– Orchestre National de France – Live broadcast – Nov. 27, 2014 – Radio France Musique. Over to Paris this week for a concert by Orchestre National de France, guest conducted by Stèphane Denéve and featuring Pianists Frank Braley and Eric Le Sage in music of Mendelssohn, Poulenc and Roussel.
Forty-one years ago today we were hearing the shocking news of a truck bomb exploded outside a U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut. And moments later another truck bomb going off outside a French military compound a short distance away. It was a new and horrifying glimpse of what was to
– Thelonious Monk Nonet – Live In Paris – ORTF, Paris – Nov. 3, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A few notes from the legendary and inimitable Thelonious Monk this morning. Recorded live in Paris by the ORTF (Radio France before the big change) on November 3rd of
– Keziah Jones – live at Nova Sessions, Paris – September 27, 2013 – Radio France FIP – Gettin’ ready for the weekend with a taste of Keziah Jones in session from Paris on September 2013. Keziah Jones (originally Olufemi Sanyaolu) is a Nigerian Singer-Songwriter and purveyor of Blu-Funk, a
October 4, 1964 – ABC Radio News On The Hour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 4, 1964 – A Sunday; and by all accounts, a reasonably quiet day. Hurricane Hilda had been reduced to a tropical storm, dissipating after reaching land, but not without causing damage throughout the
Busy day in the world, this 2nd of October in 1985. The Middle East factored in, with reports that the body of a missing Soviet diplomat was discovered in Beirut, and additional reports disclosed the discovery of a second missing diplomat was found behind the Soviet Embassy. And if that
– CBS World News Roundup – September 30, 1985 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Turbulent times, worrisome times, mournful times – the world, this September 30th in 1985. Beginning with news there was concern over the fate of six kidnapped and missing Americans in Lebanon, along with new hope
Them Crooked Vultures – live at Canal Plus Studios, Paris – December 4, 2009 – RFI – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Them Crooked Vultures this morning. Variously referred to as The Millennium’s first supergroup, this get-together between Foo Fighters Dave Grohl, Queens of The New Stone Age‘s Josh Homme
– ABC Radio – Voices In The Headlines – Week Ending September 4, 1966 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Lest we all forget – Red China was going through what was later to become The Cultural Revolution. And beginning this week, the one ending on September 4th in 1966,
After the initial shock of invasion came the scramble to take sides. Italy pledged alliance with Germany. France and Britain declared alliance with Poland. Portugal claimed neutrality. The sides were lining up. Meanwhile, the German Army had crossed into Poland and was taking prisoners. This second day of hostilities in
