
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


Critic Martin Gayford tells the stories of his encounters and friendships with leading jazz musicians as a fan, an amateur music promoter and, latterly, as a journalist.
In this first programme, Martin recalls his meetings with Doc Cheatham, a trumpeter whose lengthy career spanned almost all recorded jazz. In an attempt to befriend one of his musical heroes, Martin booked the octogenarian Doc to play a gig in Cambridge. The tactic worked, when he embarked on a tour with Doc and found himself rooming with him in Soho. Here Doc told Martin his stories of playing in bands in Nashville, accompanying Billie Holiday, deputising for Louis Armstrong and becoming a celebrated solo artist in his own right.
Producer Paul Smith, for Just Radio.
By BBC Radio 34.2
8282 ratings
Critic Martin Gayford tells the stories of his encounters and friendships with leading jazz musicians as a fan, an amateur music promoter and, latterly, as a journalist.
In this first programme, Martin recalls his meetings with Doc Cheatham, a trumpeter whose lengthy career spanned almost all recorded jazz. In an attempt to befriend one of his musical heroes, Martin booked the octogenarian Doc to play a gig in Cambridge. The tactic worked, when he embarked on a tour with Doc and found himself rooming with him in Soho. Here Doc told Martin his stories of playing in bands in Nashville, accompanying Billie Holiday, deputising for Louis Armstrong and becoming a celebrated solo artist in his own right.
Producer Paul Smith, for Just Radio.

7,608 Listeners

157 Listeners

1,061 Listeners

5,461 Listeners

1,802 Listeners

303 Listeners

1,747 Listeners

1,041 Listeners

2,085 Listeners

477 Listeners

591 Listeners

70 Listeners

403 Listeners

297 Listeners

829 Listeners

850 Listeners

127 Listeners

67 Listeners

243 Listeners

54 Listeners

44 Listeners

183 Listeners

4,166 Listeners

3,201 Listeners