Year: 2021

Bruce Jay Friedman – on Black Humor in America – 1969 – USA Writers Program – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – It is often said that humor is a reflection of society at any given time; words and situations delivered by chroniclers of the age we’re living in. There’s a

Sonny Rollins Quintet – Live in Tokyo – September 19, 1963 – NHK Radio-Tokyo – The legendary Sonny Rollins this weekend. With his quintet, featuring Betty Carter on vocals, Rashid Ali on trumpet, Paul Bley, piano – Henry Grimes, Bass and Roy McCurdy, drums. Recorded in Tokyo by the NHK

Peace – in session – BBC Sounds Of The 70s with John Peel – November 11, 1971 – broadcast December 22, 1971 – BBC Radio 1 – Peace in session for John Peel’s BBC Radio 1 program Sounds Of The 70s, recorded on November 11, 1971 and broadcast on December

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September 23, 1944 – Fundraising Dinner – Campaign’44 – CBS Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Even during Wartime, an election year was a veritable battleground of accusations and ideologies and the 1944 election was no different. This Presidential campaign was between the GOP candidate Thomas E. Dewey and