The New Jazz Archive

By Jeff Haas

The New Jazz Archive (TNJA) is more than just a podcast—it’s an invitation to step into the heart of jazz, a uniquely American art form. Hosted by jazz composer and musician Jeff Haas, each episode ta... more

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August 19, 2025E15 Jazz Abroad
Stories and sounds from jazz’s history overseas from the U.S. State Department using jazz as a weapon in the Cold War, the music’s extensive history in other countries, and learn how Israel is producing some of the best modern jazz musicians. We’ll talk with Israeli jazzer Anat Cohen about why Israel is becoming a hotbed for new jazz talent, take a look at the nearly hundred-year-old history of jazz in Japan, and explore Europe’s version of the 1920s Jazz Age.

Episode Transcript

Host: Jeff Haas
Guests: Penny Von Eschen, Lewis Porter, E. Taylor Atkins, Anat Cohen

Music
Duke Ellington “Ad Lib on Nippon”
Duke Ellington “Mount Harissa”
Original Dixieland Jazz Band’s “Tiger Rag”
Josephine Baker “Si J'etais Blanche”
Artie Shaw “Nightmare”
Charlie Parker “Anthropology”
Komeda “Lullaby from Rosemary's Baby, Part 1”
Duke Ellington “Take the ‘A’ Train”
Duke Ellington “Satin Doll”
Josephine Baker “Revoir Paris”
Danilo Perez “Panama Blues”
Toshiko Akiyoshi “Blues for Toshiko”
Sarah Vaughan “April in Paris”
Dave Brubeck “Calcutta Blues”
Duke Ellington “Bluebird of Delhi”
3 Cohens “U-Valley”
Anat Cohen “La Comparsa”

Original Air Date: June 17, 2012

Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas
Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon
Podcast produced by Sam Boase-Miller and Erik Saras
Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller
Transcripts and show notes by Erik Saras

Theme Song: Jeff Haas Trio & Friends “Giving In”

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August 05, 2025E14 Les Paul
A celebration of the life and legend of the great Les Paul by talking with rock icon Steve Miller about his memories of his legendary godfather, and how the many famous inventions of the Wizard of Waukesha transformed 20th-century music. We’ll find out how Les Paul shaped Miller’s own life as a man and musician, talk with Sue Baker of the Les Paul Foundation about Les’s life and legacy, and how Les Paul’s inventions are still having an impact on all guitar music today.

Episode Transcript

Host: Jeff Haas
Guests: Steve Miller, Sue Baker

Music
Les Paul “Walkin' and Whistlin' Blues”
Les Paul “Fine and Dandy”
Les Paul and Mary Ford “St. Louis Blues”
Les Paul “Stumbling”
Les Paul “Caravan”
Les Paul “Lover”
Les Paul and Mary Ford “How High the Moon”
Les Paul and Mary Ford “Vaya Con Dios”
Les Paul and Mary Ford “Tiger Rag”
Les Paul “Steel Guitar Rag”
Les Paul “Brazil”
Led Zeppelin “Black Dog”
Les Paul and Mary Ford “Three Little Words”
Les Paul and Mary Ford “Tennessee Waltz”
Les Paul and Mary Ford “Jazz Me Blues”
Les Paul and Mary Ford “The Lonesome Road”
Steve Miller “The Joker”
Les Paul and Mary Ford “Lonely Guitar”
Steve Miller and Les Paul “Birthday Blues” improvisation
Les Paul and Mary Ford “Whispering”

Original Air Date: April 4, 2014

Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas
Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon
Podcast produced by Sam Boase-Miller and Erik Saras
Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller
Transcripts and show notes by Erik Saras

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July 22, 2025E13 Jazz and Country
When the two separate paths of jazz and country cross, we get some of the most fascinating fusions in American music, from Hank Garland jazzing up the early Nashville country scene, to the development of Western Swing, and contemporary jazz takes on country classics. We’ll talk with music historian Cary Ginell about forgotten Nashville session man Hank Garland, look at the thriving Nashville jazz scene with Maxx Myrick of the Tennessee Jazz and Blues Society, and chat with composer Andrew Bishop about his contemporary jazz take on the music of country legend Hank Williams.

