"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
The Timex All-Star Jazz Concert – Dec. 30, 1957 – NBC-TV – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Live Jazz on radio had been around practically since radio was invented. But Jazz on TV was something new – and Jazz on…
Connee Boswell – Booglie-Wooglie Piggy – unknown band – NBC Transcription – 1942 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Diving into the antiquities this weekend. Pulling up an unreleased aircheck recording of a song not recorded commercially by Connee Boswell.…
Alec Wilder Octet – Such A Tender Night – Brunswick 8357 – Rec. March 30, 1939 – Music of Alec Wilder tonight – from a series of recordings he made with his Octet for Brunswick Records in 1939, Such A…
Buddy DeFranco Quartet with Helen Forrest – The Navy Swings session – Los Angeles, May 1957 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Buddy DeFranco this week. His Quartet and singer Helen Forrest in one of several sessions DeFranco did for…
Pierre Max-Dubois – Piano Concerto No. 3 – Raffi Petrossian – ORTF Chamber Orch. Pol Mule, Cond. – 1965 – Pierre Max-Dubois is a name which probably doesn’t ring any bells with a lot people. A student of Darius Milhaud,…
Julie London with The Bobby Troup Trio – live at The Cameo Room, New York – February 13, 1956 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The sultry voice of Julie London this week, accompanied by significant-other Bobby Troup and his…
Count Basie and his Orchestra – live at Birdland – July 31, 1952 – NBC Radio – America Swings – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Count Basie this weekend. Giving a nod to the ever-popular and legendary Count Basie in…
– Charles Mingus Septet – Live At the Nice Jazz Festival – July 20,1972 – Radio France FIP – Charles Mingus this week. One of the most important and innovative figures in 20th Century American Music, Mingus blazed an amazing…
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Freddie Hubbard – Les McCann – Live at the Apollo – 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. I originally posted this a few years ago on my…
. . . or click the link here for Audio Player – Herbie Hancock – Live at Radio Bremen – November 6, 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection 40 years ago? Hard to imagine. The legendary Herbie Hancock, during his…