DescriptionThis recording contains the soundtrack to the television film "Fame is the Name of the Game" which served as the pilot episode of the series "The Name of the Game." Benny Carter scored the pilot...
DescriptionThis scrapbook includes photographs of Count Basie in performance and candid shots, Catherine Basie, a few members of the Basie extended family, musicians, dancers, comedians, and others, as well as...
Date Created1940-1989
Subject(s)Jazz--History and criticism, African American musicians, Women in charitable work, Basie family, Basie, Count, 1904-1984, Basie, Catherine, Count Basie Orchestra
DescriptionThis is an audio from a television broadcast at the Blue Note in 1960. The audio begins with music from a nightclub by pianist Alice McLeod (later Coltrane), with Don King (bass) and Don Brown...
DescriptionThis audio appears to be the soundtrack to a tribute to or a documentary about Bud Powell that may have been put together by Francis Paudras. The audio begins with traffic sounds and the tune "Dance...
DescriptionThis audio is from a 1960 television broadcast. Bud Powell plays John's Abbey. Then the host (Sim Copans) introduces Lucky Thompson (2:38). Thompson (soprano saxophone), pianist Alice McLeod (later...
DescriptionThe recording begins with a collage of mostly fragmentary audio clips of Bud Powell, Francis Paudras and others speaking, followed by street or traffic noises. Powell's famous recording of...
DescriptionThis audio contains a brief story, possibly told by Dexter Gordon, overlapping with Bud Powell's piano, playing his composition “Oblivion." The audio appears to be from a documentary soundtrack. At...
Date Created1950-1994
Subject(s)African American jazz musicians, Powell, Bud
DescriptionBud Powell as a special guest with Charles Mingus performs "I'll Remember April" at the Antibes Jazz Festival on July 13, 1960. The performers include Charlie Mingus (bass), Bud Powell (piano), Eric...
DescriptionThe first forty-five seconds of this audio are blank. Then there are two incomplete clips of a television soundtrack. The first is "I'll Remember April" at the Antibes Jazz Festival on July 13, 1960....
DescriptionThis audio is from a 1960 television broadcast. Bud Powell plays "John's Abbey.” The host (Sim Copans) introduces Lucky Thompson (2:45). Thompson (soprano saxophone), pianist Alice McLeod (later...
