Videos

Good quality video of H.R. playing is pretty scarce.

Youtube

H.R. at MI August 4, 1986 - with Jeff Berlin (Bass), Steve Houghton (Drums), Dave Nagel (Keyboards) - poor sound quality at times.
H.R. at MI London in 1984 - with Tommy Tedesco, Don Mock, Paul Farnen, Joe Porcaro, Steve Houghton
HR playing at MI - the song is Star Eyes. Many thanks to the Roberts Music Instiute for putting this up. This is the only publicly available video that I'm aware of. The best information that I have on personnel is Carl Schroeder (el. piano), Bob Magnusson (bass) and Joe Porcaro (drums).
HR playing at MI - the song is Queen Bee, recorded on the Turning to Spring album.
HR playing at MI - This Masquerade, backing vocalist Jerome Stocco.
HR playing at MI - Angel Eyes.
HR playing at MI - Serenata.
HR playing at MI - Apache Nightmare.
HR at MI - introductions, etc. to above tunes.
HR with Jack Zucker - No video but some great playing on Gone With the Wind at one of HR's seminars in the 70's.
A brief snippet of his playing.
Howard Roberts in Hawaii.
Skylark - from Minneapolis 1982.
Jay Roberts discusses some newly discovered tracks from an unreleased album by H.R.
- Track 1
- Track 2

Stars of Jazz

This was a show on a Los Angeles television station hosted by Bobby Troup during the 1950's. H.R. appeared on several shows. I do not know if any of these are currently available. Below is the list of shows that I know that he was on and who he was playing with.

(16.07.56) Shelly Manne and his Men: Stu Williamson, trumpet; Charlie Mariano, alto sax; Russ Freeman, piano; Leroy Vinnegar, acoustic double bass; Shelly Manne, drums. + Corky Hale, harp, piano, vocal; Howard Roberts, guitar.
(06.08.56) The Buddy DeFranco Quintet:- Buddy De Franco, clarinet; Marty Paich, piano; Howard Roberts, guitar; Ralph Peña, acoustic double bass; Frank De Vito, drums. + Lucy Ann Polk, vocal.
(15.09.58) Les Brown and his Band of Renown, including Dick Collins, Wes Hensel, trumpet; Dick Kenny, Stumpy Brown, trombone; Les Brown, Ralph LaPolla, Matt Utal, Billy Usselton, Abe Aaron, Butch Stone, reeds; Don Trenner, piano; Howard Roberts, guitar; Jules Bertaux, acoustic double bass; Lloyd Morales, drums; + Laurie Johnson, vocal.
(24.11.58) The Candoli Brothers Sextet:- Pete Candoli, Conte Candoli, trumpet; Jimmy Rowles, piano; Howard Roberts, guitar; Red Mitchell, acoustic double bass; Mel Lewis, drums. + Mark Murphy, vocal.
(03.06.57) Benny Carter, alto sax; Pete Jolly, piano, accordion; Jules Bertaux, acoustic double bass; Robert Neal, drums. + Howard Roberts, guitar.

Other Appearances on Camera

The motion picture A World of Beauty
1955, Director - Will Cowan, Personnel on camera - Pete Rugolo and his Orchestra (Howard Roberts, gtr) with June Christy, vocal. A snippet of this movie can be found on Youtube at this link. H.R. can be seen around 3:35 and 9:45 (playing a solo). Thanks to Dave Gould for this.
The Andy Griffith Show - The Guitar Player Returns
Definitely H.R. playing guitar throughout and some video of his hands (note that the scapel picking). This episode can be found on Youtube. (Thanks to Mitch Holder for this.)