{"id":1183,"date":"2007-12-14T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1183"},"modified":"2007-12-14T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T09:05:00","slug":"other_places_dan_morgenstern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2007\/12\/other_places_dan_morgenstern\/","title":{"rendered":"Other Places: Dan Morgenstern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Myers&#8217; current venture on his blog <em>JazzWax<\/em> is a conversation with the respected writer Dan Morgenstern, who says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You have to be very careful not to let the bonds between you and musicians cloud what you&#8217;re saying. If you&#8217;re a writer, your responsibility always is to the reader or listener. If you shortchange your audience, you&#8217;ll lose your credibility. I tried to avoid such conflicts by simply not writing about bad performances unless I had to. At that point, I&#8217;d always frame my remarks by saying that the artist didn&#8217;t have a particularly good night rather than completely trashing him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Morgenstern.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/Morgenstern.jpg\" width=\"115\" height=\"119\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Dan Morgenstern<\/strong><br \/>\nMorgenstern is director of the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University. This year, he won a Jazz Masters Award from the National Endowment for the Arts, only the second writer to be so honored; Nat Hentoff received the award in 2004. To read all of Dan&#8217;s <em>JazzWax<\/em> interview, which includes news about a Louis Armstrong CD never before issued, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jazzwax.com\/2007\/12\/dan-morgenstern.html\"target=\"_blank\">go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marc Myers&#8217; current venture on his blog JazzWax is a conversation with the respected writer Dan Morgenstern, who says: You have to be very careful not to let the bonds between you and musicians cloud what you&#8217;re saying. If you&#8217;re a writer, your responsibility always is to the reader or listener. If you shortchange your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1183","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}