A Prose Reading with Stephanie Stein Crease and Linda Dahl (In-Person)

Join jazz biographer Stephanie Stein Crease and novelist Linda Dahl as they trade fours on America’s great art form, read excerpts from their work, and invite listeners to riff about jazz and its influence on American writing.

Stephanie Stein Crease is a jazz historian, author, and editor. Her most recent book is Rhythm Man: Chick Webb and the Beat That Changed America (Oxford University Press, 2023), which received the 2024 Associated Recorded Sound Collection Award (ARSC) for Excellence. Her previous books are Gil Evans: Out of the Cool, 2002 ASCAP/Deems Taylor Award; Duke Ellington for Kids and Music Lessons: Guide Your Child to Play A Musical Instrument. She was a contributor to The Jazz Omnibus: 21st- Century Photos and Writings by Members of the Jazz Journalists Association (Cymbal Press 2025); the Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz and the Oxford Companion Guide to Jazz. She was a 2020 Scholar-in Residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NYPL, and 2018 Berger-Benny Carter-Berger…