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

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 Research Fellow at the Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University. Her articles have appeared in Downbeat, Jazziz, Chamber Music America and other publications, and she is the author of many CD liner notes and concert program notes. She has been a…