Jazz on Stage
2/2. Concluding his series on the love affair between jazz and the theatre, Guy Barker is joined by Eddie Izzard , star of the West End show Lennie, to discuss what improvising jazz musicians and stand-up comedians have in common. Plus a look at the stage compositions of Duke Ellington, Miles Davis and Gil Evans , as well as setting the stage for his own theatrical composition dZf, based on Mozart's Die Zauberflote, which is premiered later this evening at the London Jazz Festival. Producer Alyn Shipton