Music Feature

Ken Clarke's Jazz Greats

Tuesday 18 April 2006 13:30-14:00 (Radio 4 FM)

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

Silver's funky, blues-based piano playing, with its sharply defined right hand and grumbling left hand bass, are the elements that took bebop jazz into hard bop and soul jazz.

Ken is joined by leading British sax player Alan Barnes - whose string of accolades include BBC Jazz Awards for best album and Instrumentalist of the Year. Barnes has played every kind of jazz from 1920s nostalgia to cutting edge modern jazz. Moreover, he has got right inside the musical mind of Silver by performing and recording an album of Silver's music.

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