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Jazz File

BBC Radio 3
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Cooke's Jazz Tour
1/2. Broadcaster Alistair Cooke 's fascination with America was underpinned by his lifelong love affair with jazz. Michael Pointon celebrates his broadcasts on the subject, this week featuring Cooke's account of a meeting with Jelly Roll
Morton, and the ambitious transatlantic relays of New York jam sessions he compered for the BBC in the late 1930s. Producer David Perry

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Alistair Cooke
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Michael Pointon
Producer:
David Perry
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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