Phil Schaap Jazz Archive Reels are LIVE and available for streaming!

[Dan Gould]

The interviews released are just mouth watering ... Max Roach on Dizzy Gillespie, Teddy Edwards, Howard McGhee, SIX hours with Jo Jones, Milt Hinton, Joe Albany, Helen Humes, Andy Kirk, Eddie Barefield, Doc Cheatham, Guitar panel with Eddie Durham, Tiny Grimes, and Lawrence Lucie, Dickey Wells, Harold Ashby, Sweets, Jimmy Heath, Barry Harris, Buck Clayton, Buddy Tate, Joe Lee Wilson, Roy Eldridge, Cleanhead Vinson, Russell Procope, Dexter, Lee Young talking about Lester, Richard Wyands, Bennie Morton, Paul Jeffrey ...  the list just goes on and on and on, and these are just the names that stand out to me and I have only browsed thru 10 or 20 of over 35 total pages so far.

https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/catalog?q=&search_field=all_fields&utf8=✓&f[collection_id_is][]=2137&f[description_type_search_facet_sms][]=Interviews

 

[Dan Gould]

Mal Waldron interview - 1 hour on his life and career.

https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/141870

 

[Dan Gould]

Sun Ra, twice:

https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/144141

 

https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/144142

 

[l p]

8 hours ago, Dan Gould said:

Sun Ra, twice:

https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/144141

 

https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/144142

 

thanks

[Dan Gould]

The treasures continue to be posted, here are four more just uploaded since Friday:

 

Doris Parker:

https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/148691

George Wein:

https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/148695

Lou Donaldson, with the topic being "Blue Note Hard Bop"

https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/148696

 

And something I am very interested in hearing, David "Bubba" Brooks and Eddie Locke, topics include Bill Doggett, Harlem Blues and Jazz Band, and Louis Armstrong (did Phil ask anything about brother Tina?):

https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/148699

Note I have been getting weird messages that Chrome is not compatible anymore .... I have been playing these reels in Edge.

[Dan Gould]

This should be fun ... Michael Weiss as musician host, spinning his own selections and commenting on the music, with interview by Phil Schaap at the end.

https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/145981

 

[Dan Gould]

There's been an absolute ton of Percy France uploads the last month or so and the vast majority were not ones that the librarian had shared with me as items that were being digitized ... but Buddy Tate has appeared in the archive:

 

https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/162657

Actually its not as if Tate was not captured at the West End - but the other recordings are with the Countsmen, sharing the front line with Wells, Cheatham, Warren.

[Dan Gould]

Joey Defrancesco makes his first appearance in the archive - in fine sound

https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/163518

 

So does Sir Roland Hanna

https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/163517

[Dan Gould]

This one surprised me, just uploaded:

Eddie Bert/J.R. Monterose Quintet, Sept. 20, 1991

https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/163541

 

[Niko]

Nice, thanks for letting us know!

[sgcim]

The Billy Bauer one in the archive achieves the impossible; someone who can out-talk Phil! 

I sent a link to two friends of mine who studied with him, and they're spending hours listening to it. BB's studio was located above a bar, so his tongue was very loose. One of my friends said he could write a book just about the lessons.

The one with Joe Dixon is pretty special to me, because it's got 1/8th of a session i played on with Joe. I did most of the arranging,, and wrote some tunes for it, too. Phil was selling it on his website for a lot of bread, and then he passed. I wonder if the archive will include stuff like that? At least I got part of it.

[RiRiIII]

Thank you, such amazing treasures, indeed.

For some reason I listened yesterday to the Gunther Schuller interview around Louis Armstrong. Exceptional. And having Schuller saying that after the end of his evening job at the MET orchestra as horninst in the 40s, he went ahead to the 52 street etc. to see the Bird, Gillespie, Monk et al. ignoring *then* Satchmo who was so hostile to the new music.

[Dan Gould]

Now Jimmy Heath has made an appearance:

https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/163542

[sgcim]

I heard an interview with Chuck Wayne that was interesting, if only to hear what his speaking voice sounded like.

I saw him live with the duo he had with Joe Puma many times, and even played a tune with him at a clinic the duo had, live on the air on WBAi, but he rarely spoke. I can only describe him as sounding like a well-spoken, 1940's Hollywood actor; not a trace of a Bronx accent like his buddy Puma.

Phil mainly dealt with his connection with Coleman Hawkins, via the Joe Marsala group, and the cuts Phil played must have had Wayne squirming in his seat. Wayne was VERY young at that time...

Another odd interview I listened to was with the great Frank Strozier, a week before he was going to make his piano playing debut with a trio featuring his old buddy Curtis Boyd at Carnegie Recital Hall. Frank is a very quiet, thoughtful person, and Phil would ask one of his long, rambling questions, and it would be met with complete silence! Phil would have to re-word his hyper-active question so Frank COMPLETELY understood it, and then Frank would succinctly  answer it in a few short sentences. An example would be Phil spending five minutes summing up some of Frank's great accomplishments, and then asked Frank, so what are you doing now? and Frank would simply say in his slight Southern accent,  "I'm a sixth grade teacher." LOL!

I'm annoyed that there's barely anything on Jimmy Raney and Tal Farlow, two ground-breaking Bop guitarists, but it doesn't really surprise me... 

[adh1907]

That’s funny re Frank Strozier. You have to love Phil’s enthusiasm. Used to love visiting NYC and listening to Bird Flight (in the pre internet days). No one presenting jazz radio in the UK has ever communicated that level of excitement and obsessiveness about jazz. 

[Dan Gould]

Chris Flory headlined several days at The West End in December 1979 as a "Young Swingsters".

I can't figure out why but Emily Remler was called "Remlick" by Phil.  I was able to verify its the guitarist who was a couple of years away from her debut on Concord because a tune they performed that is ID'd as her composition ultimately became the title track to the first Concord record, slightly modified.

December 5 1979
https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/164757?collection_resource_file_id=299809

December 6 with tenorman George Kelly added:

https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/164758?collection_resource_file_id=299811

December 7  still with George Kelly

https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/164759?collection_resource_file_id=299813

Many hours of enjoyable jazz.

[Big Beat Steve]

On 1/4/2026 at 11:21 PM, adh1907 said:

That’s funny re Frank Strozier. You have to love Phil’s enthusiasm. Used to love visiting NYC and listening to Bird Flight (in the pre internet days). No one presenting jazz radio in the UK has ever communicated that level of excitement and obsessiveness about jazz. 

I suppose, though, he'd have been outdistanced by Jean-Christophe Averty over on French radio. That man was on permanent speaking overdrive on his "Les Cinglés du Music-Hall" show (which presented its share of early French and US jazz too) I tuned in to repeatedly in the 80s. And the funny thing was that there was a second host on that show who was calmer and more factual. So this one (forgot his name) came across like a sort of "straight man" to Averty. 

Re- the silence in Strozier's reply, I somehow understand this on the part of the interviewee. (Have heard similar situations in radio interviews elsewhere.) The radio host rambles on and on about this and that about the interviewee and tells the interviewee what he did and and did not and whatever ... (as if the interviewee would not have known for himself and been able to tell it himself to the listeners if asked the right questions ...). Small wonder some of those prodded for a reply felt like "What am I doing here anyway if YOU do all the talking?" Some interview hosts just ought to restrain themselves a little in such situations. 

Edited 1 hour ago by Big Beat Steve