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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: Prez and Basie

27/05/2018

Prez and Basie

BBC Radio 3 - Geoffrey Smith's Jazz, Prez and Basie

Recordings by the Count Basie of the 1930s featuring tenor saxophonist Lester Young.

Geoffrey Smith celebrates the partnership of bandleader Count Basie and tenor saxophonist Lester Young.

Just as the Count Basie band brought a new kind of light-footed, heavy-hitting swing to jazz in the 1930s, its great tenor man, Lester Young, created a new style of saxophone - lithe, melodic, irresistibly rhythmic. Geoffrey Smith celebrates their revolutionary partnership.

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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