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Swing That Music

BBC Radio 3
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The American trumpeter
Doc Cheatham , who is still playing at the age of 88, continues his conversation with Alyn Shipton. By 1931, Doc was lead trumpeter with McKinney's Cotton
Pickers, and then he joined Cab Calloway 's band at the Cotton Club, which also toured. "He had a sensational band. They couldn't find places large enough to accommodate them - tents, tobacco warehouses."

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Unknown:
Doc Cheatham
Unknown:
Alyn Shipton.
Unknown:
Cab Calloway
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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