Pianist John Lewis is joined in Lenox Town Hall by Marc Johnson (bass) and Albert "Tootie" Heath (drums). In 1957, John Lewis helped to found the innovative Lenox School of Jazz, the first of its kind in the world. The faculty included Dizzy Gillespie , Gunther Schuller ,
Milt Jackson , Jimmy Giuffre , George Russell and Oscar Peterson. In the interval, Geoffrey Smith talks to John Lewis and others about the formation of the school and about the considerable impact it had on the teaching of jazz, although it ran for only four summers.