Research Catalog

Title

Montreux minutes [videorecording] / WDIV-TV, Detroit ; producers, Curtis Gadson, Harvey Ovshinsky and Bill Pace.

Publication

Detroit, Mich. : WDIV-TV, 1980-08.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gadson, Curtis.
• Ovshinsky, Harvey.
• Pace, Bill.
• Crothers, Scat Man.
• WDIV-TV (Television station : Detroit, Mich.)
• World Institute of Black Communications.
• CEBA Collection.

Description

1 videocassette of 1 (U-matic) (6 min.) : sd., col.; 3/4 in.

Summary

Six, one-minute vignettes produced to promote jazz in Detroit before the opening of the Montreux Jazz festival there in 1980. Traces Detroit's jazz history with stories on Hitsville USA (the original home of Motown), the Jazz Center, the Paradise Theatre and the Greystone - all jazz institutions in Detroit; and two on the upcoming Montreux Jazz Festival. All are narrated by Scat Man Crothers.

Series Statement

Go 4 jazz

Subjects

• Public service
• Jazz musicians > United States
• Jazz > Michigan > Detroit > History
• Detroit (Mich.) > History

Genre/Form

Public service.

Note

• Information on producers and title from 1981 CEBA Exhibit Journal.
• This program forms part of the Communications Excellence to Black Audiences (CEBA) Award Collection, a competition sponsored by the World Institute of Black Communications, Inc.

Call Number

Sc Visual VRB-244

OCLC

NYPG89-F206

Title

Montreux minutes [videorecording] / WDIV-TV, Detroit ; producers, Curtis Gadson, Harvey Ovshinsky and Bill Pace.

Imprint

Detroit, Mich. : WDIV-TV, 1980-08.

Country of Producing Entity

United States.

Series

Go 4 jazz

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Added Author

Gadson, Curtis. Production personnel

Ovshinsky, Harvey. Production personnel

Pace, Bill. Production personnel

Crothers, Scat Man.

WDIV-TV (Television station : Detroit, Mich.)

World Institute of Black Communications.

CEBA Collection.

Research Call Number

Sc Visual VRB-244 Original of Sc Visual DVD-892