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Fats Waller And His Rhythm – CBS Radio – July 6, 1938 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Fats Waller, a name synonymous with the early growth of Jazz and one of the world’s finest pianists who laid the groundwork for what eventually became Modern Jazz Piano. Wikipedia has a...
Tito Puente And The Golden Men Of Latin Jazz – Live in Lugano – July 3, 1993 – RSI – Rete Uno – Heading into a Latin Jazz direction, this Cinco de Mayo (although we’re talking more Afro-Cuban and Puerto Rican here, technically speaking). From a concert recorded live in...
GUAI – Nega Nego – live on Portuguese TV, Lisboa – August 2, 2017 – GUAI in performance on Portuguese TV tonight. Taking it down a few notches, because it is Jazz Day and because it just seemed like the right thing to do; offering some peace and calm in...
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...
Kim Weston – Live at Composers Concept Concert with The Paradise Theatre Orchestra – Detroit – March 26, 1978 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. Kim Weston this weekend. A lot of music aficionados will recognize the name as the iconic Soul singer and Motown alumnus of the 1960s. You’d be...
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...
Jeffrey Roden – 1. Never Settle For Moonbeams – 2. Blues For The Missing – Jeffrey Roden, Bass – Ian Keene, Guitar – Steve Roden, percussion – from the album; Mary Ann’s Dream – Big Tree Music Inc. 1993. Jeffrey Roden for Sunday night – While I sift through this...
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...
Cecil Young Quartet – Live At Seattle Women’s Club – March 11, 1951 – Burt Porter Collection – Cecil Young Quartet – in concert from 1951. Aficionados no doubt already have this or have heard about it – it comes from an amateur engineer in the Seattle area, who was...
