Generations In Jazz Awards 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award To Phil Schaap Of Jazz At Lincoln Center

Lafayette, CA (Top40 Charts/ The Lafayette Chamber of Commerce) Phil Schaap, noted jazz historian, educator, and producer, has accepted the 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Generations in Jazz Foundation in Lafayette, California.

"Generations In Jazz Foundation reaches out today and extends its congratulations to our friend Phil Schaap of Jazz at Lincoln Center for preserving jazz"

Curator of Jazz at Lincoln Center and radio personality, Phil is dedicated to preserving the spirit of this original American art form. His radio show and lessons are rich in the heritage of jazz and he possesses a unique ability to present the story with the music.

He has been profiled in the New Yorker magazine for his seminal role in the preservation of jazz music and is widely regarded as one of its foremost scholars.

To learn more about Phil, please go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8mR7jj4nao to watch an interview or to https://www.artsology.com/blog/tag/phil-schaap/ to read a blog.

"Generations In Jazz Foundation reaches out today and extends its congratulations to our friend Phil Schaap of Jazz at Lincoln Center for preserving jazz," said Tom Carter, president of the Generations in Jazz Foundation.