The Tim Owens Jazz and Broadcast Collection is now available, courtesy of the UNT Digital Library. This extraordinary assemblage of archival recordings "includes over 200 hours of interviews with major jazz artists, historians and others recorded for National Public Radio’s jazz programs including Jazz Profiles and Owens’ own interviews: over 250 hours of performance masters recorded primarily for NPR’s Jazz Alive! series, and other live jazz performances. Also included are his radio show, photographs, videos, scripts and interview transcripts."
"Tim Owens spent 55 years in broadcasting as a producer, reporter, program director, and station manager. As executive producer for NPR Jazz, Tim oversaw production of all five of NPR's syndicated jazz programs: Jazz Profiles with Nancy Wilson, Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz, JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater, Jazz from Lincoln Center and Billy Taylor's Jazz at the Kennedy Center. He served as the producer of Taylor’s Kennedy Center series and as the creator and series producer for Jazz Profiles, a documentary series that included shows on Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Gerry Mulligan, Modern Jazz Quartet, and dozens of other programs on jazz artists." -- Collection biographical information.
A complete description of the physical collection is available via the collection's Finding Aid.
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