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: Joe Harriott

Joe Harriott

BBC Radio 3 - Geoffrey Smith's Jazz, Joe Harriott

Jamaican altoist Joe Harriott. Bebop fire mixed with intuitive free-form improvisation.

Jamaican altoist Joe Harriott mixed bebop fire with intuitive free-form improvisation and indo-jazz fusion, producing a series of groundbreaking recordings before his early death.

Jamaica's gift to British jazz, altoist Joe Harriott (1928-73) mixed bebop fire with intuitive, free-form improvisation and Indo-Jazz fusion, producing a series of groundbreaking recordings before his early death. Geoffrey Smith salutes a rare talent.

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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