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Music USA, list of international performances on programs, 1966
A list of programs for the year 1966 which substantially consisted of performances from musicians and groups in other countries.
Date:
1966
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Music USA playlists, 1968
A partial set of playlists for individual Music USA programs 4750 through 5115, broadcast in 1968. There are 172 pages in this document.
Date:
1968
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Music USA playlists, 1967
A partial set of playlists for individual Music USA programs 4386 through 4744, broadcast in 1967. There are 160 pages in this document.
Date:
1967
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Bill Evans at the Village Vanguard
Bill Evans with Chuck Israels on bass, and Larry Bunker on drums at the Village Vanguard. The reel-to-reel tape container indicates that titles performed include "Slow Dance" and "A Song for Now."
Date:
November 14, 1964
Creator:
Evans, Bill, 1929-1980
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Willis Conover interviewed by Steve Allison, WWDC, Part I
Steve Allison interviews Willis Conover in the second half of 1960 -- the date is surmised from the mention of the riots at the 1960 Newport Jazz Festival. Allison conducted his interviews from the Black Saddle House of Beef restaurant in Washington, D.C. (709 18th St. NW).
Date:
1960
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Music USA #2204-B, Interview with Miriam Makeba
The entire program for the jazz hour (second hour) of Music USA, including an interview with Miriam Makeba, and tune selections from the opera "King Kong," and from the Mal Waldron Trio. This program was broadcast on January 10, 1961, and rebroadcast on July 11 of that year as Music USA #2386-B.
Date:
October 21, 1960
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Willis Conover interviewed by Steve Allison, WWDC, Part II
Steve Allison interviews Willis Conover in the second half of 1960 -- the date is surmised from the mention of the riots at the 1960 Newport Jazz Festival. Allison conducted his interviews from the Black Saddle House of Beef restaurant in Washington, D.C. (709 18th St. NW).
Date:
1960
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Music USA #3661-A, Music of Alec Wilder
The entire program for the first hour of Music USA, broadcast January 7, 1965, featuring the music of Alec Wilder.
Date:
November 21, 1964
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Music USA #3661-B, Interview with Alec Wilder
The entire program for the jazz hour (second hour) of Music USA, broadcast January 7, 1965, including tune selections and an interview with Alec Wilder.
Date:
October 28, 1964
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Music USA, Ben Webster in Copenhagen, 1965
An unedited program for the second hour (jazz hour) of Music USA, featuring performances by Ben Webster in Copenhagen, Denmark, in September of 1965. A program number and date have not been located; the recording includes technical difficulties encountered on the first selection.
Date:
1965
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Music USA #2205-B, South African jazz opera "King Kong"
The entire program for the jazz hour (second hour) of Music USA, featuring a brief interview with Miriam Makeba, and the South African jazz opera "King Kong." This program was broadcast on January 11, 1961, and rebroadcast as Music USA #2387-B on July 12, 1961.
Date:
October 13, 1960
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Dizzy Gillespie, Quincy Jones, and Billy Taylor discuss jazz and Africa
A recording of a discussion on jazz and Africa by Billy Taylor, Quincy Jones, and Dizzy Gillespie, apparently made for use in Music USA #2352-B.
Date:
March 7, 1961
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Interview with Ella Fitzgerald, for Voices of VISTA #127
Willis Conover interviews Ella Fitzgerald for "Voices of VISTA" program number 127. The short programs featured various celebrities and were used, like Treasury broadcasts in decades past, to promote the U.S. government's Volunteers in Service to America program.
Date:
May 10, 1968
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Interview with Gil Evans
An interview with Gil Evans, apparently included in Music USA #4884-B, broadcast May 16, 1968.
Date:
March 4, 1968
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Music USA #2233-B, Interview with Woody Herman
The entire program for the jazz hour (second hour) of Music USA, broadcast on February 8, 1961, and later rebroadcast as Music USA #2457-B. This program is the second of a series of three which feature the music of Woody Herman and include an interview with him.
Date:
November 16, 1960
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Music USA #2234-B, Interview with Woody Herman
The entire program for the jazz hour (second hour) of Music USA, broadcast on February 9, 1961, and later rebroadcast as Music USA #2458-B. This program is the third of a series of three which feature the music of Woody Herman and include an interview with him.
Date:
November 17, 1960
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Music USA #2232-B, Interview with Woody Herman
The entire program for the jazz hour (second hour) of Music USA, broadcast on February 7, 1961, and later rebroadcast as Music USA #2456-B. This program is the first of a series of three which feature the music of Woody Herman and include an interview with him.
Date:
November 15, 1960
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Music USA #2799-B: Joe Williams at Newport, 1962
Part of the jazz hour (second hour) of Music USA, broadcast August 28, 1962, and later rebroadcast as Music USA #3620-B.
Date:
July 18, 1962
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Music USA #2149-B, Interview with André Previn
The entire program for the jazz hour (second hour) of Music USA, broadcast November 16, 1960, including tune selections and an interview with André Previn.
Date:
September 7, 1960
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Music USA #4618-B, Gerry Mulligan in Moscow
The entire program for the jazz hour (second hour) of Music USA, broadcast August 22, 1967, featuring selections from a jam session at the Molodezhnoe (Youth) Café in which Gerry Mulligan played a borrowed alto saxophone.
Date:
July 25, 1967
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Music USA #4773-A, Duke Ellington at Tanglewood
The entire program for the first hour of Music USA, broadcast on January 24, 1968. It was originally recorded as Music USA #4740-A, broadcast on December 22, 1967.
Date:
November 18, 1967
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Gerry Mulligan, Moscow Jam Session, 1967, Part I
The first of two recordings from which selections for Music USA #4618-B were taken, featuring Gerry Mulligan playing a borrowed alto saxophone in a jam session at Moscow's Molodezhnoe (Youth) Café.
Date:
July 1967
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Gerry Mulligan, Moscow Jam Session, 1967, Part II
The second of two recordings from which selections for Music USA #4618-B were taken, featuring Gerry Mulligan playing a borrowed alto saxophone in a jam session at Moscow's Molodezhnoe (Youth) Café.
Date:
July 1967
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Willis Conover interviews Duke Ellington, WCBS radio
Willis Conover interviews Duke Ellington for WCBS radio.
Date:
November 15, 1961
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library