Gil Evans Orchestra for this Daylight Savings Sunday – recorded during their European Tour of 1978 (no exact date and no exact venue, sorry). Gil Evans with his orchestra consisting of the usual suspects; Lew Soloff, trumpet-flugel horn, Earl McIntyre, trombone-tuba, Steve Lacy, soprano sax, Arthur Blythe, alto sax, Pete
Yes – in concert from London – 1971 – BBC Radio 1 In Concert series – BBC Radio 1 – Yes in concert this week. Recorded in London in 1971 for the BBC In Concert series which ran on BBC Radio 1. Although they had become something of a caricature
The Kinks – in concert at Fillmore West – November 13, 1970 – KSAN-FM – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As little as a Buck a Month . . .Become a Patron! The Kinks to start the week. In concert at the legendary Fillmore West on November 13, 1970 and
Like it was yesterday. Sitting around a radio – chain smoking – staring to somewhere in space – pondering oblivion. You and your friends – all eighteen – all went to the draft board. Future on hold – maybe no future at all – last good day on earth. The
Rahsaan Roland Kirk & The Vibration Society – Jazz Workshop – Live October 29, 1972 – WBCN-FM, Boston – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The artistry of Rahsaan Roland Kirk this weekend. Featuring The Vibration Society, consisting of Robert Shy and drums, Henry Pete Pearson on bass, Ron Burton on
As days go, a rather quiet news one. Starting with word from Youngstown Florida where eight persons were killed and 67 were hospitalized after a freight train derailed early Sunday near this Florida panhandle community and a cloud of chlorine gas from a ruptured tank car spread across a nearby
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February 16, 1974 – CBS Radio: The World This Week – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 16, 1974 – a week focusing on a dissident and a hostage. The dissident in question was writer and outspoken Soviet critic Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, whose milestone novel The Gulag Archipelago not only won
February 12, 1976 – The World Tonight – CBS Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 12, 1976 and another day where secret documents found their way into mass circulation. This time, it was the findings by the Pike Committee on Capitol Hill, investigating the CIA. The documents revealing
February 5, 1977 – CBS Radio – The World This Week – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 5, 1977 – The week was full of new about the Energy Crisis that wasn’t going to go away. America was asked to curb excess, starting with turning down thermostats, while Buffalo
