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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]
9 sty 2017 · Nat Hentoff, the dean of jazz essayists who in the 1950s applied modern feature-writing techniques to musicians who up until that point had been treated as little more than hip novelties by many trade journalists, died of natural causes on Jan. 7. He was 91.
9 sty 2017 · Hentoff’s name was so commonly signed to the liner notes of classic jazz albums from the 1950s and 1960s that as a budding jazz fan, I came to believe he might have been the only jazz writer...
10 sty 2017 · In 1958, Hentoff began writing for The Village Voice, a relationship that would last for 50 years. His writing moved from jazz to politics, education and other topics.
7 sty 2017 · Hentoff began his education at Northeastern University in Boston, his hometown, and went on to pursue graduate studies at Harvard University. As a graduate student, he hosted a local radio show and became immersed in the Boston jazz scene.
28 gru 2017 · 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 countenanced no boundaries...
HENTOFF, NATHENTOFF, NAT (1925– ), U.S. music critic, journalist, novelist, author. The roots of Hentoff's dazzlingly variegated career are to be found in his boyhood in Depression-era Boston.
