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Dan Morgenstern (1929-2024)

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Marc Myers
Sep 09, 2024
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Dan Morgenstern, an eight-time Grammy winner for his album liner notes, former director of Rutgers University's Institute of Jazz Studies, author and a "jazz advocate," as he liked to be called, died on September 7. He was 94.

Despite all of those titles and honors, Dan was the music's most modest and well-regarded historian and paternal figure among wri…

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