Robert Herridge

Robert Herridge

Robert Herridge was a television producer and writer. He served as producer of one of the few prime-time broadcast television shows specifically about jazz. "The Sound of Jazz", mentioned in the 1994 documentary "A Great Day in Harlem", aired on CBS in 1957. The Sound of Jazz was essentially a broadcast jam session including many luminaries of jazz, such as Roy Eldridge, Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, Lester Young, Thelonious Monk, Milt Hinton, Billie Holiday and many more.

Herridge also served as a writer for the "Studio One" television series in 1948.


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