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Art Farmer-Benny Golson Jazztet – Live at Théatre St-Denis, International Jazz Festival, Montreal – June 28, 1987 – Radio Canada – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Historic collaborations this weekend. The Art Farmer-Benny Golson Jazztet live at the International Jazz Festival on Montreal on June 28,1987 and preserved for posterity...
Alec Wilder Octet – Vox Records Set VSP-301 – 1947 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Something a little out of the ordinary this weekend. The music of Alec Wilder featuring an octet and recorded by Vox Records in 1947. The music of Alec Wilder doesn’t really conform to one...
Looking for samples of Iconic Americana this weekend, I ran across this concert by the legendary Little Feat, recorded by KMET-FM in Los Angeles on March 20, 1973. Having been a fan of this group since their early days, I always enjoyed their live gigs equally as much as their...
Try as they might to gloss over the jaundiced underpinnings, the pundits of mainstream media were busily painting smiley-faces on the end of 1993 and the start of 1994, this January 2nd. Weather was the big news, as always, for the end of one year and the beginning of another....
Example – live at BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend – May 24, 2014 – BBC Radio 1 Example in concert to end the week – in concert at BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend in Glasgow and broadcast live on May 24, 2014. Elliot John Gleave, better known by his stage...
New Year’s Day 1980 – It probably didn’t happen to you – or it may not have happened yet – but there have been reports, from perfectly reliable sources, of going to a party in one city and waking up the next morning in another. How it is completely possible...
Most News programs spend the first day of a new year looking back on the events of the previous one. In 1961 however, January 1st was spent looking ahead. It was a year in transition for the White House. President Kennedy was poised to take over, come January 22nd and...
Ending 2020 with a concert by The Ramones, recorded at The Old Waldorf in San Francisco, New Years Eve 1978. What better way to drown out an otherwise strange, perplexing and frustrating year than with The Ramones. High voltage, non-stop and relentless, it’s the perfect antidote to a year with...
Become a Patron! What getting ready for New Years Eve sounded like in San Francisco in 1949, via KCBS. I originally posted this in 2013 – the City has changed even more since then. Gotten even less affordable to live – less gritty and more gentrified than ever. Well ....
New Years Eve 1957: Times Square. 1957, like every other year, a celebration and a mass of people, converging on Times Square in New York City – waiting for the ball to drop and usher in 1958. Another year and another shot at happiness. With 750,000 people cheering, throwing confetti...
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