The New Jazz Archive

Jeff Haas
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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 takes you on a journey through the stories, sounds, and people that have shaped jazz, from its earliest moments to its lasting influence today. With vivid anecdotes and interviews, TNJA uncovers the untold stories behind the music, bringing to life the voices and experiences that define the genre. Whether you’re a longtime listener or just discovering jazz, TNJA offers a front-row seat to the rich cultural tapestry that jazz weaves into American life, celebrating the innovation, freedom, and expression that continue to define this extraordinary art form.

  1. 1D AGO

    Jazz 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”   Visit our website and join us on Facebook The New Jazz Archive radio broadcasts originally sponsored by Chateau Chantal. The New Jazz Archive receives no revenue from podcast reissues of radio broadcasts.

    59 min

  2. APR 14

    Charles 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”   Visit our website and join us on Facebook   The email address thenewjazzarchive@interlochen.org is no longer active. The New Jazz Archive radio broadcasts originally sponsored by Chateau Chantal. The New Jazz Archive receives no revenue from podcast reissues of radio broadcasts.

    59 min

  3. MAR 31

    Jazz, 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”   Visit our website and join us on Facebook   The email address thenewjazzarchive@interlochen.org is no longer active. The New Jazz Archive radio broadcasts originally sponsored by Chateau Chantal. The New Jazz Archive receives no revenue from podcast reissues of radio broadcasts.

    59 min

  4. MAR 17

    Building 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”   Visit our website and join us on Facebook   The email address thenewjazzarchive@interlochen.org is no longer active.   The New Jazz Archive radio broadcasts originally sponsored by Chateau Chantal. The New Jazz Archive receives no revenue from podcast reissues of radio broadcasts.

    59 min

  5. MAR 3

    Jazz 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”   Visit our website and join us on Facebook The New Jazz Archive radio broadcasts originally sponsored by Chateau Chantal. The New Jazz Archive receives no revenue from podcast reissues of radio broadcasts.

    59 min

  6. FEB 17

    Thelonious (Sphere) Monk - S02E02

    A celebration of the life and legend of jazz great Thelonious Monk from his pioneering days as a bebop revolutionary, and hear how he was both a great mentor and family man from his son, T. S. We’ll talk with biographer Robin Kelley about Monk’s life and music, explore how Monk’s battle with mental illness shaped his life and career, and hear how Monk’s masterpiece “‘Round Midnight” became the most recorded jazz standard of all time.   Episode Transcript   Host: Jeff Haas Guests: Robin Kelley, T. S. Monk   Music Thelonious Monk “Ruby, My Dear” Thelonious Monk “Boo Boo's Birthday (Take 2)” Thelonious Monk “Bye-Ya” Thelonious Monk “Thelonious” Thelonious Monk “‘Round Midnight” Thelonious Monk “Monk’s Mood” Thelonious Monk “Ba-Lue Bolivar Ba-Lues-Are”  Thelonious Monk “Blue Monk” Thelonious Monk “Four in One” Thelonious Monk “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” Thelonious Monk “Off Minor” Thelonious Monk “Teo” Thelonious Monk “Blue Bolivar Blues (Take 1)” Miles Davis “‘Round Midnight” Thelonious Monk “‘Round Midnight (Live, from Straight, No Chaser)” Thelonious Monk “‘Round Midnight (debut recording)”  Joe Pass “‘Round Midnight” Thelonious Monk Trio “Bemsha Swing” Thelonious Monk “Crepuscule with Nellie” Thelonious Monk “Little Rootie Tootie”   Original Air Date: November 23, 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”   Visit our website and join us on Facebook The New Jazz Archive radio broadcasts originally sponsored by Chateau Chantal. The New Jazz Archive receives no revenue from podcast reissues of radio broadcasts.

