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

[adh1907]

Thanks so much Dan for looking into this for me and to the librarian for the detailed response. Very kind of you. I have tried, using my iphone and my macbook, on chrome and safari and still no joy! I wonder if other UK members of this Forum have any experiences of accessing these files?

Anthony

[Dan Gould]

3 hours ago, adh1907 said:

Thanks so much Dan for looking into this for me and to the librarian for the detailed response. Very kind of you. I have tried, using my iphone and my macbook, on chrome and safari and still no joy! I wonder if other UK members of this Forum have any experiences of accessing these files?

Anthony

I've been streaming and editing so many of the shows if you want to DM me about what you've been trying to hear.

[Quasimado]

Thanks Dan,

Just listened to the Barry Harris at Birdland 1991. Just beautiful!

[Dan Gould]

7 hours ago, Quasimado said:

Thanks Dan,

Just listened to the Barry Harris at Birdland 1991. Just beautiful!

Was that the trio recording or the one with Konitz:

https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/135152?u=t&keywords[]=barry&keywords[]=harris

[Quasimado]

The trio - well recorded, too. Barry's on fire ...

There's one of Barry with Lee? What a treasure trove!

[Dan Gould]

I just came across Barney Kessel - did not know he appeared at the West End

https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/135162

 

[mr jazz]

Are these files all mp3? I'm proud of my alma mater for hosting this collection.

[Dan Gould]

47 minutes ago, mr jazz said:

Are these files all mp3? I'm proud of my alma mater for hosting this collection.

Yes everything is encoded to the Aviary site in MP3 unless its video.

I am sure they have wav or FLAC files from the outside vendor that is digitizing reels, for archival purposes.

[mjzee]

It would be great if this would turn up in his archives (info from this website: http://www.monkbook.com/sessionography/sessionography-1941/):

June/July 1941

Minton’s Playhouse, New York City
Minton’s House Band
Personnel: Joe Guy (tp/vcl), Al Sears (ts-1), Thelonious Monk (p), Nick Fenton (b), Kenny Clarke (d), Viola Jefferson (vcl), Duke Groner (vcl).
1.    Theme [Epistrophy]
2.    The Sheik of Araby (1)
3.    Mean to me (1)
4.    I got rhythm (1) (vcl – Jefferson)
5.    Theme [Epistrophy]     (1)
6.    Theme [Epistrophy]
7.    Indiana (1)
8.    I’ve found a new baby (1)
9.    Theme [Epistrophy]     (1)
10.    Theme [Epistrophy]
11.    Sweet Georgia Brown
12.    Everything happens to me (vcl – Groner)
13.    Rear Back (vcl – Guy)
14.    Meet Dr. Christian [Rhythm-a-ning]
15.    I Understand (vcl – Groner)
16.    Topsy
17.    Theme [Epistrophy]
Notes: All titles unreleased; recording made by Jerry Newman for a Columbia University Radio Club broadcast, located in archives of WKCR – Columbia University.

[mjzee]

On 10/2/2024 at 5:25 AM, Dan Gould said:

I just came across Barney Kessel - did not know he appeared at the West End

https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/135162

 

Hey Dan, I don't know if you've heard this tape.  First off, there's no Barney Kessel actually playing; instead, for the first 20 minutes, it's technical difficulties and Schaap talking.  Then, at the 20 minute mark, it's a totally different ensemble fronted by Percy France with Ed Cherry, Ervin Stokes, Sheldon Garry, and Chris Anderson.  You might be interested.

[Dan Gould]

5 hours ago, mjzee said:

Hey Dan, I don't know if you've heard this tape.  First off, there's no Barney Kessel actually playing; instead, for the first 20 minutes, it's technical difficulties and Schaap talking.  Then, at the 20 minute mark, it's a totally different ensemble fronted by Percy France with Ed Cherry, Ervin Stokes, Sheldon Garry, and Chris Anderson.  You might be interested.

Might be is an understatement!

Holey Moley! 

I had not (obviously) so that is fantastic news. And Irvin Stokes, Ed Cherry and ... Chris Anderson (!) are all not previously heard with Percy. Thank you!

