
Category: Arts & Music


Anthony Braxton Quartet – Live At Chateuvallon Festival – 1973 – Past Daily Downbeat
Anthony Braxton – Live at Chateauvallon Jazz Festival – August 22, 1973 – Radio France International – Anthony Braxton at the Chateauvallon Jazz Festival in 1973 this week. Heading into the direction of the Avant-Garde and explorations into Free-Jazz. Admittedly this isn’t for everyone, especially those whose taste in Jazz

It’s 1961 – You Live In Philadelphia – You Aren’t A Teenager . . . Yet – Parts Don’t Fit Right –
WIBG – Philadelphia – Jerry Stephens – January 6, 1961 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Admit it – if you had to do it all over again and were asked which period you would like to skip, you would invariably say “just before puberty hit”. Nothing compares to the

Henryk Szeryng With Andrew Davis And The New York Philharmonic Play Music Of Kodaly, Sibelius And Prokofiev – 1978 – Past Daily Mid-Week Concert
The New York Philharmonic – Andrew Davis, guest Conductor – Henryk Szeryng, violin – March 15, 1978 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Another historic concert this week – legendary violinist Henryk Szeryng returning to the New York Philharmonic after a six year absence to perform with Toronto Symphony Music

Helt Off Featuring Timbuktu – Live At Öland Roots 2018 – Past Daily Soundbooth: Rock Without Borders
Helt Off Featuring Timbuktu – Live At Öland Roots Festival – August 27, 2018 – Sveriges Radio – Starting off the week with a dose of Skanst/Reggae/Svenska Hip-Hop by way of Southern Sweden band Helt Off, featuring Timbuktu. From their Wikipedia Page (gist translation): Helt Off, consisting of Chords and



Amber Run In Concert – 2018 -Past Daily Soundbooth
Amber Run – Live at Lowlands Festival 2018 – August 20, 2018 – VPRO/3VOOR12-FM – Netherlands – Amber Run at Lowlands 2018 to end the week. A band very much on the rise, who have been touring extensively throughout Europe and the U.S. this year. To get an idea who

Seiji Ozawa With Birgit Finnilae And The Boston Symphony – Mahler: Symphony No. 3 – 1977 – Past Daily Mid-Week Concert
Seiji Ozawa and The Boston Symphony with Birgit Finnilae, Contralto – Mahler: Symphony No. 3 – April 30, 1977 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Another historic concert this week (a little late for Anti-Road Rage Wednesday, but Mahler works just about every day) – The Boston Symphony conducted by

Randy Weston Live In Paris – 1976 – RIP: Randy Weston (1926-2018) – Past Daily Downbeat: Tribute Edition
Randy Weston Sextet – Live at Maison de la Radio – February 4, 1976 – Radio France Musique – With the sad news that Randy Weston passed away yesterday at age 92, the Jazz world lost one of its most gifted and profound practitioners; who successfully argued that Jazz did,