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Jazz Notes

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

In San Francisco
The great jazz revival began at the Big Bear Tavern in San Francisco in the 1940s with Lu Watters 's Yerba
Buena Jazz band. Alyn Shipton meets the band's clarinettist Bob Helm to remember those pioneering days. Producer Terry Carter

Contributors

Unknown:
Lu Watters
Unknown:
Buena Jazz
Unknown:
Alyn Shipton
Clarinettist:
Bob Helm
Producer:
Terry Carter
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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