Edward Berger is Assistant Director of the Institute of Jazz Studies of Rutgers University and co-editor of Scarecrow's Studies in Jazz Series. He is co-author of Benny Carter: A Life in American Music (Vol. 1 of this series) and an editor of and frequent contributor to the Annual Review of Jazz Studies and its predecessor, the Journal of Jazz Studies. He has produced several albums by Benny Carter and travels frequently to Japan as road manager for Carter's orchestras.