Robert Herridge’s TV programs changed the way people viewed jazz

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Much of the credit for the relaxed cinéma vérité camerawork of “The Sound of Jazz” belongs to Robert Herridge, a producer of TV dramas and a tireless champion of the performing arts. Four of his late-’50s TV jazz programs—“The Sound of Jazz,” “Frankie and Johnny,” “Jazz From Sixty-One” and “The Sound of Miles Davis”—will be screened at New York’s Paley Center for Media on Jan. 17 and 18. Watching them in crisp black-and-white from start to finish reveals much about jazz’s struggle for high-culture acceptance in the 1950s and Herridge’s passion for preserving and promoting the music.

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