The Jazz Loft

Soundcheck | May 3, 2010
After our look at the state of jazz in New York, we return to a golden age of the genre: the 1950s and '60s. Thousands of hours of tape recorded in a Manhattan loft during that era were recently discovered. They became WNYC’s Jazz Loft Project, a 10-part series produced in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Today’s episode is about a somewhat mysterious figure, Hall Overton, who is known primarily as Thelonious Monk’s arranger for the 1959 Big Band concert at Town Hall. It turns out Overton was a lot more. WNYC's Sara Fishko joins us for part four of the series.

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