Last weekend we posted “Free
Speech and Free Jazz,” Kurt Loder’s appreciation of Nat
Hentoff’s dual career as a civil libertarian and a music critic. At
one point in the story, Loder mentions that Hentoff “helped produce
The Sound of Jazz—a 1957 CBS TV special that brought
together Lester Young, Count Basie, Billie Holiday, and the
inimitable Monk, among many others—which was a landmark of
televised jazz that has never been surpassed.”
The Sound of Jazz, which aired as part of the
documentary series The Seven
Lively Arts, really is a fine hour of television. And
thanks to YouTube, you can watch it right now:
Hentoff has written for Reason a few times; you can see
those articles here. To see him
writing about a musician who isn’t usually thought of as a jazzman,
go here. For past
editions of the Friday A/V Club, go here.
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