Wednesday, August 26
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION (ABC, NBC and CBS, 7:30 p.m.—conclusion).* Continued coverage of the nominating, balloting and politicking from Convention Hall in Atlantic City, N.J., where the party will nominate its presidential candidate.
Thursday, August 27
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION (ABC, NBC and CBS, 7:30 p.m.—conclusion). Choice of the vice-presidential candidate; acceptance speeches.
Friday, August 28
IT'S A BIG WORLD (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.).
Actor James Garner and Comedian Pat Harrington Jr. introduce the four-day Carling World Golf Championship and interview some of the foreign competitors, including Nationalist China's Chen Ching-Po, New Zealand's Bob Charles, Brazil's Mario Gonzales.
Saturday, August 29
THE KING FAMILY (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). The six King sisters, members of Alvino Rey's Orchestra in the '40s, appear with 33 of their musically gifted children, cousins and nephews in an hour of music spanning two generations.
Sunday, August 30
SUMMER OLYMPIC TRIALS (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). Swimming competition from Astoria, N.Y.; gymnastics from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, N.Y.
CARLING WORLD GOLF TOURNAMENT (CBS, 4-6 p.m.). Final holes of the 72-hole $200,000 event, the first in the world with an international field qualified through open competition.
REVIEW OF THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION (ABC, 5-6 p.m.). Senators Hubert Humphrey and Sam Ervin Jr., and Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. discuss the expected conduct of the campaign.
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Report on the U.S. Navy training program for frogmen and sea-land-air teams. Repeat.
RECORDS
Jazz
CHET BAKER (Colpix), freshly returned from a dope cure in Europe, makes his first recording in five years and shows that he is coolly sure of himself and very jaunty (in Walkin'). He can also be as lyrical as anyone in jazz today. He says a lot in little, can sing like a flugelhorn (Whatever Possess'd Me) and make a flugelhorn sing (Soultrane).
COLTRANE'S SOUND (Atlantic) is free, air borne and intense; his tenor sax describes a flashing, looping melodic maze in his composition called Liberia, pokes broodingly into small, dark corners in Equinox, has the jitters in Satellite. The fine drum mer Elvin Jones explodes some free-style fireworks too.
ORCHESTRA PORTRAITS (Pacific Jazz).Composer-Arranger-Bandleader Gerald Wilson conducts his zesty, Hollywood-based big band, using huge splashes of colored sound propelled by a cast-iron beat. The wide brush works best on his own pieces; So What by Miles and 'Round Midnight by Thelonious lose their definition.
MARY LOU WILLIAMS (Mary) swung her way into bebop and then retired from jazz to devote herself to prayer and good works. After ten years' absence from the recording mike, she is back in good form as the pianistic pivot of several talented groups, among them the Howard Roberts Chorus, which sings her Black Christ of the Andes. As a hymn it is simple and moving, with cool kaleidoscopic harmonies, but its jazz superstructure seems to be an afterthought.
A NEW PERSPECTIVE (Blue Note). More jazz hymns, by Veteran Trumpeter Donald Byrd, the son of a Methodist minister.