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Anything for jazz: Jaki Byard
- Title
- Anything for jazz: Jaki Byard [videorecording] / The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University ; produced by Peter Hutton and Alex Griswold.
- Publication
- New York : Rhapsody Films, 1979.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | VHS | By appointment only | VTH 1624 A | Offsite |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Algrant, Dan.
- Description
- 1 videocassette (25 min.) : sd., b&w/col.; 1/2 in.
- Summary
- Born in 1922, pianist Jaki Byard is a jazz musican who lives in Queens, New York with his wife and three children. He has performed and recorded with Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Eric Dolphy, Don Ellis, Duke Ellington, Paul Chambers, Earl "Fatha" Hines, George Benson, Ron Carter, and Charles Mingus. This portrait of Byard, who teaches at the New England Conservatory of Music, features the musician in solo piano performance and with his big band, The Apollo Stompers. Commentary, accompanied by family photographs and home movies, is provided by bassist Ron Carter and pianist Bill Evans (who died in 1980 shortly after the film was made).
- Subjects
- Credits (note)
- Director, Dan Algrant.
- Title
- Anything for jazz: Jaki Byard [videorecording] / The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University ; produced by Peter Hutton and Alex Griswold.
- Imprint
- New York : Rhapsody Films, 1979.
- Credits
- Director, Dan Algrant.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Algrant, Dan.
- Branch Call Number
- VTH 1624 A