Author: gordonskene
Carla Bley – Steve Swallow – Frankfurt Radio Big Band – 1999 – Past Daily Downbeat
The late, great and much missed Carla Bley along with Steve Swallow and the HR Big Band, in performance at the Deutsches Jazzfestival in Frankfurt Germany on October 24, 1999. One of the truly great voices in late 20th century Jazz, whose inventiveness and explorations became something of a benchmark
It’s May 1967 – You’re A Teenager – You’re In L.A. – You’re In Eleventh Grade – You Woke Up And It Was Strange.
You weren’t that way the night before – The night before it was The Smothers Brothers – radio – homework – phone – plans – clothes for Monday. Monday – you woke up feeling strange and wondering; why is there a dress code? What’s with skirts? Who made the rules?
Elephant9 – Eindhoven – 2012 – Past Daily Saturday Soundbooth – Rock Without Borders
Always interesting when you get a concert and it’s labeled wrong, or at least wrong from your standpoint. Elephant9 are about as Prog as you can imagine. Yet, in some circles they are labeled Jazz, and this runs the risk of ignoring one large audience while raising curious eyebrows in
Before The Days Of Mergers We Called Them Monopolies – 1948 – Past Daily After Hours Reference Room
Monopolies – Are They Bad For Business? – Chicago University Roundtable – April 1, 1948 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Monopolies – a word that’s not used much anymore. It’s what used it used to be called when one company bought out several smaller companies and emerged as the
Africa Snubbed By Marshall Plan – MacArthur Makes Demands – Russia Nixes Reuter – Eva Peron: Half-Hour With Pope Pius – June 7, 1947
Busy day in the world, this June 7, 1947. The Marshall Plan, hailed by many in Europe as the much needed rescue from calamity, was looked at differently in Africa – from Adis Ababa in Ethiopia came word that the Ethiopian Herald criticized the Plan for purposely excluding the continent
Little Green Cars – Eurosonic 2013 – Past Daily Morning Soundbooth
– Little Green Cars – Live At Eurosonic 2013 – Irish Alternative/Indie band Little Green Cars were pegged by BBC 6 Music in December of last year as The Band To Watch in 2013. They were busy making inroads and gaining an audience in that time. Actually, they got started
D-Day – Eighty Years After Storming Fortress Europe – June 6, 1944
Eighty years ago this day, a significant milestone in history – one which, as is inevitable, is fading with time. With each successive year, less and less witnesses, less participants are left to tell the story firsthand – less people are with us to convey the enormity of what took
30 Seconds To Mars – Session At 3FM – 2010 – Past Daily Morning Soundbooth
– 30 Seconds To Mars – Live at 3FM (VPRO, The Netherlands) – 2010 – Over to The Netherlands this morning for a live session by 30 Seconds To Mars, from the 3FM program That’s Live! from 2010. A band with a bunch of firsts – including the Guinness Book
Brigitte Engerer – In Recital – 2009 – Past Daily Mid-Week Concert
Historic recitals this week – recorded in concert at the Louvre Auditorium in Paris on December 2, 2009 – a performance of Harmonie Poétiques et Religieuses by Franz liszt by the legendary Brigitte Engerer and broadcast by Radio France Musique in 2011. Born in Tunis, French Tunisia, Brigitte Engerer started