Stephanie Stein Crease, author

Stephanie Stein Crease is a jazz historian, author, editor, Berklee alumna, and former Senior Jazz Coordinator for the Jazz Arts Program, Manhattan School of Music. Her new book, Rhythm Man: Chick Webb and the Beat that Changed America, was just published by Oxford University Press. Her previous books include Gil Evans: Out of the Cool (2002 ASCAP/Deems Taylor Award), and Duke Ellington: His Life in Jazz (2009). She was literary editor for the Grammy-awarded Duke Ellington Centennial Edition. 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.