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Pop Goes the Jazz Star

on BBC Radio 3

In the third of four programmes about jazz artists who dared to dabble in pop, Mel Hill considers Nat "King" Cole, not just a crooner of love songs, but a fine jazz pianist who found that singing was his route to success.

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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