Forum at Mizzou: Bob Brookmeyer on Thad Jones

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Bob Brookmeyer | Dan Morgenstern
Director of the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University since 1976, Dan Morgenstern is a jazz historian, author, editor, and archivist active in the jazz field since 1958. The Institute of Jazz Studies is the largest collection of jazz-related materials anywhere. Morgenstern is co-editor of the ANNUAL REVIEW OF JAZZ STUDIES and the monograph series STUDIES IN JAZZ, published jointly by the IJS and Scarecrow Press. The author of JAZZ PEOPLE (DaCapo Press), Morgenstern still writes frequently about jazz. A prolific annotator of record albums, Morgenstern has won six Grammy Awards for Best Album Notes (1973, 1974, 1976, 1981, 1991, and 1995). He received ASCAP's Deems Taylor Award for JAZZ PEOPLE. Born in Germany and reared in Austria and Denmark, Morgenstern came to the U.S. in 1947.