A Walking Jazz History Book: An Interview with Phil Schaap by Mister Radio

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Today’s guest has won six Grammy awards and eight Grammy nominations including an award for , “Best Album Notes for Bird - The Complete Charlie Parker On Verve. Frank Foster has called him "a walking jazz history book". Early in his career he managed the Basie alumni band, The Countsmen and for 17 years ran the Jazz at The West End jazz room on Broadway at 114th St in New York City. He attended Columbia University and during his freshman year began broadcasting jazz on the Columbia University radio station, WKCR-FM, and he has been a radio broadcaster ever since.The jazz critic Stanley Crouch once wrote that, “There is no person in America more dedicated to any art form than today’s guest is to jazz. He is the Mr. Memory of jazz, and, as with the Mister memory character in “The Thirty-Nine Steps,” the Hitchcock movie, there are those who think he ought to be shot. He can get on your nerves, but, then, you can get on his.”
It is my honor to introduce today’s guest, Phil Schaap.
Welcome to the show Phil.