(P/B) JAZZ GREATS

Παρουσίαση

I was fortunate that as a young employee of the BBC, I was allowed to follow some elaborate hunches and a deep-seated interest, and go off to make a series of jazz documentaries for Radio Three. This involved foolhardy treks across New Orleans in search of Buddy Bolden's home, and hair-raising trips up into Harlem or the South Bronx to seek out some long-forgotten witness to the early jazz era. My colleague in the making of these programmes was Russell Davies, and I am grateful to him both for his unfailing good company and for the excellence of his jazz scholarship to which I feel a great debt. (. . .) (from the publisher)