"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audio Player: News for Week of July 11, 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Become a Patron! Busy week, this particular one in July 1974. Surprise results from elections in Canada, uneasy ceasefire staying…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Even at the ripe old age of 97, the passing earlier this week of French Contemporary composer Henri Dutilleux was sad news. One of the leading Contemporary Composers of the…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Yet another sad passing to report. News today of the passing of Doors co-founder and author Ray Manzarek at 74 from a long bout with Cancer in Germany took a…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Not really part of our regularly scheduled posts, nonetheless the passing of yet another iconic musician is more than enough cause to pay tribute. And even though Country-Western music isn’t…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Annette-Anka-Dick Clark – 1960 It almost goes without saying this year is shaping up to be one with a lot of loss attached to it. This one in particular, I think, affects…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: En Vivo – Bebo y Chucho Valdez – 04_01_09 Sadly, another passing this week. This time for legendary Afro-Cuban Jazz pianist Bebo Valdes who died on March 22nd at the age of…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Part 1: Brahms- Piano Con. Nr 1 – Leinsdorf-Van Cliburn – July 1964 Click on the link here for Audio Player – Part 2: BSO – Van Cliburn – Liszt PC…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: 1972-01-15 BBC In Concert (Kevin Ayers) Become a Patron! It was with a great deal of shock and sadness that I learned today of the death of Soft Machine Bassist and founder…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Patti Page – I Didn’t Know About You Starting the year off on a sad note – this time it’s Patti Page, who passed away yesterday at 85. Known primarily for her forays…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: 03 – I Want Everyone to Know There’s a disturbing regularity this year, reporting on the passings of memorable and influential Artists. Fontella Bass is the latest. One of the truly distinctive…