Click on the link here for Audio Player: Marian McPartland – in concert at St. Anselm College, New Hampshire – November 1956 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Within days of losing one legendary figure in Jazz piano (Cedar Walton), now comes word of the passing of Marian McPartland. Both pianists
Click on the link here for Audio Player: The New York Philharmonic at Hollywood Bowl – September 1, 1963 – Part 1 Click on the link here for Audio Player: The New York Philharmonic at Hollywood Bowl – September 1, 1963 – Part 2 Become a Patron! Another extreme rarity
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera – In Session at Saturday Club – January 27, 1968 – BBC Radio I was originally going to post this a few weeks ago; it was in the queue ready to go and everything. But . . .it’s
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Cedar Walton Quartet – live at Nick Vollebregt’s Jazz Cafè – April 1977 – Radio Nederland Without question, 2013 is becoming one of the sadder years for music. We’ve lost so many iconic, influential figures these past 8 months that it’s almost
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Staves live at Lowlands 2013 – Recorded August 16, 2013 – 3voor12/VPRO Recapping some of the events from Lowlands 2013 this past weekend. One of the opening acts from the first day, The Staves, were an early-on hit. The sisters Staveley-Taylor
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS – The World Tonight + reports via KNX-AM – August 19, 1991 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Not to make light of a situation that often involves dramatic upheaval and a large amount of killing, but August just seems to
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Alabama Shakes – live at Lowlands 2013 – recorded August 18, 2013 – 3voor12/VPRO Finishing up this years Lowlands Festival, with a stellar lineup on Sunday, here is one of the acts from that final day, a festival favorite this year, Alabama
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Imagine Dragons, live at Lowlands 2013 – Recorded August 17, 2013 by 3voor12/VPRO, The Netherlands Back over to Lowlands 2013 for another concert, finished just hours ago. This time it’s Imagine Dragons, who have been criss-crossing Europe and the U.S. all
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Joy Formidable – Live At Lowlands 2013 – recorded August 16, 2013 – by 3voor12/VPRO Another festival starting up this weekend. This one, the Lowlands Festival in The Netherlands started on Friday and goes until Sunday. One of the opening
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBC Radio – Only One Earth – documentary series – 1972 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Hard to imagine, but not surprising, the warning signs of our global pollution catastrophe were being sounded as early as 1972 (earlier than that, but
