AN EVENING OF REAL JAZZ, held at The Town Hall on 43rd st in Manhattan, was an impressive sampling of top notch Jazz talents including Roy Eldridge and Earl Hines, Maxine Sullivan, the JPJ Quartet, Grady Tate and Zoot Sims!!

You won't find this anywhere else!

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.

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

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!

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.

From the United States Postal Service's official annotation and first day cover stamp for ELLA FITZGERALD on January 10, 2007. This Orange 81/2 x 11 program/flyer/ticket that was handed out at the event itself!

August 1999: Laminated Pass & Event Ticket!

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

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

From the April 29th, 1971 showing.

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.

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

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

The No Gap Generation Band was a group of talented musicians dedicated to playing the Swing Era sounds of Jazz using great musicians of all ages...

The incomparable LADY DAY graces the cover this WKCR programming guide from April 1996.

This ticket stub from EBBETS FIELD is from September 20, 1955, the BROOKLYN Dodgers last home game of that season...

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

July 1996 WKCR Program Guide with Ella Fitzgerald Memorial Cover. This brochure also contains articles by Ken Thomson on Louis Armstrong & by Ben Young on Albert Ayler as well as a photograph of Jimmy Rowles.

From the funeral of the great Jazz singer and civil rights activist ABBEY LINCOLN who died at age 80 on August 14, 2010.

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

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

These four booklets honor Maxine Sullivan, Doc Cheatham, Milt Hinton, and Panama Francis with essays and historic photos.

The Jazz ministry of Saint Peter’s Church, the “Jazz church,” is a bastion of Jazz in NYC in large part thanks to pastor John Garcia Gensel. This show from October 1992 was a salute to the great singer Bobby Short

Press kit for the biography of Billy Strayhorn

Business card of EDMUND ANDERSON, a close friend of Duke Ellington who attended the legendary Benny Goodman Carnegie Hall concert with Duke and sat near Duke on stage for the 1/23/1943 Carnegie Hall concert!

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.

Program from All-Star Jazz cruise, by Norwegian Cruise Lines!

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

Columbia/Legacy Press release for CHARLIE CHRISTIAN Box Set!

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

The JAZ AGE: MUSIC of PAUL WHITEMAN 2/17/2005 tix stub!

This ticket is a rare momento from a great Jazz event! The master of ceremonies was the actor ERIC BOGOSIAN who also has big interests in Jazz. We only have two left!!

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

with Robert Shaw, & Phil Schaap performed as well!

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

Williamstown Theatre

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

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.

For his 2000 CD WANDERING MOON

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.

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

Over 40 years old!

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

Price is for both tickets

May 21, 1989

55th Anniversary Issue with MONK Cover!

Bernhardt Crystal is the uncle of BILLY CRYSTAL. His brother was Jack Crystal, in turn the brother-in-law of Milt Gabler. They ran the Commodore Music Shop and Commodore Records.

November 1975 flyer and schedule!

Same price the ticket cost in 1987!

This program is from the 1979 festival which included Buck Clayton, Jabbo Smith and Illinois Jacquet and blues artists B.B. King, Muddy Waters and Koko Taylor!

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

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

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

The legendary ALVIN BATISTE is a first cousin two generations removed from Colbert Show star Jon Batiste. They played together in New Orleans when Jon was quite young.

The Duke Ellington Centennial was a proud moment for Jazz, celebrate the event with this informative and noteworthy program!

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

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.

This ticket for a Jam Session produced by the Sidney Bechet Society and featuring Daniel, Sidney Bechet's son, "direct from Paris!"

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

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

This unique calendar is from the SUCCESSFUL campaign by the Landmarks Preservation Commission of the City of New York to save Charlie Parker's house at 151 Charlie Parker Place/Avenue B!

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.

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!

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.

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

Press Kit from Pianist Crothers and Alto Saxophonist Tabnik's DUO DIMENSION cd!

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.

Featuring Al Cohn, Zoot Sims, Joe Newman, Teddy Wilson, and more!

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

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

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.

The New Arkestra

Local 802 Promotion

An Exciting Jam Session with: Daniel Bechet (Sidney's son!), Kenny Davern, Vince Giordano, and more! May 18, 1998

MARY LOU WILLIAMS' Spiritual Guide

This program is from the marvelous trombonist VIC DICKENSON’s funeral on November 21, 1984!

