Sat 11 July
5.00 Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton presents listeners' requests for tunes by masters of the keyboard, ranging from the jazz-rock fusion of George Duke to the Harlem "stride" piano of Fats Waller.
6.00 Jazz Line-Up
Claire Martin introduces a performance by New Focus recorded at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, and Phil Smith highlights the "surf jazz" of Finnish guitarist and composer Vatteri Poyhonen.
12.00 Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
Popularly dubbed "the high priest of bebop", Thelonious Monk (1917-82) was as gifted as he was eccentric, creator of a quirky piano style and a unique body of jazz compositions. Geoffrey Smith celebrates his genius with such classics as Round Midnight.
Sunday 12 July - BBC Radio 2
9.00 Clare Teal
With Mark Armstrong, artistic and music director of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra, who talks about the orchestra's 50th-anniversary year.
Mon 13 July
11.00 Jazz on 3
Jez Nelson introduces a concert in which Americans Myra Melford (piano) and Ben Goldberg (clarinet) join forces with British musicians Chris Batchelor (trumpet) Steve Watts (bass) and Tim Giles (drums).
5.00 Jazz Record Requests
Alyn Shipton presents listeners' requests for tunes by masters of the keyboard, ranging from the jazz-rock fusion of George Duke to the Harlem "stride" piano of Fats Waller.
6.00 Jazz Line-Up
Claire Martin introduces a performance by New Focus recorded at the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, and Phil Smith highlights the "surf jazz" of Finnish guitarist and composer Vatteri Poyhonen.
12.00 Geoffrey Smith's Jazz
Popularly dubbed "the high priest of bebop", Thelonious Monk (1917-82) was as gifted as he was eccentric, creator of a quirky piano style and a unique body of jazz compositions. Geoffrey Smith celebrates his genius with such classics as Round Midnight.
Sunday 12 July - BBC Radio 2
9.00 Clare Teal
With Mark Armstrong, artistic and music director of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra, who talks about the orchestra's 50th-anniversary year.
Mon 13 July
11.00 Jazz on 3
Jez Nelson introduces a concert in which Americans Myra Melford (piano) and Ben Goldberg (clarinet) join forces with British musicians Chris Batchelor (trumpet) Steve Watts (bass) and Tim Giles (drums).
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