Category: Jazz
Duke Ellington Octet – Live At San Remo Festival 1964 – Past Daily Downbeat
Duke Ellington Octet – Live At San Remo Jazz Festival – March 22, 1964 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Duke Ellington this weekend. Live at The San Remo Jazz Festival in 1964. With his Octet, featuring Rolf Ericson, trumpet – Lawrence Brown, trombone – Johnny Hodges, alto sax –
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