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Jazz 625

Created by Terry Henebery

1964–2010

Jazz 625 is a BBC jazz music programme, featuring concerts by British and American jazz musicians, which was first broadcast between April 1964 and August 1966. The programme was created by Terry Henebery, a clarinetist by training, who was recruited back to television in 1963 as one of the new producer intake for the opening of BBC2. The title of the show referred to the fact that BBC2 was broadcast on 625-lines UHF rather than the 405-lines VHF system then used by the other channels.

First aired
21 Apr 1964
Episode length
40 min
Also known as
Jazz 625: The British Jazz Explosion, Jazz 625 Live: For One Night Only, BBC Jazz 625
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Producer
Mike Connolly
Elsewhere
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Seasons · 93 episodes

  • Season 1 - 1964

    Season 1 · 1964

    This first season ran from 21 April to 26 December 1964.

  • Season 2 - 1965

    Season 2 · 1965

    Season 2 ran from 2 January to 29 December 1965.

  • Season 3 - 1966

    Season 3 · 1966

    The third and final original season ran from 5 January to 20 October 1966.

  • Restorations

    Season 4 · 2008

    In March 2009 BBC Four showed the 30-minute programme episode from 1964 featuring the quartet of pianist Dave Brubeck, introduced by Slim Gaillard, with footage restored and re-edited. Numbers included saxophonist Paul Desmond's "Take Five", the first jazz record to sell over one million copies.