Jim Newman (television producer)

Discovering bebop as a teenager and trained as a saxophonist, Newman attended Stanford University and Oberlin College, where he received his bachelor's degree in music in 1955.

Jim Newman co-founded Syndell Studio in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles in 1955, with Ben and Betty Bartosh, Walter Hopps and Craig Kauffman.

[3] Exhibitors at the gallery included: Alan Lynch, Jeremy Anderson, Hassel Smith, Alvin Light, Leslie Kerr, Craig Kauffman, Irving Petlin, Deborah Remington, Jay DeFeo, Roy De Forest, Ed Moses, H.C. Westermann, Jess (1958), Sidney Gordin, Gary Molitor, Ron Nagle, Richard Shaw (artist), Robert Morris (artist), Joe Goode (1962) and Charles Ross.

In his capacity as a film and television producer, Newman worked with KQED-TV on production of the Dilexi Series, featuring twelve original TV programs by artists including Terry Riley, Arlo Acton, Anna Halprin, Yvonne Rainer, Robert Nelson, Frank Zappa, Andy Warhol, The Living Theater, Philip Makanna, Robert Frank, Edwin Schlossberg, Walter De Maria, and Ken Dewey.

[5] It covers the entire history of Dilexi Gallery and other projects, including the Dilexi TV series of artist commissions, films Newman produced, including Shoot the Whale and Space is the Place, his documentary In Between the Notes on the Indian classical vocalist Pandit Pran Nath, and the new music festival Other Minds, which Newman co-founded with Charles Amirkhanian.