Episode Transcript

Host: Jeff Haas
Guests: Cary Ginell, Andrew Bishop, Maxx Myrick

Music
Hank Garland “Sugarfoot Rag”
Hank Garland “Why Not?”
Ray Charles “Blue Moon of Kentucky”
Milton Brown “Girl of My Dreams”
Milton Brown “I’ll Be Glad When You’re Dead, You Rascal You”
Milton Brown “Taking Off”
Bob Wills “Orange Stomp”
Bob Wills “New San Antonio Rose”
Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys “Ding Dong Daddy From Dumas”
Chet Atkins and Les Paul “Caravan”
Hank Williams “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry”
Andrew Bishop “Hymn for Hank Williams”
Andrew Bishop “Hymn for Hank Williams (and Willie Nelson)”
Andrew Bishop “Again You Win”
Andrew Bishop “Your Cheatin’ Heart”
Sonny Rollins “I'm an Old Cowhand”
Hank Garland “Ain’t Nothin Wrong with That, Baby”
Patsy Cline “I Fall to Pieces”
Roy Hall “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On”
Patti Page and Hank Garland “Just Because”
Hank Garland “All the Things You Are”
Hank Garland “Autumn Leaves”
Hank Garland “Three-Four the Blues”
Bill Frisell “Disfarmer Theme”
Elizabeth Crawford “The Nashville Tour”
El Movimiento “El Señor Está Contigo (Reprise)”
The Time Jumpers “Roly Poly”
Béla Fleck and the Flecktones “Flight of the Cosmic Hippo”
Ricky Skaggs “Gallatin Rag”
Willie Nelson “All of Me”

Original Air Date: October 31, 2011

Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas
Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon
Podcast produced by Sam Boase-Miller and Erik Saras
Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller
Transcripts and show notes by Erik Saras

Theme Song: Jeff Haas Trio & Friends “Giving In”

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July 08, 2025E12 Billie Holiday
A celebration of the life and musical genius of the great Billie Holiday, traveling the hard road she took on her way to becoming one of jazz’s most beloved voices, and talk with curators and authors who continue to expose young people to Lady Day’s talents. We’ll talk with biographer Robert O’Meally about Billie’s musical genius, chat with Jazz at Lincoln Center curator Phil Schaap about the great Louis Armstrong’s role in shaping her musical voice, and talk with the best-selling author who’s channeled Billie Holiday to create a brand new version of her autobiography for young people.

Episode Transcript

Content warnings: some explicit language in Carole Boston Weatherford’s read aloud poetry

Host: Jeff Haas
Guests: Robert O’Meally, Phil Schaap, Carole Boston Weatherford

Music
Billie Holiday “God Bless the Child”
Billie Holiday “Lover Come Back to Me”
Billie Holiday “Them There Eyes”
Billie Holiday “The Man I Love”
Billie Holiday “Lover Man”
Billie Holiday “P. S. I Love You”
Billie Holiday “Do Your Duty”
Billie Holiday, Jimmy Rowles, Barney Kessel, and Ben Webster “Our Love Is Here To Stay”
Billie Holiday “Fine And Mellow”
Billie Holiday “Pennies From Heaven”
Louis Armstrong “Yours And Mine”
Billie Holiday “Yours And Mine”
Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong “My Sweet Hunk O’ Trash”
Billie Holiday and Louis Armstrong “You Can't Lose A Broken Heart”
Billie Holiday “Everything Happens To Me”
Billie Holiday “Come Rain Or Come Shine”
Billie Holiday “Good Morning Heartache”
Billie Holiday “Strange Fruit”
Billie Holiday “I’ll Be Seeing You”

Original Air Date: July 16, 2012

Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas
Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon
Podcast produced by Sam Boase-Miller and Erik Saras
Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller
Transcripts and show notes by Erik Saras

Theme Song: Jeff Haas Trio & Friends “Giving In”

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June 24, 2025E11 Weird Instruments
Believe it or not, harmonica, accordion, flute, banjo, and even the bagpipes have all made their impact on the jazz tradition thanks to the tireless efforts of pioneers of the music making these “weird instruments” a little more mainstream. We’ll sit down for a conversation with jazz tuba pioneer Howard Johnson, explore how banjo shaped the sound of early jazz, chat with Nancy Stagnitta about how flute worked its way from the jazz margins to the jazz mainstream, and explore the life and music of jazz bagpiper Rufus Harley.

