"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Charles Martin Loeffler – Music For Four Stringed Instruments – Coolidge String Quartet – RCA Victor 78 rpm set – M-534 – 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – More Americana this week – this time in the form of German-American composer/violinist Charles Martin Loeffler and an original set of...
Coleman Hawkins Quintet – live At Birdland – September 1952 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Legends in Jazz this weekend – Coleman Hawkins, one of the first prominent jazz musicians on his instrument, as Joachim E. Berendt explained: “there were some tenor players before him, but the instrument was...
Soundtrack Recordings 1. Foreign Intrigue (Paul Durand) MGM – 2. Trapeze (Muir Mathieson) – Columbia – 1956 – Original 78 recordings. Lesser-known soundtracks to 1950s films tonight. Both these films are from 1956 and are poles apart in story and direction. Foreign Intrigue is a 1956 American Eastmancolor film noir...
