"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Slim Gaillard – Laguna – Bee-Bee Records 101 – 1945 Had Slim Gaillard never appeared, the world would have been an awful place. Truly and totally unique, with a language of his own (one of reportedly 8 he spoke fluently), an...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Howard Hanson and The Eastman School Orchestra – Pioneers Of Music – May 27, 1950 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection More Americana, by way of The Eastman School of Music, and the orchestra conducted by founder, champion and cheering section Howard...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Boston Symphony In Rehearsal – Charles Munch, cond. – Jan. 13, 1951 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection More historic rehearsals this week. The Boston Symphony with Charles Munch rehearse Richard Strauss’ Don Juan, originally broadcast on January 13, 1951. Considered...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Art Farmer-Benny Golson – live at Newport 1960 – June 30, 1960 – Voice of America Reposting a concert from several years ago (via my long-ago now-defunct site) from the 1960 Newport Jazz Festival featuring the legendary Art Farmer and Benny...