"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Robert Palmer – Live at The Savoy, San Francisco – April 7, 1976 – KSAN-FM Robert Palmer is probably best known these days via his Addicted To Love video, playing the…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – John Lewis – Midsommer – from the album European Windows – February 1958 – RCA-Victor John Lewis, aside from being a founding member of the legendary Modern Jazz Quartet was a…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – New York Philharmonic, Guido Cantelli, guest Conductor – March 15, 1953 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection While we’re busily digitizing the next batch of Boston Symphony In Rehearsal programs, I ran…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Ramones – live at The Club, Cambridge Mass. – May 12, 1976 More sad news this week – the passing of original Ramones drummer Tommy Ramone (Erdelyi) was another…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The French National Orchestra – Andrè Cluytens, cond – ORTF Radio Session – circa 1954 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Covering familiar ground this week. A performance of the well-known Symphony…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Bobby Womack (w/Sly Stone) – Live At The Roxy – 1982 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection I’m not sure if it’s always been this way, or are we losing a lot…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Earl “Fatha” Hines – in Concert from Stuttgart, Germany – July 15, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Heading into more traditional territory this weekend. Legendary Jazz Piano player Earl “Fatha”…
While we’re sifting through the onslaught of current Festival season recordings, I thought I would post something historic as a reminder that seeing a band live was often an entirely different experience to hearing them on record. This Grateful Dead…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Casey Kasem – KEWB-AM, San Francisco October 2, 1962 Before Scooby-Doo, before Americas Top-40, before The Voice of NBC, Casey Kasem was one of that group of Disc-Jockeys teenage America in…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – MJQ – Philharmonie Hall, Munich – July 14, 1988 – DW There’s always room for MJQ, especially on a Sunday. And considering the craziness of the week, a nice reminder that…