When the Newport Jazz Festival celebrated its 50th Anniversary in August of 2004, the deluxe 98 page program became a historic document.

Several thousand people tried to cram into the Memorial for the late and great trumpeter ROY HARGROVE.

This is an informative concert program including a stunning crisscross personnel that included Sophie Tucker’s drummer (Danny Alvin), Billy Eckstine’s Musical Director (Budd Johnson), and Duke Ellington’s mentor (Willie “The Lion” Smith).

The International Ellington Conference held in Culver City in 1991 celebrated Duke in style and the beautiful program remains a collectible piece of Ellingtonia!

axophonist Jerome Richardson had a fascinating long career in different Jazz styles from classic big bands to the Hard Bop idiom.

Lincoln Center's BOUDOIR TENORS concert paid tribute to the Jazz ballad and the great tenor saxophonists!

This MAX ROACH bio press kit pamphlet offers a concise overview of the famed drummer's life and career in music.

RED RICHARDS was a pianist of the Mainstream style, who played with traditional Jazz and Blues musicians from Sidney Bechet to Mezz Mezzrow to Eddie Condon to Skeets Tolbert!

This press packet for the New Moon Swing Band is teeming with reviews, publicity, photos, and an overview of their career!

Johnny Letman was a great Jazzman of the midwest who played in some of the most popular big bands of the Swing Era including those of Lucky Millinder, Cab Calloway and Count Basie!

JOHNNY CARISI was a skilled trumpeter, but he is most famous for composing Israel, the tune famously recorded by Miles Davis on Capitol and issued later on the Birth of the Cool album.

This press kit is precious for its connection to vibraphonist Harry Sheppard as well as for having a forward by the famed Modern sculptor Clement Meadmore and including a rare interview with Roy Eldridge from The Embers!

This particular show from September of 1987 featured the Ellingtonian, Harold Ashby, a gifted tenor player who left Ellington in 1975 to lead his own band!

This program marks just one landmark year in the festival's fabled history!

This memoriam card pays tribute to Williams, featuring her image with her birth and death dates as well as a the music for Williams' Mass for the Lenten Season on the back!

LAWRENCE LUCIE, Jazz guitar lenged, member of Fletcher Henderson's band and the last survivor of the Billie Holiday Swing Song Tradition recordings including “I Cried For You” (6/30/1936), passed away at 101 on August 14, 2009.

From a November 2005 production held at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, Connecticut and featuring the singer Ernestine Jackson as Billie Holiday!

On September 10, 1995, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts presented Great Vibes, A Salute to Lionel Hampton! The event was a gala celebration of "Gates" and his music with performances and heart-felt tributes.

This program is for a benefit that was held for Vernel Fournier on October 16, 1994 at Bradley's, the famous Jazz club in New York.

Lorenzo Shihab was very and multi talented. Lorenzo also designed clothes and ran a store than Miles Davis frequented!

The late and great NORRIS TURNEY brought the flute into Duke Ellington’s tonal palette!

Headliners of JAM POTATOES FESTIVAL DE JAZZ included BILL COLEMAN, BENNY WATERS, JIMMY GOURLEY, BERYL BRYDEN, & GUY LAFITTE (all pictured)!

Count Basie, Cab Calloway, Buddy Rich, Tommy Dorsey—you could see all of these legends at BAM in 1980 in their big band Jazz series.

This invitation is from the May 1992 premiere of Max Roach's TO THE MAX held at the Count Basie Theater in Red Bank, NJ!

his invitation and envelope is from the opening of the groundbreaking musical therapy center established in the name of the great Louis Armstrong!

From Jazz at Lincoln Center's Jazz for Young People program on SIDNEY BECHET comes this sheet of "Fun, Interesting and Slightly Morbid Facts."

This business card advertises the MACHITO ORCHESTRA'S 1983 Grammy award for best Latin recording! It is the business card of Mario Grillo, the son of Machito and current musical director of the Machito Orchestra!

This program comes from the January 16, 1999 funeral of the influential avant-garde Jazz bassist, Frederic J. Hopkins!

