The Dan Jaffe Collection contains sound recordings of performances, poetry readings, lectures, interviews, and radio broadcast. Materials in the collection include Without Memorial Banners: An American Opera in the Jazz Idiom, Dedicated to Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker by Dan Jaffe and Herb Six, programs of the literary writing show New Letters on the Air and interviews and poetry readings from author/poets such as Dan Jaffe, John Ciardi, John Knoepfle, and Paulette Jiles