Episode 11: Avant-garde jazz and bossa nova. In 1964 the boss of Blue Note – Alfred Lion – gave a lot of room to Avant-jazz musicians, among them was piano player Andrew Hill. In the same year “Song for my father” became the best sold record of piano player Horace Silver, partly thanks to his bossa nova title song. The album was inspired by the music from the Cape Verde Islands where his Portuguese father was born.

Pianist James P. Johnson (1894-1955) part 1. He was the first pianist who played jazz (stride piano) from ragtime influences. Since 1917 piano jazz could be recorded in the form of pianola rolls – Johnson made dozens rolls, mainly own compositions. In 1920 he made his first records with an orchestra

Hans Dulfer presents his favourite music complemented with spicy anecdotes.