Paul Motian in concert this week – recorded live at Ubersee-Museum in Bremen on December 7, 1981 and broadcast by West German Radio. Lineup for this gig is Billy Drewes on tenor and alto saxophones – Joe Lovano and tenor sax – Bill Frisell on guitar – Ed Schuller on
– Sarah Vaughan – Live At Birdland – August 21, 1952 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Can’t think of a better Sunday than spending it listening to the cool and sumptuous sounds of Sarah Vaughan. This club date, via the Stars Of Jazz series which aired each Tuesday night
– 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 Note in Geneva from February 1, 1962. One of the leading figures in the development of Bebop,
– Duke Ellington – In Concert from Zurich – September 10, 1959 – DRS-Radio Zurich – Over to Zurich this week for a classic concert by Duke Ellington and his Famous Orchestra, featuring Ray Nance, Russell Procope, Johnny Hodges, Harry Carney, Paul Gonsalves, with vocals by Lil Greenwood. It was
– Thelonious Monk Nonet – Live In Paris – ORTF, Paris – Nov. 3, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A few notes from the legendary and inimitable Thelonious Monk this morning. Recorded live in Paris by the ORTF (Radio France before the big change) on November 3rd of
Wes Montgomery Group – Funkhaus Studio 10, Hamburg Germany – April 30, 1965 – NDR The legendary Wes Montomgery Group this weekend. It occurred to me that I hadn’t run any Montgomery on Past Daily since we got started. No good reason. Digging through the avalanche of history, mostly. So
Gil Evans Orchestra this weekend – at a concert given during the 1987 Umbria Jazz Festival featuring Lew Stolff, Ack van Rooyen, Miles Evans, Dave Bargeron, John Clark, Chris Hunter, John Surman, George Adams, Delmar Brown, Hiram Bullock, Mark Egan and Danny Gottlied. Recorded on July 18, 1987 and preserved
Horace Silver this weekend – with his quintet, featuring Brian Lynch on trumpet, Ralph Moore on tenor sax, Bob Mosley on acoustic bass and Carl Burnett on drums – all recorded during the Edmonton Jazz Festival at Shoctor Theatre in Alberta on August 17, 1984 and preserved for posterity by
– Charles Mingus Jazz Workshop – Newport Jazz Festival 1959 – July 4, 1959 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The word Visionary is one of those sadly over-abused characterizations that has lately come to apply to anyone who thinks past midnight. But in the case of Charles Mingus, the
– King Cole Court Radio program – King Cole Trio w/Anita O’Day – May 26, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Nat King Cole this week, with vocals by Anita O’Day in a session done for C.P. MacGregor on May 26, 1945. From the Radio series syndicated by CP
