Nat Hentoff who has died at the age of 91 belongs among the pantheon of jazz writer greats who have contributed to the scene and the global understanding, analysis and dissemination of jazz by their unique work, no two made in any way the same, past and present, who include Joe Goldberg, Ralph J. Gleason, Gary Giddins, Charles Delaunay, Stanley Crouch, Brian Priestley, Amiri Baraka, Val Wilmer, AB Spellman, Randi Hultin, Joachim-Ernst Berendt, Richard Williams, Gunther Schuller, Richard Cook, John Fordham, Ira Gitler, Arthur Taylor, Bill Milkowski, Whitney Balliett and Leonard Feather. 

Read from his work especially Hear Me Talkin’ To Ya or Village Voice articles from the vaults preferably accompanied by Debut period Mingus, and watch a documentary, trailed above, about his work. Called The Pleasures of Being Out of Step: Notes on the Life of Nat Hentoff it featured conversations with Hentoff plus input from Amiri Baraka, Stanley Crouch and jazz historian Dan Morgenstern among others, with musical examples including some of the work of Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Mingus, and Bob Dylan.