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Programme offering advice and guidance to those interested in building a library of jazz recordings or adding to an existing one

Advice and guidance to those interested in building a library of jazz recordings.

Jazz Library: Marian McPartland

20/02/2010

Marian McPartland

BBC Radio 3 - Jazz Library, Marian McPartland

Alyn Shipton talks to pianist and broadcaster Marian McPartland about her career in jazz.

British-born pianist Marian McPartland talks to Alyn Shipton as she celebrates her forthcoming 92nd birthday, and to select highlights from her trio recordings and radio series.

The British-born pianist Marian McPartland has become an American national treasure, not least through her long-running radio show Piano Jazz. In this edition of Jazz Library she joins Alyn Shipton to celebrate her 92nd birthday next month, and to select the highlights both from her recordings with her own trio, and also from available CDs of her radio series.

Producer: Alyn Shipton.

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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