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 |