Santoro, Gene

Gene Santoro is jazz and popular music critic for The Nation. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times, The Village Voice, Rolling Stone, and Down Beat. He is the author of two volumes of essays, Dancing in Your Head and Stir It Up, as well as the widely praised biography
Myself When I Am Real: The Life and Music of Charles Mingus. He divides his time between New York City and Shokan.