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Director of the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University-Newark from 1976 to 2011.

His incisive liner-note essays won eight Grammy Awards.

Received three Deems Taylor Awards for excellence in music writing from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.

Was named a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master in 2007.

Was the first editor for Jazz magazine (later Jazz & Pop).

Contributed thousands of articles about jazz to magazines, newspapers and journals.

Published "Jazz People" (1976) and "Living With Jazz" (2004).

Published 148 record reviews while an editor at DownBeat, including a stint from 1967 to 1973 as the magazine's chief editor.

Served the venerable Metronome magazine as its last editor in chief.

Reviewed live jazz for the New York Post .

Reviewed records for The Chicago Sun-Times.

Graduated from Brandeis University.

Has a son Josh.

Morgenstern was a former vice president and trustee of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences; was a co-founder of the Jazz Institute of Chicago; served on the boards of the New York Jazz Museum and the American Jazz Orchestra; and was a director of the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation and the Mary Lou Williams Foundation.

He has contributed to reference works including the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, Dictionary of American Music, African-American Almanac, and Encyclopedia Britannica Book of the Year; and to such anthologies as Reading Jazz, Setting The Tempo, The Louis Armstrong Companion, The Duke Ellington Reader, The Miles Davis Companion, and The Lester Young Reader.

In 2007, Morgenstern received the A.B. Spellman Jazz Masters Award for Jazz Advocacy from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Dan Morgenstern was a jazz writer, editor, archivist, and producer.

He was chief editor of DownBeat from 1967 to 1973, and served as New York editor from 1964; prior to that time he edited the periodicals Metronome and Jazz.

He has been a member of Denmark's International JAZZPAR Prize Committee since its inception in 1989.

Born in Germany and reared in Austria and Denmark, Morgenstern came to the United States in 1947.