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

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Geoffrey Smith's Jazz

Music: Jazz & Blues

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Geoffrey Smith's Jazz - a weekly sequence exploring what makes great jazz great music

Geoffrey Smith's Jazz does exactly what it says on the tin: a weekly selection of tracks through which Geoffrey Smith shares his passion for jazz from a personal perspective

Geoffrey Smith's Jazz: Bunny Berigan and Bud Freeman

18/05/2014

Bunny Berigan and Bud Freeman

BBC Radio 3 - Geoffrey Smith's Jazz, Bunny Berigan and Bud Freeman

Geoffrey Smith surveys the work of trumpeter Bunny Berigan and saxophonist Bud Freeman.

Geoffrey Smith surveys the work of trumpeter Bunny Berigan and saxophonist Bud Freeman. With music they played together, on their own and with major bands.

Trumpeter Bunny Berigan (1908-42) and saxophonist Bud Freeman (1906-91) were two of the brightest stars of the Swing Era. Geoffrey Smith surveys their work together, on their own and with major bands like Tommy Dorsey's.

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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