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50 Greatest Jazz Artists

Radio 3’s Geoffrey Smith and Jazz FM’s Helen Mayhew present the second of four programmes counting down the BBC Music Top 50 Greatest Jazz Artists as voted for by listeners.

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Sat 12 Nov 201607:00
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Music Played

Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

  • 00:02

    Jan Garbarek, John Abercrombie & Naná Vasconcelos

    Lillekort

    • Selected Recordings.
    • ECM.
    • 4.
  • 00:05

    Norma Winstone

    Ladies In Mercedes

    • Like Song, Like Weather.
    • Enodoc.
    • 7.
  • 00:10

    Dizzy Gillespie

    Salted Peanuts

    • Classics 1945.
    • Classics.
    • 7.
  • 00:14

    Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

    Moanin'

    • The Best of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.
    • Blue Note.
    • 1.
  • 00:19

    Tubby Hayes Quartet

    Sunny Monday

    • Tubby's Groove.
    • Tempo Records.
    • 5.
  • 00:23

    Jimmy Smith

    The Cat

    • The Cat.
    • Verve.
    • 2.
  • 00:27

    Kenny Wheeler

    Kind Folk

    • Angel Song.
    • ECM.
    • 3.
  • 00:31

    Buddy Rich

    Love For Sale

    • Big Swing Face.
    • Pacific Jazz.
    • 5.
  • 00:34

    Jamie Cullum

    These Are The Days

    • Twentysomething.
    • Verve.
    • 2.
  • 00:38

    Esbjörn Svensson Trio

    Good Morning Susie Soho

    • Good Morning Susie Soho.
    • ACT.
    • 6.
  • 00:41

    John Taylor Trio

    Rosslyn

    • Rosslyn.
    • ECM.
    • 4.
  • 00:46

    Art Tatum

    Tiger Rag

    • L'Histoire du Piano Jazz.
    • Le Chant Du Monde.
    • 4.
  • 00:50

    Wayne Shorter

    Speak No Evil

    • Speak No Evil.
    • Blue Note.
    • 4.
  • 00:56

    Lester Young

    Lester Leaps In

    • The Essential Count Basie Volume 2.
    • Columbia.
    • 4.

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