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Ben Ratliff

Ben Ratliff is a music critic and the author of Every Song Ever: Twenty Ways to Listen in an Age of Musical Plenty (2016) and Coltrane: The Story of a Sound (2007). He is a faculty member at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study.

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