Product Details

• Actors: Various Artists
• Format: Black & White, Compilation, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Quantum Leap
• DVD Release Date: January 14, 2003
• Run Time: 58 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00006JDUY
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #114,346 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
This DVD features a truly original and unique broadcast from CBS Studio 58 in New York on December 8, 1957 hosted by John Crosby. Among the legends performing are Count Bassie, Billie Holiday, Coleman Hawkins, Jimmy Giuffre, Red Allen, Lester Young, and

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

31 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Magical - but inferior edition, June 27, 2003

By	Magne Fonn Hafskor (Norway) - See all my reviews

Updating my earlier review: I just found out this show is available - in a much better transfer (picture/sound) in a DVD-edition called "JAZZ MASTERS - VINTAGE COLLECTION 1958-1961". I urge everybody interested in this excellent/exceptional/magical show to check out this edition!!!
It also includes the THELONIOUS MONK TRIO performing "Blue Monk" - which the present edition mysteriously omits...
In addition: An extra disc with additional material, a.o. an excellent performance of "So What" by Miles Davis...
So my advice is: Avoid this edition - check out the one mentioned above - and enjoy the greatest jazz ever captured by a camera...
The standout track is the one with Billie Holiday in her own composition FINE AND MELLOW - one of her last performances. This was also the last time she performed together with her lifelong friend/soulmate/lover Lester Young. When he solos, it's almost as you can see his notes touching her...

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars an ugly transfer!, February 12, 2003

By	Gori Leonardo "Leonardo" (Firenze Italy) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I wonder why this disc is so horrible: the video is unwatchable, the sound is poor... And every time I saw some excerpts of this historical event, at some TV shows, the quality was very good. Do not purchase this item.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars What Happened in the Transfer?, February 10, 2003

By	Bruce Clarke (Melbourne, Victoria Australia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Having lived with the VHS version for many years and having used it as an adjunct to my regular jazz teaching routine. I excitedly looked forward to (what I expected to be its great) update into the digital format. Upon receiving the DVD, I sat down to hear it - in what I hoped would be its ultimate form), hit the start button & reeled backed horror. The picture quality was totally degraded, the sound - dreadful - and all I can say is that the manufacturers have done an unspeakable dis-service to one of the great historic and visual masterpieces of jazz history. Avoid the DVD -stick with the VHS until the current producers get their act together.