"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Count Basie – Live At Sardis – 1956 Over to the fabled Sardi’s Restaurant on Hollywood Boulevard from May 1956 for a set by the fabled Count Basie and his Orchestra with…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: CurtisMayfield1984-06MarcusGarveyCentreNottinghamUK Something special tonight. Something for a special day. The legendary Curtis Mayfield in Concert at The Marcus Garvey Centre in London, recorded by the BBC in June of 1984. As a powerful…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: CharlesLloydQuartet1966JuanLesPinsJazzFestivalAntibesFrance One of the pivotal voices in the Free Jazz movement, The Charles Lloyd Quartet (featuring Keith Jarrett), live at the Juan Les Pins Jazz Festival in Antibes on July 1966. Here’s…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: News for January 14, 1957 News for this day was largely relegated to speculation on the new Eisenhower term, since the Inaugural was a little over a week away, this January 14th…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Ravel- Sheherazade – 1951 A few weeks ago I ran a performance of Barraud’s Offrande, featuring the French National Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Bigot. After receiving a wonderful note from Bigot’s son,…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Cannonball Adderley – Hollywood Bowl – 1967 I ran this concert some time ago on my old website. But the player at the time was not that good and the sound wasn’t…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: John Sebastian – Cambridge Folk Festival 1981 Introducing yet another feature to start the new year off with. Since the archives is fairly bulging with not-quite-full-length concerts, I thought it might be a…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Year-End 1953 A year of contrasts, 1953 was. Between the Coronation of Princess Elizabeth to the gas chamber execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, to the death of Soviet leader Josef Stalin. It…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: America’s Town Meeting – Dec. 18, 1938 1938 was a nervous year in our history. The slow recovery, the looming war in Europe, saber rattling in the Far-East , racism, unemployment, crime – all…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Lalo – String Quartet op The music of (relatively) familiar 19th Century composer Edouard Lalo this weekend. But perhaps one of his lesser-known works. His String Quartet in E-Flat Major op. 19 as…