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: Roy Eldridge

01/01/2017

Roy Eldridge

BBC Radio 3 - Geoffrey Smith's Jazz, Roy Eldridge

Geoffrey Smith surveys the passionate career of trumpeter Roy Eldridge.

Geoffrey Smith surveys the career of trumpeter Roy Eldridge, considered to be the historic link between Louis Armstrong's virtuosity and Dizzy Gillespie's bebop pyrotechnics.

Roy Eldridge was a trumpet legend, the historic link between Louis Armstrong's virtuosity and Dizzy Gillespie's bebop pyrotechnics. Geoffrey surveys the passionate career of a fiery creative spirit, known in the business as "Little Jazz".

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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