I've recently finished the last in a series of interviews for a forthcoming Radio 3 Jazz File about Artie Shaw and Benny Goodman. It's been a real privilege, talking to people who knew or played with them, a chance to revisit some of the music that got me interested in jazz way back when I was a weird kid and put it into a context of real, living people. The series will be in three half-hours. Programmes 1 & 2 are being edited. I should have written programme 3 before the week's out, and I'm looking to record it next week. It's scheduled to go out this spring, and I'll post transmission dates (just as) soon (as I know what they are!).
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