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BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

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The best concerts from across the UK and Europe. Available to listen online for 30 days

Experience the best concerts from across the UK and Europe. Available to listen online for 30 days

Radio 3 in Concert: EFG London Jazz Festival: Jazz Voice

EFG London Jazz Festival: Jazz Voice

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 in Concert, EFG London Jazz Festival: Jazz Voice

Jumoké Fashola presents the EFG London Jazz Festival's opening night gala.

Guy Barker and the EFG London Jazz Festival Ensemble with their annual celebration of song featuring an array of star vocalists.

EFG London Jazz Festival's opening night gala, live from the Royal Festival Hall. The Jazz Voice is an annual celebration of singers and song-writing and the featured artists tonight include Kurt Elling, Carroll Thompson, Amythyst Kiah, Dana Masters, Ian Shaw, Shingai, Mica Millar and Marisha Wallace. Guy Barker directs the specially-created EFG London Jazz Festival Orchestra and the event is hosted on stage by Jumoké Fashola.

During the interval, a Count Basie mixtape celebrating the many artists born 100 years ago this year who helped create the Basie sound, including trumpeters Joe Newman and Joe Wilder, saxophonists Frank Wess, Illinois Jacquet and Eddie “Lockjaw” Davies, and composer-arrangers Ernie Wilkins and Neal Hefti.

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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