Who are the most important and significant musicians in jazz? And what are their finest records? How do you go about selecting the best and most representative discs to build a library of jazz?
In this distinctive new series, Alyn Shipton identifies the definitive performances of key players, bandleaders, vocalists and arrangers who should form the cornerstone of any collection, by using the tried and tested methods of close, comparative listening already familiar to listeners to Radio 3's classical Building a Library. In general, each programme will aim to recommend one definitive recording, but in the case of musicians so significant that their work was influential in several different areas, then a set of representative discs will be chosen.
BBC Radio 3 - Saturdays 1600 - 1700 (Rpt at Midnight)
Producer - Alyn Shipton
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