"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Dizzy Gillespie Sextet – Live at Theatre National Populaire, Palais de Chaillot, Paris – Oct. 22, 1971 – Radio France – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Dizzy Gillespie – something legendary this weekend. Recorded live at the Palais de Chaillot…
Bobby McFerrin’s Voicestra – live at the Lugano Jazz Festival 2004. Click on the link at the Past Daily site and listen to the complete concert.
Thin Lizzy – in session for John Peel – Feb. 12, 1976 – broadcast March 9, 1976 – BBC Radio 1 – Thin Lizzy to end the week. Of the crop of Hard Rock bands coming out of the UK…
Nat “King” Cole with Quincy Jones Big Band – Live In Paris – April 19, 1960 – Radio France FIP – Much as I like to rely on my own archives to offer those unique and historic recordings on Past…
Phil Woods – Straight ahead – multi-Grammy Winner – often referred to as “the new Bird”. Phil Woods – European Rhythm Machine – live at Foyer B – Maison de la Radio, Paris – Dec. 20, 1968 – ORTF, Paris…
Dawn Of The Replicants – John Peel Session – August 12, 1997 + Rule The Roost 1999 – BBC Radio 1 – Dawn Of The Replicants to end the week. A band you could consider criminally overlooked, but since they…
Catherine Wheel – live at Bowery Ballroom, New York City – April 14, 2000 – Band Soundboard – Catherine Wheel this weekend. A band one-half responsible for renewing my faith in music. And I mean that with total sincerity. The…
Al Jarreau In concert from Hamburg, Germany – October 17, 1975 – NDR Germany More bad news – this time, the passing of Al Jarreau, who died suddenly after announcing his retirement from touring only two weeks earlier. Winner of…
Gabriel Pierné – Variations Fibres et Finale – Pierre Jamet Chamber Ensemble – ORTF 1955 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The music of Gabriel Pierné this week. I initially came to know of Pierné by way of his recordings…
An Emotional Fish – in concert from Manchester 1990 – BBC Radio 1 – An Emotional Fish tonight, recorded in concert from Manchester in 1990 by the BBC. Together since 1988, An Emotional Fish were signed to U2’s revamped Mother…