Taking a partial time out from my university responsibilities, I’ve been reading Dan Morgentern’s Living With Jazz (2004), which collects a number of the Rutgers Institute of Jazz Director’s essays, liner notes, and pieces published when Morgentern was editor of DownBeat, which features a number of freely accessible articles from their archives.
The announcement page for the book at Rutgers includes a link to a flash slide show, that is a leisurely celebration of his career, and features the piano of Ray Bryant.
I have especially enjoyed “Introduction: Reminiscing in Tempo,” an account of Morgenstern’s European childhood and adolescence as well as the essays surveying the careers of Armstrong and Ellington, but the liner and concert notes are fun, too. Check out this review by Alfred Appel, Jr. for other commentary.
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