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Hailed as "the greatest drummer ever to draw breath", Buddy Rich (1917-87) was a jazz legend for fifty years. Geoffrey Smith traces his blazing career with Tommy Dorsey, Lester Young and his own super-charged ensembles.

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    Geoffrey Smith's Jazz - a weekly sequence exploring what makes great jazz great music