Walter E. Schaap

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Charles Delaunay and Walter E. Schaap (right) outside a 52nd Street jazz club. Photograph by William P. Gottlieb (ca.1946)

Walter E. Schaap (born September 9, 1917 - † May 28, 2005 in New York City ) was a jazz author, translator and discographer.

Live and act

Schaap studied French history at Columbia University ; He continued his postgraduate studies in 1937 at the Paris Sorbonne . There he met the jazz historians Charles Delaunay and Hugues Panassié . In the following years he worked as a translator (among others for Robert Goffin ) and author; Schaap also wrote in English and French for various magazines such as Jazz Hot on jazz music and worked on discographic works, such as the 1943 American edition of Delaunays Hot Discography , the first such work on jazz recordings, the last edition of which appeared in 1948. From 1949 to 1970 he was the vice managing director of a film production company; u. a. he was the screenwriter and production manager for the short film Henry Ford : The Fight for Modern Production . His son is the jazz historian, producer and radio presenter Phil Schaap (* 1951).

Works (selection)

  • Ernest Ansermet : On a Negro Orchestra , translated by Walter E. Schaap. In: Jazz Hot (Nov. – Dec. 1938)
  • Madeleine Gautier: Fats Waller . Translated by Walter E. Schaap. Jazz Hot 32, nos. 7–8 (July-August 1939)
  • Walter E. Schaap: Jazzmen Abroad . In: Jazz Information, Vol. 1, No. November 9, 7, 1939
  • Harry D. Kitson, Elmer Wagner, Walter E. Schaap: Distribution of Workers in Selected Occupations . 1946
  • Charles Delaunay, Walter E. Schaap, and George Avakian: New Hot Discography: The Standard Directory of Recorded Jazz . New York: Criterion, 1948
  • Robert Goffin, Walter E. Schaap, Leonard Feather : Jazz, from the Congo to the Metropolitan . New York: Da Capo Press, 1975

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life data of Walter E. Schaap ( Memento of the original from January 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / sortedbyname.com
  2. ^ Obituary in the New York Times
  3. ^ Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third series, 1969
personal data
SURNAME Schaap, Walter E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American translator, jazz writer and discographer
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1917
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 2005
Place of death New York City