de Volkskrant.
Play the Way You Feel: The Essential Guide to Jazz Stories on Film (2020),
Why Jazz: A Concise Guide (2010),
New Dutch Swing (1998), and (with photographer Ton Mijs)
Instant Composers Pool Orchestra: You Have to See It (2011).
His essays have appeared in numerous anthologies including
Da Capo Best Music Writing 2006,
Discover Jazz and
Traveling the Spaceways: Sun Ra, the Astro-Black and Other Solar Myths.
Whitehead has taught at Towson University, the University of Kansas and Goucher College. He lives near Baltimore.