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Nathan Irving Hentoff (June 10, 1925 – January 7, 2017) was an American historian, novelist, jazz and country music critic, and syndicated columnist for United Media. Hentoff was a columnist for The Village Voice from 1958 to 2009. [1]
8 sty 2017 · NEW YORK (AP) — Nat Hentoff, an eclectic columnist, critic, novelist and agitator dedicated to music, free expression and defying the party line, died Saturday at age 91. His son, Tom Hentoff...
28 gru 2017 · Comic book artist? Sculptor? Dancer? Above all, this child of Russian immigrants born in Boston in 1925 was a freethinker, questioning orthodoxies where he encountered them. As a critic, he...
1 gru 2017 · It’s difficult to imagine any of today’s crop of social commentators taking on anything like the scope of subject matter tackled by Nat Hentoff, the late New York jazz critic who passed away on Saturday 7 January after a life that spanned ten decades and a writing career that spanned seven.
25 cze 2014 · Sometimes, during David Lewis’ engaging documentary about Hentoff, “The Pleasures of Being Out Of Step,” when you look behind the now nearly 90-year-old Hentoff as he speaks from his home office—he was laid off from the Voice in 2006, putting arguably the final nail in the coffin of what that publication had once been, and stood for ...
11 sie 2014 · “Nat loves conflict,” his wife Margot says. Although Hentoff never missies an opportunity to return to the First Amendment, even citing Max Roach’s linkage of jazz’s group improvising with the American constitution, his importance to jazz is illuminated throughout.
9 sty 2017 · Many of the obituaries for Nat Hentoff, the writer and critic who died Saturday at 91, are focusing as much, if not more, on his political writing as on his work as a jazz critic—an imbalance...
