Ben Ratliff (born 1968 in New York City) is an American journalist, music critic and author. Ratliff is the son of an English mother and an American father...

businessman Ben Ratliff (born 1968), American journalist, music critic, and author Bennett Ratliff (born 1961), American politician Bill Ratliff (born 1936)...

performance on the Moog and ARP synthesizers. His music has been described by Ben Ratliff of the New York Times as "deeply original and aesthetically aggressive"...

1965 and released on the Forma record label. The album was listed by Ben Ratliff in his 100 most important recordings and by Rolling Stone in their 100...

consecutive years and the readers' for 18. The New York Times music critic Ben Ratliff described Shorter in 2008 as "probably jazz's greatest living small-group...

Important Recordings, where it is described by New York Times jazz critic Ben Ratliff as "one of the strongest studio albums up to that time". First released...

and has been inspirational for many musicians". New York Times critic Ben Ratliff included the album in his publication Jazz: A Critic's Guide to the 100...

Criticizing the album's musical simplicity and lyrics, The New York Times' Ben Ratliff called the album as "essentially a Bandcamp record released by Roc Nation...

that "Soundgarden made a place for heavy metal in alternative rock." Ben Ratliff of Rolling Stone defined Soundgarden as the "standard-bearers" of the...

but no one seems to know for sure." Coltrane: The Story of a Sound, Ben Ratliff, p. 34. (2007, Farrar, Straus and Giroux): "The contract, dated April...