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Jazz with John Hellings: From Wagner to Stravinsky in jazz

From Wagner to Stravinsky in jazz

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A march from Acker Bilk and Gerald Wilson leads a big band with a Stravinsky theme.

Johnny Griffin and Eddie ‘Lockjaw’ Davis play a well-worn, but well loved classic from Tadd Dameron. Acker Bilk features from one of his EPs which contained nothing but marches, played in a traditional style.

Toots Thielmans and Joe Pass are together at the Northsea Jazz Festival in the Hague in the 1980s and Charlie Parker from the 1950s in a big band put together by local Washington disc jockey (as he was then), Willis Conover. 

There’s an authentic New Orleans Ragtime Orchestra who played for dancing and we visit Titley, a village near the Welsh border, to hear all about the second Titley Jazz Festival and a dog named Charlie Parker.

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