Research Catalog

Title

New Jazz at the Public : audience interviews and concert footage [videorecording]

Publication

New York, 1978.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Williams, Mary Lou, 1910-1981
• Motian, Paul
• New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater. New Jazz at the Public.

Description

3 videodiscs (DVD) (60 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Performance excerpts and pre-performance interviews from a jazz concert given at the Public Theater. The concert was part of a series called New Jazz at the Public. It featured jazz piano legend Mary Lou Williams (1910-1981) and contemporary drummer Paul Motian and his group. Videodisc one contains interviews with audience members concerning their attitudes about new, avant-garde jazz. Videodiscs two and three contain excerpts from the evening's performance beginning with Motian and followed by Williams. Tapes begin and end abruptly with tape two cutting abruptly from Motian's to Williams' performance.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of the Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival.

Series Statement

Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival Moving Image Collection

Alternative Title

• Jazz concert interviews
• Armenian percussionist [Paul Motian] and some Mary Lou Williams
• Mary Lou Williams

Subjects

• Jazz > Analysis, appreciation
• Concerts
• New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater > New Jazz at the Public
• Jazz audiences > New York (State) > New York
• Interviews
• Jazz > 1971-1980
• Jazz > Performances
• Jazz festivals
• Jazz > Criticism and interpretation
• Video
• Theatrical producers and directors > Interviews

Genre/Form

• Interviews.
• Video.

Note

• These videos separated from the New York Shakespeare Festival collection, *T-Mss 1993-028.
• No credits on tape; title derived from label on tape containers.
• Visual and audio quality are poor.
• Videodisc one: 20 min. Videodisc two: 20 min. Videodisc three: 20 min.

Access (note)

• Appointment required before viewing.

Event (note)

• Videotaped at the Public Theater, New York, N.Y. on April 21 or 22, 1978. Exact date of this performance is not known.

Biography (note)

• "Papp is doing for jazz what he's done for for New York City theatre. He has shook up an encrusted establishment, and provided daring new talent with a forum," wrote the jazz periodical Down beat in 1978 in reference to a new series of avant-garde jazz performances at the Public Theater. Known as New Jazz at the Public, the series was launched by theatrical producer Joseph Papp and originally coordinated by Andrew Plesser. It made the Public one of the leading venues for new jazz through 1987. Performances such artists as Pat Metheny, Steve Lacy, Chico Freeman, Archie Shepp, Jaki Byard, Don Pullen, Betty Carter, David Murray, Sun Ra, Anthony Braxton, Dave Burrell, Michael Gregory Jackson, Leroy Jenkins, Gil Evans, John Zorn, Jack DeJohnette, Papa Zaka and Milton Cardona incorporated a wide variety of musical styles and forms of expression. For more information, see the New York Shakespeare Festival Records, series XI: New Jazz at the Public, 1978-1987, *T-Mss 1993-028.

Call Number

NCOV 5047

OCLC

NYPG05-F10848

Title

New Jazz at the Public : audience interviews and concert footage [videorecording]

Imprint

New York, 1978.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Series

Joseph Papp Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival Moving Image Collection

Access

Appointment required before viewing.

Performer

Performers: Paul Motian and Mary Lou Williams.

Event

Videotaped at the Public Theater, New York, N.Y. on April 21 or 22, 1978. Exact date of this performance is not known.

Biography

"Papp is doing for jazz what he's done for for New York City theatre. He has shook up an encrusted establishment, and provided daring new talent with a forum," wrote the jazz periodical Down beat in 1978 in reference to a new series of avant-garde jazz performances at the Public Theater. Known as New Jazz at the Public, the series was launched by theatrical producer Joseph Papp and originally coordinated by Andrew Plesser. It made the Public one of the leading venues for new jazz through 1987. Performances such artists as Pat Metheny, Steve Lacy, Chico Freeman, Archie Shepp, Jaki Byard, Don Pullen, Betty Carter, David Murray, Sun Ra, Anthony Braxton, Dave Burrell, Michael Gregory Jackson, Leroy Jenkins, Gil Evans, John Zorn, Jack DeJohnette, Papa Zaka and Milton Cardona incorporated a wide variety of musical styles and forms of expression. For more information, see the New York Shakespeare Festival Records, series XI: New Jazz at the Public, 1978-1987, *T-Mss 1993-028.

Added Author

Williams, Mary Lou, 1910-1981, performer.

Motian, Paul, performer.

New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theater. New Jazz at the Public.

Research Call Number

NCOV 5047