Robert Herridge: Tv's Forgotten Jazz Auteur at The Paley Center For Media

(SCREENINGS) Robert Herridge was one of television’s visionaries, creating programs in many genres, always with a signature style. The Paley Center spotlights Herridge’s musical achievements in jazz, folk, and blues. Highlights include: 1957’s The Sound of Jazz featuring Thelonious Monk, Count Basie, Billie Holiday, Coleman Hawkins, Jimmy Rushing, and more; The Sound of Miles Davis (1959) featuring Miles Davis with John Coltrane and the Gil Evans Orchestra performing “So What,” “The Duke,” “Blues for Pablo,” and “New Rhumba”; 1960’s Folk Sound, U.S.A., a program that had a...

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(SCREENINGS) Robert Herridge was one of television’s visionaries, creating programs in many genres, always with a signature style. The Paley Center spotlights Herridge’s musical achievements in jazz, folk, and blues. Highlights include: 1957’s The Sound of Jazz featuring Thelonious Monk, Count Basie, Billie Holiday, Coleman Hawkins, Jimmy Rushing, and more; The Sound of Miles Davis (1959) featuring Miles Davis with John Coltrane and the Gil Evans Orchestra performing “So What,” “The Duke,” “Blues for Pablo,” and “New Rhumba”; 1960’s Folk Sound, U.S.A., a program that had a
major impact on the teenaged Bob Dylan. Performers include Joan Baez, Cisco Houston,
Peter Yarrow, John Jacob Niles, John Lee Hooker, and Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys.

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