Bobby Troup’s Hollywood Record Room with Al Hirt, Carmen McRae, Pete Jolly, Ralph Peña, and DJ Frank Evans was originally scheduled for broadcast on April 20, 1961.
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Stars of Jazz/A New View-1
Stars of Jazz, the innovative Los Angeles TV series, allowed photographers on the set during its two and a half year run. Don Jim, a Chinese American photograhper captured many of the shows in full color.
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Modesto Briseño (1938-1965) was one of jazz’s shooting stars that blazed briefly in the 1950s and 1960s.
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