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Doc: The British Jazz Scene

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Marc Myers
Sep 20, 2021
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Earlier this month, a documentary went up at YouTube produced by the BBC as part of its Jazz Britannia series. The documentary tracks the rise of post-war British jazz and helps explain why trad jazz lingered so long there in the 1950s, how skiffle emerged mid-decade, why bop came late to London, why American jazz musicians didn't tour in the U.K. until…

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