"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– Lenox School of Jazz Concert – August 29, 1959 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection One of those All-Star occasions; a celebration of the Lenox School of Jazz featuring a virtual who’s who in the Jazz world, all crammed into…
The Non-Conforming American – March 12, 1955 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – During the era of the 1950s a gradual, unmistakable undercurrent of social upheaval was starting to take place. Brought on largely by the Cold War, the threat…
When you consider that Jean Shepherd was more closely associated with the Beat Generation poets than say, Norman Rockwell, the notion that A Christmas Story, the movie that has become a staple in our seasonal culture diet, is something of…
Pete Brown Group – Kai Winding Group – Live from Birdland – September 9, 1952 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Back over to Birdland in New York City this week for a club date featuring the inimitable Kai Winding and…
Live Jazz from the 1950’s this weekend with a double bill, live from Birdland in New York City on September 9,1952. Starting off the set is the ultra-smooth and mellow Arthur Prysock, who does several tasteful turns with some standards.…
News clips, various stations and broadcasts – August 1959 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – L.A. has never been a town to shy away from controversy – the city was practically built on it. Unlike former rival San Francisco, who…
Background For Headlines: The Beat Generation – CBS-West Coast/KNX, Los Angeles – 1958 – USC Digital Library Collection – With the passing earlier this week of Beat Generation icon, publisher and activist Lawrence Ferlinghetti, attention has been drawn to that…
Lawrence Ferlinghetti Reads A Coney Island Of The Mind – December 12, 1956 – SFSU Poetry Center Digital Archives – With the sad, although somewhat inevitable news that Poet, Publisher and Political iconoclast Lawrence Ferlinghetti left the earth plane earlier…
The Romance Of Helen Trent – July 27, 1959 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Like any social/cultural movement, when it finally arrives at the mainstream it comes with a goodly degree of baggage brought on by the very same…
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”7463″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”April 22, 1956 – The Great Challenge – CBS Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] By 1956 it would be pretty safe to say America was headed well into nervous breakdown territory. Everything was…