Radio Series           

In January 2005 Jazz Loft Project director Sam Stephenson gave a presentation about the project at the Center for Jewish History on Thirteenth Street in Greenwich Village. The event was produced by Paul Weinstein, longtime producer of independent jazz programs in New York and a friend of the Jazz Loft Project. Pianist Dick Katz and bassist Bill Crow played at the event. Katz's son Jamie was in attendance and the next day he mentioned the project to WNYC’s Sara Fishko, who had been producing artful radio essays for WNYC under the title Fishko Files since 1999. Later that day Fishko met with Stephenson and Jazz Loft Project research associate Dan Partridge in a brownstone on Ninth Street and a long, fruitful, and fulfilling collaboration began.

The results are a ten-part series produced by WNYC and the Center for Documentary Studies, plus four anthology segments of one hour apiece. WNYC’s local broadcasts began on November 16, 2009. National Public Radio broadcast four parts on Weekend Edition begining December 6, 2009.  The four one-hour anthology broadcasts were in February 2010.

Listen to Sara Fishko's episodes by linking here:

Episode One - Introduction

Episode Two - Images of the Loft

Episode Three - The Tapes

Episode Four - Hall Overton

Episode Five - Before the Loft

Episode Six - Ron Free

Episode Seven - Flower District

Episode Eight - Monk Town Hall Concert

Episode Nine - More Tapes

Episode Ten - Times Change

LISTEN TO FOUR ONE-HOUR ANTHOLOGY BROADCASTS HERE

Personnel for the Jazz Loft Radio Series

For WNYC:
Sara Fishko, Producer and Host
Dean Cappello, Executive Producer (Chief Creative Officer / Senior VP of Programming for WNYC)
Edward Haber, Technical Director
Julie Burstein, Consulting Editor
Laura Mayer, Alexander Yellen, Noel Black, Nina Goodby and Oliver Kramer, assistants/associates

For CDS:
Dan Partridge, Jazz Loft Project Research Associate
Sam Stephenson, Jazz Loft Project Director
Lauren Hart, Jazz Loft Project Coordinator