Selected Clips from the Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project
During the 1990s, under the Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project (funded by the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation, Inc.), the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture conducted video oral history interviews with: Nat Adderley, Doc Cheatham, Jon Faddis, Art Farmer, Jimmy Heath, Milt Hinton, Yusef Lateef, Abbey Lincoln, Marian McPartland, Coleridge- Taylor Perkinson, Larry Ridley, Warren Smith, Grady Tate, Arthur Taylor, Clark Terry, Leon Thomas, Charles Tolliver, Tommy Turrentine, McCoy Tyner, Randy Weston, and numerous others.
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Chico Hamilton, full interview
12/20/1996
Jimmy Heath, saxophone and flute
12/20/1996
Chico Hamilton, drums
12/20/1996
Yusef Lateef, tenor saxophone
9/27/1996
Abbey Lincoln, vocals
9/18/1996
Phoebe Jacobs, publicist
9/11/1996
Marian McPartland, full interview
8/27/1996
Marian McPartland, piano
8/27/1996
Larry Ridley, double bass
7/30/1996
Randy Weston, piano
6/10/1996
Milt Hinton, double bass
8/1/1995
McCoy Tyner, piano
4/24/1995
Warren Smith, percussion
8/11/1994
Grady Tate, drums and vocals
8/9/1994
Arthur Taylor, drums
7/26/1994
Arthur Taylor, full interview
7/26/1994
Clark Terry, trumpet and flugelhorn
9/15/1993
Jon Faddis, trumpet
8/20/1993
Art Farmer, flugelhorn and trumpet
8/13/1993
Tommy Turrentine, trumpet
8/12/1993