Ken Clarke's Jazz Greats - Dizzy Gillespie

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Ken Clarke's Jazz Greats - Dizzy Gillespie
BBC Radio 4 - 2005-05-24

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Jazz devotee Ken Clarke shares his enthusiasm for the musicians who made growing up such fun. He focuses on the founder of the bebop movement, the trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie.

Ken is joined by, in his opinion, Britain's best jazz trumpeter, Guy Barker, who was taken under the wing of Gillespie as a young boy. The two met when the teenager asked his hero to autograph Barker's own hand-written transcriptions of Gillespie's solos. The older man, suitably impressed not only with the boy's interest but with the sheer volume of solos he'd actually played, later invited him on stage to play with him.

Ken Clarke's Jazz Greats - Dizzy Gillespie

[Reuben Bright]

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[codepop]

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