"Stars Of Jazz: Jazz's First Emmy-Winning TV Program" on Night Lights

[ghost of miles]

Normally I wait until an episode has run its weekly course of broadcast before posting it here and elsewhere, but given the extraordinary wait for this show that board member Stonewall15 endured, and without whose assistance said show would not have been possible, I'm going to go ahead and plant it in the radio forum this evening:

Stars Of Jazz: Jazz's First Emmy-Winning TV Show

 

 

[Dan Gould]

Nice!

[Teasing the Korean]

This show was great, thank you!  @Stonewall15 sent me the link.

Does anyone know the audio sources that were used for the LPs represent the surviving shows, or could some of the audio be from lost shows?   Are these available for viewing anyplace?

[JamesAHarrod]

Several years back (02-11-2019) I was in touch with the son of one of the principals of Calliope Records, Joshua Weisel. Here is our last exchange:

Hi Jim, 
Thanks for your email! Sorry I haven’t gotten back to you sooner. Just beginning to see if there is interest in either licensing or purchase. Was very pleased to find your amazing research! 
I have a inventory list in my files that I have to find. In addition to the Jazz, there is also blues, folk, country, classical, Americana and rock music.
The Master tapes are stored far away and I cannot access them to do the research to answer your questions at this time. I believe they are the Masters for the Sessions vinyl and other releases. The rights and clearances are unknown at this time, and the paperwork is stored with the Masters.
I am attempting to collect more info on the location of the paperwork, and am at the mercy of someone else’s timetable.
So, I’ll effort to find my inventory list and then may have some more info to share.
Regards, Joshua Weisel

UCLA’s film and television archive was hoping to make an arrangement with Weisel to borrow the tapes when they were working on restoring some of the shows in their collection. My attempts to reconnect with Weisel were not successful. The tapes in Weisel’s possession numbered 64, all 10.5 inch professional studio reels recorded during the broadcasts. Jimmie Baker had fourteen reels from the shows that were donated to LAJI. I believe that UCLA used either the Calliope LPs or the AFRTS transcriptions as the best source for the audio on the restored shows. I have not viewed the shows referenced in the Night Lights presentation. I believe that most of the clips on youtube were sourced from the VHS versions from Video Yesteryear, etc.

 

 

[Teasing the Korean]

23 minutes ago, JamesAHarrod said:

Several years back (02-11-2019) I was in touch with the son of one of the principals of Calliope Records, Joshua Weisel. Here is our last exchange:

Hi Jim, 
Thanks for your email! Sorry I haven’t gotten back to you sooner. Just beginning to see if there is interest in either licensing or purchase. Was very pleased to find your amazing research! 
I have a inventory list in my files that I have to find. In addition to the Jazz, there is also blues, folk, country, classical, Americana and rock music.
The Master tapes are stored far away and I cannot access them to do the research to answer your questions at this time. I believe they are the Masters for the Sessions vinyl and other releases. The rights and clearances are unknown at this time, and the paperwork is stored with the Masters.
I am attempting to collect more info on the location of the paperwork, and am at the mercy of someone else’s timetable.
So, I’ll effort to find my inventory list and then may have some more info to share.
Regards, Joshua Weisel

UCLA’s film and television archive was hoping to make an arrangement with Weisel to borrow the tapes when they were working on restoring some of the shows in their collection. My attempts to reconnect with Weisel were not successful. The tapes in Weisel’s possession numbered 64, all 10.5 inch professional studio reels recorded during the broadcasts. Jimmie Baker had fourteen reels from the shows that were donated to LAJI. I believe that UCLA used either the Calliope LPs or the AFRTS transcriptions as the best source for the audio on the restored shows. I have not viewed the shows referenced in the Night Lights presentation. I believe that most of the clips on youtube were sourced from the VHS versions from Video Yesteryear, etc.

Thanks for the detail!

[medjuck]

11 hours ago, Teasing the Korean said:

This show was great, thank you!  @Stonewall15 sent me the link.

Does anyone know the audio sources that were used for the LPs represent the surviving shows, or could some of the audio be from lost shows?   Are these Copmpavailable for viewing anyplace?

The Harrod book Ghost references lists the extant shows  and the Lp releases.  A brief comparison of the 2 suggests that a lot-- but not all-- of the Lps are from shows that no longer exist (as far as we know right now). 

[Teasing the Korean]

13 minutes ago, medjuck said:

The Harrod book Ghost references lists the extant shows  and the Lp releases.  A brief comparison of the 2 suggests that a lot-- but not all-- of the Lps are from shows that no longer exist (as far as we know right now). 

Thank you!