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Dan Morgenstern Kept the Faith

Jazz and its discourse owe him an immeasurable debt.

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Nate Chinen
Sep 09, 2024
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Dan Morgenstern with Louis and Lucille Armstrong at their home in Queens, 1965. (Jack Bradley / Louis Armstrong House Museum)

Dan Morgenstern was a jazz advocate in word and deed: as true an ally as the music, its musicians and its chroniclers have ever had, and I don’t say that casually. He died on Saturday at 94, and while his passing wasn’t unexpected…

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