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Making Life Swing: Jazz on TV and in Other Unexpected Places

Making Life Swing: Jazz on TV and in Other Unexpected Places

Alan Kaplan

August 18, 2017August 23, 20171 Comment on Alan Kaplan

Although he learned to play the trombone at the age of eight, Alan Kaplan did what many new high school graduates did and began to pursue a college degree in the late 1960s with an eye to a “stable” profession. But while attending Los Angeles Valley College, the engineering major was offered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity…

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Why Jazz on TV?

August 18, 2017September 27, 2018Leave a Comment on Why Jazz on TV?

Many West Coast jazz musicians of the 1950s-60s ended up working in film and television, having in their wheelhouse the skills and talent needed to compose, arrange, conduct, and most of all, play innovative new forms of music.

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  • Why Jazz on TV?
  • Alan Kaplan
  • Jordi Pujol
  • Schoolhouse Rock
  • Angela and Chris Levey
  • Grady Tate: 1932-2017
  • Peter Erskine
  • Patrick Williams
  • Bob Dorough: 1923-2018
  • I’ll Remember April: MLS A Year (or so) Later
  • Patrick Williams: 1939-2018
  • Teodross Avery
  • Bobby Rodriguez: The Best Version of Himself
  • Gene Cipriano: Hired “Gunn” Looks Back at Some Very Good Years
  • Harmon Mute… But Not for Long
  • Jack Sheldon: 1931- 2019
  • Terry Gibbs: Something Big
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