Gil Evans Orchestra for this Daylight Savings Sunday – recorded during their European Tour of 1978 (no exact date and no exact venue, sorry). Gil Evans with his orchestra consisting of the usual suspects; Lew Soloff, trumpet-flugel horn, Earl McIntyre, trombone-tuba, Steve Lacy, soprano sax, Arthur Blythe, alto sax, Pete
Bob Crane – 9th Anniversary Show – May 30, 1964 – KNX Radio Los Angeles – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Talk radio in Los Angeles during the 1950s and 1960s was completely different than Talk Radio is now. Then, it was about personalities – the show host and the
Brunch with The Claypool Lennon Delirium this weekend – recorded at the 2016 Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco on August 16, 2016. The Claypool Lennon Delirium – one of my favorite go-to bands in recent years, probably because they remind me, in vibe and approach to Gong, another favorite
Dame Moura Lympany In Recital – 1983 Maryland International Piano Festival – July 21, 1983 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – If you want to help us preserve history – chip in: Become a Patron! Dame Moura Lympany in Recital at the 13th Annual Maryland International Piano Festival and competition
Style Council – Live At Gold Digger’s – 1984 – BBC Radio 1 In Concert – Style Council tonight. In concert from Gold Digger’s in 1984 and preserved for posterity by the ever-venerable BBC Radio 1’s In Concert series. When The Jam called it quits and went their separate ways,
The Pill – in session for Steve Lamacq – BBC 6 Music on June 9, 2025. Making the choice not to make Monday night mellow, by any stretch of the imagination, a little high-voltage brain scrambling from The Pill. The non-conforming pop-culture website Dork had a few pithy things to
Rahsaan Roland Kirk & The Vibration Society – Jazz Workshop – Live October 29, 1972 – WBCN-FM, Boston – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The artistry of Rahsaan Roland Kirk this weekend. Featuring The Vibration Society, consisting of Robert Shy and drums, Henry Pete Pearson on bass, Ron Burton on
Ending the week with a concert from Massive Attack – recorded at Clifton Downs, Bristol on August 25, 2024. One of my top-ten favorite bands of all time (meaning decades), Massive Attack are one of the truly original, consistently mesmerizing bands ever to perform on a stage. I can never
Thala in concert for this Friday Junior lunchroom. Recorded at the 2021 Reeperbahn Festival and broadcast by West German Radio. It’s always fun to run across an unfamiliar name and be pleasantly surprised at what you hear. Here’s what Angela Betancourt from Blurred Culture had to say regarding her SXSW
Leif Ove Andsnes (L) – Gustavo Dudamel – collaborations of the best kind. Over to Gothenburg by way of Madrid this week for a concert by The Gothenburg Symphony conducted by Gustavo Dudamel and featuring Leif Ove Ansdnes in music of Rachmaninoff and Chopin. It was recorded by Radio Finland
