Jazz 625
Jazz 625 is a BBC jazz music programme, featuring concerts by British and American jazz musicians, which was first broadcast between April 1964 and August 1966. The programme was created by Terry Henebery, a clarinetist by training, who was recruited back to television in 1963 as one of the new producer intake for the opening of BBC2. The title of the show referred to the fact that BBC2 was broadcast on 625-lines UHF rather than the 405-lines VHF system then used by the other channels.
Details
First Aired: 4/21/1964
Languages: English
Created by: Terry Henebery
Type: Scripted
Production
BBC Four
BBC TwoCompanies: BBC
Countries: United Kingdom
Seasons
Season 1 - 1964
This first season ran from 21 April to 26 December 1964.
Season 2 - 1965
Season 2 ran from 2 January to 29 December 1965.
Season 3 - 1966
The third and final original season ran from 5 January to 20 October 1966.
Restorations
In March 2009 BBC Four showed the 30-minute programme episode from 1964 featuring the quartet of pianist Dave Brubeck, introduced by Slim Gaillard, with footage restored and re-edited. Numbers included saxophonist Paul Desmond's "Take Five", the first jazz record to sell over one million copies.
