Hamilton's Jazz Archive is featured in the April issue of JazzTimes in an article titled "Swinging Spoken Words." The writer, Nat Hentoff, visited Hamilton and spoke with Monk Rowe, the Joe Williams Director of the Jazz Archive. Hentoff noted that when he saw the video interviews with 280 jazz musicians "it was for me like hearing the voices of participants in the 1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, where our swinging liberties were being improvised by James Madison and other sidemen and set down for posterity."
Hentoff wrote that "the vital enabler of the Jazz Archive was a Hamilton College alumnus and trustee, the late Milt Fillius, drawn to the music as a drummer in high school bands, and later a friend of (Joe) Williams. A successful businessman, Fillius, intent on documenting the lives of these musicians who had enlarged his life, started the videotaping in 1995 that became the Hamilton College Jazz Archive."
