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Celebrating their 120th birthday this year, the BBC Promenade Concerts – universally known as “The Proms” – rank as the world’s biggest classical music festival. With 76 concerts, running from July to September, of which the vast majority focus on classical music, not only do the events reach a sizeable audience live in London’s Royal Albert Hall, or for the earlier daytime concerts, the Cadogan Hall, but there’s a much bigger audience for the nightly live broadcasts on BBC radio and for the highlights on television.
The post Jazz at the BBC Proms appeared first on OUPblog.
By Michelle Rafferty
What made Louis Armstrong embarrassed? Why was Cab Calloway on Sesame Street? To learn a little more about these two legends check out the podcast below with BBC Producer Alyn Shipton and the talented interviewer Annie Shipton (yes, that would be Alyn’s daughter).
Happy JAM (Jazz Appreciation Month)!
More Sesame Street…Cab teaches us how to jump AND jive:
Click here to view the embedded video.
To read up on Cab Calloway check out Alyn Shipton’s biography
Hi-De-Ho: The Life of Cab Calloway. And for cool footage from Gail Levin’s new documentary
Cab Calloway: Sketches go
here!