The Subject Is Jazz

The Subject Is Jazz was a television series focused on the presentation and understanding of jazz that aired in the United States in 1958.

As a half-hour television program, The Subject Is Jazz was produced in 13 episodes by WNBC in New York City and was broadcast on NBC on Sundays every week in 1958 (as part of its Education Programming Project ). Lynwood King directed; Brice Howard ( Executive Producer ) and George Norwood were the producers . The program's presenter, journalist and music critic Gilbert Seldes (1893–1970), conducted lengthy interviews with the guests.

In the row came u. a. Buck Clayton , Vic Dickenson , Duke Ellington , Wilbur de Paris , John Hammond , Aaron Copeland , Willis Conover , Toshiko Akiyoshi , Lee Konitz , Cannonball Adderley , Willie The Lion Smith , Marshall Stearns , Ben Webster and Billy Taylor on who are the musical directors the show had. The accompanying musicians who regularly take part included u. a. Jimmy Cleveland , Eddie Safranski , Billy Taylor, Ed Thigpen and Mundell Lowe .

In the last episode of the series, a band played under the direction of Billy Taylor; Moderator Seldes and George Russell discussed at length jazz improvisation and the future of jazz.

Web links

• Doug Ramsey : The Subject Is Seldes, Taylor and Jazz (2012) in Rifftides
• Video excerpts from The Subject Is Jazz in Jazz Cafe video of Mosaic Records

Individual evidence

1. ^ Billboard June 23, 1958
2. ^ Rebecca D. Clear: Jazz on Film and Video in the Library of Congress , 1993, p. 127
3. ↑ Research Video ( Memento of the original from August 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Akiyoshi was accompanied by Eddie Safranski and Ed Thigpen.
5. ↑ Konitz, who presented examples of cool jazz on the show , played with Warne Marsh , Don Elliott , Billy Taylor, Mundell Lowe , Eddie Safranski , Ed Thigpen .
6. ^ Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X , p. 133.
7. ↑ http://www.jazzonthetube.com/videos/george-russell/the-subject-is-jazz---the-future-of-jazz.html