– NBC Radio: Stars In Jazz from Birdland – September 4, 1952 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Heading back to the 50s this weekend. The first of a series of broadcasts coming from Birdland on 53nd Street and Broadway in New York City. The Roy Eldridge/Coleman Hawkins All-Stars, featuring
– The Charlatans with Dan Hicks – Live At The Straight Theatre, July 22, 1967 – KSAN-FM – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The Charlatans with Dan Hicks. Before Dan Hicks introduced the world to the Hot Licks, there was this San Francisco institution, The Charlatans. One of the
– October 28, 1978 – Sadat-Begin Peace Prize + other news – CBS/NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 28, 1978 began on a hopeful note – announced the previous evening, the 1978 Nobel Peace Prize was being awarded to Egypt‘s Anwar Sadat and Israel‘s Menachem Begin. The
– The Moody Blues – In Session – April-November 1967 Top Of The Pops – BBC Radio 1 – Certainly not the first band to make use of the Mellotron, they were one of the first to take it with them on the road which, as anyone who has worked
– MBS – Martin Dies Address – October 27, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In the years following World War 1, there had been the threat of a takeover or violent revolution in America from one extremist group or another. In the days at the end of World
– Split Enz – Live At Pinkpop 1980 – VPRO, Netherlands – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – By the time 1980 rolled around, Split Enz, who had pioneered the art of wonderful music mixed with a bizarre stage presence, were letting the music speak for itself on stage. And
October 25, 1957 – NBC World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 25, 1957 – a day of meetings, conflicts and the Space Race. In Washington, President Eisenhower was meeting with UK Prime Minister Harold MacMillan and broadened the conference by bringing in NATO chief Paul-Henri Spaak
The Timex All-Star Jazz Concert – Dec. 30, 1957 – NBC-TV – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Live Jazz on radio had been around practically since radio was invented. But Jazz on TV was something new – and Jazz on Prime Time TV was even newer. One of the biggest
Juliette Armanet – Live At Foule Sentimentale Le Live – RFI – September 15, 2016 – Juliette Armanet is a French singer-songwriter, whose dreamy, luxuriant voice is a welcome addition to the Pop Music world. Releasing her very first ep, Only Cavalier in April of 2016, with the promise of
Paul Paray with Arnold Steinhardt, violin and The Detroit Symphony – Nov. 12, 1959 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Violinist Arnold Steinhardt, with Paul Paray, leading the Detroit Symphony this week in music of Bach, Mendelssohn and Mahler. The concert was recorded on February 12, 1959. Another classic concert this
