Ep545: Zev Feldman Returns for Record Store Day 2026
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Zev Feldman returns to reveal 11 Record Store Day 2026 releases, including stunning discoveries from the legendary Joe Siegel Jazz Showcase tape archive featuring Ahmad Jamal, Yusef Lateef, Freddie King, and more never-before-heard recordings.
Topics Include:
- Zev Feldman returns, now dubbed the "Jazz Attorney General" by Nate
- Feldman has 11 releases this Record Store Day — a personal record
- The Joe Segal tape archive is the foundation of five RSD releases
- Segal was an NEA Jazz Master and Chicago's greatest jazz impresario
- He presented legends like Lester Young starting back in 1947
- Feldman first connected with Siegel around 2010-2011 via word of mouth
- A breakfast meeting with Siegel led to three follow-up Chicago trips
- The archive may be the world's largest collection of unissued jazz recordings
- Between 8,000 and 10,000 tapes discovered across reels, cassettes, and more
- Resonance is partnering with the Siegel family and Wayne Siegel on releases
- Joe Henderson's 1978 quartet at the Jazz Showcase is raw and electrifying
- Pianist Joanne Burkeen confirmed this captures exactly how the band really played
- Ahmad Jamal's 1976 Jazz Showcase run includes a full 26-minute Swahililand
- Jamal and Siegel shared a deep longstanding friendship spanning many years
- Yusef Lateef with Kenny Barron: a burning three-LP set from 1975
- Lateef played the Jazz Showcase more than any other single artist
- Mal Waldron and Sonny Stitt reunite in an unusual 1979 bebop week
- Nate predicts Mal Waldron will be the sleeper hit of RSD 2026
- Bill Evans at the BBC features performances Feldman first saw on laser disc
- This marks Feldman's 15th Bill Evans release — the catalog keeps growing
- Freddie King from the French INA archives is Nate's personal favourite of the batch
- Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top contributed to the Freddie King liner notes
- Cecil Taylor's 1969 Paris recordings premiere officially for the very first time
- Michel Petrucciani recordings surfaced from the Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz
- Petrucciani died young, making these rare live documents especially precious
- Terry Callier's 1967 solo guitar recordings came from the Earl of Old Town
- Roy Hargrove Quintet captured live and burning at Berne Jazz Festival 2000
- Buster Williams' debut Pinnacle gets an all-analog AAA reissue on Time Traveler
- This batch marks Feldman's 96th Record Store Day release across his career
- Feldman previews a Don Schlitten jazz photography coffee table book on Fantagraphics
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Vinyl Guide, the podcast for record collectors and music nerds. |
| 0:10.1 | Here's your host, the biggest record nerd of them all, Nate Goyer. |
| 0:13.4 | Oh, well, hey, everyone, it's Nate. |
| 0:15.6 | Happy Record Store Day week. |
| 0:18.9 | And welcome to episode 545 of the Vinyl Guide, the podcast for record collectors and music nerds. |
| 0:26.7 | And dear people, this week we are joined once again by the Jazz Detective himself, Mr. Zev Feldman. |
| 0:34.1 | And we talk about all 11 of his record store day, 2026 releases, including some |
| 0:42.5 | stunning discoveries from the legendary Joe Siegel Jazz Showcase tape archive. These are |
| 0:49.1 | thousands of recordings never heard before. The likes of Ahmad Jamal, Yusuf Latif, Mal Waldron, Sunny Stitt. |
| 0:57.8 | I mean, it's an absolutely amazing archive. |
| 1:00.9 | They sound brilliant, and a handful of these recordings will be available on |
| 1:05.6 | Record Store Day, 2026. |
| 1:07.6 | We're going to talk about them. |
| 1:08.8 | Zev's going to go through all the RSD releases one by one, give us more background of each. |
| 1:15.5 | And, of course, this will be super helpful to anyone considering grabbing one or more of these releases on record store day. |
| 1:22.2 | God bless you, Zev Feldman, and your continuing efforts to preserve jazz history and of course make those |
| 1:29.3 | available to the greater public. Thank you so much, mate. And to the rest of you, got a message. |
| 1:34.2 | If you like this podcast, well, you could help show your love and supply me with beer and burritos |
| 1:40.0 | at patreon.com slash vinyl guide. I do not take sponsor money. |
| 1:46.1 | Only listener money. |
| 1:47.2 | I'm funded kind of like PBS. |
| 1:49.9 | But instead of a tote bag, |
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