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I’m Mark Rapp, and this is Rapp on Jazz.
Some of jazz’s most important stories are preserved in archives that safeguard music, history, and culture for future generations.
At Rutgers University, the Institute of Jazz Studies holds the world’s largest jazz archive—thousands of recordings, manuscripts, oral histories, and rare materials documenting artists from Louis Armstrong to today’s innovators. Scholars and musicians alike visit Rutgers to hear music that might otherwise have vanished.
At the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, jazz recordings, instruments, photographs, and broadcast collections chronicle the art form as an essential American voice.
Through preservation, we hear the sounds, lives, and legacies that made jazz unforgettable.
This has been Rapp On Jazz, a co-production of ColaJazz and SC Public Radio, made possible by Layman Publishing Partners, celebrating 50 years of expert content creation, authoritative information management, and standards-driven print and digital production.