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Aaron Gilbreath

Aaron Gilbreath has written essays for Paris Review, Tin House, Black Warrior Review, Hotel Amerika, Cincinnati Review, and Gettysburg Review, and written about music for the New York Times, Oxford American, Brick, Threepenny Review, Conjunctions, and Yeti. Currently at work on a book of travel writing set in Canada, he works for a tea company in Portland, Oregon, and blogs about music, food, and miscellany at aarongilbreath.wordpress.com.

Nonfiction

Summer 2013

This Is*

By Aaron Gilbreath

On February 19, 2007, jazz pianist Freddie Redd performed The Connection soundtrack in its entirety at New York’s Merkin Concert Hall. He wrote the music in 1959 as the score […]