Dan Morgenstern 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?Newark's Institute of Jazz Studies, where he continued the work of Marshall Stearns and made the Institute one of the world's largest collections of jazz documents, recordings, and memorabilia. Morgenstern is widely known as a prolific writer of comprehensive, authoritative liner notes, a sideline that has garnered him eight Grammy Awards for Best Album Notes since 1973. Morgenstern published two books: Jazz People; and Living with Jazz, a reader edited by Sheldon Meyer. Both were winners of ASCAP's Deems Taylor Award. In 2007, Morgenstern received the A.B. Spellman Jazz Masters Award for Jazz Advocacy from the National Endowment for the Arts. 

October 24th, 1929 in Munich (Age 95)