“BODY AND SOUL“: HAWKINS, ROY, DIZZY, VIC, NAPOLEON, MILT, JO DAKOTA STATON, RUTH OLAY (Timex ’58)

This irreplaceable interlude comes from the CBS-television “Timex All-Star Jazz Show,“ the fourth, recorded late 1958 and broadcast January 7, 1959. An astonishing array of artists: Coleman Hawkins, tenor saxophone; Roy Eldridge, Dizzy Gillespie, trumpet; Vic Dickenson, trombone; Marty Napoleon, piano; Milt Hinton, string bass; Jo Jones, drums; Dakota Staton, Ruth Olay, vocals. Jackie Gleason, who loved jazz, introduces this “bust-out of all time,“ which is of course tightly scripted for time. The video is from the collection of Franz Hoffmann, who has no peer as archivist, historian, and collector. Presented by Michael Steinman for JAZZ LIVES ().