Dan Morgenstern - Awards & Nominations

Date of Birth	24-October-1929
Place of Birth	Munich (Germany, Bavaria, Upper Bavaria)
Nationality	Germany
Profession	Author, Librarian, Critic
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 1958â€“1961, and following this edited several jazz magazines: Metronome in 1961, Jazz from 1962â€“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 Rutgersâ€“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.

Awards by Dan Morgenstern

Check all the awards nominated and won by Dan Morgenstern.

2009

Grammy Award for Best Album Notes

Honored for : The Complete Louis Armstrong Decca Sessions (1935\u20131946)

(Album Notes Writer)

Nominations 2009 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Album Notes	The Complete Louis Armstrong Decca Sessions (1935\u20131946)

2006

Grammy Award for Best Album Notes

Honored for : If You Got to Ask, You Ain't Got It!

(Album notes writer)

Nominations 2006 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Album Notes	If You Got to Ask, You Ain't Got It!

1994

Grammy Award for Best Album Notes

Honored for : Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

(Album Notes Writers)

Nominations 1994 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Album Notes	Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

1990

Grammy Award for Best Album Notes

Honored for : Brownie: The Complete EmArcy Recordings of Clifford Brown

(Album Notes Writer)

Nominations 1990 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Album Notes	Brownie: The Complete EmArcy Recordings of Clifford Brown

1981

Grammy Award for Best Album Notes

Honored for : Erroll Garner - Master Of The Keyboard

(Album Notes Writer)

Nominations 1981 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Album Notes	Erroll Garner - Master Of The Keyboard

1976

Grammy Award for Best Album Notes

Honored for : The Changing Face Of Harlem - The Savoy Sessions

(Album notes writer)

Nominations 1976 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Album Notes	The Changing Face Of Harlem - The Savoy Sessions

1974

Grammy Award for Best Album Notes

Honored for : The Hawk Flies High

(Album Notes Writer)

Nominations 1974 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Album Notes	The Hawk Flies High

1973

Grammy Award for Best Album Notes

Honored for : God Is in the House: Original 1940-41 Recordings

(Album notes writer)

Nominations 1973 »

Award Nominated	Nominated Work
Grammy Award for Best Album Notes	God Is in the House: Original 1940-41 Recordings

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