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

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: Henry Red Allen

Henry Red Allen

09/08/2015

BBC Radio 3 - Geoffrey Smith's Jazz, Henry Red Allen

Geoffrey Smith salutes the distinctive trumpeter Henry Red Allen.

Geoffrey Smith salutes trumpeter Henry Red Allen, who was admired in his native New Orleans as well as in New York, and starred alongside Coleman Hawkins and Lionel Hampton.

Admired both in his native New Orleans and avant-garde New York, trumpeter Henry Red Allen (1908-67) starred with the likes of Coleman Hawkins and Lionel Hampton. Geoffrey Smith salutes a distinctive and ebullient jazz master.

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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