"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– NBC Radio: Stars In Jazz from Birdland – September 4, 1952 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Heading back to the 50s this weekend. The first of a series of broadcasts coming from Birdland on 53nd Street and Broadway…
Sonny Rollins Quartet – live at The Village Gate, New York – July 28, 1962 (Third set). Perennial favorite Sonny Rollins this weekend. From the same live date which became part of the legendary Our Man In Jazz release…
Bobby Hutcherson Quartet – live in Cologne, Germany – March 13, 1977. During a year already crammed with way too many passings, the loss of Bobby Hutcherson last week at the age of 75 was a poignant one. A big…
Jean-Jacques Grunenwald – Concert d’ètè – Marie-Claude Warkowski – ORTF Chamber Orch – Jean-Paul Krèder, cond – ORTF, Paris – Jean-Jacques Grunenwald – a name much more familiar in Europe, particularly France, than here in the U.S. – Grunenwald was…
If you like what you’re hearing, consider supporting the preservation: Become a Patron! You may have missed this one when I first posted it five years ago. I’m posting it again because I don’t think it’s available there anymore. Although…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Bud Powell – live at The Blue Note, Geneva, Switzerland – Feb.1, 1962 – RTS – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Over to Switzerland this weekend for a performance at The Blue…