Monday, July 28, 2014

Jazz hands

Lord Coe took time out in yesterday's Sunday Telegraph to remind us of his cultural credentials. (Why, it's almost as if he was looking for a top job at one of the country's major cultural institations....)

He vouchsafes a lifelong passion for jazz.  He says a track by Roy Eldridge and Dizzy Gillespie started it.



He claims pressure from the Parliamentary All-Party Jazz Appreciation Group - of which he was then a member, with Ken Clarke - saved the BBC Big Band in 1994, when Auntie sought to close it down. It survives now as a freelance group "under the auspices" of the BBC. Lord Coe may have noticed that their regular Radio 2 show was axed this year, and perhaps if he gets into 180 Great Portland Street, he can sort that too, with another man at the sport/music cusp, BBC Director of Music, Bob Shennan.


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