ART FORD'S JAZZ PARTY (EXCERPT) (TV)

Summary

An excerpt from one in this series of weekly programs featuring interviews with and performances by award-winning jazz stars. Saxophone player Coleman Hawkins (winner of the Esquire Award in every year since it was established) and clarinetist Pee Wee Russell (three-time winner of the Downbeat Award) are each featured in one number. Harry Sheppard and guitarist Dick Townsend perform a song by Charlie Seaver. Vocalist and ex-dancer Mae Barnes sings. Sonny Greer, who worked with Duke Ellington, stars in a drum number; others then join in for a jam session. Trumpeter Charlie Shavers is introduced. (Tape ends mid-program.)

Details

• NETWORK: WNTA-TV (New York, NY) / PBS forerunner
• DATE: September 25, 1958
• RUNNING TIME: 0:56:24
• COLOR/B&W: B&W
• CATALOG ID: T88:0154
• GENRE: Music
• SUBJECT HEADING: Jazz
• SERIES RUN: WNTA (New York, NY) - TV series, 1958
• COMMERCIALS: N/A

CREDITS

• Art Ford … Producer, Host
• Don Luftig … Director
• Charlie Seaver … Composer, Song by
• Coleman Hawkins … Instrumentalist
• Pee Wee Russell … Instrumentalist
• Harry Sheppard … Performer
• Dick Townsend … Instrumentalist
• Mae Barnes … Singer
• Sonny Greer … Instrumentalist
• Charlie Shavers … Instrumentalist