BIOGRAPHY FELLOW 2016 – 2017

Aidan Levy

For a biography of Sonny Rollins

Aidan Levy is the author of Dirty Blvd.: The Life and Music of Lou Reed, published by Chicago Review Press in 2015. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, the Village Voice, JazzTimes, and Blue Note Records Spotlight. He is a doctoral student at Columbia University in the Department of English and Comparative Literature with a subfield in jazz studies. He performs in the Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance program at Columbia and is the baritone saxophonist in the Stan Rubin Orchestra. As a Leon Levy fellow he worked on a biography of the pioneer jazz musician Sonny Rollins.