Author: gordonskene
Anthony Braxton Quartet – Live At Chateuvallon Festival – 1973 – Past Daily Downbeat
Anthony Braxton – Live at Chateauvallon Jazz Festival – August 22, 1973 – Radio France International – Anthony Braxton at the Chateauvallon Jazz Festival in 1973 this week. Heading into the direction of the Avant-Garde and explorations into Free-Jazz. Admittedly this isn’t for everyone, especially those whose taste in Jazz
It’s 1961 – You Live In Philadelphia – You Aren’t A Teenager . . . Yet – Parts Don’t Fit Right –
WIBG – Philadelphia – Jerry Stephens – January 6, 1961 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Admit it – if you had to do it all over again and were asked which period you would like to skip, you would invariably say “just before puberty hit”. Nothing compares to the
Beak In Session – 2018 – Past Daily Soundbooth
Beak – In session for Marc Riley – August 30, 2018 – BBC 6 Music – Beak in session tonight. In case you weren’t aware: BEAK were formed in January 2009 by three Bristol musicians, Billy Fuller, Matt Williams and Geoff Barrow. The band have very strict guidelines governing the
September 13, 1982 – Tragedy In Malaga – No Wrong-Doing For Donovan – Westmoreland Wants A Cool $120 Million –
September 13, 1982 – CBS News On The Hour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – September 13, 1982 – Busy news day – with reports of a Chartered DC-10 crashing on takeoff on a flight bound for New York from Malaga Spain, filled with returning American tourists. As the hours
Henryk Szeryng With Andrew Davis And The New York Philharmonic Play Music Of Kodaly, Sibelius And Prokofiev – 1978 – Past Daily Mid-Week Concert
The New York Philharmonic – Andrew Davis, guest Conductor – Henryk Szeryng, violin – March 15, 1978 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Another historic concert this week – legendary violinist Henryk Szeryng returning to the New York Philharmonic after a six year absence to perform with Toronto Symphony Music
September 12, 2000 – Politics 2000 – Much Ado About Tires – Darryl And The Blackouts – Florence Comes Of Age
September 12, 2000 – CBS World News Roundup; Late Edition – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – September 12, 2000 – 2000 was, after all, an election year. And with every election comes the rash of controversial ads giving off one message or another. This time it was a TV ad
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Thunder – Lowlands Festival 2018 – Past Daily Soundbooth
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Thunder – Live At Lowland 2018 festival – August 24, 2018 – VPRO-3VOOR12-FM – Netherlands – Rolling Blackouts Coast Thunder tonight. In concert at Lowlands Festival earlier last month and preserved for posterity by Netherlands outlet VPRO/3VOOR12-FM. Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, also sometimes known as Rolling Blackouts
The Cost Of War – The $10 Billion Goof Over Vietnam – Sen. William Proxmire -Meet The Press 1967 – Past Daily Reference Room
Sen. William Proxmire – Meet The Press – February 4, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 1967 and the Vietnam War was dragging on – it had escalated and it was starting to look like a war of attrition. In early 1967 it was learned that the budget for
Madame Chiang-Kai Shek And The War With Japan -1937 – Past Daily After Hours Reference Room
Become a Patron! – CBS – Madame Chiang-Kai Shek – Talk From Shanghai – September 11, 1937 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In what became known as the Second Sino-Japanese War (the First, lasting from July 1894-April 1895), The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between