The Newcastle Jazz Festival
BBC2 joins Radio 3 for the first-ever stereo television broadcast of jazz in Britain. Spike Milligan will introduce extracts from four concerts recorded at the Newcastle University Theatre.
In order of appearance The Alex Welsh Band with euest American tenor-saxophonist Bud Freeman Soft Machine
The Syd Lawrence Orchestra with guest singer Annie Ross From America
The Roland Kirk Quintet
Designer SPENCER BUTLER Lighting JOHN CROWTHER Sound KEN GREGORY
ALAN FOX , ROBIN SEDGELY
Director ROBIN LOUGH. Producer TONY CASH (To obtain the best effect viewers with stereo Radio 3 should turn off TV sound and position their loudspeakers on either side of the screen but close enough to relate stereo image to picture size. Stereo headphones provide a suitable alternative.)