Click here for Audio Player: Joe Pass and Lee Konitz – live in Copenhagen 1988 A couple of Jazz legends this weekend (not that there aren’t Jazz legends here every weekend), by way of Joe Pass and Lee Konitz, recorded live in Copenhagen in 1988 and broadcast over the Danish
Click on the link here for Audio Player: When hijacking passenger airliners began, somewhere in the early 60s, as the first crazed gunman wandered into a cockpit and screamed “Cuba, Cuba, Cuba!” while waving a pistol, little did we realize this would be the wave of the future
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Over to Hamburg this weekend for a broadcast concert from the 1984 New Jazz Festival featuring The Milt Jackson/Ray Brown Quartet. While part of the legendary Modern Jazz Quartet, Milt Jackson played an extensive role as sideman and leader of
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Over to Zurich this weekend for a few words from Pharoah Sanders and his Quartet, recorded live at the Volkshaus during the International Jazzfest from October 26, 1984. Accompanying Sanders during this adventure are – Kirk Lightsey, piano – Santi
Click on the link here for Audio Player: The ongoing crisis over The Falkland Islands ratcheted up a few more notches, this May 21st in 1982. With British Special Forces landing, and more expected before nightfall, Argentina admitted troops had landed and that Argentine forces were fighting
Click on the link here for Audio Player: One of the early practitioners of Dreamscape and Experimental Electronica, Cocteau Twins came very much to be synonymous with the 80s and the Atmospheric turn the decade took in music. Embracing a minimalism in their music, Cocteau Twins and the
Click on the link here for Audio Player: April 29, 1986 was a day the true nature of how disastrous it was wouldn’t be known for weeks and months later. On this April 29th, amid vehement denials to the contrary, one of the worst Nuclear Power Plant disasters
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Okay – this might be a bit of a jolt, from the decidedly calm and soothing sounds of Ravel to the somewhat frantic and insane sounds of Gaye Bykers On Acid. Nobody ever accused this site of being boring .
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Another loss – today it’s Richie Havens, the iconic singer whose appearance at Woodstock in 1969 cemented his place in the annals of Rock. A prolific songwriter whose material constitutes a who’s-who of artists who have recorded his work. He
Click on the link here for Audio Player: News for April 3, 1982 On April 3rd, 1982 the most common sound heard this day was the flipping of map pages, trying to figure out just where exactly and what exactly The Falkland Islands were. Because on this day it was
