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The Big White Chiefs

on BBC Radio 3

Mel Hill contends that jazz is a type of music created largely by black Americans, but taken over to a great extent by white musicians in the early years. In the first of six programmes, he looks at the work of one of these usurpers, Nick La Rocca , who with the Original Dixieland Jazz
Band made the first jazz record in 1917. Series producer Derek Drescher

Contributors

Unknown:
Mel Hill
Unknown:
Nick La Rocca
Producer:
Derek Drescher

BBC Radio 3

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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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