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Coleman Hawkins – Live From Birdland – 1952 – Past Daily Downbeat
Coleman Hawkins Quintet – live At Birdland – September 1952 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Legends in Jazz this weekend – Coleman Hawkins, one of the first prominent jazz musicians on his instrument, as Joachim E. Berendt explained: “there…
Rahsaan Roland Kirk – Jazz Workshop – Live In Boston – 1972 – Past Daily Downbeat
Rahsaan Roland Kirk & The Vibration Society – Jazz Workshop – Live October 29, 1972 – WBCN-FM, Boston – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The artistry of Rahsaan Roland Kirk this weekend. Featuring The Vibration Society, consisting of Robert Shy…
Wild Bill Davis Quartet – Live In Paris 1976 – Past Daily Downbeat
Wild Bill Davis Quartet – live in Paris – January 24, 1976 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – To the sultry B-3 stylings of Wild Bill Davis this week. Featuring his quartet; Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis on tenor sax, Billy Butler…
Ahmad Jamal In Concert – 1984 – Past Daily Downbeat
Ahmad Jamal Trio – Live at Tralfamadore, Buffalo New York – November 16, 1984 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The sultry sounds of Ahmad Jamal this weekend. Recorded live for NPR’s Jazz Alive! Series at Tralfamadore in Buffalo New…
Carla Bley Big Band – Live In Vennes – 2009 – Past Daily Downbeat
Carla Bley Big Band – live in Vennes, France – July 30, 2009 – Radio France Musique- Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Pardon me while I plug some Desert Island music this weekend – Carla Bley has been a favorite…
Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers – Live In Zurich 1958 – Past Daily Downbeat
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…
Martial Solal Big Band – Live In Paris – 1984 – Past Daily Downbeat
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…