My 2002 conversation, one of my first for Jazz Inspired, with Grammy winning jazz producer, D.J., historian, author Phil Schaap, who passed away in September 2021 at the age of 70. Phil had a photographic memory and unlimited enthusiasm for jazz music and its history and made it his life’s mission to educate others to enhance their enjoyment and appreciation of it. In 2021 the National Endowment for the Arts named Schaap as one of their Jazz Masters, America’s highest official honor for a living jazz figure.