Episode Transcript

Host: Jeff Haas
Guests: Howard Johnson, Lewis Porter, George Manney, Nancy Stagnitta

Music
Howard Johnson & Gravity “Kelly Blue”
Howard Johnson & Gravity “Stolen Moments”
Toot Thielemans “Bluesette”
Toot Thielemans “Old Spice Whistle”
Bennie Moten “Elephant's Wobble”
Ikey Robinson’s “My Four Reasons”
Bix Beiderbecke “Singin’ the Blues”
Vess Ossman banjo solo
Jabbo Smith and Ikey Robinson “Michigander Blues”
Béla Fleck and the Flecktones “Flight of the Cosmic Hippo”
Béla Fleck and Marcus Roberts Trio “Petunia”
Dorothy Ashby “Our Love is Here to Stay”
Rufus Harley “Crack”
Rufus Harley “Bagpipe Blues”
Rufus Harley “Scotch and Soul”
Rufus Harley “Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child”
Rufus Harley “Chim Chim Cheree”
Yusef Lateef “Sea Breeze”
Herbie Mann “St. Louis Blues”
Anchorman “East Harlem Shakedown”
Herbie Mann “Memphis Underground”
Missus Beastly “Rahsaan Roland Kirk”
PROJECT Trio “Blue Rondo a La Turk”
Rahsaan Roland Kirk “You Did It, You Did It”
Julius Watkins and Oscar Pettiford “The Edge of Love”
Richard Galliano “Ruby My Dear”
Howard Johnson & Gravity “Big Alice”
Howard Johnson & Gravity “Stolen Moments”
Howard Johnson & Gravity “Svengali's Summer / Waltz”
Howard Johnson & Gravity “Be No Evil”

Original Air Date: February 10, 2013

Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas
Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon
Podcast produced by Sam Boase-Miller and Erik Saras
Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller
Transcripts and show notes by Erik Saras

Theme Song: Jeff Haas Trio & Friends “Giving In”

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June 10, 2025E10 Dave Brubeck
A celebration of the life and music of the great Dave Brubeck from his early days as a legendary experimental jazz musician to composing religious music, and how he defied the odds to become a jazz celebrity in the early rock and roll era and continuing to perform with his son, Chris Brubeck. We’ll talk with Dave’s son about his memories of his legendary father, take a tour of the experimental side of Dave Brubeck with our jazz historian Lewis Porter, and explore why Brubeck disbanded his legendary quartet and turned to religious music in the 1970s.

Episode Transcript

Host: Jeff Haas
Guests: Chris Brubeck, Simon Rowe, Lewis Porter

Music
The Dave Brubeck Quartet “Take Five”
Dave Brubeck “I’m In a Dancing Mood”
Dave Brubeck “Camptown Races”
Dave Brubeck “Love Walked In”
Dave Brubeck “All the Things You Are”
Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond “All the Things You Are”
Dave Brubeck “Three to Get Ready”
Dave Brubeck “Jeepers Creepers”
Dave Brubeck Quartet “Maria”
Dave Brubeck “Theme from Elementals”
Dave Brubeck “Countdown”
Dave Brubeck “Pennies from Heaven”
Dave Brubeck “Indiana”
Dave Brubeck “Blue Moon”
Dave Brubeck “Blue Rondo a La Turk”
Dave Brubeck “Unsquare Dance”
Dave Brubeck “It's a Raggy Waltz”
Dave Brubeck “Audrey”
Dave Brubeck “40 Days”
Dave Brubeck “Blessed are the Poor”
Dave Brubeck “To Hope! A Celebration - XII. Our Father”
Dave Brubeck and Louis Armstrong “They Say I Look Like God”
Dave Brubeck “The Duke”
Dave Brubeck “My Romance”

Original Air Date: April 15, 2013

Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas
Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon
Podcast produced by Sam Boase-Miller and Erik Saras
Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller
Transcripts and show notes by Erik Saras

Theme Song: Jeff Haas Trio & Friends “Giving In”

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May 27, 2025E09 Great Jazz Cities: Kansas City
We continue our tour of America’s great jazz cities with Kansas City and the storied and sordid roots of the famed Kansas City sound, as well as a look at adopted hometown hero Count Basie and one of jazz’s most underappreciated legends: Mary Lou Williams. We’ll talk with local boy and jazz historian Chuck Haddix about the the corrupt Kansas City political boss who defied Prohibition and helped spark the city’s early jazz scene, take a look at adopted hometown hero “Count” Bill Basie’s long and winding road from Kansas City to the pinnacle of swing, and explore the life and music of one of the great Mary Lou Williams.