Ellington 1993 Program: Cotton Club To Carnegie Hall!

SEALED!

Written by WARREN LEIGHT

Memorial Service Program for altoist EARLE WARREN

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

This autographed program AND ticket stub is from the 1993 edition of the JVC (Newport) Jazz Festival, SIGNED by founder and producer GEORGE WEIN!

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

Business card for famous NYC Trad-Jazz venue!

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!

Rare program guide released by WNYC in March 1992, featuring an exclusive article on Phil Schaap. Phil will sign and personalize if desired.

DIZZY GILLESPIE'S funeral service on January 12, 1993 at St. John the Divine, was a huge ceremony with 10,000 people in attendance.

conducted by Eugene Ormandy

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

This extremely rare package includes a program for New York Governor Herbert Lehman's 80th birthday celebration on March 29, 1958, as well as a 12" LP recording of the night's performances by Yip Harburg, Harold Rome, and other jazz giants.

In 1999, only five years after Calloway's passing, the JVC Jazz Festival in New York City put together a program celebrating the music and legacy of the great CAB CALLOWAY!

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.

Tick for Sweet Papa Lou Donaldson at the Lenox Lounge: August 15, 1997, with Herman Foster, and David Schnitter!

Extensive photos/essays, schedules - mostly in German

Live at Lincoln Center 1973

Business cards from noted jazz scholars!

Phil will sign and personalize if desired.

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

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!

For the music lover who is beyond category we offer a bundle of five classical music programs!!

Play based on the book by Vernel Bagneris

The West End (Gate) opening night for West End GATE program with Buddy Tate and Branford Marsalis!

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)!

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!

Unique Presentation Packet from the one and only EDDIE DURHAM!

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

These back issues are a fascinating glimpse into the Jazz world of New York circa 1996 and 1997!

Tenor Master & Soloist on DIZZY's classic "Manteca!"

The program includes special pictures and a lengthy obituary, a marvelous celebration of Billy Taylor!

A program and information booklet from the 1998 Frank Sinatra Conference at Hofstra University. Included in these documents are several otherwise-unpublished articles and images pertaining to the legendary crooner.

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!

Krakauer is a specialist in Klezmer clarinet while retaining his Jazz chops and enthusiasm.

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.

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

This rare piece of Ellingtonia is a gem from Duke's extremely vibrant years in the late 1950s.

This is a long wall calendar that has a fold.

27th annual 12 hour Jazz marathon

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

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.

RED ALERT!! Red Rodney, trumpeter with Benny Goodman and Charlie Parker, was inducted into the Down Beat Hall of Fame in 1990. Here is a beautiful little invitation to the ceremony!

From the funeral of the great Jazz guitarist, BILLY BAUER (November 14, 1915 – June 17, 2005)!

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

Jerome Richardson Press Kit

A deluxe package including program and ticket for a most notable homage to the legendary composer which featured Ellis Marsalis!

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

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

Vocalist with Hank Jones, Tyree Glenn, Yank Lawson, et. al!

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

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

Government Press Release and two Press Passes!

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

Rare Large and Formal Program issue!

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.

3 business cards for Junior Mance, Butch Miles and Danny Mixon!

The Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra is a stalwart organization of Jazz preservation and education, ensuring the future of live Jazz and its integral place in our culture.

This rare program is from the funeral of BILL DILLARD, an excellent trumpeter who mentored Dizzy Gillespie in Teddy Hill's orchestra!

The program, program insert, and ticket stub to this historical Harlem event at the Apollo Theatre on May 20th, 2002.

74th Birthday Celebration, 2001, SIGNED!

SIDNEY BECHET Society Flyer, 2/8/1998!

Unique Swiss PROMO post card for Wild Bill Davis.

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

Newark Star Ledger, NY Times, etc...

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

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

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!

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

Over 600 musicians featured!

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

vintage GATES Barbecue (Kansas City) napkin

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.

This issue of UPBEAT! from June 1985 features a cover story on Jazz pianist and composer, Amina Claudine Myers, known for working with the Art Ensemble of Chicago Archie Shepp, Marian McPartland and others!

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