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: Shorty Rogers

14/08/2016

Shorty Rogers

BBC Radio 3 - Geoffrey Smith's Jazz, Shorty Rogers

Geoffrey Smith celebrates the music of trumpeter-composer Shorty Rogers.

Geoffrey Smith celebrates the music of trumpeter-composer Shorty Rogers, who starred with Woody Herman and Stan Kenton, led his own bands and wrote jazz scores for Hollywood films.

Geoffrey Smith salutes the spark plug of 1950s West Coast jazz, trumpeter-composer Shorty Rogers, who starred with Woody Herman and Stan Kenton, led his own quirky, high-voltage bands and wrote jazz scores for hit Hollywood films.

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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