Sound of Jazz

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The most famous Jazz television program released for the first time in its entirety on DVD (2 sided Pal & NTSC format, Region 0). Featuring Billie Holiday, Thelonious Monk, Red Allen, Lester Young, Jim Hall and others. Approx. 70 mins. Idem. 2003.

Sound of Jazz Review

In late 1957, producer Robert Herridge hired jazz writers Whitney Balliet and Nat Hentoff to assemble a group of musicians for an hour long jazz program (this was the era of live television, before there was videotape and the only way to preserve a program was to make a kinescope by using a 16mm camera filming the image off a monitor). Never before, or again, was an hour of jazz presented so well and so true. Herridge had the fine sense to go for the true essence of jazz, without any "dressing it up" in floor-shows or other silliness. The result, a live broadcast on CBS, featured six groupings of musicians and was relaxed, joyful and pure. The Sound of Jazz has been issued in various forms over the years including some poor vhs tranfers and incomplete dvd issues. At one point I bought a Japanese Laserdisc of this just to get a decent copy. This dvd is the complete program and all spoken introductions. It lacks visual contrasts (too light) in some sections, but it is the best copy out there on dvd. Fine copies exist in some of the better stock footage film firms, but no one has gone this route. Robert Herridge produced a few other fine jazz programs: the story of Frankie & Johnnie performed as a ballet with live music by Charles Mingus; a half hour featuring Ahmad Jamal's trio and Ben Webster's group; The Sound of Miles Davis (available on dvd as Miles Davis - Cool Jazz Sound); and an hour long piece for Metromedia, now lost, called Duke Ellington: A Portrait in Music. The Sound of Jazz is one program I never tire of watching, and whenever I have seen it shown in public -- the audience can't help but applaud afterwards.

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