Visiting the legendary Thelonious Monk this weekend, featuring his Nonet in a concert recorded from Mainz, Germany on November 8, 1967. Luckily for everyone, a lot of Monk’s material was recorded live, and most all of his studio material has been reissued and a lot of it has stayed available
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Chick Corea – in concert – Royal Festival Hall, London – March 8, 1993 – BBC Radio 3 – The sad and incalculable passings continue this year – Chick Corea who was one of the most influential pianists of the Jazz idiom (whose influence spread across several genres), passed away
Nana Adjoa – in session at 3VOOR-FM – The Netherlands – December 4, 2020 – VPRO Nana Adjoa in session tonight – recorded live at 3VOOR-FM in The Netherlands on December 4, 2020. You can ask anyone, 2020 was a very bad year for music. COVD shut venues down, cancelled
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”54730″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”February 12, 1980 – The World Tonight – CBS Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] February 12, 1980 – CBS The World Tonight – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 12, 1980 – Busy news day – The Hostage drama in Tehran was lumbering
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”12595″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”February 12, 1964 – ABC News – WXYZ, Detroit – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Contrary to popular belief that the world changed in 1964, based on the happenings on The Ed Sullivan Show a few days earlier, it was the business-as-usual for the rest
Next to Blue Cheer, The Groundhogs may very well have been responsible for some hearing loss on my part in the late 60s/early 70s. One of the best bands to listen to under headphones, cranked up past the threshold of pain – they were a sonic feast and were the
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”12582″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”February 11, 1941 – News Of The World – NBC Blue Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] News for this February 11th in 1941 was primarily about the war in Europe; a war the U.S. was comfortably-but-getting-less-so not directly involved in. We were still
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The Professionals – in session for John Peel – Recorded November 3, 1980 – broadcast November 10 – BBC Radio 1 – The Professionals in session tonight – recorded for John Peel at BBC Radio 1 on November 3rd and broadcast November 10. The Professionals were formed in 1979 by