The 1992 Evening with Friends of Charlie Parker concert was headlined by Max Roach with Al Hibbler and Lee Konitz. Phil hosted the event.

Offered here is the simple and elegant business card of pianist RICHARD WYANDS, known for playing with Gigi Gryce, Charles Mingus and Roy Haynes!

This business card is from Strozier's emergence as a pianist, although he was better known for playing alto and flute with such legends as Roy Haynes and Lee Morgan during the 1960s.

This concert was held on February 8, 1974 and included POPPY GASKIN, the daughter of bassist LEONARD GASKIN, famous for recording with Miles Davis, Billie Holiday and many others!

This business card advertises Kiane Zawadi's music teaching and includes additions in his own hand. It's a scarce item from this truly unique musician.

The Big Easy's rich history as the birthplace of Jazz gets a gorgeous treatment in this colorful and attractive dossier!

A ticket stub from SAM RIVERS' legendary reunion and farewell concert on May 25, 2007 produced by WKCR!

Program from the last public concert of JUNIOR MANCE, one of the last surviving innovators from Jazz’s Bebop and Hard Bop eras!

On Sunday, June 21, 1970, at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall, there was a Jazz concert that headlined Zoot & Al (Sims and Cohn), Teddy Wilson, Maxine Sullivan, Joe Newman, and Haggert’s and Lawson’s World’s Greatest Jazz Band.

May 21, 1989

MARY LOU WILLIAMS' Spiritual Guide

Written by WARREN LEIGHT

Extensive photos/essays, schedules - mostly in German

12 SIGNATURES, including James Chirillo, Ruth Sears (Big Al Sears' widow), Britt Woodman, et. al!

1992 was a great year for Newport, and this calendar SIGNED by George Wein commemorates it!

Rare Large and Formal Program issue!

Held at the West End Collegiate Church, and St. Peters - the Jazz Church

JOHN COLTRANE Birthday Broadcast feature for WKCR's FINAL program guide.

This ticket is from the December 14, 2003 benefit concert and reception given by the WYNTON KELLY Jazz Foundation, honoring the legendary Jazz pianist!

Unique Ticket for Marian McPartland's 81st Birthday concert at Flushing Town Hall, March 19, 1999!

August 1999: Laminated Pass & Event Ticket!

74th Birthday Celebration, 2001, SIGNED!

September 1987 WKCR Program Guide feat. TEDDY WILSON, & Phil Schaap article!

This 2002 edition; may have been Jimmy Knepper's last performance, came very late in Carrie Smith's career, and Phil Schaap spoke at the event (available signed and/or personalized)!

Columbia/Legacy Press release for CHARLIE CHRISTIAN Box Set!

LA JAZZ INSTITUTE BEBOP CELEBRATION, May 24-27, 2001, DIZZY!

Maestro DUKE ELLINGTON, Saluted by the Museum of the City of New York, Program!

SIDNEY BECHET Society Flyer, 2/8/1998!

vintage GATES Barbecue (Kansas City) napkin

Memorial Service Program for altoist EARLE WARREN

March 1989 WKCR PG articles by Phil, with Sun Ra interview!

Government Press Release and two Press Passes!

Latin Drummer Ray Mantilla is featured in this Unique Press Kit.

Monthly Flyer from the legendary Jazz Club/Bar, The West End!

Business cards from noted jazz scholars!

Wuye Kanutch cover / Coleman Hawkins Bio by James Boyle / Coleman Hawkins 1935 concert poster on rear cover. Just one available!

WKCR program guide featuring a cover story on Bird by Phil Schaap, plus a wealth of exclusive Ella Fitzgerald material.

Exceedingly rare WKCR program guide from November 1987, featuring exclusive articles by Phil Schaap on jazz icons Teddy Wilson and Lester Young.

Rare WKCR program guide from May 1994, featuring exclusive articles by Phil Schaap (on Mark Wilder) and Ben Young (on Andrew Hill and Evan Parker). Available for signature and personalization by Schaap, Wilder, and Young.