    59 min

  7. FEB 3

    Great Jazz Cities: St. Louis - S02E01

    We continue our tour of America’s great jazz cities with the long-lost jazz and blues traditions of St. Louis, from the turn-of-the-century Mississippi River riverboat economy to St. Louis’ favorite son Miles Davis growing up in the Gateway City. We’ll talk with historian Kevin Belford about St. Louis’ rich blues heritage that got written out of the jazz history books, explore how Father of the Blues W.C. Handy’s hard luck time in St. Louis inspired one of the music’s all time classics, and hear how the blues spread from this city across the country.   Episode Transcript   Host: Jeff Haas Guests: Kevin Belford, Phillip Dunlap, Ben Cawthra   Music Big Joe Williams “Baby Please Don't Go” Robert Nighthawk “Crying Won’t Help You” Jimmy Forrest “Night Train” George E. Lee “Won’t You Come Over To My House?” Scott Joplin “Pine Apple Rag” Fate Marable “Frankie and Johnny” Frank Trumbauer and His Orchestra “Singin’ The Blues” Chas Creath “I Woke Up Cold In Hand” Miles Davis “If I Were a Bell” Dewey Jackson and His Peacock Orchestra “She's Crying for Me” Miles Davis “I Thought About You” Miles Davis “Old Folks” Peggy Lee “You Came a Long Way from St. Louis” Chet Atkins “Memphis Blues” Art Tatum “St. Louis Blues” Louis Armstrong “St. Louis Blues” Billy Eckstine “St. Louis Blues” Dizzy Gillespie “St. Louis Blues” Les Paul and Mary Ford “St. Louis Blues” Stump Johnson “Blues for Lindy”   To see some of the artwork in Kevin Belford’s book, Devil at the Confluence, go to the Devil at the Confluence blog.   Original Air Date: May 4, 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”   Visit our website and join us on Facebook The New Jazz Archive radio broadcasts originally sponsored by Chateau Chantal. The New Jazz Archive receives no revenue from podcast reissues of radio broadcasts.

    59 min

  8. 10/28/2025

    Blue Note Records - S01E20

    Blue Note Records is the label synonymous with the best in jazz since 1939, and from its unique mystique around its sound and up and down history, we’ll learn how Blue Note is still relevant to jazz and non-jazz fans today. We’ll talk with veteran Blue Note man Michael Cuscuna about the label’s humble beginnings in a New York apartment, the rise of the so-called Blue Note sound in the 1950s, how commercial success ironically led to Blue Note’s undoing in the 1960s, and explore how the photography of Blue Note co-founder Francis Wolff shaped the Blue Note mystique.    Episode Transcript   Host: Jeff Haas Guests: Michael Cuscuna, Ben Cawthra   Music Jackie McLean “Blue Condition” John Coltrane “Blue Train” Albert Ammons “Bass Goin’ Crazy” Ike Quebec “A Light Reprieve” Ike Quebec “Blue Monday” Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers “Nica’s Dream” Thelonious Monk “'Round Midnight” Horace Silver “Song For My Father” Horace Silver “Sanctimonious Sam” Milt Jackson “Lily” Wayne Shorter “Speak No Evil” Lee Morgan “The Sidewinder” Norah Jones “Chasing Pirates” Lionel Loueke “Ami O” Stanley Turrentine “Blues for Del”   Original Air Date: April 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”   Visit our website and join us on Facebook The New Jazz Archive radio broadcasts originally sponsored by Chateau Chantal. The New Jazz Archive receives no revenue from podcast reissues of radio broadcasts.

    59 min
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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 takes you on a journey through the stories, sounds, and people that have shaped jazz, from its earliest moments to its lasting influence today. With vivid anecdotes and interviews, TNJA uncovers the untold stories behind the music, bringing to life the voices and experiences that define the genre. Whether you’re a longtime listener or just discovering jazz, TNJA offers a front-row seat to the rich cultural tapestry that jazz weaves into American life, celebrating the innovation, freedom, and expression that continue to define this extraordinary art form.

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  • Creator
    Jeff Haas
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    27
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Copyright 2025 All rights reserved.
  • Show Website
    The New Jazz Archive