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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...
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...
Eric Dolphy and Charles Mingus – Live in Stuttgart – Recorded April 28, 1964 – SWDR Radio – Legendary pairings this weekend – Eric Dolphy with Charles Mingus, along with Clifford Jordan and tenor sax, Jaki Byard, piano and Dannie Richmond, drums. This broadcast comes roughly a month after the...
Kid Ory and his Band – live At The Beverly Cavern, Los Angeles – KGFJ-Armed Forces Radio – June 28, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Kid Ory – live at The Beverly Cavern in Los Angeles and broadcast live over KGFJ and Armed Forces Radio in 1949. A...
Herb Ellis, Barney Kessel, Charlie Byrd – Three Great Jazz Guitarists In Concert – Jazzfest Berlin – November 8, 1981 – RBB Radio Berlin – A summit meeting of legendary Jazz Guitarists this weekend. Herb Ellis, Charlie Byrd and Barney Kelles in concert at the 1981 Jazz Berlin – recorded...
Raymond Scott and His orchestra – June 22/24, 1944 – Armed Forces Radio Service – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Raymond Scott – a name associated with a lot of genres of music, a seemingly never-ending inventor and innovator and an artist whose contributions to music were largely forgotten about...
Wayne Shorter Group – Featuring Larry Coryell – Live at Montreux Jazz Festival – July 20, 1990 – RTS-Radio Switzerland Wayne Shorter this weekend, featuring the late Larry Coryell in a concert recorded live at Montreux on July 20, 1990. Here’s what Bluenote has to say about Wayne Shorter: Though...
Elliot Lawrence and His Orchestra – live at Frank Daily’s Meadowbrook Club, New Jersey – 1951 – Mutual Broadcasting/Armed Forces Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Elliot Lawrence and his Orchestra, live in 1951. Originally broadcast by the Mutual network and rebroadcast for the military by the Armed Forces...
Wild Bill Davis Quartet – live in Paris – January 24, 1976 – ORTF-Paris – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Wild Bill Davis in concert this weekend. Featuring Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis on Tenor, Billy Butler on guitar and Oliver Jackson on drums. the Concert was recorded in Paris on January...
