A Prose Reading with Stephanie Stein Crease and Linda Dahl
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 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 guest speaker at the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, Institute of Jazz Studies, and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, and interviewed on WKCR, WBGO, BBC2 and other radio stations.
Linda Dahl began writing as a freelancer about two passions, jazz and Latin America, before turning to fiction. She has written ten published books, including the novels Tiny Vices, An Upside-Down Sky, Gringa in a Strange Land, and The Bad Dream Notebook, and the nonfiction works Stormy Weather and Morning Glory. Her books have consistently garnered awards and praise, including a Notable Book of the Year nod from The New York Times Book Review for Morning Glory in 2000 and an IBPA Ben Franklin Awards Finalist in Popular Fiction for The Bad Dream Notebook in 2017. Linda loves reading, swimming, music, and doing volunteer work in her community. She lives in Riverdale, New York. Find her online at lindadahlbooks.com.
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