A column by Nat Hentoff in the latest (April 2004) issue of JazzTimes, titled "Bringing Up New Jazz Listeners," mentions Hamilton's Jazz Archive as a resource. An excerpt of the article says: "As [Gene] Lees says, because of oral history projects at Rutgers' Institute of Jazz Studies, the Smithsonian, Hamilton College, Tulane University, and Claremont McKenna College, generations of students to come will not only be reading what Gene and Doug Ramsey and I and other critics have written from interviews, but 'They'll hear Milt Hinton or Clark Terry talking.'"
Established in 1995, the Hamilton archive holds a collection of videotaped interviews, currently numbering 220+ entries, with jazz musicians, arrangers, writers and critics. The collection generally focuses on artists associated with mainstream jazz and the swing era. Monk Rowe is director of the archive.
