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BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

In 1968 an American businessman, Barker Hickox , decided to bankroll an all star band of swing-style veterans - men who had worked at the very top but, by the sixties, were suffering from the general public's love affair with rock music. Campbell Bumap celebrates 30 years of the World's
Greatest Jazz Band, the aggressively confident name Hickox selected for the nine-piece band.

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Barker Hickox
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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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