{"podcast":{"title":"Jazz Focus","slug":"jazz-focus-7271548","podcast_index_feed_id":7271548,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/jazzbnd/feed.xml","website_url":"https://jazzbnd.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/19833759/hanover_podcast_Logo_brqpk.jpg","author":"jazzbnd","episode_count":100,"summary":"Exploring the highways and byways of Classic Recorded Jazz - from the Ragtime era to the day before yesterday!","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/jazz-focus-7271548"},"episode":{"title":"Show - Tommy Whittle and the British bop scene","slug":"show-tommy-whittle-and-the-british-bop-scene","published_at":"2026-03-18T12:57:14+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/jazz-focus-7271548/show-tommy-whittle-and-the-british-bop-scene","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/jazz-focus-7271548","url":"https://jazzbnd.podbean.com/e/show-tommy-whittle-and-the-british-bop-scene/","audio_url":"https://pdcn.co/e/mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/7ecmvsrqunabkvxv/10_WETF_Clark_Tommy_Whittle7noh8.mp3","summary":"Almost forgotten tenor sax player of the late swing and early bop periods in England, Tommy Whittle played with Ted Heath, Harry Hayes and other mainstream groups from his early teens. By the late 1940's he was clearly influenced by bebop and these recordings demonstrate this. With the Jack Parnell Quartet and Quintet (from Heath's band), Tony Kinsey's group (with Dill Jones on piano) and two sessions under his own name (with Derek Humble and other nascent British stars), Whittle established himself as an important solo voice on the European Jazz scene.","meta_description":"Almost forgotten tenor sax player of the late swing and early bop periods in England, Tommy Whittle played with Ted Heath, Harry Hayes and other mainstrea…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3342,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/jazz-focus-7271548/episodes/show-tommy-whittle-and-the-british-bop-scene/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/jazz-focus-7271548/show-tommy-whittle-and-the-british-bop-scene.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}