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

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: Mike Westbrook

18/10/2008

Mike Westbrook

BBC Radio 3 - Jazz Library, Mike Westbrook

Composer Mike Westbrook talks to Alyn Shipton to select highlights from his long career.

Mike Westbrook talks to Alyn Shipton to select highlights from his long recording career, including music by his big band and his trio, plus settings of works by William Blake.

A jazz composer whose depth and variety of output has been compared to that of Duke Ellington, Mike Westbrook talks to Alyn Shipton to select the highlights of a recording career that stretches back over 40 years. It includes not only music by his highly rated big band, but also his trio and brass band, along with vocal settings of the works of William Blake.

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