Russell Davies presents a four-part history of jazz under Communism.
1: Two Revolutions. In 1917, a coup d'etat in St Petersburg marked the end of tsarist rule in Russia. In the same year, the Original Dixieland
Jazz Band made the first jazz record, in New York. The fates of jazz and Communism were to be linked for the next 70 years or more. Repeated from Saturday 6pm