The Bell Telephone Hour

NBC (ended 1968)
  • Season 10
    • 4/26/68
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      This episode spotlights the divergent jazz styles of Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Dave Brubeck, and Charles Lloyd as they perform, rehearse and spend time at home. Armstrong talks about growing up in New Orleans and joining a band in Chicago and is seen at a recording session and performance. At the Jazz Workshop in San Francisco, Gillespie reveals his mercurial personality. As one of the founders of bop, he helped to introduce not only a new approach to jazz but also the bop vocabulary and way of dressing. Continued: The pianist-conductor-composer Dave Brubeck is shown at the final concert of the Brubeck Quartet in December 1967 in Pittsburgh and at another performance at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Charles Lloyd, one of the jazz world's newest stars, puts into his music all of the personal rapport he feels with today's younger generation. At Reed College in Portland, Oregon, Lloyd and his Lloyd Quartet communicate with his youthful following with his music and words.moreless
    • 11/24/67
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      A portrait of violinist and teacher Joseph Fuchs as he prepares two young students, Takako Nishizaki and Christiane Edinger, for their concert careers. The intense weeks of lessons, the
      anxieties, disappointments, and the hopes of the students and Fuchs are shown as they participate in music competitions. They compete in the Leventritt Music Competition in Carnegie Hall and no winners are declared. Practicing for next year, they and other competitors, Pinchas
      Zukerman, Kyung-Wha Chung, Serge Lucca, and Donald Wylerstein, are seen performing. Nishizaki and Edinger advance to the semi-finals but are then eliminated. Fuchs talks about teaching and playing the violin.

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