"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Art Farmer-Benny Golson Jazztet – Live at Théatre St-Denis, International Jazz Festival, Montreal – June 28, 1987 – Radio Canada – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Historic collaborations this weekend. The Art Farmer-Benny Golson Jazztet live at the International Jazz Festival on Montreal on June 28,1987 and preserved for posterity...
Example – live at BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend – May 24, 2014 – BBC Radio 1 Example in concert to end the week – in concert at BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend in Glasgow and broadcast live on May 24, 2014. Elliot John Gleave, better known by his stage...
Amy Winhouse in concert tonight. Recorded live at The Hove Festival in Norway from 2007. Amy Winehouse had an astonishingly short career, having arrived and peaked within a period of less than five years, with the remaining years mired in drama and tragedy; ending in death in 2011 at 27...
Sleeper – live at Glastonbury 1995 – recorded June 23, 1995 – BBC Radio 1 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Sleeper this week. Recorded live at Glastonbury, on June 23rd 1995 by the ever present BBC Radio 1 an broadcast live. The band’s debut album release Smart was certified...
You Me At Six – Live at Lowlands 2014 – Recorded August 17, 2014 – VPRO, Netherlands – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Support is more than appreciated, it’s cherished: Become a Patron! You Me At Six – continuing our inadvertent week of high voltage indie/post-hardcore/Alt via the Lowlands Festival...
The Hives – Live at Reading 2014 – Recorded live at Reading Festival August 23, 2014 – BBC 6 Music – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The Hives in concert at the 2014 Reading Festival – Recorded and broadcast by BBC 6 Music on August 23, 2014. The Hives rose...
The Divine Comedy – Live at Summer Sundae 2007 – Recorded August 10, 2007 – BBC Radio – The Divine Comedy in concert this week. Recorded by The BBC on August 10, 2007 at the Summer Sundae Festival in Leicester by the ever-present BBC. The Divine Comedy are a chamber...
Camilla Wicks, violin – Los Angeles Philharmonic -Leopold Stokowski, cond. – 1946 Season – Hollywood Bowl – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. With the very sad news earlier this week that the legendary violinist Camilla Wicks had died at the age of 92, I found this broadcast of her Hollywood Bowl...
Jimmy Smith Trio – live at Festival de Paris – October 28, 1984 – Radio France Musique – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The immortal Jimmy Smith in concert this weekend. Recorded at Théåtre de la Ville during the Festival de Paris on October 28, 1984 in this extended excerpt...
Dorothy Eustis, piano – Los Angeles Philharmonic – Artur Rodzinski, cond. – Hollywood Bowl – July 13, 1950 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Another historic concert this week, also from the 1950 season of the Hollywood Bowl. This time it’s pianist Dorothy Eustis with the L.A. Philharmonic conducted by...
Gordon Skene, two-time Grammy Nominee and archivist runs The Gordon Skene Sound Archive and this website, which is dedicated to preserving and encouraging an interest in history and historic news, events, and cultural aspects of our society. Past Daily is the only place on the Internet where you can hear a Nixon speech, listen to an interview with John Cassavettes or play a broadcast of Charles Munch rehearsing the Boston Symphony in 1950, all in the same place. It's living history and it's timeless.
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