Music Feature

Ken Clarke's Jazz Greats

Tuesday 28 March 2006 13:30-14:00 (Radio 4 FM)

Former Chancellor Ken Clarke shares his enthusiasm for some of the great names in jazz.

Art Blakey was a drummer of incredible power and originality. He was a showman, a leader and a visionary. His long running band, The Jazz Messengers, became something of an academy for the finest young talent who would make up the next generations of great jazz musicians.

Along with people like the Marsalis brothers, saxophonist Jean Toussaint was one of those to be taken under Blakey's wing. He joins Ken to talk about his great mentor.

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