The late-great Lester Bowie this weekend in concert along with the Brazz Brothers (Jarle, Jan and Helge Førde (trumpets) – Runna and Stein Tafjord (French Horn and Tuba) and Egil Johansen, drums) at Jazzbaltica Festival on June 13,1993 in Salzau Germany. Lester Bowie started studying the trumpet with his father,
Hopefully lunch is over and you may be finding it hard to stay awake. Well . . . Punk Rock Theory ran a great article on the band in late May of this year. If you aren’t already familiar, you might want to take a peek at this before you
By all accounts, June 21, 1978 was a normal newsday. Nothing from Earth-shattering, unless you were living in Salonika. An earthquake struck Salonika Tuesday night (June 20) “with a great noise like the coming of hell,” sending thousands of residents fleeing the city where St. Paul once preached the gospel
Early Hip-Hop to end the week with Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy. A session for Andy Kershaw at BBC Radio 1 on May 19, 1992. Really together for a relatively short period of time, but in that time released two albums that were critically acclaimed but didn’t sell well (ahead of
Leading up to a celebration of massive proportions, this June 20th in 1997. The much anticipated and discussed hand over of the former British Crown Colony of Hong Kong to The People’s Republic of China, scheduled to take place on midnight June 30th (July 1st). The handover of Hong Kong
– President Truman – Radio Address on the Taft-Hartley Bill- June 20, 1947 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 20, 1947 – on this day President Harry Truman was handed a bill, the Taft-Hartley Labor Management Relations Act of 1947, authored by Senator Robert Taft and Representative Fred Hartley
Well, now that Festival season is up and rolling, adjusting schedules, setting timers, studying lineups and crossing fingers that the multi-tasking doesn’t overload the computer has become a full-time task. But seriously, it’s worth it. This year promises to be a wall-to-wall feast of great music by old favorites and
In honor of Juneteenth and a reminder that history is a vital tool for change and that some issues are still very much with us – that some attitudes never went away and that recent history has only made them more glowingly apparent. So to remind you that The Civil
Staying in Spain this week for a concert from the 2009 Rafael Orozco Festival de Piano, recorded on the 19th of November 2009. Featured in this concert are Orquesta de Córdoba, conducted by Vladimir Valek and featuring Luydmil Angelov, piano. The concert opens with Beethoven’s Leonora Overture number 3 –
While the UN was preparing to celebrate 10 years as a peacemaking body on the 20th of June, a military coup was going on in Argentina, with a plan to oust Juan Pèron. this day in June 1955. On 16 June 1955, 30 Argentine Navy and Air Force aircraft bombed
