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" Piano Players" and the New Orleans Jazz and was produced by Stevenson Palfi, Heritage Festival announced the former director of the New Orleans first "Tulane Hot Jazz Classic" Video Access Center. The show from May 6-May 9. Beginning on has been bought by CBS Cable of Thursday of the second week of New York, and will air there, in the festival, Tulane and the Jazz Los Angeles, and other CBS cable Fest have scheduled a potpourri of markets later this month. The local events embracing performances, screening, however, will be the on­ films and forums. ly chance New Orleans people will On Thursday, May 6 there will have to see the program for quite be a colloquium on the legendary some time. The city isn't wired for John Robichaux Orchestra, the cable yet. Palfi's contract with Creole dance band that entertained CBS precludes a PBS airdate for New Orleans audiences from 1894 more than a year. to 1927. There is, inevitably, an Friday, May 7 begins with a underground history in the produc­ morning symposium on " Jelly tion of any such program. "Piano Roll" Morton. In the afternoon Players" was three years in the the Jazz Picnic is revived at the Golden Moments In New Orleans making and the story behind it is Fair Grounds with a schedule of worth recounting. It opens a win­ twenty bands on stage playing a Rock 'N' Roll VII dow on the problems faced, not repertoire of classic jazz idioms. July 1960- Bobby Robinson, owner of Fire and Fury records, tracks down only by film makers, but musi­ Also included is a special Lee Dorsey in the depths of the Ninth Ward. While sitting on Lee's porch cians, whose careers could be ad­ Workshop Tent. Concluding the they overhear some kids on a swing chanting some nonsense words, "Sittin' vanced by more sustained treat­ day will be a ragtime concert on the Ia Ia." Both think the rhythm is catchy. Later uptown at the Miller ment from local visual artists. featuring the syncopated rhythms Bar after a few beers, they borrow a pen and paper from the bartender and Palfi began preliminary shooting of the early twentieth century. write out the lyrics to Dorsey's first hit, "Sittin In La La Waitin' For My Ya in 1979. It had taken him more Saturday, May 8, the music of Ya." than a year to raise funds for the the Roaring Twenties is production. The main grant came represented in concert by New No. And do not be surprised to you own some fairly sophisticated from the Rockefeller Foundation Orleans' own New Leviathan see more and better music on signal-splitting equipment, you can ($15,000), a source no other local Oriental Foxtrot Orchestra. television as more cable is laid in only listen to M-T.V. in mono producer has tapped. The total Winding up the program the music-hungry urban centers. now. It sounds much like the A.M. budget came to $36,500. evening of Sunday, May 9, is a M-T.V. (not to be confused with radio in your car. But soon a devise The documentary was conceived "Jazz Reunion and Testimonial the local Channel M, a movie will be offered for about two as a tribute to Washington, Dinner/ Dance" on the riverboat channel) originates in New York dollars a month which wiJJ bring Longhair, and Toussaint, none of President, an evening of live per­ and is a joint venture of Warner the channel into your home in whom had been individually formances, video, and narration Communications and the stereo. And if you can wait a bit featured as such before, but beginning at 6 p.m. American Express Co. The station, longer, television dealers say the beyond that, as a historical exer­ Ticket prices for the "Hot Jazz located at Channel 18 on Cox cable new line of T.V. sets, due next cise, showing the living influences Classic" range from free to $20. lines, runs a four-hour show daily. summer, will have two speakers in of the New Orleans piano tradition For more information call A "V-J" introduces theacts,usual­ the set wired for stereo. - how Tuts influenced Fess, and 504/522-4786 or write New Orleans ly recognizable performers, and But most of the musicians on Fess in tum influenced Allen. Jazz and Heritage Festival, P.O. sometimes fills the viewer in on M-T.V. could take a lesson from The heart of the show was to Box 2530, New Orleans, LA 70176. news/gossip of the rock industry. New Orleans artists in visuals and have been a rare concert with three Periodically a newsman will appear choreography. pianos in Tipitina's, the three from location, such as the Super­ Most of M-T.V.'s programming mus1c1ans performing Next Step? dome during the Rolling Stones' is mainstream rock'n'roll. There is simultaneously. Five days before record-setting show or Liverpool little of anything else, but jazz the concert, Professor Longhair M-TV! on the anniversary of John Len­ background music is used in what died. "It's just like the radio, only non's death. The four-hour show is called " bumpers," little fillers of Fortunately, Palfi had filmed a with pictures." That's what Dad repeats itself throughout the day. usually interesting visual material rehearsal session with the three said to Mom back in '48. With Evenings and on weekends the inserted between programs.