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Humour in Jazz

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

The writer Alan Plater takes a gentle stroll through areas of jazz where the result - if not always the intention - is to make the listener smile and sometimes even laugh.
In this first of four programmes he includes records by LOUIS ARMSTRONG. CLARK TERRY. CARLA BLEY and the RHYTHMAKERS.
Series producer DEREK DRESCHER

Contributors

Unknown:
Alan Plater
Unknown:
Louis Armstrong.
Unknown:
Clark Terry.
Unknown:
Carla Bley
Producer:
Derek Drescher
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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