This brief promotional film features footage of guitarist and vocalist Bill Harris as a member of The Clovers; giving a solo performing at his DC club Pigfoot; as well as a feature on a mid-1970s installment of the WTTG-TV show Panorama, introduced by host Maury Povich.
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Celebrating a Jazz Master: Thelonious Sphere Monk, 1986
A creme-de-la-creme cast of jazz stars pays tribute to Thelonious Monk. This was an inaugural event of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, now (a bit disappointingly) renamed the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz. The concert took place on October 6, 1986 at D.A.R.
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