Jack Reilly is one of the foremost jazz pianists and educators in the Tri-State area. This rare press kit contains a wealth of unique information on Reilly, as well as his handwritten letter to Phil Schaap.

The November 1996 edition of the WKCR Program Guide, featuring a number of rare and unique jazz articles as well as a complete discography of bassist David Izenzon, who is noted for his work with Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins and Archie Shepp.

The August 1996 edition of the WKCR Program Guide, curated by Sharif Abdus Salaam. Available for signing and personalization by Salaam and Phil Schaap.

Rare program for the 12th annual Lester Young Memorial, which took place in New York on March 18, 1996 and featured performances and lectures by many of the foremost figures in jazz.

Program from the funeral of bebop piano legend Walter Bishop Jr. A longtime member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and a frequent collaborator with such stars as Bird, Miles, and Sonny Rollins, Bishop was a genuine giant of the bebop era.

Rare, exclusive documentation from Jazz at Lincoln Center's tribute concert for pianist James P. Johnson. Contains a concert program, a concert review in the NY Times, and an analysis of Johnson's music published specifically for the concert.

2012 calendar containing authentic blues artwork from the 1920s. Each month bears the image of a vintage poster advertising a hit song from blues' golden era in the early 20th century.

A 1968 letter from the Duke Ellington Jazz Society announcing a celebratory event for legendary vocalist Al Hibbler. On the back are handwritten notes from Walter Schaap concerning Hibbler's background and career.

December 2, 2001. Phil Schaap will sign and if desired personalize. Please specify in order notes.

WKCR programming guide featuring the one and only Little Jazz ROY ELDRIDGE.

Featuring filmmaker Abel Ferrara on the cover, and a lead story about Coleman Hawkins.

This is a long wall calendar that has a fold.

Over 600 musicians featured!

55th Anniversary Issue with MONK Cover!

You won't find this anywhere else!

COOTIE WILLIAMS, 1911-1985: Historic Document with Unique Content on DUKE'S legendary trumpet star & growl specialist!

The great SWING REUNION concert brought together seven legends from the Swing Era: Teddy Wilson, Red Norvo, Benny Carter, the guitarists Freddie Green and Remo Palmier, the bassist George Duvivier and the drummer Louis Bellson!

This concert live at Carnegie Hall Featured Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers!

Live at Lincoln Center 1973

A ticket stub from New York City's New Port Jazz Festival renaming ceremony, which renamed the Singer Bowl to the Louis Armstrong stadium!

VHS electronic press kit for Marcus Roberts simultaneous releases of Portraits in Blue/ Time and Circumstance!

Phil will sign and personalize if desired.

Ellington 1993 Program: Cotton Club To Carnegie Hall!

27th annual 12 hour Jazz marathon

Play based on the book by Vernel Bagneris

1997 Photo Jazz Calendar with photo of Phil Schaap and Clark Terry by Norm Harris

Press kit for the biography of Billy Strayhorn

This program is from a November 16, 1997 event held at St. Peters, the Jazz cathedral in Manhattan, in remembrance of the pianist, Wynton Kelly, who died all too young in 1971.

Get Hip! is a performance-demonstration outreach program for young people, presented by Jazz Reach as part of the Panasonic Village Jazz Festival in 1997

From Monday March 22, 1999, comes this scarce concert program from the Sidney Bechet Society's Jam session held at the Greenwich Village Center, SIGNED by the legendary producer and Newport Jazz festival founder, GEORGE WEIN!

The New Arkestra

May 1996 Vol. xii, No. 5
Phil Schaap will sign and if specified will personalize

Columbia University May 16, 2001. Very Few Available! Historic Document!

Also, Phil Schaap "Jazz Session" programs are annotated by WNYC. Phil will sign and personalize if desired.

Program form the 2007 Vision Festival which honored composer, trumpeter and teacher BILL DIXON with a lifetime achievement award!

Featuring: LIONEL HAMPTON, GIL EVANS, BEAVER HARRIS, AL HIBBLER, TOMMY FLANAGAN, DON CHERRY, LESTER BOWIE, ALLEN GINSBERG, JOHNNY COPELAND, WOODY SHAW and many more!