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1969 New Orleans Jazz Festival, "One at a Time Blues"
"One at a Time Blues," featuring multiple soloists at the 1969 New Orleans Jazz Festival.
Date:
1969
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
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
Bob Dixon, WCBS, July 5, 1962
Bob Dixon's program on WBCS for July 5, 1962, with several guest speakers on poet Robert Frost. A segment by Ralph Story is interpolated near the beginning.
Date:
July 5, 1962
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Bob LaPlante interview with Don Byas; unidentified recording
In the first track, Bob LaPlante interviews Don Byas in 1965. The second track, from the other side of the tape reel, is an unidentified jazz ensemble for roughly the first half. The ensemble in the second half is identified at 27:05 as the Ole Dixon Trio.
Date:
November 2, 1965
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
Dizzy Gillespie, Quincy Jones, and Billy Taylor discuss jazz and Africa (with examples)
A longer-form discussion of jazz and its potential antecedents in the music and culture of western Africa between Conover and pianist Billy Taylor, trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, and bandleader and composer Quincy Jones. This version of the discussion includes examples. This material may have been used in Music USA #2352-B.
Date:
1962
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Duke Ellington at the White House - insert for NBC Monitor
An excerpt from the recording of Duke Ellington's 70th birthday party at the White House on April 29, 1969, for use on the NBC radio program Monitor.
Date:
May 10, 1969
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
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
Jazz in Eastern Europe: Joseph Sadlik interviews Jan Arnet on the Voice of America
Joseph Sadlik of the Voice of America interviews Czech bassist Jan Arnet.
Date:
March 4, 1966
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 #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
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
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 #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 #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 #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 #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
Music USA #5262-B [part], Duke Ellington at the White House, Part I
The first part of a series of Music USA programs on Duke Ellington's 70th birthday party at the White House. This segment is the last 17 minutes of Music USA #5262-B, the rest of which featured the Miles Davis album "Odyssey!" (Prestige 7540). The program was originally broadcast on May 27, 1969.
Date:
April 29, 1969
Creator:
Conover, Willis
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The UNT Digital Library