Jazz 625 — Season 1, Episode 1: Ellington in Concert: Part 1 & 2

Episode synopsis

The world-famous pianist-composer-conductor Duke Ellington and his Orchestra. The first of two programmes recorded during a recent visit to this country. Due to a fire at Battersea Power Station having blacked out all power at BBC Television Centre on the channel's opening night, the second part was aired five days later on 26 April.

About 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.

More episodes from Season 1

• E2An All-Star Jam Session
• E3The Tubby Hayes Quintet
• E4Chris Barber's Jazzband with Ottilie Patterson
• E5The Modern Jazz Quartet
• E6The Johnny Dankworth Orchestra with Bobby Breen
• E7The Julian 'Cannonball' Adderley Sextet
• E8A session of Dixieland Jazz with Alex Welsh and his Band
• E9Bill Le Sage's New Directions in Jazz Unit
• E10Marian McPartland
• E11The Humphrey Lyttelton Fifteen
• E12The Art Farmer Quartet featuring Jim Hall
• E13Henry 'Red' Allen with Alex Welsh and His Band