A graduate of Denison University and the Ohio Northern College of Law, Scott M. Santangelo is the son of festival founder Dino Santangelo. He and his family reside in Crescent Springs, Kentucky. In 2016, he celebrated his 10th anniversary with the Cincinnati Arts Association as director of operations of Cincinnati's historic Music Hall. The photographs in Images of Modern America: The Ohio Valley Jazz Festival were largely taken from the archives of the Ohio Valley Jazz Festival and represent the first published collection of festival photographs from this source.
