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: Duke Ellington

Duke Ellington

07/10/2012

BBC Radio 3 - Geoffrey Smith's Jazz, Duke Ellington

Geoffrey Smith explores the keyboard style of Duke Ellington, in solos and ensembles.

Geoffrey Smith explores the unique, colourful and imaginative keyboard style of pianist Duke Ellington, in solos and ensembles large and small.

It's a jazz truism that, though Duke Ellington played piano, his real instrument was his band. But it's also true that he had a great and unique keyboard style, as full of colour and imagination as his orchestrations. Geoffrey Smith Jazz will present the full glory of Ellington the pianist, in solos and ensembles large and small.

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