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Marshall Stearns was born on 18 October, 1908 in Cambridge, is an American jazz critic and musicologist. Discover Marshall Stearns's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 58 years old?

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Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 18 October, 1908
Birthday 18 October
Birthplace Cambridge
Date of death 18 December, 1966
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1878

Stearns was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Edith Baker Winslow (Edith Baker Winslow; 1878–1952) and Harry Ney Stearns (1874–1930).

His father was a Harvard University graduate and an attorney.

1889

Her mother, Helen Barnett ( Helen Isabell Beaty; 1889–1981), was a music teacher in White Hall.

1895

Jean's father, Fleet Barnett ( Ralph Fleetwood Barnett; 1895–1981), owned and operated a pottery shop in White Hall.

1908

Marshall Winslow Stearns (October 18, 1908 – December 18, 1966) was an American jazz critic and musicologist.

He was the founder of the Institute of Jazz Studies.

1931

Stearns played drums in his teens, and attended Harvard University, where, in 1931, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree.

He was first married on October 18, 1931, in Yonkers, New York, to Betty Stearns ( Elizabeth Dixon; 1909–1996), whose father, Joseph Moore Dixon (1867–1934), was, from 1921 to 1925, the seventh Governor of Montana.

1932

He also attended Harvard Law School from 1932 to 1934, but did not graduate.

1939

He served a series of academic appointments on the English faculties of the University of Hawaii (1939–1941), Indiana University (1942–1946), and Cornell University (1946–1949).

1942

He went on to study medieval English at Yale University, where, in 1942, he earned a PhD.

1943

Jean was from White Hall, Illinois, and had attended MacMurray College (class of 1943), but transferred to the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where, in 1945, she earned a Bachelor of Arts in English.

1950

His foray into teaching jazz began in 1950 at New York University (1950–1951) and continued, beginning 1951,at Hunter College, where he became a professor.

While working in academia, he wrote about jazz music for several magazines, including Variety, Saturday Review, Down Beat, The Record Changer (de), Esquire, Harper's, Life, and Musical America.

In 1950, Stearns was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and he used the proceeds to finish his 1956 work The Story of Jazz, which became a widely used text, as well as a popular introduction to jazz.

Later in the 1950s, he was a consultant to the United States State Department, and accompanied Dizzy Gillespie on a tour of the Middle East in 1956 sponsored by the office.

1952

In 1952, he founded the Institute of Jazz Studies, which he directed.

1954

He taught at the New School for Social Research (1954–61) and the School of Jazz in Lenox, Massachusetts.

1956

Stearns then married – in October 1956, in Manhattan, New York – Jean Stearns ( Jean Barnett; born 1922).

1966

Stearns died on December 18, 1966, in Key West, Florida.

1968

He and his second wife, Jean, co-authored Jazz Dance: The Story of American Vernacular Dance, which was published posthumously in 1968.

Stearns was married twice.