 

[Dan Gould]

It's come to my attention that reel-to-reel is not the only source for worthwhile Schaap recordings from way back when.

Here is a link to cassette sourced MP3s:

https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/catalog?current_flock=false&f[collection_id_is][]=2137&f[description_source_search_facet_sms][]=Audiocassette&myresources=0&request_is_xhr=false&search_field=advanced&search_type=advance&sort=title_ss+asc&update_facets=true&user_ip=173.171.182.128

 

And an interesting one contained therein:

https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/137221/file/254432

Brooks Kerr, Artie Miller, George Kelly, Sonny Greer.

This search ought to catch all of them - Type is "Live Sound Recordings":

https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/catalog?current_flock=false&f[collection_id_is][]=2137&f[description_type_search_facet_sms][]=Live+sound+recordings&myresources=0&request_is_xhr=false&search_field=advanced&search_type=advance&sort=title_ss+asc&update_facets=true&user_ip=173.171.182.128

[Dan Gould]

The link above can be confirmed as quite nice if you like that early swinging jazz style. And three hours long, too. 

Also was the start of "Young Swingsters" week at the West End, December 1979 and leaves me wondering if other nights got recorded and especially what other bands got recorded. Hopefully six more to come and dare I ask ... Percy France? He was appearing by then at the club if not necessarily getting booked as a leader yet.

 

This one is also recent and very good:

https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/132344

Only 30 minutes of music but a rare group under the George Kelly Jazz Sultans moniker.  Instead of just a trumpeter in the front  line its:

Virgil Jones, trumpet, Benny Powell, trombone, Norris Turney, alto saxophone, Peck Morrison, bass, Ronnie Cole, drums, Richard Wyands, piano, George Kelly, tenor saxophone.

[Dan Gould]

Interesting add up just today:

Howard McGhee combo featuring Joe Carroll and Tommy Turrentine.

 

https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/138038

 

[Niko]

https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/137619

this one looks like it might have been put together by Allen Lowe (Joe Albany, piano, Jeff Fuller, bass, Sir John Godfrey, drums, Dicky Myers, alto sax)

[Dan Gould]

8 minutes ago, Niko said:

https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/137619

this one looks like it might have been put together by Allen Lowe (Joe Albany, piano, Jeff Fuller, bass, Sir John Godfrey, drums, Dicky Myers, alto sax)

Yes, I pointed this one out to Allen on FB. Makes a nice live recording to add to the LP that Allen recorded:

 

https://www.discogs.com/release/6186461-Dickey-Myers-Dickeys-Mood

[Dan Gould]

On 11/5/2024 at 3:04 PM, Niko said:

https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/137619

this one looks like it might have been put together by Allen Lowe (Joe Albany, piano, Jeff Fuller, bass, Sir John Godfrey, drums, Dicky Myers, alto sax)

A second Dicky Myers set from the same engagement, this one 90 minutes or so:

 

https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/139141?u=t&keywords[]=myers

 

[Niko]

Thanks!

[Dan Gould]

Looks like a nice way to spend three hours:

Jazz Interactions 8th anniversary party at the "Village Gate", upstairs and downstairs, April 29, 1973

https://aviary.library.vanderbilt.edu/collections/2137/collection_resources/139196

 

Personnel: Hilton Ruiz Quintet [4 tunes], Maurice Waller Trio [5 tunes], Countsmen (Earle Warren, Buddy Tate, Doc Cheatham, Dicky Wells, Dill Jones, Eddie Jones, Eddie Quinn [4 tunes], Joe Newman Quintet (w/Al Gafa, Harold Mabern, Earl May, Mickey Roker) [4 tunes], [Jazz group] (Ruby Braff, Billy Taylor, Earl May, Dotty Dodgion) [4 tunes], Jimmy Owens Quintet (featuring Kenny Barron) [1 tune], Charles McPherson Sextet [1 tune]

 

Wondering who is in the Ruiz, Owens and McPherson groups.

[JSngry]

Except for Mabern, that Joe Newman band was on loan from Dizzy?