George Grella has been the Brooklyn Rail’s music editor since 2013. He has played jazz, classical, and improvisational music from CBGB to Carnegie Hall, has written about music and culture for over thirty years for print and online publications, and has contributed to the Grove Dictionary of Music, the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry, the Financial Times, The Wire, Bandcamp, VAN, Music & Literature, The New York Classical Review, The Strad, The New York Times, and others. He publishes the Kill Yr Idols newsletter, and is the author of Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew (Bloomsbury 2015).

Adam Shatz is the US editor of The London Review of Books, the author of The Rebel's Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon, and a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books on music. In 2026 he received the Dudley-Silvers Prize for Arts Writing. He has been a recipient of the Guggenheim Prize and a fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and the Cullman Center at the New York Public Library. His next book, In Search of a Sound: Dreams of a New Black Music, will be published by FSG in May 2027.