About Gary Barclay
Since 1968 I have recorded, firsthand, approximately 240
behind-the-scenes interviews with some of the world’s great jazz and
blues musicians. From 1971 to 1985, I produced and hosted The All-Night Jazz Show
on CHQM and QM/FM in Vancouver, while independently producing jazz
features for CBC Radio and co-producing features by remote
correspondence for Radio Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. I have written 45 “Q’s
Reviews” on jazz topics for CHQM and 31 articles on jazz personalities
for various regional publications. I have transcribed several of my
interviews, with brief introductions and extensive endnotes, for a
projected book with the working title Jazz Verbatim. I have
produced 21 one-hour radio shows, recorded “live” on location at
Vancouver nightclubs with such groups as The Bill Evans Trio, Jack
DeJohnette’s Directions, The Headhunters, The Ahmad Jamal Quintet, The
Gabor Szabo Quartet, Oregon, The Mose Allison Trio and The Grant Green
Quintet. I have been credited for my interview contributions with Dizzy
Gillespie on the 1992 National Public Radio 13-part series Dizzy’s Diamond and with Sonny Rollins on CBC Stereo’s The Arts Tonight and, in 2007, on Hot Air
on CBC Radio One. I graduated with a B.A. in English Literature (Hon.)
at the University of British Columbia in 2000 and with a B.A. in
Religion, Literature and the Arts in May of 2004. I withdrew after
completing one term of a Masters of Archival Studies at the School of
Library, Archival and Information Studies at the University of British
Columbia at the end of 2004. I co-hosted and provided interviews from my
collection for The Bean, a two-hour CBC Radio One Special, broadcast nationally on Thanksgiving Day 2006.
Memberships
Audio Engineering Society – Chair, Vancouver Section (2012–2014)
Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC)
Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA)
Oral History Association
