Dan Morgenstern: NEA Jazz Master

		Rutgers The State University of New Jersey Newark

Award Announcement: NEA Jazz Masters 2007 Dan Morgenstern receives 2007 A.B. Spellman NEA Jazz Masters Award for Jazz Advocacy Awards Ceremony 12 Jan. 2007 Photos: Dan Morgenstern at IJS		The National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Fellowships are the highest honors that our government bestows upon jazz musicians. These fellowships are given in recognition that this magnificent art form, so profoundly based in American culture, is one of America's greatest gifts to the world.
photo by Ed Berger	Dan Morgenstern - 2007 NEA Jazz Master Director, Institute of Jazz Studies	Return
Dan Morgenstern, Director of the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University, was honored by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) as Jazz Master for 2007. This award, given to those who have made exceptional contributions to the advancement of jazz, was presented in New York City on January 12, 2007. Morgenstern stood alongside other jazz luminaries – the only non-musician in the group – to be recognized by the NEA during the awards ceremony in New York. He received the A.B. Spellman NEA Jazz Masters Award for Jazz Advocacy, which includes a one-time fellowship of $25,000. The New York Times calls the “jazz master” designation “the nation’s highest jazz honor.” The other 2007 jazz masters are pianist-bandleader Toshiko Akiyoshi, trombonist Curtis Fuller, pianist Ramsey Lewis, vocalist Jimmy Scott, saxophonist and flutist Frank Wess, and alto saxophonist Phil Woods.