Episode Transcript

Host: Jeff Haas
Guests: Chuck Haddix, Linda Dahl

Music
Wilbert Harrison “Kansas City”
Julia Lee “Snatch It and Grab It”
Jay McShann “Swingmatism”
Bennie Moten “Blue Room”
Kevin Mahogany and James Weidman “Parker's Mood / Kansas City”
Andy Kirk “Casey Jones Special”
Bennie Moten “Terrific Stomp”
Bennie Moten and Count Basie “Moten Swing”
Count Basie “One O’Clock Jump”
Jay McShann and Julia Lee “Trouble in Mind”
Andy Kirk “Confessin’ the Blues”
Charlie Parker “Parker’s Mood”
Julia Lee “Show Me Missouri Blues”
Count Basie “Splanky”
Bennie Moten “Milenberg Joys”
Bennie Moten “The Count”
Count Basie “Roseland Shuffle”
Count Basie “Jumpin’ at the Woodside”
Count Basie “Every Day I Have the Blues”
Count Basie and Joe Williams “Well, Alright, Okay, You Win”
Lest Young and the Oscar Peterson Trio “Almost Like Being In Love”
Andy Kirk “Froggy Bottom”
Andy Kirk and Mary Lou Williams “Mess-A-Stomp”
Andy Kirk “Big Jim Blues”
Mary Lou Williams “Taurus”
Mary Lou Williams “Libra”
Mary Lou Williams “Anima Christi”
Mary Lou Williams “Old Time Spiritual”
Mary Lou Williams “Dirge Blues”
Mary Lou Williams “Zonky”

Original Air Date: November 12, 2011

Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas
Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon
Podcast produced by Sam Boase-Miller and Erik Saras
Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller
Transcripts and show notes by Erik Saras

Theme Song: Jeff Haas Trio & Friends “Giving In”

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May 13, 2025E08 Jazz Comeback Stories
A celebration of the best of jazz’s great comeback stories including Duke Ellington’s legendary 1956 Newport Jazz Festival performance, and an exclusive interview with guitarist Pat Martino who survived a brain aneurysm and retook his place as one of the music’s great voices on jazz guitar. We’ll talk with jazz historian Phil Schaap about the epic saxophone solo that single-handedly propelled Duke Ellington back into jazz relevance, chat with a Chicago cabaret artist who’s committed to giving long-forgotten tunes from the Golden Age of American Song a new lease on life, and hear the triumphant story of guitarist Pat Martino.

Episode Transcript

Content warnings: discussion of aneurysm and recovery.

Host: Jeff Haas
Guests: Phil Schaap, Justin Hayford, Bill Milkowski, Pat Martino

Music
Duke Ellington “Blues for New Orleans”
Duke Ellington “The Swingers Get the Blues, Too”
Tony Bennett “The Best Is Yet To Come”
Duke Ellington and John Coltrane “In a Sentimental Mood”
Duke Ellington “Blues in Blueprint”
Duke Ellington “Diminuendo in Blue”
Duke Ellington “Diminuendo In Blue And Crescendo In Blue”
Duke Ellington “Blues in Orbit”
Duke Ellington “Thanks for the Beautiful Land on the Delta”
Frank Morgan and Kenny Baron “You’ve Changed”
Justin Hayford “You’re Awful”
Django Reinhardt “Honeysuckle Rose”
Django Reinhardt “Billets Doux”
Willis “Gator Tail” Jackson and Pat Martino “A Lot of Livin to Do”
Pat Martino “El Hombre”
Pat Martino “East”
Pat Martino “Footprints”
Pat Martino “Alone Together”
Pat Martino “Ellipsis”
Pat Martino Quartet “Round Midnight”
Pat Martino and Les Paul “I'm Confessin’ That I Love You”
Pat Martino “Two of a Kind”

Original Air Date: March 23, 2012

Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas
Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon
Podcast produced by Sam Boase-Miller and Erik Saras
Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller
Transcripts and show notes by Erik Saras

Theme Song: Jeff Haas Trio & Friends “Giving In”

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59min
April 29, 2025E07 Great Jazz Cities: New Orleans
We continue our tour of America’s great jazz cities with the sites and sounds of New Orleans jazz and its origins in the early twentieth century, the parade tradition known as Second Line, and explore how Hurricane Katrina has reshaped the New Orleans jazz scene. We’ll talk with jazz historian Bruce Raeburn about the birth of jazz in New Orleans, get to know the raucous New Orleans parade tradition that is Second Line, chat with Louis Armstrong historian Ricky Riccardi about Satchmo’s wild and wooly years growing up on the streets of the Crescent City, and see how jazz has found new life after the devastating effects from Hurricane Katrina.

