Steve Swallow
Bassist Steve Swallow joins Alyn Shipton at the 2010 Cheltenham Jazz Festival.
Jazz Library · BBC Radio 3
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Bassist Steve Swallow joins Alyn Shipton in front of an audience at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival.
A specialist on the electric bass, Swallow looks back at his early days on the acoustic instrument and talks about the wide variety of his work over a forty-year period.
Significant partnerships include reed-player Jimmy Giuffre, trumpeter Art Farmer, the Gary Burton Quartet (with whom Swallow came to England many times) and fellow-Cheltenham Jazz Festival star John Scofield.