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Hard Bop, Soft Focus

on BBC Radio 3

Asix-part series in which
Alyn Shipton looks at the history of the Blue Note record label and talks to those who defined its sound.
5: In the latter part of the sixties, the Blue Note catalogue was poised sometimes uneasily between commercial funk and hard bop and a flirtation with the avant-garde. Alyn Shipton considers how the two halves were reconciled.
Repeated Friday 12.45am

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Alyn Shipton
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Alyn Shipton

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