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Jazz 625 at the BBC

Music: Jazz & Blues: Jazz

24/05/2014

BBC Four - Jazz 625 at the BBC

With Duke Ellington, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespie, Wes Montgomery and many more.

Classic 1960s performances from Duke Ellington, Dave Brubeck and Dizzy Gillespie, the Julian 'Cannonball' Adderley Sextet, Wes Montgomery, Marian McPartland and many more.

Programme celebrating the archive of this legendary BBC jazz concert show from the mid 1960s, so titled because the newly launched BBC 2 was broadcasting on 625-UHF lines (the HD of the time) unlike the 405-VHF of BBC 1 and ITV. It features classic performances from legends such as Duke Ellington, Dave Brubeck and Dizzy Gillespie and the Julian 'Cannonball' Adderley Sextet, alongside rarely seen sessions from the likes of Wes Montgomery, Marian McPartland, Chris Barber's Jazz Band and Willie 'The Lion' Smith.

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