Boston Symphony – Seiji Ozawa, cond. Opening of 97th Winter Season – September 27, 1977 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The Boston Symphony in concert this week – another historic performance featuring Music Director Seiji Ozawa at the opening concert of the 97th Winter season. Two works are performed
Click on the link at the Past Daily site and give a listen to a session by Dolly Mixture – one of the underrated and overlooked bands of the 80s.
Click on the link at the Past Daily site and listen to a discussion from 1970 about the state of Student protests.
Five Thirty – in session for Mark Goodier – March 31, 1991 – BBC Radio 1 – Five Thirty to start the week. Another in that seemingly endless series of bands that came and went in a flash, left an album or two and a handful of singles – stuck
March 22, 1962 – NBC Radio – Algeria: Troubled Freedom – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 1962 signaled independence for the former French colony of Algeria. It was painfully long and slow process, getting to this point – it was a conflict that spread to the streets of Paris
Jim Noir – Cheese Of Jim’s Command – Tea -from Jimmy’s Show – 2012 – Townsend Music (UK) – Perennial favorite Jim Noir to end the weekend. I was checking around and I don’t see anything more recent than a 2015 single release, but that doesn’t really mean anything since
Roger Matton – Brazilian Dance – Jeanne Landry – Josephte Dufresne, pianos – CBC Studio recording 1955 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Over to Quebec this week for a sampling of the work by French – Canadian composer Roger Matton. Roger Matton OC (18 May 1929 – 7 June
Click on the link at the Past Daily site and give a listen to The Arthur Blythe Quartet, playing live at the Berlin Jazz Festival in 1980.
KHJ – Humble Harve – Wednesday, May 27, 1970 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – It’s May and you have less than a month before you’re free. According to your teachers and your guidance counsellors you are going to graduate. After June you won’t have to get out of bed
This Heat – In Session for John Peel – BBC Radio 1 – Recorded October 26, 1977 – Broadcast November 17,1977 – BBC Radio 1 – Special thanks to reader/listener Ed Cruwys for reminding me of some of the bands who were overlooked, and underappreciated during the late 70s/early 80s
