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Sinatra's Jazz

on BBC Radio 3

In the second of four programmes, Mel Hill examines Frank Sinatra 's career as a solo artist on the Columbia label when his main appeal was as a singer of sweet, slow ballads. In contrast, Sinatra used the relative freedom of his weekly radio show to work alongside jazz artists such as Nat King Cole and his old mentor from Dorsey days, Sy Oliver. Rpt

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Mel Hill
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Frank Sinatra
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Sy Oliver.

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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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