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Phil Schaap

Award-winning jazz historian, radio host, and reissue producer. He is the host of “Bird Flight,” a daily radio program devoted to the music of Charlie Parker. Birdflight is broadcast on WKCR out of Columbia University at 89.3 FM. Schaap also teaches jazz history at the Lincoln Center in New York.

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