Dan Gould

I guess I knew the photo at top but was stunned to learn that William Claxton, jazz photographer extraordinaire, was both the photographer and her husband until his death. When they met she knew who he was too - she was a jazzer. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/13/fashion/peggy-moffitt-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.C04.kLqg.0nAQQkxlBDyn&smid=url-share

In the realm of interviews ... there was an ongoing series of Wednesday night broadcasts of musicians hosting on WKCR, playing their own choice of tunes, interviewing others ... basically doing their own thing. I have never heard one but I am now informed by my Librarian contact that they have quite a few of them and that they will also be worked on after the West End shows and in amongst the formal interviews that Phil conducted.

I was only at the Vanguard once, to see Eastern Rebellion with Ralph Moore. He came down the steps past me and I said aloud "there he is" or something like that. I was not NY cool and felt like a dweeb.

He's been a super-helpful guy. He has photo credits in the NYT article Brad posted at the start of the thread. @l p I was told by the librarian that he has another 150 live music reels that he is steadily uploading and then their priority shifts to the Interview tapes. At the rate he has been going that puts Interview tapes being uploaded starting by mid or late September.

@Niko Well that was quick turnaround. The reference librarian already re-uploaded the Bill Saxton show and its showing as playable now.

Perfect example of how I can improve the enjoyment of these treasures ... Fathead Newman with Ronnie Cuber was just uploaded last night, almost 40 minutes worth (less Schaap-speak) but as I went thru the wav file I discovered a channel drop out/back in over a good 25 seconds of the last tune - a simple fix but if you just listen to the stream something you'd probably notice. BTW that is a rare (I strongly suspect) flute duet between Newman and Cuber.

I spotted that one this morning too and thought "John Patton - cool!" Looking at the listing page I notice there is no photo included. This usually indicates a restricted access tape (there are studio recordings that have it also). But this is clearly a West End broadcast that ought to be publicly available. I am going to email the librarian in charge and inquire, I'll let you know what he says. And, you are very welcome, Niko.

Because I hope to help people enjoy these long-ago and forgotten broadcasts of live jazz by legends of the swing and bop eras, I am offering the following service: If you stream or see a recording available thru Vanderbilt's website and wish you could enjoy it without being tethered to your favorite streaming device, send me a PM and I will: Stream the show into my goldwave audio software; Edit for best signal, trim for superfluous gaps (some have interludes in the middle of the broadcast from the studio, unrelated to the show in question) and extraneous noise - Phil's microphone could be counted on for being rather noisy after he finally shuts up - and send you the results as an MP3 file. Any request that I have already done this for will get same day service!

Glad to help Brad, though if you are interested in the concerts broadcast from the West End, really the best way to browse them is to mark Reel to Reel as "source" in the left column and just go page by page. Since doing that, I have switched to choosing "add date" as the sorting option and then go to the last few pages to see what is actually new. For Phil's shows they do auto sort by name, and come to think of it, if its Birthday broadcasts you want they should be easily found with a search of 'Birthday'.

There are over 100 recordings that fall out on an "interview" search right now: https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/catalog?search_type=advance&transliteration_status=false&f[collection_id_is][]=2137&keywords[]=interview&title_text[]=&resource_description[]=&indexes[]=&transcript[]=&supplemental_file[]=&collection_title[]=&op[]=&type_of_search[]=wildcard&type_of_field_selector[]=wildcard&sort=title_ss+asc&search_field=advanced&commit=Search Further, Phil's assistants were also tasked with digitization of some sources and they have already worked to digitize thru an outside vendor what was on reel.

Everything on philschaapjazz.com is being transferred to the Vanderbilt aviary site. Plus everything he held on to that wasn't yet digitized. There is a five year plan to get thru the material donated and they only started receiving material late last year. It did fill two tractor trailers plus a van when it was moved to Nashville. I am most concerned with the concerts that were broadcast; others are free to have other interests. For instance you can obsess on every dissection of every tune recorded by Bird until you want to beg him to play the damn the music.

Schaap booked the West End and the vast majority of broadcasts were from there. The other sources for some recordings are Third Phase and Birdland and there were far fewer. Maybe this will catch @Rooster_Ties attention. There's a Woody Shaw available for streaming.

The awning collapsed? Couldn't have been Tropical storm Debby.

