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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: Ornette Coleman

20/03/2010

Ornette Coleman

BBC Radio 3 - Jazz Library, Ornette Coleman

Alyn Shipton selects the key recordings of influential saxophonist Ornette Coleman.

Alyn Shipton is joined by Paul Towndrow to select the key recordings of influential saxophonist Ornette Coleman, who celebrates his 80th birthday in March 2010.

Celebrating Ornette Coleman's 80th birthday in March 2010, Alyn Shipton was joined by Scottish saxophonist Paul Towndrow to select the key recordings by Coleman, the saxophonist who developed free jazz in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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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