"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Gerry Mulligan Concert Band – Live at the 1980 International Jazz Festival, Amsterdam – VPRO The legendary Gerry Mulligan this week, with his concert band at the International Jazz Festival…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Nightly News – October 28, 1975 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Another day of stress and wonderment, this October 28th in 1975. Beginning with news of the intensified fighting between…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Jack Bruce Band – Live at The Paris Theater, London – 1977 – BBC Radio 1 As a tribute to the versatility and wide-ranging influence of Jack Bruce, whose passing…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Charles Mingus – Live at Newport 1956, 1959, 1971 – Voice of America The legendary Charles Mingus this week in concert during three years of the Newport Jazz Festival as recorded…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Muddy Waters – Live in Belgrade, Yugoslavia – November 6, 1976 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection It only seems fitting that we continue our survey of immortal Blues players with a…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Bud Powell – live at The Blue Note, Geneva, Switzerland – Feb.1, 1962 – RTS – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Over to Switzerland this weekend for a performance at The Blue…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NPR: Piano Jazz w/Marian McPartland – featuring Gerald Wilson – June 19, 2006 – NPR It was very sad news, earlier this week, hearing of the passing of one of the…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Bill Evans and Lee Konitz – Live at Philharmonie Hall, Berlin – October 29, 1965 A rather short one this week, but essential. Jazz legends Bill Evans and Lee Konitz, trading…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NPR: Fresh Air w/Terry Gross – Joan Rivers Interview – June 11, 2012 – NPR Another sad loss. Joan Rivers was one of those comics you really either loved or really…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Miles Davis Quintet – Live at Hibaya Yagai Ongaku-do Hall, Tokyo – July 12, 1964 – NHK Radio – Tokyo Classic Miles Davis this weekend. His Quintet, featuring Herbie Hancock, Ron…