Remembering Dan Morgenstern

by Sanford Josephson
October 1, 2024

This article previously appeared in Jersey Jazz Magazine. In 1938 when Dan Morgenstern was eight years old, he and his mother fled Nazi-controlled Austria for Copenhagen. Nine years later, they arrived in New York, and Morgenstern was not interested in seeing the Statute of Liberty or the Empire State Building. He just wanted to go to 52nd Street. Morgenstern, jazz writer, historian, jazz advocate and fan (and Jersey Jazz columnist), passed away in New York on ...

Living with Jazz: A Reader

by Joel Roberts
February 2, 2005

Dan Morgenstern Living With Jazz, A Reader Pantheon Books 736 pages ISBN: 037542072X

Living With Jazz is an apt title for this long overdue first published collection of Dan Morgenstern's writings. The veteran scribe - a former Down Beat editor, current head of Rutgers University's respected Institute of Jazz Studies and six-time Grammy winner for his liner notes - has been an important figure on the jazz scene for four decades, writing ...

Living With Jazz

by David Rickert
January 11, 2005

Dan Morgenstern Living With Jazz, A Reader Pantheon Books 736 pages ISBN: 037542072X

Dan Morgenstern is the director of the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers, a former editor and contributor for Down Beat , and author of Jazz People , one of the finest histories of jazz ever written. His shorter pieces - snapshots of the artists, the music, and the lifestyle - benefit from Morgenstern's close company with several musicians ...