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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: Ethel Waters

12/02/2011

Ethel Waters

BBC Radio 3 - Jazz Library, Ethel Waters

Stephen Bourne and Alyn Shipton select the finest recordings of singer Ethel Waters.

Biographer Stephen Bourne joins Alyn Shipton to select highlights from the recordings of singer and actress Ethel Waters, a powerful and influential star in the 1930s and 40s.

Powerful, feisty and influential, Ethel Waters was an excellent jazz singer, mainly remembered now for her screen roles in such pictures as Cabin in the Sky. Popular with both black and white audiences, she was a major star in the 1930s and 1940s. Her biographer Stephen Bourne joins Alyn Shipton to select the highlights from Waters' recordings.

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