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Dizzy Gillespie, Quincy Jones, and Billy Taylor discuss jazz and Africa (with examples)

Description: A longer-form discussion of jazz and its potential antecedents in the music and culture of western Africa between Conover and pianist Billy Taylor, trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, and bandleader and composer Quincy Jones. This version of the discussion includes examples. This material may have been used in Music USA #2352-B.
Date: 1962
Duration: 31 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
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Partner: UNT Music Library
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Willis Conover's House of Sounds, WNEW audition tape 1

Description: An audition tape apparently made for WNEW, with a pilot episode of WIllis Conover's House of Sounds. This program shows continuity with his work a decade earlier in Washington, D.C., and a version of this program was eventually picked up by WCBS in late 1960.
Date: September 28, 1960
Duration: 59 minutes 52 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
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Partner: UNT Music Library
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Bob LaPlante interview with Don Byas; unidentified recording

Description: In the first track, Bob LaPlante interviews Don Byas in 1965. The second track, from the other side of the tape reel, is an unidentified jazz ensemble for roughly the first half. The ensemble in the second half is identified at 27:05 as the Ole Dixon Trio.
Date: November 2, 1965
Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 45 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
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Partner: UNT Music Library
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Bob Dixon, WCBS, July 5, 1962

Description: Bob Dixon's program on WBCS for July 5, 1962, with several guest speakers on poet Robert Frost. A segment by Ralph Story is interpolated near the beginning.
Date: July 5, 1962
Duration: 36 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
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Partner: UNT Music Library
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Willis Conover interviews John Wiggin

Description: Willis Conover interviews John Wiggin, not for broadcast, but for an article he was writing. In 1954, Wiggin was deputy program manager at the Voice of America, and hired Conover for the Music USA series.
Date: March 5, 1963
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Conover, Willis
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Partner: UNT Music Library
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