Robert Herridge
Robert Herridge | |
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| Born | Robert Herridge January 12, 1914 New Jersey, U.S. |
| Died | August 14, 1981 (aged 67) Woodstock, New York, U.S. |
| Occupation(s) | Poet, short story writer, television writer and producer |
| Years active | 1939–1981 |
Robert Herridge (January 12, 1914 – August 14, 1981),television program Camera Three, among more than 1,700 hours of TV programming, beginning in 1950.[1]
Herridge also served as a writer for the Studio One television series in 1948.[citation needed]
He produced one of the first American network television shows specifically about
television series The Seven Lively Arts.[2] "The Sound of Jazz" was essentially a broadcast jam session including many luminaries of jazz, such as Miles Davis, Roy Eldridge, Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Lester Young, Thelonious Monk, Milt Hinton, and Billie Holiday
.
Herridge produced and hosted The Robert Herridge Theater, a half-hour dramatic anthology that ran in
Herridge's professional interests extended beyond the world of Jazz as well. In the realm of
Symphony of the Air.[7]
During the course of his career, Robert Herridge was the recipient of several professional awards including the
Emmy Awards.[1]
Herridge died of a
heart attack at his home in Woodstock, New York.[1]
Footnotes
- ^ a b c d Fraser, C. Gerald. "Robert Herridge, TV Producer" (obituary), The New York Times, August 17, 1981, Section B, Page 15, Column 4
- ^ Gould, Jack. Review, The New York Times, December 9, 1957, p. 55
- ^ As per the July 30, 2009, WNET rerun of the installment "The Sound of Miles Davis", which refers to the program being "not seen for 50 years" and is copyright 1959 CBS Films; and per Miles Ahead Website: Miles Ahead Session Details, which gives the original date of the session as April 2, 1959, and the airdate of the episode as July 21, 1960
- ^ ISBN 978-0-14-026737-2. NOTE: Though listed here as "Robert Herridge Theatre", with no "The" and with the last word spelled "Theatre", the title onscreen as per the WNET rerun noted above shows the title The Robert Herridge Theater.
- ^ Miles Ahead Website: Miles Ahead Session Details
- ^ WLIW: "Rare 1959 TV Appearance by Jazz Legend in Honor of Kind of Blue 50th Anniversary"
- ISBN 0-313-24159-7"Spring Festival of Music" Alfredo Antonini, Symphony of the Air, Robert Herridge and John Browning collaborating on books.google
Further reading
- Herridge, Robert. "Vision with Commentary". Poetry Magazine. May 1939. pp. 84–85
- TV Key staff. "TV Key: "Steinbeck Story on 'Studio One'". The Milwaukee Sentinel. June 11, 1956.
- . December 7, 1957.
- Crosby, John. "Robert Herridge, Man With Ideas". The Charleston News and Courier. March 3, 1959.
- Dube, Bernard. "Dial Turns: Herridge Theatre Play Provokes Complaints". The Montreal Gazette. July 26, 1960.
- "Herridge Produces Workshop". The Montreal Gazette. November 19, 1960.
- Hughes, Alice. "A Woman's New York". The Reading Eagle. December 23, 1960
- Hentoff, Nat. "Huckleberry Dracula Jazz, And Public TV: A familiar of Miles Davis and Dostoevski, Robert Herridge was a true television original; is there a place for him now?". The Village Voice. July 31, 1978.
- Hentoff, Nat (2001). "A TV Exclusive! The Passion of Huckleberry Dracula". The Nat Hentoff Reader. New York: Da Capo Press. pp. 153–161. ISBN 0-02-542650-8.
External links
- Williams, Kam. African American Literature Book Club: "Rare Classic Footage Resurfaces of Miles Davis from the Fifties"
- "The Sound of Miles Davis" at Crackle.com
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