dan morgenstern

1 min read 2021-10-27 23:06:13

“HE HAD PERFECT TASTE”: DAN MORGENSTERN CELEBRATES TOMMY FLANAGAN (August 30, 2019)

I’ve been publishing interviews done with Dan Morgenstern over the past few days — the best tribute I can pay Dan is to let him be himself —

1 min read 2021-10-26 20:14:30

Dan Morgenstern’s birthday celebration is too large to be contained in one twenty-four hour period, so this is the third day of posting interviews

1 min read 2021-10-25 22:09:26

“JUST LIKE THAT,” one of the best stories I know: Billie, Part One: Billie, Part Two: and Bird: We are and have been blessed by his

1 min read 2021-10-25 07:31:13

Happy 92nd birthday, Eminent Dan Morgenstern, friend of Louis, George Wein, Hot Lips Page, two hundred others, and deep friend of the music. I’ve

1 min read 2021-04-14 19:40:27

I believe I was in the second row for this, the first concert of the 1975 Newport Jazz Festival in New York (its fourth in this city and its

3 min read 2020-11-15 00:15:16

Jack Purvis: trumpeter, trombonist, composer, arranger, incidental singer, adventurer, chef, imposter, con man, vandal, sociopath, thief, fabulist,

2 min read 2020-10-25 00:23:29

Today, October 24, 2020, Dan Morgenstern celebrates his ninety-first birthday, and we celebrate him. He’s been an eager participant on the jazz

2 min read 2020-10-20 01:51:16

This fellow is little known except to connoisseurs of late-Twenties jazz. He was a wonderful reedman, imaginative arranger, composer of

4 min read 2020-10-13 00:39:42

Rahsaan’s sweetly respectful SOMEONE TO WATCH OVER ME: His energized, theatrical SERENADE TO A CUCKOO from 1972: and on the same theme, Rahsaan