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Gary Numan – In Session – BBC 6 Music – Sept. 18, 2013 – BBC 6 Music – Gary Numan to end the week and start a new one. Going back to the 1970s when he was lead singer for Tubeway Army and then going solo later on. He injected...
John Weinzweig – Violin Concerto – Alfred Pratz, violin – CBC Symphony – Geoffry Waddington, cond – 1958 CBC Studio recording – Back up to Canada this week for a performance of the violin concerto by John Weinzweig. It was composed over a period from 1951-1954 and premiered in 1955....
John Coltrane with Miles Davis – Live from Amsterdam – April4, 1960 – VARA/VPRO – The Netherlands – A monumental pairing this weekend. John Coltrane, along with Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Jimmy Cobb, along with Miles Davis in concert from Amsterdam and recorded by the Netherlands Radio network VARA...
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