Click on the link here for Audio Player – Vlado Perlemuter – Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit – Broadcast Recital – 1950 – ORTF, Paris – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Collectors certainly know the recordings of Vlado Perlemuter and are well aware of the Ravel specialist he was during his
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Japan – Live in Amsterdam – 1982 – VPRO Archive/3FM A brief stop-off in the early 80s tonight for a concert by Synthpop/New Romantic pioneers Japan, live in Amsterdam just prior to their break-up in 1982. Initially beginning in 1974 as
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Underground Life, live in Rome – Recorded October 23, 1993 – RAI Radio 2 Planet Rock Okay, I’ll admit it; this one slipped past my radar. Together from 1977 to 1993, Underground Life was one of the bands transitioning from Punk
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Durango 14, in session at RNE Radio 3, Madrid – November 1, 2013 – Radio Nacional España Over to Madrid tonight for a set by Spanish Surf and Roll Espesso practitioners Durango 14. Hot on the heels of a post last
Click on the link here for Audio Player – CBC Radio – Glenn Gould and The Moog Synthesizer – 1968 – CBC Radio Without a doubt, there isn’t a musician or a band in the last 40 years that doesn’t owe some debt (or some curse, depending on how you
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Faurè – Ballade – Jeanne-Marie Darrè, Piano – French National Orchestra, Manuel Rosenthal, cond. – 1955 – ORTF – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. Something familiar this weekend, as performed by two icons of French music performance during the mid-20th century; Pianist
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Frank Wess Quintet – live at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, New York – Nov. 2, 2011 More sad news earlier this week with the passing of Frank Wess, a cornerstone in the New York Jazz scene as well as gifted and influential
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Pink Floyd – in session for John Peel/Top Gear Program – August 11, 1968 – BBC Radio Rounding out Retro Week with a session from Pink Floyd, alleged to be the last one involving founding member Syd Barrett, recorded on August
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Wayne Barlow – The Winter’s Passed – Eastman-Rochester Symphony – Howard Hanson, cond. March 2, 1953 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Although Wayne Barlow is primarily known as a Educator, having served as Professor at the Eastman School of Music from
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Blind Faith – live at Konserthallen Liseberg, Gotesberg, Sweden – June 18, 1969 – Sveriges Radio This one might take some getting used to. In the area of Supergroups and life expectancy, Blind Faith came and went in a flash. Because
