With Harold Maburn on piano, Arthur Harper on bass, and Jimmy Lovelace on drums. Jazz 625 was a ground-breaking telly show on the BBC in the 60’s. 625 referred to the 625-line UHF band the show was broadcast on; it was not the regular 405-line VHF the BBC used. Luckily for those of us who love jazz and long to see the old masters work a tune, Jazz 625 was filmed, not video taped, because the philistines at the Beeb in the 60’s degaussed the video tapes. One of the problems 625 had was the exchange of labor system within which they had to work. In order for them to present an American act, an English act had to have a job in the States. So the Dave Clark Five would play Ed Sullivan, and Oscar Peterson (who was Canadian, but his sidemen, Ray Brown and Ed Thigpen weren’t) would be allowed to play Jazz 625. Wes Montgomery came on the scene following Django Reinhardt and Charlie Christian and was influential on the likes of George Benson and Pat Metheny. Montgomery did not use a guitar pick. He had a corn on his thumb and used it as well as the fleshy part of the pad to add to his unique style of play. Montgomery played Jazz 625 in 1965. In the interview with host Humphrey Littleton (a jazz musician himself), Montgomery discloses he’s a grandfather. I was glad to hear that he got to see at least one of his grandkids; he died a couple years later of a heart attack. A grandchild he didn’t get to meet is actor Anthony Montgomery, who played Travis Mayweather on ‘Enterprise.’ An added note, unfortunately for the US we don’t import entertainment well. Humphrey ‘Humph’ Lyttleton was a much loved English entertainer who died last year, and we in the States are poorer for not having known him at all.