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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: Jazz with a Latin Impulse

28/04/2013

Jazz with a Latin Impulse

BBC Radio 3 - Geoffrey Smith's Jazz, Jazz with a Latin Impulse

Geoffrey Smith picks some examples of jazz with a Latin impulse.

Geoffrey Smith picks some examples of jazz with a Latin impulse, from Jelly and Dizzy Gillespie to Stan Getz and Richard Galliano.

Jelly Roll Morton famously declared jazz needed a "Spanish tinge" to enhance its blues and swing, and the Latin impulse has assumed all kinds of infectious forms. Geoffrey Smith picks some scintillating examples from Jelly and Dizzy Gillespie to Stan Getz and Richard Galliano.

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