"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Art Blakey – Jazz Messengers – Live In Zurich – December 4, 1958 – Swiss Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Art Blakey this weekend. A concert recorded in Zurich Switzerland on December 4, 1958 and broadcast by Swiss Radio. A few well-chosen words from The Estate Of Art...
Herbie Hancock and Headhunters – Live In Tokyo – Sun Plaza – Sept. 28, 1978 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Diving into some Fusion-laced Funk this weekend by way of Herbie Hancock and Headhunters. When his landmark album Head Hunters was released, it was one of those rare occasions...
Toru Takemitsu – Soundtrack score to Masaki Kobayashi’s Kwaidan (1964) – Film Music Of Toru Takemitsu (JVC-Japan) Another installment in the occasional series of milestone film scores by the Japanese Avant-Garde composer Toru Takemitsu. This one from 1964. The Horror anthology was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign...
Martial Solal Big Band – featuring Jacques DiDonatto, Clarinet – Live from Maison de la Radio, Paris – 1984 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Lest you think Jazz is seldom seen and heard and has all but vanished from the musical landscape – not so in Europe, or throughout...
Joachim Kuhn – Trio and Big Band – Jazzfest Berlin – November 6, 2010 – WDR-Radio Checking out the atmosphere in recent strides, German Jazz pianist and Bandleader Joachim Kuhn brought down the house at the Berlin Jazzfest in 2010. Here’s what The Guardian had to say about that gig:...
Duke Ellington Octet – Live At San Remo Jazz Festival – March 22, 1964 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Duke Ellington this weekend. Live at The San Remo Jazz Festival in 1964. With his Octet, featuring Rolf Ericson, trumpet – Lawrence Brown, trombone – Johnny Hodges, alto sax –...
Dave Brubeck Quartet in Concert from London – November 1966 – BBC Taking a decided turn for the Cool this weekend with a 1966 concert by The Dave Brubeck Quartet, featuring Paul Desmond on sax, Joe Morello and drums and Gene Wright on bass. Broadcast live (at the time) and...
Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music orchestra – Jazzfest, Berlin – RBB Berlinradio – Nov. 4, 1982 When Charlie Haden passed from the scene in July of 2014, I was looking all over the archive for something that would be a representation of what Charlie Haden was all about. I can’t believe...
Miles Davis Quintet – Live At Berliner Jazztage – November 7, 1969 – RBB Radio Berlin – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Miles Davis this Sunday. Playing favorites. Legends and important voices this weekend. And one of the most important of the 20th century was Miles Davis, no question. I...
CJVC-Toronto – Around April/May 1954 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – One thing about Popular culture, it’s everywhere. And as long as there has been a desire to be hip and “in the know”, it’s always been that way. And radio, since its inception up to the late 70s/early 80s,...
