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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: Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

11/12/2016

BBC Radio 3 - Geoffrey Smith's Jazz, Louis Armstrong

Geoffrey Smith picks favourites tracks by trumpeter and singer Louis Armstrong.

Geoffrey Smith picks some of his favourites tracks by trumpeter, singer and composer Louis Armstrong, including Cornet Chop Suey and Potato Head Blues.

The supreme jazz icon, Louis Armstrong transformed jazz in the 1920s with the astonishing recordings by his Hot Fives and Sevens. Geoffrey Smith picks some of his favourites tracks, including "Cornet Chop Suey" and "Potato Head Blues".

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