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With Sarah Walker. Including Sarah's Essential Choice: Falla: El amor brujo.
Donald Macleod is joined by writer and broadcaster Geoffrey Smith to explore the jazz mode of bebop. It emerged in the 1940s, out of different combinations of musicians, styles and places
5/5 Donald Macleod looks at the musicians who emerged from the bebop mode.
First broadcast: 19 Feb 2010
4/5 Donald Macleod on bebop's two most influential pianists - Bud Powell and Thelonius Monk.
First broadcast: 18 Feb 2010
3/5 Donald Macleod focuses on bebop's two key drummers, Kenny Clarke and Max Roach.
First broadcast: 17 Feb 2010
2/5 Donald Macleod focuses on the 'yin and yang' of bebop, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie.
First broadcast: 16 Feb 2010
1/5 Donald Macleod explores bebop's roots in the work of pioneers such as Tatum and Hawkins.
First broadcast: 15 Feb 2010
5/5 Donald Macleod looks at the musicians who emerged from the bebop mode.
Fri 18 Nov 2011 18:30 BBC Radio 3
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