"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
WDIA, Memphis – Sepia Swing Club – December 17, 1951 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Teenagers in segregated America. Before the dawn of Rock n’Roll it was called Race Music. And it was Blues, Jump Blues and Bop. And…
Senator Richard Nixon – Interview by KMPC-Los Angeles – March 3, 1951 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Before his days as President and vice-President, Richard Nixon was Senator from California. Coming in right during the Red Scare, and…
Big Jay McNeely – live at Birdland, Seattle Washington – 1957 – Big J Records 1989 – In case you missed it, or it slipped your mind, or you were distracted by the birthday of another celebrated Jazz giant, Duke…
Juliette Greco – Four Songs – words by Francois Sagan – 1956 – Philips Records France – Juliette Greco to end the week. The iconic French singer who captured the spirit of Paris in the Postwar years of the late…
March 28, 1958 – MBS – Cedric Foster News and Commentary – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 28, 1958 – The day before, the politburo in Moscow voted unanimously for Nikita Khrushchev as Prime Minister. Reaction on the day…
Dave Brubeck Quartet – Live at Juan les Pines Festival, Antibes – July 22, 1967 – Radio France – Dave Brubeck Quartet this weekend. The quartet that formed a first impression of Modern Jazz on a lot of non-Jazz people…
Theodore Sturgeon – interview from NBC Radio series Anthology – February 28, 1954 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Theodore Sturgeon, one of the leading lights in the early years of Science Fiction and Fantasy writing who came to prominence…
Count Basie – Live At Birdland – July 2, 1956 – NBC Radio: All-Star Parade of Bands – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Count Basie this week. From his stint at Birdland in the Summer of 1956, and as broadcast as…
James Cotton Blues Band – live at Fillmore Auditorium – November 25, 1966 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With the sad news today that James Cotton, another icon, another legend in Music passed away today, 2017 is shaping up…
Jacques Ibert – Trio for Harp, Violin and Cello – ORTF Broadcast session – circa 1955 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection The music of Jacques Ibert this weekend – a performance of the Trio for Harp, violin and cello, featuring…