Chris Philips
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About Chris Philips
When was your first show on Jazz FM?
March 4th 1990!
The artist that surprised you in 2019?
Trumpeter Dan Rosenboom.
What are your top 3 favourite jazz albums of all time?
Miles Davis's Kind Of Blue, Donald Byrd's Places and Spaces and then Willie Bobo's Bobo.
What is your most memorable jazz gig?
Miles Davis live at Nice Jazz Festival, 1988.
What is your favourite jazz story?
Interviewing Dizzy Gillespie who spun a long and funny and incoherent yarn backstage whilst he was having his dinner, finishing off with a loud burp.
If you were to choose the ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ at the Jazz FM Awards, who would you give it to and why?:
Pianist McCoy Tyner because he is one of the truly under-sung giants of jazz.