About Jonathan

Illustration by Ilya Milstein.

Welcome to Connecting the Dots. I wrote semi-professionally about jazz from 2009 to 2015, starting with my blog Rehearsing the Blues, during which time I had the opportunity to conduct interviews with musicians such as Robert Glasper, Vijay Iyer, and Jason Moran, write for Nextbop.com and AllAboutJazz, and be featured in a discussion of Mostly Other People Do the Killing's Blue with critic Richard Williams on Jez Nelson's Jazz on 3 on BBC Radio. I left the world of jazz criticism in 2014 to focus on other things, but have returned to blogging to give myself a space to write down and process my thoughts about the clothes, comics, movies, TV shows, books, art, and anything else interesting that I encounter in my life. I was an undergraduate English major focused on poetry, and hold a Master's degree in English Literature. I currently teach Upper School English at a private school in Massachusetts.

Email me at jwerthei92(at)gmail.com, or leave a comment on a post.

Thank you to Anthony Walton, Brock Clarke, April Bernard, Wendy A. Lee, Mason Stokes, John Bugg, Leonard Cassuto, Ethan Iverson, Howard Mandel, Ted Gioia, Patrick Jarenwattananon, Anthony Dean-Harris, Michael Williams, Peter Krause, and many more for their role in shaping my thoughts and writing.