Oscar Peterson this weekend. Recorded in concert at North German Radio’s Funkhaus on May 1, 1965. Joining Oscar Peterson are Ray Brown, bass and Ed Thigpen, drums. Oscar Peterson was influenced by Teddy Wilson, Nat King Cole, James P. Johnson, and Art Tatum, to whom many compared Peterson in later
Never lasts – sometimes it never lasts sooner than you expected. But it still never lasts. It’s 2002 – you’re smack in the middle of your 20th high school reunion. You didn’t want to go but you had this nagging suspicion the love of your life was going to show
Vintage Eurythmics this weekend – recorded at The Entertainment Centre in Sydney on February 14, 1987. In case you forgot, Eurythmics videos were almost required viewing during the initial days of MTV. Visually and musically they lent themselves perfectly to the burgeoning scene that would soon envelope America, as Music
KT Tunstall tonight. Playing to an intimate crowd at BBC Scotland’s studios on January 29th of this year and broadcast as part of The Quay Sessions with Roddy Hart. Always a favorite ever since first hearing her via MySpace around 2006, KT Tunstall has succeeded admirably in putting Scotland on
Thinking back on Cabinet position resignations in the past, not a lot mired in scandal come to mind before the days of the Nixon Administration in the 70s. Although I’m sure there have been, off the top of my head I can’t think of any. Prior to that it was
Radiohead, on the opening night of their first tour in four years, and to celebrate the release of their ninth album, A Moon Shaped Pool. Recorded May 20th before a capacity, sold-out audience at Amsterdam’s Heineken Music Hall. The anticipation over A Moon Shaped Pool, considered the most adventurous and
Still high from their win at last year’s BBC Scottish Act Of The Year for 2024, Bottle Rockets are wasting no time hitting the ground running. All the ingredients; Great press – great word-of-mouth – selling out shows – releasing new material and keeping the message out there and in
– Edward R. Murrow and the News for February 13, 1951 – Despite General MacArthur‘s spin that “we are continuing a war of maneuver”, a new phrase had entered into the Korean War Slang dictionary; “Buggin’ out”. On this February day in 1951, United Nations forces and the U.S. Army
– Madder Rose – live at Reading Festival 1993 – BBC Radio 1 – One of my favorite 90s bands, Madder Rose were considered by many to be the second coming of The Velvet Underground because of a certain druggy languor the band projected in their music. But that was
Something rare this week – a concert from French Radio, recorded on February 2, 1956, featuring Orchestre National de la RTF conducted by Manuel Rosenthal with Andor Földes, piano in a concert of music by Poulenc, Prokofiev and Mihalovici. Beginning with Les Animaux Modèles ballet by Francis Poulenc. Followed by
