Claudio Arrau, Piano – Boston Symphony – Seiji Ozawa, Cond – Berkshire Music Festival – August 26, 1977 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Back to something historic this week. The Boston Symphony during the 1977 Berkshire Music Festival, with Music Director Seiji Ozawa leading the BSO with the legendary
XTC – Got the 80s ready for a wild ride. XTC for a Tuesday Lunch break – recorded at the legendary Hammersmith Palais in London on December 22, 1980 and broadcast by BBC Radio 1 Can’t imagine what the 80s would have sounded like had XTC not shown up. Punk
Pale Blue Eyes – A marriage of two stylistic perspectives. And they weren’t kidding. Pale Blue Eyes tonight – recorded September 14, 2024 in the studios of VPRO 3voor12 in Amsterdam. From their website: Born of a cross-pollination between Totnes and Sheffield, Pale Blue Eyes have been steadily grafting over
4th Greatest Dance Band of all time – and that says a lot. Faithless in concert from earlier this year at Concerts At Sea in Zeeland, Netherlands on June 25th. Faithless formed in 1995, with its core original members being Rollo, Sister Bliss and Maxi Jazz. During the band’s initial period of success, Sister Bliss
John Sebastian – Cambridge Folk Festival 1981 Since the archives is fairly bulging with posts we’ve done 10-15 years ago, I thought it might be a good idea to stop having them collect dust and reissue some of them in case you missed them the first time. So this one
Allison (L), Cardenas (C), Nash (R) – The Swingin’ Summit. Ben Allison, Steve Cardenas and the legendary Ted Nash putting it all together at the Piedmont Piano Company in Oakland on March 29, 2024. From The Litchfield Jazz Festival 2025 notes: With over 25 years of creative collaboration, bassist Ben
Curtis Harding – mashup meditation on Soul. Putting Friday to bed with Curtis Harding, in session for Lauren Laverne at BBC6 Music on October 14 of this year. Curtis Harding (born June 11, 1979) is primarily a soul artist, his “slop ‘n’ soul” style carries the influence of genres including blues, gospel, psychedelia, R&B, and rock. His first
Air – Live at Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London – 1998 – Recorded by BBC 6 Music – Lunch for a Thursday this week with Air, the Psych/Electronic/Downtempo band from Versailles, recorded shortly after the release of their debut album Moon Safari, which went on to become their most critically acclaimed
Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam – Kirill Kondrashin, Cond – Jan Wijn, Piano – Nov. 29, 1972 – VPRO – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A short but historic concert this week – the legendary Amsterdam Concertgebouw, conducted by Kirill Kondrashin with Dutch pianist Jan Wijn in a performance of the Mozart
Heading overseas for FFF In concert this afternoon – recorded live at Le Cigale in Paris on March 12, 2015 for RTL FFF or Fédération française de fonck in their official title, is a French rock-fusion group , whose musical style blends different styles, mainly funk and rock . After a start during which they were mentored
