NEWARK, N.J. - Longtime director of the Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies Dan Morgenstern received his eighth Grammy award Sunday for his album notes on The Complete Louis Armstrong Decca Sessions (1935-1946) on Mosaic Records.
Morgenstern holds the record for most Grammys in the category of album notes, said Senior Public Relations Specialist Carla Capizzi.
His last Grammy win was in 2007 for his notes on Fats Waller "If You Got to Ask, You Ain't Got It!"
"These were both truly labors of love," said Morgenstern, who is currently editor of the Annual Review of Jazz Studies. "Fats blew me away when I saw him in Copenhagen — I was almost 9 years old — and so much of the music in the seven-CD Mosaic Armstrong box has been part of my life since discovering it, on 78 rpm singles, ages ago."
Morgenstern received the Deems Taylor Award in 2007 from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers for his liner notes on "If You Got to Ask, You Ain't Got It!" He was also named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts, receiving the A.B. Spellman NEA Jazz Masters Award for Jazz Advocacy.
He was the senior advisor to documentarian Ken Burns' 10 –part PBS series, "Jazz." In addition, Morgenstern co-produces and co-hosts the institute's "Jazz from the Archives" program on WBGO-FM, and co-hosts the monthly Jazz Research Roundtable at Rutgers-Newark.
Morgenstern has had extensive involvement in jazz publications and served as the editor of Down Beat magazine for seven years. He was also a jazz reviewer for the New York Post and record reviewer for the Chicago Sun Times.
In 2007, Down Beat magazine named Morgenstern as the 27th recipient of its Lifetime Achievement Award, and he was also honored with the Legacy Award from The Recording Academy.
The Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies houses the world's most extensive jazz archives and is part of the Rutgers University Libraries. The IJS is located in the John Cotton Dana Library on the Rutgers-Newark campus at 185 University Ave.
To hear Morgenstern discuss the album and listen to outtakes of Armstrong's music, click here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t97UhlU5TVY .
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