Ashley Kahn is a Grammy Award-winning music historian, author and producer. He cowrote Carlos Santana's autobiography The Universal Tone, and has written books on such legendary recordings as Kind of Blue by Miles Davis and A Love Supreme by John Coltrane. He was a member of the Graceland tour production team, and tour manager for Ladysmith Black Mambazo. He teaches at New York University's Clive Davis Institute for Recorded Music.

Has only made me appreciate the album's intricacies and paradoxes all the more . . . Kahn lets his historical actors speak for themselves as often as possible, collecting a remarkably wide array of voices for so short a book . . . There is plenty of myopia and ill will in the tale of Graceland's creation. But Kahn's book, echoing the album, is concerned above all with the beauty of human connection forged through music, across space and, 40 years later, over time

Ashley Kahn is a Grammy Award-winning music historian, author and producer. He cowrote Carlos Santana's autobiography The Universal Tone, and has written books on such legendary recordings as Kind of Blue by Miles Davis and A Love Supreme by John Coltrane. He was a member of the Graceland tour production team, and tour manager for Ladysmith Black Mambazo. He teaches at New York University's Clive Davis Institute for Recorded Music.

Has only made me appreciate the album's intricacies and paradoxes all the more . . . Kahn lets his historical actors speak for themselves as often as possible, collecting a remarkably wide array of voices for so short a book . . . There is plenty of myopia and ill will in the tale of Graceland's creation. But Kahn's book, echoing the album, is concerned above all with the beauty of human connection forged through music, across space and, 40 years later, over time