Ben Young is a jazz researcher, educator, curator and advocate. He spent 20 years on the air at WKCR-89.9 FM, where focused on the avant garde jazz of the 1960s, including Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Bill Dixon, Cecil Taylor, and their circles. Dixonia, his bio-discography of Dixon was published in 1998. In addition to widespread work in Jazz reissues, Young has produced cornerstone projects on the music of Ayler, Jimmy Lyons, and the New York Art Quartet. Since 2010, he has lectured on the music for Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Swing University.