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R.I.P. Dan Morgenstern, 94
Longtime Jersey Jazz columnist/downbeat editor/author/historian Dan Morgenstern passed away from heart failure September 7 in New York City at the age of 94. A Jersey City resident, he was named Director of Jazz Studies at Rutgers-Newark in 1976 and amassed the world’s largest collection of jazz documents, recordings and memorabilia in his dogged effort to keep jazz history alive.