Philip van Noorden Schaap (April 8, 1951 – September 7, 2021) was an American radio host, who specialized in jazz as a broadcaster, historian, archivist, and producer.

He was fond of the members of the original Count Basie Orchestra, knocking on Buck Clayton's front door, as well as visiting Milt Hinton's home unannounced.

[6] Backstage with his mother at Randall’s Island Jazz Festival in August 1956, he first met Basie's drummer, Jo Jones, who asked if he knew of Prince Robinson (a tenor player for McKinney's Cotton Pickers several decades earlier).

[4] By the 1950s, many leading African American musicians had moved into residential areas such as Hollis in Queens which helped an emerging jazz enthusiast.

[4] Walter, Schaap's own father, at first disbelieved reports his young son (then 6 years old) was approaching major jazz musicians, explaining in 2001 that he rarely had sufficient courage himself.

[6] In his early teens, Schaap managed to gain a lift into Manhattan from Basie himself during the 1966 subway strike and amazed him with his recall of his orchestra's members and their repertory.

[7] From around the time he began as a student-radio disc jockey, he was running the jazz program at The West End Bar on 113th street across Broadway from WKCR's studios at 114th St. gaining work for swing era musicians he had known for years who were by then under-employed.

On a nightly basis, he booked prominent swing-band alumni providing them—as he put it in a 2017 interview with The West Side Spirit—"with a nice last chapter of their lives".

"A lot of them were not even performing anymore", he said of the alto saxophonist Earle Warren, the trombonist Dicky Wells and the many other musicians he put onstage there.

Among those he booked were The Countsmen, a Basie alumni band which he managed [7] featuring Warren and Wells,[10] Russell Procope's Ellingtonia,[7] Franc Williams, George Kelly,[11] Eddie Barefield, Sonny Greer,[7] Benny Waters,[11] Jo Jones,[7] Buddy Tate,[12] Vic Dickenson, Harold Ashby, Big Nick Nicholas, Ronnie Cole, Eddie Durham and "Doc" Cheatham.

He was involved with the re-issue of other recordings on CD by artists including Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, and Duke Ellington.

Upon becoming Curator at Jazz at Lincoln Center, he left a successful career producing, remastering, and writing for record companies such as Polygram, later absorbed by Universal, and Sony.

[20] In 2009, Schaap published the expanded reprint of Terry Waldo's "This is Ragtime", with a new foreword by Wynton Marsalis, under the imprint of Jazz at Lincoln Center Library Editions.

The honor, recognizing their lifetime achievements is bestowed on individuals "who have made major contributions to the appreciation, knowledge and advancement of the American jazz art form".