The Subject is Jazz TV series

[vinylexamination]

Howdy all-

Anyone happen to know if any episodes of The Subject is Jazz TV series (from '58) exist outside of the Library of Congress, etc.? I believe I saw the one with Jimmy Rushing available, but what about the others (13 total?) I'm specifically interested in the ones with Jimmy Cleveland. Thanks!

[Michael Fitzgerald]

Museum of Television and Radio in NYC, I believe.

Mike

[vinylexamination]

Thanks, Mike - I'm definitely going to check out your book - congrats!

So this series has never made it to a commercial release on video or dvd?

[Michael Fitzgerald]

Pretty sure not, definitely not as a series. It would be wonderful to have a boxed set of all these.

Mike

[l p]

i don't think tape collectors have these. the title does not sound familiar.

[Guest youmustbe]

You can buy some of them on ebay from the son of, what's his name?...having a senior moment...who had all the Jazz films.

I have the Cannon with Cleveland, also Warne Mash with Lee, Don Elliott, and a couple more...they're all on Beta and I don't have machine...can't make copies or check who's on the ones I got.

Billy Taylor gave them all to the Library Of Congress...I forget what he told me about releasing them...try contacing him, he can tell you.

[Guest youmustbe]

I think also the George Russell, with Bill Evans on piano.

[Guest youmustbe]

Rev. John Gensel had a religious show and he had, understanably, Jazz groups...I don't remember whether it was him or another religious program had Nat Adderley, with Zawinul, and I think McCurdy and the bass player, the big guy after Booker, geez, I haven't even had a drink yet, can't remember his name. I have all those.

As you all probably know, Soupy Sales had many Jazz guys on his show in Detroit. Although, like the Clifford Brown that exists, the Black musicians played in front of a curtain, so that White people watching at home wouldn't be afraid that their daughters would be raped! Like the infamous Duke Ellington episode on Ed Sullivan. Band behind curtain. 'Too many Negroes...we'll get protests!'

Another great show was the Bobby Troup. I have Max, with Booker Little, Coleman, Davis, Draper and the one with Shelly Manne doing Mariano's 'Quartet', with Charlie, still going strong at 82, 2 gigs a day, despite the Big C, Stu Williamson, Budwig and Russ freeman.

Hey! I remembered them all!

PS The ones that I and nobody has is the Sid McCoy show which I saw in Chicago...Blakey with the 3 Blind Mice band...Cannon with Nancy...lost like the Bird with Prez on Channel 11 here in NY.

[Michael Fitzgerald]

What happened to my post with this?

http://www.tonyscott.it/nbc.htm

Mike

[Soul Stream]

Not to de-rail the thread, but...

I'm sure Jim is interested in this as well. I've always been curious as to organ combos that may have appeared on tv shows in the 50s-70s (Seems Lou Donaldson must have made a showing somewhere!). Certainly this must have happened. Even saw a listing of Jimmy Smith on a Dinah Shore show from TV Guide someone had posted.

Michael F., do you have any idea where things like this might be found?

[Michael Fitzgerald]

Like I said above, Museum of Television and Radio in NYC has got a TON of stuff. Library of Congress does too. Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies, etc. There are some private film collectors too who have huge archives (Cantor, Chertok, et al.). Then there are the "normal" collectors where video is part of their collection same as audio discs and tape.

If you can bear just Seeing it and not Having it, you might do OK.

Mike

[Soul Stream]

If you can bear just Seeing it and not Having it, you might do OK.

I think I'd rather just not know!

[marcello]

Then there are the "normal" collectors where video is part of their collection same as audio discs and tape.

I used to video tape everything that I couls off television when VCRs first came out, some were on Beta, for many years. I had a nice collectrion of things from local stations where I lived and of course, manyt many guest shotsfrom Tonite, Mike Douglas etc.

When I went to play them back a few years ago EVERY tape, and there were many hours of then, were unplayable. A TOTAL waste!

[marcello]

I just remembered that one of the shows I taped was a Jazzmobile concert, that was recorded by the local NPR station here in Rochester, with the Milt Jackson Quartet with Sonny Red!

Gone forever unless the station kept it in their archives.

Edited February 28, 2005 by marcello

[Soul Stream]

I just remembered that one of the shows I taped was a Jazzmobile concert, that was recorded by the local NPR station here in Rochester, with the Milt Jackson Quartet with Sonny Red!

Gone forever unless the station kept it in their archives.

Wow. Too bad.

[Michael Fitzgerald]

Do you recall which station? A friend is researching Sonny Red and might be able to follow up on this.

Mike

[marcello]

Yes Mike, I do.

It's WXXI in Rochester.

WXXI Public Broadcasting Council, 280 State Street - PO Box 30021, Rochester NY 14603-3021

Phone: 585-258-0200

I would say that the time was around 1979 to 1980.

Good Luck!

[Soul Stream]

A friend is researching Sonny Red

Mike, is there a book in the making or perhaps an article?

[Michael Fitzgerald]

At least a significant article in the Annual Review of Jazz Studies (but not the one immediately upcoming, which is all Mary Lou Williams). A Sonny Red discography has already been prepared in BRIAN and hopefully will be made available online following the article's publication. The author is Anders Svanoe, a Wisconsin saxophonist who has recorded with Roscoe Mitchell.

Mike

[Soul Stream]

I'm not familiar with that magazine. Where can it be found?

[Michael Fitzgerald]

Not a magazine, it's a hardcover book - you can find on amazon or elsewhere. In the tradition of Scarecrow Press, it's expensive.

Mike