How’d you like to watch an up-close-and-personal conversation with the late clarinetist Kenny Davern or the pianist Marian McPartland? How about listening to Bucky Pizzarelli talk about chording the guitar or Dick Hyman discussing film scores?
Well now you can do so with just the click of a mouse.
Established in 1995 at Hamilton College in Clinton, N.Y., the Fillius Jazz Archive holds a collection of more than 330 videotaped interviews with jazz musicians, arrangers, writers, and critics. As of the second week in March, 20 of those interviews are now available at youtube.com.
Monk Rowe, the Joe Williams Director of the Fillius Jazz Archive at Hamilton College, has announced the launch of the archive’s own YouTube channel.
“We’re uploading complete video interviews we’ve recorded from our body of more than 330 sessions with jazz luminaries here and abroad,” Rowe said. “Syncing the closed-captioning transcripts with the video takes some time, but we’ll be adding more weekly.”
You can find the archive’s YouTube channel HERE.
Among the YouTube interviewees no longer living are Harry “Sweets” Edison, Nat Hentoff, Ralph Sutton, Clark Terry, and Joe Williams. Living subjects uploaded include Soprano Summit veteran Bob Wilber.
Monk Rowe's 1995 interview with Dick Hyman can be seen on the
