BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

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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: Ella Fitzgerald

01/02/2008

Ella Fitzgerald

BBC Radio 3 - Jazz Library, Ella Fitzgerald

Singer Gwyneth Herbert talks to Alyn Shipton about Ella Fitzgerald's musical legacy.

Singer Gwyneth Herbert talks to Alyn Shipton about Ella Fitzgerald's musical legacy, including her work with Chick Webb and classic duets with Louis Armstrong and Louis Jordan.

Ella Fitzgerald was known as the first lady of jazz, and in almost six decades of recording, she made hundreds of discs. In this programme, the young British singer Gwyneth Herbert joins Alyn Shipton to suggest the essential items from that legacy, including her early work with Chick Webb, her classic duets with Louis Armstrong and Louis Jordan, and her incomparable Songbook collections of the great popular song repertoire.

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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