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• Listen to John Hellings' jazz reports during the Coronavirus pandemic

  With Andrew Marston, every Sunday evening from 8pm.

  

• Meet John Hellings...

  When most of his mates were into Elvis and Bill Haley, a young John Hellings was enjoying the music of Ted Heath.
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  It wasn't long before he was buying everything from Gerry Mulligan to Earl Bostic and Gene Norman's Just Jazz Concerts.
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  From 78s he moved on to the new fangled LPs - Dave Brubeck concerts, Shorty Rogers albums and so on.
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  Over the years he's seen the the Modern Jazz Quartet and Ella Fitzgerald.
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  After cutting his teeth on hospital radio, he was offered two hours a week to present a jazz programme on a local commercial station.听
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  He's been presenting jazz radio in one form or another ever since, including the Big Bands Show on the 麻豆约拍 across the Midlands for many years.