Episode Transcript

Host: Jeff Haas
Guests: Bruce Raeburn, Ricky Riccardi

Music
Clifton Chenier “Tous Les Jours Mon Coeur Est Blue (Every Day I Have The Blues)”
Treme Brass Band “Bucket's Got a Hole in it”
Treme Brass Band “The Treme Song”
New Birth Brass Band “Wolf Stuff”
Sidney Bechet “Black Stick”
Clifton Chenier “Je Marche Le Plancher (You Know It Ain't Fair)”
Louis Armstrong “Perdido Street Blues”
Louis Armstrong “Bucket’s Got A Hole In It”
Treme Brass Band “Big Chief”
Treme Brass Band “Tuba Fats”
New Birth Brass Band “Apache”
Dirty Dozen Brass Band “A Closer Walk”
Hot 8 Brass Band “Skeet Skeet”
Terence Blanchard’s “Ghosts of Congo Square”
Galactic featuring Irma Thomas “Heart of Steel”

Original Air Date: February 18, 2012

Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas
Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon
Podcast produced by Sam Boase-Miller and Erik Saras
Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller
Transcripts and show notes by Erik Saras

Theme Song: Jeff Haas Trio & Friends “Giving In”

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59min
April 15, 2025E06 Tito Puente
A celebration of the life and music of maestro Tito Puente, including the 1950s mambo craze that launched his meteoric rise to the top, and the many talents that made him the undisputed King of Latin Jazz. We’ll talk with Latin jazz historian Bobby Sanabria about why Tito still matters to the 20-somethings he’s teaching at the Manhattan School of Music, chat with Tito Puente’s friend and biographer Joe Conzo about Tito’s meteoric rise to the top of the mambo scene, and hear of the story behind Puente’s most famous composition and why you might not even realize it’s a Tito Puente original.

Episode Transcript

Host: Jeff Haas
Guests: Bobby Sanabria, Joe Conzo

Music
Tito Puente “Vibe Mambo”
Tito Puente “Cochise”
Tito Puente “Carnaval En Harlem”
José Curbelo “Rumba Rumbero”
Pupi Campo “Joe and Paul”
Tito Puente “Abaniquito”
Tito Puente “El Mambo Diablo”
Tito Puente “El Cayuco”
Tito Puente “Cuando Te Vea”
Tito Puente “Ritual Fire Dance”
Santana “Oye Como Va”
Tito Puente “Para los Romberos”
Tito Puente “Letargo”
Tito Punete “Más Bajo”
Tito Puente “Sambaroco”
Tito Puente “Lotus Land”
Tito Puente “Hong Kong Mambo”
Tito Puente “Como esta Miguel”
Bobby Sanabria & MSM Afro-Cuban Jazz Ensemble “Elegua Changó”
Bobby Sanabria & MSM Afro-Cuban Jazz Ensemble “Mambo Buddha”
Bobby Sanabria & MSM Afro-Cuban Jazz Ensemble “Ritual Fire Dance”
Bobby Sanabria & MSM Afro-Cuban Jazz Ensemble “Birdland After Dark”
Bobby Sanabria & MSM Afro-Cuban Jazz Ensemble “Alegre Cha-Cha-Cha”
Bobby Sanabria & MSM Afro-Cuban Jazz Ensemble “Autumn Leaves”
Tito Puente “Observalo”

Original Air Date: May 19, 2012

Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas
Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon
Podcast produced by Sam Boase-Miller and Erik Saras
Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller
Transcripts and show notes by Erik Saras

Theme Song: Jeff Haas Trio & Friends “Giving In”

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FAQs about The New Jazz Archive:

How many episodes does The New Jazz Archive have?

The podcast currently has 15 episodes available.