Oliver Nelson
Guy Barker joins Alyn Shipton to select key recordings by saxophonist Oliver Nelson.
Jazz Library · BBC Radio 3
August 20, 201133m 44s
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Show Notes
Oliver Nelson wrote and directed the iconic album Blues and The Abstract Truth - a defining 1960s jazz record. In this programme Guy Barker joins Alyn Shipton to explore the wealth of material that Nelson created as both arranger and saxophonist in a prolific career cut short by chronic overwork.