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Jazz File

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Significant Others - Booker Ervin
Jez Nelson profiles the often overlooked tenor saxophonist whose premature death in 1970 robbed jazz of one of its most distinctive voices. A favourite sideman of Charles Mingus in the early 1960s, Ervin went on to form one of contemporary jazz's great quartets and recorded a series of albums including The Freedom Book and The Space Book. The show features contributions from bassist
Richard Davis and critic Stanley Crouch.

Contributors

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Booker Ervin
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Jez Nelson
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Charles Mingus
Bassist:
Richard Davis
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Stanley Crouch.
Source: Radio Times

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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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