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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July 07, 2026Great Jazz Cities: Philadelphia - S02E12
We continue our tour of America’s “Great Jazz Cities” with the history of Local 274’s influence on jazz in the city, music from Hammond B3 organ pioneer Jimmy Smith, and the brilliant and tragic story of Philadelphia favorite son Clifford Brown. We’ll also get to know the Philadelphia guitar-violin duo that beat Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli to the punch, and our chat with historian Diane Turner gets into the details about how union politics shaped the Philly jazz scene.

Episode Transcript

Host: Jeff Haas
Guests: Diane Turner, Mike Peters, Pete Fallico, Charles Carson

Music
McCoy Tyner “Contemplation”
Clifford Brown & Max Roach Quintet “Step Lightly (Junior’s Arrival)”
Nina Simone “Love Me or Leave Me”
Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang “Stringing the Blues”
Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang “Goin’ Places”
Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang “Wild Cat”
Joe Venuti and Eddie Lang “Doin’ Things”
Melody Gardot “All I Need is Love”
Jimmy Smith “The Sermon”
Jimmy Smith “The Champ”
Jimmy Smith “When Johnny Comes Marching Home”
Jimmy Smith “The Organ Grinder’s Swing”
Jo Jones “Philadelphia Bound”
McCoy Tyner “Utopia”
John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner, and Jimmy Garrison “After the Rain”
Hank Mobley and Lee Morgan “I See Your Face Before Me”
Art Blakey “A Night In Tunisia”
Clifford Brown “Brownie Speaks”
Clifford Brown “Easy Living”
Clifford Brown “The Scene is Clean”
Clifford Brown “Brownie Eyes”
Clifford Brown “Joy Spring”
Clifford Brown & Max Roach Quintet “Swingin’”

Original Air Date: June 9, 2012

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

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

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June 23, 2026Cool Jazz - S02E11
A laid back look at the world of cool jazz, the people who shaped it, and how their revolution helped spark a mid-century East coast/West Coast rivalry in jazz. We’ll talk with our jazz historian Lewis Porter about the birth of the “cool” aesthetic in jazz, listen to some of the champions of the cool sound, and get to know the cool, quirky and often unsung saxophonist who shaped the sound of the legendary Dave Brubeck Quartet.

Episode Transcript

Host: Jeff Haas
Guests: Lewis Porter, Doug Ramsey

Music
The Dave Brubeck Quartet “Unsquare Dance”
Chris Connor “Get Out of Town”
Gerry Mulligan Quartet “The Lady is a Tramp”
Miles Davis Nonet “Godchild”
Miles Davis Nonet “Venus de Milo”
Lester Young “These Foolish Things”
Gerry Mulligan Quartet “Frenesi”
The Dave Brubeck Quartet “The Way You Look Tonight”
Anita O'Day “My Heart Belongs To Daddy”
Chris Connor “I Get A Kick Out Of You”
Peggy Lee “Fever”
Chet Baker “The Night We Called It A Day”
Chris Connor “Moon Ray”
Miles Davis Nonet “Jeru”
Claude Thornhill “Robbin's Nest”
Miles Davis “Boplicity”
Miles Davis “Blues for Pablo”
Miles Davis “Concierto de Aranjuez”
Miles Davis “Will O’ the Wisp”
Miles Davis and Gil Evans “Summertime”
Miles Davis and Gil Evans “I Loves You, Porgy”
Gerry Mulligan Quartet “I'm Beginning to See the Light”
Dave Brubeck “I'm In a Dancing Mood”
Gerry Mulligan Quartet “Walkin’ Shoes
Art Pepper “Birks Works”
Chet Baker “That Old Feeling”
Dave Brubeck & Paul Desmond “Let's Fall in Love”
Dave Brubeck & Paul Desmond “Audrey”
Dave Brubeck & Paul Desmond “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?”
The Dave Brubeck Quartet “Blue Rondo à la Turk”
The Dave Brubeck Quartet “Take Five”
The Dave Brubeck Quartet “Three to Get Ready”
Dave Brubeck & Paul Desmond “Jeepers Creepers”

Original Air Date: November 28, 2011

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

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

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June 09, 2026Jazz and Food - S02E10
A musical feast dedicated to some of the best food themed jazz with stories and sounds from the kitchen at one of New York’s hottest clubs, and the favorite dishes of some of the biggest icons in jazz. We’ll listen to music from the undisputed king of food jazz, talk with John Colbert who owned the oldest continually operating jazz club in the world, and hear from Lorraine Gordon whose office is the kitchen at the Village Vanguard.

