Morgenstern - Interviews: Smithsonian Jazz
Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program
NEA Jazz Master Dan Morgenstern interview
provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.
13 MP3s | Complete Transcript (83 pages) PDF
| Dan discusses his role as the editor of Downbeat |
| Dan describes escaping from Austria to Denmark |
| Dan describes jazz in Denmark |
| Escaping to Sweden Part II |
| Dan discusses how he began collecting jazz books |
| Dan describes booking Art Tatum for his first solo piano concert |
| Dan describes his interview with Ornette Coleman |
| Dan describes how his family newspaper was taken away by the Nazis |
| Dan remembers his first encounter with jazz |
| Dan describes escaping to Sweden Part I |
| Dan talks about becoming interested in jazz after the war |
| Dan talks about becoming friends with Tad Dameron |
| Dan describes discovering a record of Coleman Hawkins singing |