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

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: Oliver Nelson

Oliver Nelson

12/03/2017

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

Geoffrey Smith explores Oliver Nelson's classic album The Blues and the Abstract Truth.

Geoffrey Smith explores saxophonist Oliver Nelson's classic album The Blues and the Abstract Truth, as well as other collaborations including with Eric Dolphy and Jimmy Smith.

Composer and saxophonist, Oliver Nelson's The Blues and the Abstract Truth was one of the classic albums of the 1960s. Geoffrey Smith samples its delights plus other starry Nelson collaborations with the likes of Eric Dolphy and Jimmy Smith.

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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