Episode Transcript

Host: Jeff Haas
Guests: Lorraine Gordon, John Colbert, Phil Murray

Music
Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis “In the Kitchen”
Nina Simone “I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl”
Nat King Cole Trio “The Frim Fram Sauce”
Louis Jordan “Hungry Man”
Louis Jordan “Ration Blues”
Louis Jordan “Saturday Night Fish Fry”
Louis Jordan “Beans and Cornbread”
James Brown “Mother Popcorn”
Fats Waller “All That Meat And No Potatoes”
Fats Waller “Smashing Thirds”
Jimmy Smith “Mack the Knife”
James Carter “Sack Full of Dreams”
Shirley Horn “Peel Me A Grape”
Frank Zappa “Call Any Vegetable”
Cab Calloway “Everybody Eats When They Come to My House”
Thelonious Monk “Tea for Two”
Mongo Santamaria “Watermelon Man”
Rosemary Clooney “Mangos”
The Andrews Sisters “Hold Tight”
Coleman Hawkins and Ben Webster “Tangerine”

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

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

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May 26, 2026Duke Ellington - S02E09
A celebration of the life and music of the legendary and prolific composer Duke Ellington, whose six decade long career created some of the most iconic music in American history. We'll explore the stories and songs behind his politically charged musicals, hear how international tours pushed him to infuse his music with Latin rhythms to Middle Eastern melodies, and learn more about Ellington’s unexpected comeback and his later years composing sacred suites. One from the vaults – this episode was produced for Jazz Connections, an earlier version of The New Jazz Archive.

Episode Transcript

Content Warning: use of dated derogatory racial terms in some historical quotes

Host: Jeff Haas

Music
Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)"
Duke Ellington “Mount Harissa” from Far East Suite
Duke Ellington and Alice Babs “Heaven”
Duke Ellington “Soda Fountain Rag”
Duke Ellington “Soda Fountain Rag”
Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn “Take the ‘A’ Train”
Duke Ellington “Prelude to a Kiss”
Medeski Martin & Wood “Caravan”
Duke Ellington “Conga Brava”
Duke Ellington and Juan Tizol “Caravan”
Duke Ellington “Amad” from Far East Suite
Duke Ellington “Single Petal Of A Rose”
Stevie Wonder “Sir Duke”
Duke Ellington “Retrospection”
Duke Ellington “Perdido”
Duke Ellington “Reflections in D”
Junko Onishi Quintet and Marcus Belgrave “Take the ‘A’ Train”
Duke Ellington “Chelsea Bridge”
Duke Ellington “Come Sunday”
Charles Mingus “Duke Ellington’s Sound of Love”
Announcements from The Newport Jazz Festival
Duke Ellington “Black and Tan Fantasy”
Duke Ellington “Diminuendo In Blue And Crescendo In Blue”

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

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

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May 12, 2026Chet Baker - S02E08
A celebration of the brilliant and tumultuous life of Chet Baker from his unlikely breakthrough as one of the most popular trumpeters of the 1950s to the drug addiction which nearly unraveled his career. We’ll chat with Baker biographer James Gavin about Chet’s life and music, explore Chet’s surprising work as a jazz vocalist, and trace his role in bringing new life to one of jazz’s most treasured standards.

Episode Transcript

Content warnings: detailed descriptions of injury and drug addiction

Host: Jeff Haas
Guests: James Gavin

Music
Chet Baker “Let’s Get Lost”
Chet Baker “The Night We Called It A Day”
Chet Baker “Isn’t It Romantic?”
Chet Baker “Sweet Lorraine”
Chet Baker / Russ Freeman “Moon Love”
Chet Baker “Boudoir”
Chet Baker “Little Girl Blue”
Chet Baker “That Old Feeling”
Chet Baker “My Ideal”
Chet Baker “It’s Always You”
Chet Baker “Like Someone In Love”
Chet Baker “I Fall In Love Too Easily”
Chet Baker “There Will Never Be Another You”
Chet Baker / Russ Freeman “Maid In Mexico”
Gerry Mulligan Quartet “My Funny Valentine”
Chet Baker “My Funny Valentine”
Chet Baker “My Funny Valentine (Live)”
Chet Baker “It Never Entered My Mind”
Chet Baker “Everything Happens to Me”

Original Air Date: March 31, 2012

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

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

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April 28, 2026Jazz and Spirituality - S02E07
We delve into the shared history of jazz and spirituality with the spiritual side of sax titan John Coltrane, the gospel roots of jazz, and the sacred music of jazz icon Duke Ellington. We’ll also chat with a founding member of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band about the unique New Orleans spiritual tradition that is the jazz funeral.

