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Swingingwith Uncle Joe

BBC Radio 3
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Russell Davies presents a four-part history of jazz under Communism.
1: Two Revolutions. In 1917, a coup d'etat in St Petersburg marked the end of tsarist rule in Russia. In the same year, the Original Dixieland
Jazz Band made the first jazz record, in New York. The fates of jazz and Communism were to be linked for the next seventy years or more. Producer David Perry
Repeated Friday 11.30pm

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Russell Davies
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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