Bourbon Street (TV series)

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Television broadcast
German title	Bourbon Street
Original title	Bourbon Street
Country of production	Austria
Year (s)	1975-1979
length	30-45 minutes
Episodes	35
idea	Walter Richard Langer
Moderation	Walter Richard Langer
First broadcast	May 15, 1975 on ORF

Bourbon Street was a TV series on the topic of jazz , which was produced and broadcast by the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation ( ORF ) from 1975 to 1979 . It was designed and presented by the Austrian radio and television presenter Walter Richard Langer , a recognized jazz expert. Well-known jazz musicians had live performances in some episodes.

history

On May 15, 1975, Bourbon Street went on air for the first time on ORF FS2. The program director responsible at the time, Gerhard Weis, had commissioned radio presenter and television broadcaster Walter Richard Langer to produce “a VII for television”. Weis was referring to the radio jazz program "Vokal-Instrumental-International", which Langer had designed and moderated on the ORF radio program Ö3 since 1967 and which was also broadcast by some German broadcasters. The name Bourbon Street was chosen by Langer as an homage to the street of the same name in the French Quarter in New Orleans , whose music clubs formed the center of early jazz music.

As the theme song served A Drum Is a Woman, Part Two by and with Duke Ellington . Some early episodes were filmed at the Ronacher Theater in Vienna , which at that time had no regular performance and was used as a studio by ORF. Most of the editions, however, originated in the Vienna ORF center Küniglberg. Directed by Erich Totzauer. By the end of the series in 1979, 35 episodes had aired. The transmission time varied between 30 and 45 minutes, the transmission date and interval were changed several times. A re-broadcast of the series, requested by jazz fans, did not materialize due to copyright issues. A Best Of Bourbon Street, however, was the subject of a commemorative broadcast on the tenth anniversary of Langer's death in 2005 on the radio program Ö1 . The ORF is also considering releasing parts of the music it has produced itself from the program on CD.

content

Walter Richard Langer opened the program of the first show with a rarity: Ella Fitzgerald sang in a duet with Frank Sinatra and accompanied by the Nelson Riddle Orchestra The Song Is You , They Can't Take That Away from Me and Stompin 'at the Savoy . These recordings never appeared on record, they came from an American TV show. Basically, the choice of music at Bourbon Street differed considerably from that of its radio counterpart VII, especially since one was dependent on the availability of recordings in image and sound; not a matter of course in many periods of jazz history. Music examples from films such as High Society Well Did You Evah with Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra or from documentaries such as Jazz on a Summer Evening Sweet Georgia Brown with Anita O'Day were thus also broadcast in Bourbon Street . Concert recordings were also used, for example from the Berlin Jazz Days , the Montreux Jazz Festival or the Newport Jazz Festival . ORF had produced some recordings itself (e.g. Sarah Vaughan , Wiener Stadthalle 1973 or Teddy Wilson , WIG-Halle 3, 1976; Langer was present as the announcer at the latter concert).

Live in the studio

In the third episode of Bourbon Street on July 6, 1975, Walter Richard Langer greeted the show's first studio guest, the trumpeter Art Farmer . He played in duet with pianist Fritz Pauer the piece Yesterday's Thoughts ( Benny Golson ). Farmer was also the last studio guest on the show; in episode 34 of September 15, 1979 he was a guest with his quintet, in which saxophonist Karl Drewo and again Fritz Pauer played. Pauer also accompanied the saxophonist Hans Koller in episode 10 ( Naima by John Coltrane ), the pianist was also the leader of the house band together with musicians such as Jimmy Woode or Wayne Darling (both bass) Harry Pepl (guitar) and Erich Bachträgl (drums) “By Bourbon Street , which - with changing cast - accompanied various artists, but also recorded pieces independently (such as Maiden Voyage by Herbie Hancock , Jimmy Woode's own composition Don't Move or the Blues On Bourbon Street composed especially for the show ).

Highlights of the live performances were the guest appearances by Barney Kessel , who appeared with his trio on December 2 in 1978, but also solo the Beatles -Stück Yesterday grossed and Albert Mangelsdorf , who on October 22, 1977 also solo ( Do Your Own Thing ) and performed with a band. In addition to other international guests ( Boško Petrović Convention, Donna Hightower , Sammy Vomáčka , Fito & Zulu , Frédéric Rabold Crew feat. Lauren Newton , Frank Mantooth , Miriam Klein ) Langer also invited interpreters of the Austrian jazz scene to the Bourbon Street Studio: Hans Salomon , Werner Pirchner's Ensemble Austria 3, Marianne Mendt , Al Cook , Original Storyville Jazzband and the Teddy Ehrenreich Big Band. With the latter, Langer could also be seen as a singer on November 26, 1977. Together with Ehrenreich he intoned Lemon Drop ( George Wallington ).