Click on the link here for Audio Player: Kapralova Quartet in concert Over to Paris this week for a concert recorded this past August by the venerable Radio France Musique by the Czech ensemble The Kapralova Quartet. The concert was recorded during the Lubèron Festival and features a mixture of familiar
Become a Patron! Classic concert this New Years Eve from Blondie, performing in Glasgow on New Years Eve 1979. At the top of their game and their popularity, Blondie ran through a virtual Greatest Hits catalog of iconic songs. I forgot how many hits they had over the course of
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Phoenix – Lisztomania – 2010 Interesting phenomenon of late – many European bands have taken to singing in English, rather than their native tongue. Makes perfect sense – the English speaking audience is a lot larger than many others (except possibly for
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Part 1: The Bolshoi Orchestra – Part 1 Click on the link here for Audio Player – Part 2: The Bolshoi Orchstra – Part 2 To Moscow this week for a live-as-it-happened concert featuring The Bolshoi Orchestra, conducted by Vladimir Fedoseyev and featuring
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Jimmy Smith – baby, it’s cold outside Continuing our celebration of the season with a word from the immortal Jimmy Smith and a track from his 1964 album Christmas Cookin’. The venerable standard Baby, It’s Cold Outside. Cool Yule just keeps on
Click on the link here for Audio Player: 15 Happy Holiday A word from Peggy Lee tonight. From her 1965 Happy Holiday album for Capitol Records, a track featuring the band of Sid Feller and a swinging rendition of, what else? Happy Holiday. Couldn’t have said it better myself. Jumping into
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Ramsey Lewis Trio – Merry Christmas Baby Continuing in our “Cool Yule” vein tonight with a contribution from The Ramsey Lewis Trio and a track from their 1961 album The Sounds Of Christmas. The immortal Merry Christmas Baby, as done in inimitable
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Copenhagen Philharmonic – Live – Dec. 14, 2012 Over to Copenhagen this week for a special concert by The Copenhagen Philharmonic featuring Bryce and Aaron Dessner from the band The National, billed as Sixty Minutes Of The Dessners. Stepping out of their customary
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Dave Brubeck – The Christmas Song A nod to the late, great and much loved Dave Brubeck tonight and a cut from his 1996 A Dave Brubeck Christmas album. The perennial Christmas Song, as done in inimitable Dave Brubeck fashion. Nothin’ else needs
Click on the link here for Audio Player: kenny drew trio – season’s greetings – 05 – away in a manger I will go out on a limb tonight and say, even though there are no notes anywhere to claim otherwise, this album could not have been recorded in 1996, since
