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Anthony Burgess talks music, jazz and improvisation with Oscar Peterson

In conversation with legendary jazz pianist Oscar Peterson, the author and composer Anthony Burgess discusses the intricacies of improvised music and reveals a surprising past as a pub jazz musician playing for 35 shillings a night and "all the beer you could drink."

Best known for his 1962 novel, A Clockwork Orange, Burgess was also an accomplished musician and composed over 250 musical works.

Extract from Oscar Peterson Invites... 8 March 1977.

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