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Music USA #2204-B, Interview with Miriam Makeba

Description: The entire program for the jazz hour (second hour) of Music USA, including an interview with Miriam Makeba, and tune selections from the opera "King Kong," and from the Mal Waldron Trio. This program was broadcast on January 10, 1961, and rebroadcast on July 11 of that year as Music USA #2386-B.
Date: October 21, 1960
Duration: 46 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Music USA #2205-B, South African jazz opera "King Kong"

Description: The entire program for the jazz hour (second hour) of Music USA, featuring a brief interview with Miriam Makeba, and the South African jazz opera "King Kong." This program was broadcast on January 11, 1961, and rebroadcast as Music USA #2387-B on July 12, 1961.
Date: October 13, 1960
Duration: 45 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Music USA #2232-B, Interview with Woody Herman

Description: The entire program for the jazz hour (second hour) of Music USA, broadcast on February 7, 1961, and later rebroadcast as Music USA #2456-B. This program is the first of a series of three which feature the music of Woody Herman and include an interview with him.
Date: November 15, 1960
Duration: 46 minutes 07 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Music USA #2233-B, Interview with Woody Herman

Description: The entire program for the jazz hour (second hour) of Music USA, broadcast on February 8, 1961, and later rebroadcast as Music USA #2457-B. This program is the second of a series of three which feature the music of Woody Herman and include an interview with him.
Date: November 16, 1960
Duration: 46 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Music USA #2234-B, Interview with Woody Herman

Description: The entire program for the jazz hour (second hour) of Music USA, broadcast on February 9, 1961, and later rebroadcast as Music USA #2458-B. This program is the third of a series of three which feature the music of Woody Herman and include an interview with him.
Date: November 17, 1960
Duration: 45 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Music USA #4618-B, Gerry Mulligan in Moscow

Description: The entire program for the jazz hour (second hour) of Music USA, broadcast August 22, 1967, featuring selections from a jam session at the Molodezhnoe (Youth) Café in which Gerry Mulligan played a borrowed alto saxophone.
Date: July 25, 1967
Duration: 49 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Music USA #5262-B [part], Duke Ellington at the White House, Part I

Description: The first part of a series of Music USA programs on Duke Ellington's 70th birthday party at the White House. This segment is the last 17 minutes of Music USA #5262-B, the rest of which featured the Miles Davis album "Odyssey!" (Prestige 7540). The program was originally broadcast on May 27, 1969.
Date: April 29, 1969
Duration: 17 minutes 28 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Music USA, Ben Webster in Copenhagen, 1965

Description: An unedited program for the second hour (jazz hour) of Music USA, featuring performances by Ben Webster in Copenhagen, Denmark, in September of 1965. A program number and date have not been located; the recording includes technical difficulties encountered on the first selection.
Date: 1965
Duration: 45 minutes 30 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Voices of VISTA: Charlie Byrd

Description: Willis Conover interviews guitarist Charlie Byrd for Voices of VISTA program #39. This recording is the raw audio which was later incorporated into the program.
Date: 1967~
Duration: 15 minutes 06 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Partner: UNT Music Library
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Voices of VISTA: Interview with Al Hirt

Description: Willis Conover interviews trumpeter Al Hirt for Voices of VISTA program #109. This recording is the raw audio which was later incorporated into the program, and includes other recorded segments for the Hirt program and another which featured Charlie Byrd.
Date: November 27, 1967
Duration: 19 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
Partner: UNT Music Library
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