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The Sound Of Jazz

Pure Pleasure

PPAN CL1098

LP Black $39
  • Mono Recording
  • 180 gram LPx1 standard sleeve
  • Recorded at Columbia’s 30th Street Studios, New York. December 4th 1957

Description

“The Sound of Jazz” is a 1957 edition of the CBS television series Seven Lively Arts, and was one of the first major programmes featuring jazz to air on American network television.

The one-hour program aired on Sunday, December 8, 1957, at 5 p.m. Eastern Time, live from CBS Studio 58, the Town Theater at 851 Ninth Avenue in New York City. The show was hosted by New York Herald-Tribune media critic John Crosby, directed by Jack Smight, and produced by Robert Herridge. Jazz writers Nat Hentoff and Whitney Balliett were the primary music consultants.

The Sound of Jazz brought together 32 leading musicians from the swing era including Count Basie, Lester Young, Ben Webster, Billie Holiday, Jo Jones and Coleman Hawkins; the Chicago style players of the same era, like Henry “Red” Allen, Vic Dickenson, and Pee Wee Russell; and younger ‘modernist’ musicians...

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Preview Tracklist

  • 1 Wild Man Blues
  • 2 Rosetta
  • 3 Fine And Mellow
  • 4 Blues
  • 5 I Left My Baby
  • 6 The Train And The River
  • 7 Nervous
  • 8 Dickie's Dream