"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Fletcher Henderson – live at Casa Mañana – Culver City – September 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Dipping into the archives this weekend for a club date from 1945 with the legendary Fletcher Henderson and his orchestra, recorded at Casa Mañana in Culver City, California in September of...
Jubilee – Lionel Hampton and Dinah Washington – October 16, 1944 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – If it wasn’t for the Armed Forces Radio Service, started during World War 2, a vast treasure trove of our cultural heritage would be lost forever. Because the service was aimed at troops...
Boyd Raeburn And His Heb-Boyds in session for Lang-Worth Feature Programs Inc. – 1944-1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Boyd Raeburn and his Hep-Boyds this weekend – slight change of pace, but an artist I’ve featured a number of times over the years. Here are seven tracks recorded for...
Archie Shepp – Quintet With The RAI Big Band – Live In Venice, Italy – March 3, 1980 – RAI Radio – Archie Shepp this weekend. In Concert from Venice, Italy on March 3, 1980 featuring his Quintet (Archie Shepp, tenor and soprano saxophones, voice, and PIANO on Round Midnight,...
Artie Shaw and his Orchestra and Gramercy Five – Spotlight Bands – September 19, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Artie Shaw this weekend. Widely regarded as “one of jazz’s finest clarinetists”, Shaw led one of the United States’ most popular big bands in the late 1930s through the...
Raymond Scott and His orchestra – June 22/24, 1944 – Armed Forces Radio Service – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Raymond Scott – a name associated with a lot of genres of music, a seemingly never-ending inventor and innovator and an artist whose contributions to music were largely forgotten about...
Elliot Lawrence and His Orchestra – live at Frank Daily’s Meadowbrook Club, New Jersey – 1951 – Mutual Broadcasting/Armed Forces Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Elliot Lawrence and his Orchestra, live in 1951. Originally broadcast by the Mutual network and rebroadcast for the military by the Armed Forces...
Dizzy Gillespie Big Band – Live In Vienna – 70th Birthday Concert – July 17, 1987 – ORF-Radio, Austria – Dizzy Gillespie this weekend. In a concert given on his 70th birthday at Arkadenhof Rathuas in Vienna on July 17, 1987 and recorded for posterity by Austrian Radio. And here’s...
Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra – From Civic Auditorium, Oakland – June 4, 1944 – AFRS: One Night Stand – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Lionel Hampton this weekend. Probably one of the most recognized names of the Big Band era, he also went on to work with a wide...
Wes Montgomery with The NDR Big Band – In Session – April 28, 1965 – North German Radio, Hamburg – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Wes Montgomery this weekend. One of the seminal figures in Jazz guitar, who pioneered the genre of Smooth Jazz and did a lot to introduce...
