I don’t think we’re going to catch a break anytime soon – people are leaving this earth at an alarming rate. Some come with a nod of resignation while others register shock. It’s been one of those years and the passing earlier today of Kris Kristofferson still comes as a
Nothing says Sunday quite like something rare and this weekend it’s the Saar Radio Chamber Orchestra led by Karl Ristenpart and featuring the legendary Lola Bobesco in a performance of Mozart’s Symphonie Concertante K. 364 from this radio broadcast of April 13, 1957 and preserved for posterity by Saar Radio
I have posted several of these People’s Voice broadcasts over the years – the theme is pretty much the same; corruption in Los Angeles and a cesspool of graft in City Hall. Clifford Clinton (who also owned and ran Clifton’s Cafeteria) was one of the city’s biggest muckrakers – regularly
The immortal Eric Dolphy this weekend in a recently remastered broadcast from the Concepts In Jazz series from The Gaslight Inn on October 67, 1962. He’s joined by Eddie Armour on trumpet, Herbie Hancock on piano, Richard Davis on bass, Edgar Bateman on drums and vocals (the last two tracks)
