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Ten-part series November 2009
To listen, visit WNYC's website
Four-part series on NPR Weekend Edition starts December 6, 2009
For an affiliate near you, click here

Photo by Matthew Arnold Photography, courtesy of WNYC Radio
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