Jazz pianist Johnny Staccato supplements his meager musician's income by working as a private detective. The background for many of the episodes is his friend "Waldo's" jazz club in New York City's ...

Around the same time he was making Shadows, John Cassavetes was starring in a pretty good TV series about a jazz pianist who makes ends meet by working as a private detective, a sort of ...

TV and film writer and producer Dick Berg, who created John Cassavetes-starring series “Johnny Staccato,” died Tuesday in Los Angeles after a brief illness. He was 87. Berg was the father of ICM chief ...