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The Glasshouse

Saturday 30th March, 2019. 4pm - 5pm  

No Ticket Required

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BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival

Jazz Record Requests

Broadcast Live on BBC Radio 3

Jazz-Record-Requests

BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival

Jazz Record Requests

Broadcast Live on BBC Radio 3

Part of BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival 2019

No Ticket Required

THIS EVENT HAS PASSED

Alyn Shipton brings the popular Radio 3 programme back to Sage Gateshead for a live edition exploring the idea of emotion in jazz. Requests come from listeners and Free Thinking speakers, and there’s live music from Durham born singer Jo Harropand pianist Paul Edis, who is Associate Artist at Sage Gateshead.

Alyn Shipton is a jazz historian, broadcaster and performer. In addition to writing one of the standard histories of jazz, he is the biographer of many musicians including Dizzy Gillespie, Cab Calloway and Fats Waller. He currently leads the Buck Clayton Legacy Band, playing music left to him by the great American trumpeter. 2019 marks his 30th year as a BBC Radio 3 presenter.