Conductor, composer and pianist Duke Ellington (1899-1974), part 62. Concert recordings from February 1963 in the Olympia theatre in Paris, published under the title The Great Paris Concert. The orchestra is in great shape, as usual in France where jazz was early recognized and appreciated as an innovative music style.

The American pianist Craig Taborn (1970), part 1. He started in rock bands on high school, but converted to jazz on university. His style is based on the tradition but contains particularly elements from the freer notions as those developed in the 1960s. Today, his first production with a trio under his own name from 1994, he was only 24.

Hans Dulfer presents his favourite music, complemented with spicy anecdotes.

The French pianist Sophie Agnel (Paris 1964), part 3. Just acoustic music: her first solo CD from 2000, and her trio with English musicians, bass player John Edwards and drummer Steve Noble from 2012.