and Mort Sahl in charge of smoking.

Here's the first half of a pilot for a show that never made it to air. The premise is that every episode was to have been recorded at a different jazz club from somewhere in the country with the top jazz acts playing (This one features The Dave Brubeck Quartet at The Black Hawk in San Francisco). I can sort of understand how this might not have been picked up - I think much of the thrill of seeing it now comes from it now being a historical document rather than just a camera stuck in a nightclub. Still, it would probably have been a reasonably cheap show to whip together, and it is a pity that there aren't more of them for posterity.

I'm just hoping that the second half pops up sometime. The credits imply that the Modern Jazz Quartet is going to show up.

And be sure to catch what happens at about four and a half minutes in:



I tend to forget what an incredibly clean drummer Joe Morello is. (If Jazz isn't your thing, you can forward to the five minute mark to catch a half minute long drum break and be done with it.)