Ways to Listen In An Age of Musical Plenty (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016) and Coltrane: The Story of a Sound (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007). He was a pop and jazz critic at the New York Times for 20 years and teaches at New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study.