Nate Chinen is the author of “Playing Changes: Jazz for the New Century.” A former jazz critic for The New York Times and former columnist for JazzTimes, he is the director of editorial content at WBGO, and a regular contributor to NPR Music. A 13-time winner of the Helen Dance–Robert Palmer Award for Excellence in Writing, he is also the coauthor of George Wein’s “Myself Among Others: A Life in Music.”