Dan Morgenstern

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Dan Morgenstern (b. Oct. 24, 1929, Munich, Germany) is a jazz critic and librarian.

Morgenstern moved to the United States in 1947, and attended Brandeis University from 1953-1956. He wrote for jazz publication Jazz Journal from 1958-1961, and following this edited several jazz magazines: Metronome in 1961, Jazz from 1962-1963, and Down Beat from 1964-1973. He is the author of the book Jazz People and has arranged jazz concerts and lectures over the course of his career. In 1976 he was named director of Rutgers University's Institute of Jazz Studies, where he established one of the country's largest jazz collections.^[1]

Morgenstern is perhaps best known as a writer of liner notes. He has won seven Grammy Awards for Best Album Notes since 1973.^[2]

[edit] Grammy Awards for Best Album Notes

• Art Tatum, God Is in the House (1973)
• Coleman Hawkins, The Hawk Flies (1974)
• Various (Savoy Records collection), The Changing Face of Harlem (1976)
• Erroll Garner, Erroll Garner: Master of the Keyboard (1981)
• Clifford Brown, Brownie: The Complete Emarcy Recordings of Clifford Brown (1990)
• Louis Armstrong, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1994)
• Fats Waller, If You Got to Ask, You Ain't Got It! (2006)

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