Episode Transcript

Host: Jeff Haas
Guests: Leonard Brown, Emmett Price, Bill Sears, Roger Lewis

Music
John Coltrane “Slowtrane”
Johnny Griffin Orchestra “Wade in the Water”
John Zorn’s “Eitan”
Anthony Butler “My God Is a Mighty Man”
Andrew Dorsey “If You See My Savior”
Andrew Dorsey “Peace In The Valley”
Louis Armstrong “When The Saints Go Marching In”
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers “Moanin’”
Aretha Franklin “Save Me”
Jimmy Smith “The Sermon”
Sam Cooke and the Soul Stirrers “Peace In The Valley”
Duke Ellington “Mood Indigo”
Duke Ellington “Come Sunday”
Duke Ellington “In The Beginning”
Duke Ellington “Heaven”
Duke Ellington “Is God A Three-Letter-Word For Love?”
Duke Ellington “Every Man Prays In His Own Language”
Charlie Haden “Go Down, Moses”
John Coltrane “The Damned Don’t Cry”
John Coltrane “Song Of The Underground Railroad”
John Coltrane “Spiritual”
John Coltrane “Crescent”
John Coltrane “Part I - Acknowledgement”
John Coltrane “Song of Praise”
Alice Coltrane “Shiva-Loka”
Dirty Dozen Brass Band “Amazing Grace”
Dirty Dozen Brass Band “Just A Closer Walk With Thee”
Dirty Dozen Brass Band “I Shall Not Be Moved”
Dirty Dozen Brass Band “What A Friend We Have In Jesus”
Dirty Dozen Brass Band “John The Revelator”
Dirty Dozen Brass Band “Is There Anybody Here That Loves My Jesus”

Original Air Date: December 4, 2011

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

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

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April 14, 2026Charles Mingus - S02E06
A celebration of the complicated life and innovative music of Charles Mingus whose powerful voice for civil rights and hot temper earned him the reputation as “The Angry Man of Jazz.”
We’ll talk with his widow Sue Mingus about her husband's compositional genius, explore his music and virtuosic bass playing, hear the story behind his legendary collaboration with Joni Mitchell, and learn about the efforts to keep the legacy of Mingus’s music alive. One from the vaults – this episode was produced for Jazz Connections, an earlier version of The New Jazz Archive.

Episode Transcript

Host: Jeff Haas
Guests: Sue Mingus

Music
Charles Mingus “Moanin’”
Charles Mingus “Prayer for Passive Resistance”
Charles Mingus “II B.S.”
Charles Mingus “Free Cell Block F, ‘Tis Nazi U.S.A.”
Duke Ellington “East St. Louis Toodle-Oo"
Charles Mingus “Pithecanthropus Erectus”
Charles Mingus “Reincarnation of a Lovebird”
Charles Mingus “Orange Was the Color of Her Dress, Then Silk Blue”
Charles Mingus “Better Git It in Your Soul”
Charles Mingus “Boogie Stop Shuffle”
Charles Mingus “So Long Eric”
Charles Mingus “Freedom”
Deborah Harry and Andy Summers “Weird Nightmare”
Mingus Big Band “Eat That Chicken (Paella)”
Charles Mingus “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat”
Charles Mingus “Freedom, Pt. 2 (Clark In the Dark)”
Charles Mingus “Pedal Point Blues”
Mingus Big Band “Free Cell Block F, 'Tis Nazi U.S.A.”
Charles Mingus and Joni Mitchell “The Dry Cleaner From Des Moines”
Charles Mingus and Joni Mitchell “God Must Be a Boogie Man”
Charles Mingus “Oscar Pettiford”
Charles Mingus “Peggy's Blue Skylight”

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

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

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March 31, 2026Jazz, R&B, and Social Protest - S02E05
Jazz and r&b both have a long history of protest songs and artists who were also potent political activists not only in the USA, but across the globe. We’ll explore how some of jazz’s most important musical pioneers wrote both subversive instrumental suites and outright angry musical manifestos, hear how American swing music became the unlikely soundtrack to an underground youth movement in Nazi Germany, and learn how the mellow sounds of the bossa nova grew into one of Latin America's most powerful protest idioms. One from the vaults – this episode was produced for Jazz Connections, an earlier version of The New Jazz Archive.

