He wrote prolifically about the music and played an important role in documenting its history, especially in his many years with the Institute of Jazz Studies. By Barry Singer Dan Morgenstern, a ...

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 ...

Morgenstern, who died Sept. 7, directed the Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies for 35 years, building a one-of-a-kind collection of recordings, memorabilia and writings. Originally broadcast in 2004.

Stephan Morgenstern, born on October 10, 1962, in Berlin, Germany, grew up in a respectable middle-class family. His father, an ex-soldier turned waiter, and his mother, who spent most of her life as ...