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: King Oliver

08/06/2014

King Oliver

BBC Radio 3 - Geoffrey Smith's Jazz, King Oliver

Geoffrey Smith features cornet player King Oliver of Louis Armstrong's Creole Jazz Band.

Geoffrey Smith picks records by cornet player King Oliver, who helped bring Louis Armstrong to fame with his Creole Jazz Band, as well as such later admirers as Wynton Marsalis.

Louis Armstrong's revered "Papa Joe", cornetist King Oliver (1885-1938) brought Satchmo to fame with his fabled Creole Jazz Band. Geoffrey Smith picks records by Oliver and such later admirers as Wynton Marsalis.

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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