Jazz critic Dan Morgenstern to speak in St. Louis on November 14

Jazz critic, author and historian Dan Morgenstern is coming to St. Louis on Tuesday, November 14 for a pair of speaking engagements. At 4:00 p.m. that day, Morgernstern will be on the Washington University campus to give a lecture entitled "The Great Jazz Schism?" in Room 102 of the Music Classroom Building. The presentation is open to the public and is sponsored by the Washington University Center for the Humanities and the Whitaker Foundation.

Then at 6 p.m., Morgernstern will join Jazz St. Louis executive director Gene Dobbs Bradford for what is being described as "a conversation on "The Future of Jazz in America.". It begins at 6:00 p.m. in the Dana Brown Rehearsal Hall, Centene Center for the Arts, 3547 Olive Street, Suite 410. (That's the old Medinah Temple building, just east of Grand, which has been remodeled and now provides office space for JSL and several other arts organizations.)

This event is also free and open to the public, but because space is limited and refreshments will be served, JSL is asking those interested in attending to RSVP by calling Sally Dunne at 289-4036 or emailing her at sally@jazzstl.org.

Morganstern is a jazz historian and archivist, author, editor and educator who has been active in the jazz field since 1958. He has served as editor of the periodicals Metronome, Jazz, and Down Beat; as co-editor of the Annual Review of Jazz Studies; and currently serves as Director of Rutgers University's Institute of Jazz Studies. He has won six Grammy Awards for Best Album Notes, and his most recent book, Living With Jazz: A Reader, was published in 2004. You can hear him talk with NPR's Terri Gross about that book here, and read another interview with Morganstern here.