Category: Jazz
Miles Davis “Lost Quintet” – Live In Berlin – 1969 – Past Daily Downbeat
Miles Davis Quintet – Live At Berliner Jazztage – November 7, 1969 – RBB Radio Berlin – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Miles Davis this Sunday. Playing favorites. Legends and important voices this weekend. And one of the most important of the 20th century was Miles Davis, no question. I
The Heath Brothers – Live At Sweet Basil – 1986 – Past Daily Downbeat
The Heath Brothers – live at Sweet Basil, New York – Broadcast August 1, 1986 – NPR: Jazz Alive! – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The Heath Brothers, recorded live at Sweet Basil in New York and broadcast as part of the excellent, and very much missed NPR series Jazz
Thelonious Monk Quartet – Live From Bremen – 1965 – Past Daily Downbeat
Thelonious Monk Quartet – Sendesaal, Radio Bremen – Bremen, Germany – March 8, 1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The legendary, inimitable, pioneering Thelonious Monk for an Easter Sunday. Can’t think of a better occasion to celebrate this joyous, astonishing and thoroughly captivating music from one of the innovators
John Abercrombie And Ralph Towner – Live In Hamburg – 1984 – Past Daily Downbeat
John Abercrombie and Ralph Towner – In Concert at NDR Funkhaus – Hamburg, Germany – May 8, 1984 – NDR-Transcription – The heady and soothing sounds of John Abercrombie and Ralph Towner this weekend. Completely apropos and a wonderful reminder of what a talent John Abercrombie was and how much
Arthur Blythe Quartet – Live in Berlin – 1980 – Past Daily Downbeat
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.
Count Basie Live In Milan – 1960 – Past Daily Downbeat
Count Basie and his Orchestra – Live in Milan, Italy – April 6, 1960 – RAI – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Count Basie this weekend. An American institution, Basie was a fixture from the 1930s all the way up until just before his death in 1984. An enduring figure
Ben Webster Live In Paris – 1972 – Past Daily Downbeat
Ben Webster Quartet – Live in Paris – November 4, 1972 – Radio France – The legendary Ben Webster this weekend. Recorded live in Paris in November of 1972, Webster is joined by Georges Arvanitas on piano, Jacky Samson on bass and Charles Saudrais on drums for some solid,
Moe Koffmann Quintet – Live At Artpark 1979 – Past Daily Downbeat
Moe Koffmann Quintet – live at the Artpark Festival – 1979 – NPR: Jazz Alive! – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Moe Koffmann this weekend – a name that may not ring many bells unless you a: remember his “Swinging Shepherd Blues” from the 1950s or b: Are Canadian. Koffmann