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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: Oliver Nelson

20/08/2011

Oliver Nelson

BBC Radio 3 - Jazz Library, Oliver Nelson

Guy Barker joins Alyn Shipton to select key recordings by saxophonist Oliver Nelson.

Guy Barker joins Alyn Shipton to explore the wealth of material that Oliver Nelson created as both arranger and saxophonist in a prolific career cut short by chronic overwork.

Oliver Nelson wrote and directed the iconic album Blues and The Abstract Truth - a defining 1960s jazz record. In this programme Guy Barker joins Alyn Shipton to explore the wealth of material that Nelson created as both arranger and saxophonist in a prolific career cut short by chronic overwork.

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