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Celebrating the best contemporary jazz, with exclusive concert recordings and features

From free jazz to fusion, post-bop to electronica – Jazz on 3 celebrates the music as a living and developing art form, with exclusive concert recordings and in-depth features

Jazz on 3: Jazz on 3 at the Electric Proms

02/11/2007

Jazz on 3 at the Electric Proms

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Jazz on 3 at the Electric Proms: Jez Nelson hosts Jazz on 3 at the Electric Proms, recorded at Camden's Roundhouse and featuring Mercury Prize nominees Basquiat Strings.

Jazz on 3 at the Electric Proms

Jez Nelson hosts Jazz on 3 at the Electric Proms, recorded at Camden's Roundhouse and featuring Mercury Prize nominees Basquiat Strings with guests including drummer Seb Rochford, bassist Simon H Fell and New York saxophone star Ellery Eskelin.

Following the success of their eponymous debut album earlier this year, the quintet led by cellist Ben Davis play music of their own as well as that of guests Fell and Eskelin, here collaborating with the group for the first time.

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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