Bill Le Sage has been played on NTS in shows including If Music Presents You Need This w/ Jean-Claude, featured first on 28 March 2015. Songs played include Caber Dance, Market Research and Vibes In Counterpoint.

Bill Le Sage was part of the first wave of British bebop musicians to emerge in the late 1940s, and remained a lifelong devotee and highly skilled exponent of the form throughout a long and distinguished career.

He was a founder member of the most famous British bebop band of its day, the Johnny Dankworth Seven. The band was launched in 1950, by which time he was already fully…