Episode 1

To celebrate Radio 3's fortieth birthday this weekend, Alyn Shipton selects commercially issued jazz CDs that started life as broadcasts on Radio 3 itself.

1/2. Including concerts by Betty Carter, Anthony Braxton and Stan Getz, the British bands of Ian Carr and Elton Dean, a solo recital by pianist Ralph Sutton and the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band in full flight. As well as excerpts from archive interviews with the musicians, Alyn talks to former BBC jazz producer Derek Drescher.