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The voice of was as distinctive as the trumpet of Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk's piano, or the sumptuous saxophone harmonies of the Duke Ellington Orchestra, but he didn't didn't make his mark as a ...

Schaap was one of the leading jazz scholars in America and the genre's foremost evangelist. He died at 70, after a long battle with cancer. The voice of Phil Schaap was as distinctive as the trumpet ...

Phil Schaap attends the Jazz at Lincoln Center's Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame induction ceremony on June 4, 2013 in New York. The voice of Phil Schaap was as distinctive as the trumpet of Miles ...

Schaap's love also affected veteran musicians. Saxophonist and fellow NEA Jazz Master Charles Lloyd stumbled onto Schaap's broadcasts in the early '90s, and was blown away by Schaap's rigor and ...