Guy Barker: 'I'm closer to the wire than usual'

Jazz Voice, a celebration of the last 100 years of popular song, opens the 2010 London Jazz festival tonight. Song arranger and conductor Guy Barker kept a diary in the run-up to this year's eventJune 2010Writing around 22 arrangements for a 42-piece orchestra definitely isn't an overnight job, and by now I should be beginning to think about November's concert. But this week, as part of Wynton Marsalis's week-long residency at the Barbican, I'm directing two British bands for a couple of swing...

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