NBC television- 1958

1958 - USA, NYC - NBC TV Educational Films hosted by Gilbert Seldes
(12x30 minutes programs) Dir:Lynwood King, Billy Taylor: musical director.


Subject Is Jazz - Program # 1 - Introductory

Doc Severinsen(tp) Jimmy Cleveland(tb), Tony Scott(cl, sax) Billy Taylor(p), Mundell Lowe(g), Eddie Safranski(b), Osie Johnson(d) guest: Duke Ellington

1)-Royal Garden Blues
2)-Drop Me off in Harlem
3)-Sophisticated Lady
4)-Cottontail

Subject Is Jazz - Program # 3: Ragtime

Yank Lawson(tp), Will Bradley(tb), Tony Scott(cl), Billy Taylor(p), Mundell Lowe(g), Eddie Safranski(b), Osie Johnson(d) guest: Willie 'The Lion' Smith

1)-Maple Leaf Rag
2)-12th Street Rag
3)-Kansas City Stomp
4)-Echoes of Spring
5)-Carolina Shout


Subject Is Jazz -Program # 4: Performance

Doc Severinsen(tp), Jimmy Cleveland(tb), Tony Scott,(cl, bar), Billy Taylor(p), Eddie Safranski(b), Osie Johnson(d)

1)-Tea for Two

Louis Armstrong and Dizzy Gillespie recording:
2)-When it's Sleepy Time Down South

3)-Stompin' at the Savoy
4)-Blues
5)-Three Blind Mice
6)-Whispering
7)-Groovin' High

Subject Is Jazz - Program # 5: Swing - May 3, 1958

Buck Clayton(tp), Carl Poole, Doc Severinsen(tp), Benny Morton(tb), Jimmy Cleveland(tb), Tony Scott(as), Sid Cooper (as), Ben Webster(ts), Paul Quinichette (ts), Billy Taylor(p), Mundell Lowe(g), Eddie Safranski(b), Ed Thigpen(d) guest: John Hammond

1)-For Dancers Only
2)-King Porter Stomp
3)-Flying home
4)- One' O Clock Jump

3: Viper nest VN 1012 CD: Jammin' with Ben Webster

Subject Is Jazz - Program # 9: Jazz and other art

Langston Hughes, Al Minns, Dr. Harold Taylor, Doc Severinsen(tp), Jimmy Cleveland(tb), Tony Scott (unknwn ), Langston Hughes, Al Minns, Harold Taylor(d)

1)-Tiger Rag
2)-Blues
3)-Perdido Fats

Waller recording:
4)-Living it up

Subject Is Jazz .Program # 10- Jazz Today

Doc Severinsen(tp), Jimmy Cleveland(tb), Tony Scott( cl) Billy Taylor(p):

1)- Improvisation #3
2)-Blues for an African Friends(Tony Scott)


Thigpen(dr):
3)-'Solo'

4)-Woody'n You

Mundell Lowe (g),Earl May(b)
5)-'Solo'
6) Posterity


Subject Is Jazz .Program # 12 - Jazz and the Classic -1958, June 11

Doc Severinsen(tp), Jimmy Cleveland(tb), Tony Scott(cl, brs), Billy Taylor(p), Mundell Lowe(g), Earl May(b), Ed Thigpen(d) T.Scott(cl), other

1)-Vendome (John Lewis) (T. Scott cl solo)
2)-Calling cake walk (Debussy)
3)-Creation of the world (Darious Milhaud )Tony Scott(cl), Stefan Wolpe(p)
4)-Improvisation (S.Wolpe-T.Scott) (fragment)

 

Billy Taylor(p) (g), Mundell Lowe (b), Tony Scott (brs) Jimmy Cleveland (tb), Doc Severinsen (tp), Earl May (b), Ed Thigpen(d)

5)-Hurricane(Free Improvisation)
6)-Blue concept (by Gigi Gryce)
7)-Sentimental Melody (played by Aaron Copland)
8)-Blues # 4 (played by Aaron Copland)

Subject Is Jazz .Program # 13 - The future of Jazz

Doc Severinsen(tp), Jimmy Cleveland(tb), Gene Quill(as) Mundell Lowe(g), Robert Pace, Bill Evans(p) Art Farmer(tp) (without Tony Scott)

1)-Early Bird (by Bill Taylor) non risulta in internet disco of B.Evans
2)-Concerto for Billy the Kid (by George Russell) 4.30
3)-Stratusphunk ((by George Russell) 3.10

Doc Severinsen(tp), Roffe Ericsson(tp), Jimmy Cleveland(tb) Tony Scott(ts, brs), Gene Quill(as) Mundell Lowe(g), Barry Galbraith(g) Robert Pace, Bill Evans(p), Billy Taylor(p) Art Farmer(tp)

4)- Double Exposure (by Bill Taylor) 3.00
5) -Exchanges

 

NBC Studio- Television Broadcast - 1958, December 7 - USA, NYC

TONY SCOTT QUINTET (from Bill Evans discography)
Tony Scott(cl, ts), Eddie Bert (tb), B.Evans(p), NN(b), NN( dr)

1)-I'll Remember April

 
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