Jerome Hines – epitomized American Opera in the last half of the20th century. Seventy-one years ago yesterday, on August 15, 1955, NBC Radio via their then-new weekend service Monitor dedicated part of their evening programming to a blast of culture. The Bell Telephone Hour. Initially running from April l29, 1940
Something about you. Can’t put your finger on it. You spend hours in your room, staring in the mirror. Is your nose growing and you can’t see it? Is your face crooked? Do you just have one eye, in the middle of your face? How come pimples suddenly appear on
Something of a cheat this weekend: Gracious in performance during the 1970 Isle Of Wight Festival. Part of the reissue box set released by Esoteric Recordings last year. I suspect there are not a lot of you who are even vaguely familiar with this band, which is 99% of the
The Smiths in concert from Germany – recorded at Markhalle in Hamburg on May 4, 1984 for West German Radio. Since we ran a Johnny Marr concert yesterday, which included a few legacy songs from The Smiths period, I thought it might be a good idea to include this concert
Johny Marr – Former Smith from another lifetime ago. Over to the Strawberry Music Festival in Dongguan, China this year for a set by Johnny Marr – recorded on July 1, 2026. During his time in the Smiths, Johnny Marr often tuned his guitar up a full step to F♯ to
Lev Oborin, piano with The Czech Radio Symphony – Alois Klima, cond. – Prague Spring Festival 1961 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Lev Oborin, a highly respected and much admired Russian pianist of the Soviet era performs with the Czech Radio Symphony conducted by Alois Klima in this historic
Lunch with Gorillaz – recorded at this year’s Rock Werchter Festival on July 4th – and broadcast by RTL in Brussels. Gorillaz are an English virtual band formed in 1998 by the musician Damon Albarn and the artist Jamie Hewlett. The band primarily consists of four fictional members: 2-D (vocals, keyboards, melodica; vocals provided by Albarn), Murdoc Niccals (bass
Maurice Emmanuel – Sonatine Number 3 – Yvonne Lefébure, piano – Centenary Concert 1962 – ORTF, Paris – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The music of Maurice Emmanuel this weekend, as played by the legendary French pianist Yvonne Lefébure, who frequently played Emmanuel’s works and was the dedicatee of his
Nirvana – Pop Culture having another one of those “right place – right time” moments. Leave it to the BBC to put together a radio documentary on something happening in our own backyard and give a much appreciated history lesson in the process. This four-part documentary “Oh The Road To
The legendary Tadd Dameron this weekend. Recorded for WMCA-AM in New York, live from The Royal Roost on August 29, 1948. He’s joined by – Fats Navarro, trumpet – Allen Eager, Tenor Sax – Curly Russell, bass – Kenny Clarke, drums and “Pancho” Hagood on vocals. Symphony Sid acts as
