Click on the link here for Audio Player: Marguerite Roesgen-Champion – Autient et Danse Sacrè – Composer w/unidentified String Quartet – ORTF – 1953 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Composer-as-performer this week. Marguerite Roesgen-Champion may not ring many bells these days, but during the last century she was one of
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Stephane Grappelli – Live At My Father’s Place – 2nd Show – March 19, 1978 – WNYC The legendary Stephane Grappelli this weekend. Having grown up with the music of Django Reinhardt, hearing Stephane Grappelli always reminds me of the pile of
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Linda Ronstadt – In Session at KSAN=-FM, San Francisco -November 18, 1973 With news today regarding Linda Ronstadt’s disclosure earlier of having Parkinson’s Disease, and the acknowledgement that she will most likely not sing again, it took the music community and
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS Radio News – Special Reports on Hurricane Andrew – August 23, 1992 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection In what became the last Category 5 Hurricane of the 20th Century, Andrew on this August 23rd in 1992 was poised to hit
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Jack White, live in Stockholm – July 30, 2013 – Sveriges Radio P3. Over to Stockholm tonight for a concert by Blues/Punk-meister Jack White, recorded live by the venerable Sveriges Radio P3 during a race around Europe this summer. A full-plate, according
Click on the link here for Audio Player: The Soup Dragons, In session for John Peel – 1986 – BBC Radio Something slightly more familiar (at least to some of you) tonight. The Soup Dragons got started in 1985 and finished up in 1995. Between those ten years they released
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Marian McPartland – in concert at St. Anselm College, New Hampshire – November 1956 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Within days of losing one legendary figure in Jazz piano (Cedar Walton), now comes word of the passing of Marian McPartland. Both pianists
Click on the link here for Audio Player: The New York Philharmonic at Hollywood Bowl – September 1, 1963 – Part 1 Click on the link here for Audio Player: The New York Philharmonic at Hollywood Bowl – September 1, 1963 – Part 2 Become a Patron! Another extreme rarity
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera – In Session at Saturday Club – January 27, 1968 – BBC Radio I was originally going to post this a few weeks ago; it was in the queue ready to go and everything. But . . .it’s
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Cedar Walton Quartet – live at Nick Vollebregt’s Jazz Cafè – April 1977 – Radio Nederland Without question, 2013 is becoming one of the sadder years for music. We’ve lost so many iconic, influential figures these past 8 months that it’s almost
