Jazz casual

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Jazz Casual (also Ralph J. Gleason's Jazz Casual ) was a television series aimed at presenting jazz music with episodes of 30 minutes, which was broadcast in the United States of America in the 1960s.

History of the series

Jazz Casual was a television series produced by Richard Moore and local San Francisco broadcaster KQED and broadcast nationwide by National Educational Television . The music critic Ralph J. Gleason was won as a moderator ; Richard Moore also directed.

John Coltrane, 1963

Gleason interviewed the musicians on the show for five minutes and deviated from the usual formal show formats in the presentation of the music. This allowed the musicians to present their music the way they wanted. For a musician like John Coltrane (who refused the usual interview shortly before the show, so Gleason only introduced him for 30 seconds), this opportunity to be able to present his music without pressure was the exception.

A total of 31 episodes of the series were produced from 1960 to 1968, 28 of which are still preserved and z. After the Gleason family founded Jazz Casual Productions, Inc. in 1989, they were re-released in VHS format and later on DVD by Rhino Home Video . Three episodes, the pilot show with Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn , a show with John Handy from 1965 and a jam session with various musicians are lost or destroyed; only a sound recording of the pilot broadcast is preserved.

The half-hour show also included the Dave Brubeck Quartet , Dizzy Gillespie , Cannonball Adderley / Charles Lloyd , Jimmy Witherspoon 1961, Sonny Rollins , Gerry Mulligan 1962, Lambert, Hendricks and Bavan , Woody Herman and His Orchestra , Earl Hines , Joe Sullivan , Bola Sete and Vince Guaraldi in 1963, Art Farmer , Art Pepper , Mel Tormé (who played ukulele with Gleason ) in 1964, Count Basie , Carmen McRae , the Thad Jones / Mel Lewis Orchestra in 1968, as well as the Modern Jazz Quartet , Louis Armstrong , Muddy Waters BB King and Jimmy Rushing .

The 2004 DVD edition The Complete Jazz Casual Series contains all 28 episodes of the series.

Films (selection)

  • 1961: Dave Brubeck (ed. 2001)
  • 1961: Cannonball Adderley (Rhino Home Video, ed. 1995)
  • 1962: Jimmy Rushing (Rhino, ed. 1999)
  • 1962: Paul Winter / Charles Lloyd
  • 1962: Gerry Mulligan Quartet (Rhino, 2001)
  • 1963: Earl Hines & Joe Sullivan (ed. 2001)
  • 1963: Woody Herman Band (Idem Home Video, ed. 2001)
  • 1963: John Coltrane (Rhino Home Video, 1995)
  • 1964: Art Farmer, Jim Hall , Steve Swallow , Walter Perkins , (Rhino, 2001)
  • 1964: Art Pepper Quartet / Bola Sete & Vince Guaraldi (Idem Home Video, ed. 2001)
  • 1968: Count Basie (Rhino, 1999)
  • 1968: Count Basie, Lambert, Hendricks & Bavan (Idem Home Video, 2003)
  • 1968: BB King / Turk Murphy & San Francisco Jazz Band

Discographic notes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ David Stewart, KQED made its mark by making programs Current, Feb. 3, 1997
  2. ^ A b c Toby Gleason: Ralph J. Gleason's Jazz Casual. In: All About Jazz , March 4, 2012 (English).
  3. ↑ cf. JC Thomas: Chasin the Trane . DaCapo, New York 1976, p. 163
  4. ^ A b Doug Ramsey : Ralph Gleason's Jazz Casual JazzTimes , September 1999, p. 55
  5. ^ Will Friedwald : A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers . Pantheon Books, New York 2010, ISBN 978-0-375-42149-5 , p. 474
  6. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed October 18, 2014)
  7. ↑ http://www.allmusic.com/album/ralph-gleasons-jazz-casual-dvd-mw0001271743
  8. ^ Down Beat , Volume 33, Maher Publications, 1966
  9. ↑ http://www.watchknowlearn.org/Video.aspx?VideoID=3138&CategoryID=764
  10. ↑ http://vimeo.com/83735390
  11. ^ Mark Sabbatini: The Complete Jazz Casual Series. In: All About Jazz , December 27, 2004 (English).
  12. ↑ Basie with Freddie Green , Sonny Payne and Norman Keenan .
  13. ↑ BB King in May 1968 with Mose Thomas, Lee Gatling, James Toney and Sonny Freeman. Turk Murphy in June 1962 with Bob Neighbor, Bob Helm , Peter Clute, Harold Johnson and Lloyd Byasse.