Your free/avante artists were never going to be booked at the West End. Ellington, Webster, Green, Montgomery were dead before concerts were broadcast live over WKCR, or in the case of Grant Green, long gone from NYC. Schaap billed the West End as "The Uptown Home for Swing" for a reason. Think Ellington and Basie sidemen. Sammy Price. Quinichette, Buddy Tate, Tiny Grimes. Doc Cheatham. Lou Donaldson appeared. Clark Terry has a show uploaded. Junior Cook, Bill Hardman. BTW interviews are a future priority so if any exist of Hawkins or Ellington or the like, they wouldn't fall out of any search.

Who are you looking for, may I ask? Start here: https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collection? Put cursor in the search field at top, and "Advanced Search" appears at the right. Click on that. Expand Collection Title (Left column) and check on Phil Schaap Jazz Collection. Go back to the top Search Box and enter artist names. Here's George Kelly: https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/catalog?search_type=advance&transliteration_status=false&f[collection_id_is][]=2137&keywords[]=George+Kelly&title_text[]=&resource_description[]=&indexes[]=&transcript[]=&supplemental_file[]=&collection_title[]=&op[]=&type_of_search[]=wildcard&type_of_field_selector[]=wildcard&sort=title_ss+asc&search_field=advanced&commit=Search Percy France: https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/catalog?search_type=advance&transliteration_status=false&f[collection_id_is][]=2137&keywords[]=Percy+France&title_text[]=&resource_description[]=&indexes[]=&transcript[]=&supplemental_file[]=&collection_title[]=&op[]=&type_of_search[]=wildcard&type_of_field_selector[]=wildcard&sort=title_ss+asc&search_field=advanced&commit=Search Junior Cook: https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/catalog?search_type=advance&transliteration_status=false&f[collection_id_is][]=2137&keywords[]=Junior+Cook&title_text[]=&resource_description[]=&indexes[]=&transcript[]=&supplemental_file[]=&collection_title[]=&op[]=&type_of_search[]=wildcard&type_of_field_selector[]=wildcard&sort=title_ss+asc&search_field=advanced&commit=Search Richard Wyands (he only appeared as sideman, never as leader AFAIK) https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/catalog?search_type=advance&transliteration_status=false&f[collection_id_is][]=2137&keywords[]=Richard+Wyands&title_text[]=&resource_description[]=&indexes[]=&transcript[]=&supplemental_file[]=&collection_title[]=&op[]=&type_of_search[]=wildcard&type_of_field_selector[]=wildcard&sort=title_ss+asc&search_field=advanced&commit=Search EDIT to add: I recommended selecting Reel to Reel for "source" because there only about 300 uploaded and therefore easy to scroll thru and see the leader names in the titles (and there's a link to see more info on each posting, including sidemen - worthwhile when, for example, a drummer I had never heard of turns out to have Junior Cook and Bill Hardman in his front line one week, and a year later, Ralph Moore and Brian Lynch).

And the way the uploads display there are about 1100 radio shows to scroll thru before you even see any of the amazing West End (and Third Phase - who the hell came up with that name for a jazz club?) recordings.

I reached out to Marc Myers about the Schaap archive ... he said he would write about it. In the end its a little disappointing as it only merited a spot in his 'clearing the decks' post - scroll down to the photo of Bird to see it. https://www.jazzwax.com/2024/08/luke-casey-and-gene.html I really thought that he would write something himself but he only used my words ... I think part of the problem is that he favors youtube uploads for the recordings he promotes on the blog and he can't here.

Thanks for this Brad, I was told to watch for it possibly next week. Edit to add: shoot, I thought this would be an article with Reader Comments enabled and I planned to promote Percy France as the most surprising artist prominently featured in the reels that Phil donated. And Edit again to say .. WTH? Not a thing about the West End and the hundreds of sets broadcast and preserved and now available for streaming. Yes the interviews are important (and I hope a Percy France will show up) and I'd rank them over any edition of Bird Flight since hopefully the artists got a chance to talk but ... those weekly broadcasts are a treasure trove.

Thanks for sharing this Andy. Good to see you around these parts.

Sad to hear. RIP.

The Eddie Johnson is great.

Mikey's litter box and food dishes are within 10 inches of each other at the closest. maybe if that's the way it is from adoption as a baby it doesn't matter?

Wish I had seen this before Debbie came by (she's still here). My wife and I started laying in Pop Tarts as a pre-tropical storm ritual a long time ago. However I have dropped 25 pounds since June 1st and wasn't going to give any of that back. Nevertheless I have to say I lingered at the Pop Tart display on the Walmart end cap when I was shopping on Saturday.