When Fred Kaplan made his Stereophile debut with his review of the Rogue Audio Atlas power amplifier last March, our scheme was also to publish his writings on the music that fuels his soul, jazz. Starting this past weekend, you can find Fred's thoughts on recordings, concerts, musicians, and the music at http://blog.stereophile.com/fredkaplan.
A near neighbor of mine in Brooklyn, Fred's pedigree as a writer on audio is wide and deep: He was an audio reviewer and jazz critic for The Abso!ute Sound from 1984 to 2006, with something in every issue except for the three years (1992–95) when he was the Moscow bureau chief for the Boston Globe, and the three years of Fi magazine's publication (1996–99), for which he was both jazz reviews editor and an equipment reviewer.
In 1983, Fred was a leading member of the team that wrote the Boston Globe's Pulitzer Prize–winning Sunday magazine articles on the nuclear arms race. He is also the author of The Wizards of Armageddon, a prize-winning book about the history of nuclear strategy (Simon & Schuster, 1983; reprinted by Stanford University Press, 1991), and has written articles for the New York Times, Atlantic Monthly, New Yorker, Washington Post, Washington Monthly, Scientific American, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Architectural Digest, and many other publications. He is currently the national security columnist for the online magazine Slate.
