"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Radio: All-Star Parade Of Bands – Ray Anthony – Live From The Hollywood Palladium -Nov. 23, 1953 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection A successful band commercially, Ray Anthony was responsible…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Radio – All-Star Parade Of Bands – Les Brown – live at The Hollywood Palladium – October 12, 1953 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection By the 1950s, the era of…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Radio – Woody Herman And His Third Herd, live from Peony Park, Omaha – September 24, 1954 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Some 1950s big band this weekend. Woody Herman…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Duke Ellington – 25th Anniversary concert – Birdland, New York – November 25, 1952 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Another classic this weekend. Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra, celebrating 25…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Bantu Light Music – South African Broadcasting Co. circa 1964 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Since we’re taking a look at the life and times of Nelson Mandela this weekend, I…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Illinois Jacquet Big Band – Live in Burghausen, Germany – March 24, 1996 – WDR Something classic this weekend. The legendary Illinois Jacquet, leading his Big Band in a concert at…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – All-Star Parade of Bands – Stan Kenton, live At Sardi’s, Hollywood – June 4, 1956 – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection The Golden Age of Big Bands was rapidly…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Duke Ellington in concert at the Ravinia Festival – July 1, 1957 – CBS Radio Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection The legendary Duke Ellington this weekend. The Radio premier of…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: As much as I like to run concerts from the past on Downbeat, I am always reminded that Jazz (or Modern American Music) is as vital today as ever. Certainly…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Stan Kenton Concert – Sept. 16, 1952 Over to the World of Big Bands this weekend with a concert by The Stan Kenton Orchestra, recorded outside of Dayton Ohio on September 16,…