Episode Transcript

Content warnings: use of dated derogatory racial terms in some Louis Armstrong lyrics and interview quotes, and a clip from the movie Swing Kids

Host: Jeff Haas

Music
Bob Dylan “Masters of War”
Nina Simone “Old Jim Crow”
Max Roach “Freedom Day”
Louis Armstrong “A Kiss To Build A Dream On”
Louis Armstrong “The Old Folks At Home”
Louis Armstrong “Summertime”
Louis Armstrong “Black and Blue”
Marvin Gaye “What’s Going On”
Billie Holiday “Strange Fruit”
Nina Simone “Mississippi Goddamn”
Charles Mingus “Fables of Faubus”
John Coltrane “Alabama”
Gil Scott-Heron “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”
Edwin Starr “War”
Antônio Carlos Jobim “The Girl from Ipanema”
Nara Leão “Opinião”
Caetano Veloso “Enquanto Seu Lobo Não Vem”
Sam Cooke “A Change Is Gonna Come”
Benny Goodman “Flat Foot Floogee”
Glenn Miller “In the Mood”
Benny Goodman “Sing, Sing, Sing”
Charlie Haden “Song for Ché”
Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra “This is not America”

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

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

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March 17, 2026Building a Jazz Library - S02E04
Music from the essential jazz recordings for building your jazz library with picks from jazz historians, jazz fans, and jazz insiders. We’ll listen to music from the best albums of jazz heavyweights, tune in to a few more obscure recordings, and give tips on how to complete your very own jazz library, whether you’re new to the music or one of its most hardcore listeners.

Episode Transcript

Host: Jeff Haas
Guests: Bill Sears, Matt Visser, Myles Weinstein

Music
Charlie Parker “Ornithology”
Duke Ellington “Isfahan”
Billie Holiday “Good Morning Heartache”
Miles Davis “All Blues”
Duke Ellington “Jack the Bear”
Duke Ellington “Cotton Tail”
John Coltrane “Lonnie’s Lament”
John Coltrane “Wise One”
Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Max Roach, and Charles Mingus “A Night in Tunisia (Live)”
Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Max Roach, and Charles Mingus “Salt Peanuts”
John Coltrane “Naima”
The Dave Brubeck Quartet “Take Five”
Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry “Lonely Woman”
Charles Mingus “Fables of Faubus”
Charles Mingus “Boogie Stop Shuffle”
The Dave Brubeck Quartet’s “Blue Rondo à la Turk”
Louis Armstrong “Perdido Street Blues”
Miles Davis “Yesternow”
Billy Harper “Priestess”
Alice Coltrane “Ptah, The El Daoud”
Miles Davis “Right Off”
Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald “They Can’t Take That Away From Me”
Herbie Mann “Memphis Underground”
Stefon Harris & Blackout “Gone”
Vijay Iyer “Dogon A.D.”
Kenny Barron “Memories of You”
Vijay Iyer “Galang”

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

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

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March 03, 2026Jazz and Literature - S02E03
A look at the shared frontiers of jazz and literature from the many ways jazz shaped the world of poetry and vice versa, and hear how jazz critics have shaped our understanding of the music for the last hundred years. We’ll talk with poet Sascha Feinstein and literature historian Michael Borshuk about how everyone from the Beat writers of the 1950s to the civil-rights minded poets of the 1960s found their muses in the world of jazz, take a look at the life and work of the “jazz poet” Langston Hughes, and chat with our resident jazz historian Lewis Porter about how jazz critics have influenced the public’s perception of jazz for better and worse.

Guest Speaker correction: Sascha Feinstein is not Co-Director of Creative Writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts. He taught at Vermont College of Fine Arts for 7 years, and has been Director of Creative Writing at Lycoming College since 1995.

Episode Transcript

Host: Jeff Haas
Guests: Sascha Feinstein, Michael Borshuk, Paul McCann, Lewis Porter

Music
Duke Ellington “Weary Blues”
Jack Kerouac and Steve Allen “Charlie Parker”
Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald / Billy Strayhorn “Something to Live For”
John Coltrane “All or Nothing at All”
Jack Kerouac “The Last Hotel & Some of Dharma”
Langston Hughes with Charles Mingus and the Horace Parlan Quintet “Good Morning / Harlem”
Langston Hughes with Leonard Feather's All-Star Sextet “The Weary Blues”
Don Byron and Sadiq “I Cannot Commit”
Langston Hughes with Charles Mingus and the Horace Parlan Quintet “Same in Blues / Comment on Curb”
Charlie Parker “Billie’s Bounce”

Original Air Date: May 26, 2012

Radio broadcast produced by Lou Blouin and Jeff Haas
Radio broadcast audio engineering by Jack Conners and Brock Mormon
Podcast audio remastering by Sam Boase-Miller
Transcripts 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 32 episodes available.