"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
When we look at our current state of Technology – how it changes every few months or so, the concept of a Home Computer, the Internet, or even wireless technology was something that belonged only in Science Fiction, and had…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NPR – Weekend Edition – 80th Birthday Interview with Maya Angelou April 6, 2008 Waking up to the sad news this morning on the passing of iconic writer, poet, humanitarian, conscience…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Alec Wilder Octet – Walking Home In Spring – March 30, 1939 – Brunswick Records Taking it down several notches tonight. One of the most widely admired, but little known…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Lenny Kaye & Harsh Toke – Live At Roadburn 2014 – VPRO-3VOOR12 Festival Season is here – going from one Spring gathering-of-the-tribes to the next – tonight it’s former Patti Smith…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Arnett Cobb and His Orchestra – Top Flight – Apollo #770 – May 13, 1947 Continuing with 78s tonight. This one comes by one of the inimitable High Priests of Bop,…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Farao – live at Introducing, Hamburg – April 2014 – RBB As a sort of companion piece to our Highasakite post the other night, fellow Norwegian/Icelandic Farao is busy making waves,…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NPR – All Things Considered – May 26, 1997 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection This day in 1997 was officially Memorial Day. And so May 26th was given over, mostly in…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Jerry Mengo et son Orchestre – Un Ciel Bleu en Hiver – 1953 – Ducretet-Thomson Records Continuing our archeological dig through piles of shellac this weekend, and probably next week too.…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Louis Mennini – Arioso – Howard Hanson, cond. Eastman School Symphony – February 9, 1953 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection More Americana tonight, by way of Louis Mennini, an American composer…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Charles Munch and The Boston Symphony In Rehearsal – June 2, 1951 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Continuing, not only our historic Boston Symphony rehearsals this week, but continuing with the…