"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– Arthur H – In concert at Paléo Nyon Festival – July 22, 2015 – Swiss Radio – Further testimony to the enduring popularity of Arthur H, a downpour at the recently Paléo Festival, caught Arthur H in mid-set. A…
– CBS Radio – Chuck Cabot And His Orchestra – live from The Rice Hotel, Houston Texas – April 1953 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As a distinct contrast between my Lennie Tristano post earlier today, I ran across…
Lee Konitz with Lennie Tristano and Warne Marsh – live in Toronto – 1952 Become a Patron! More terrible news tonight – hearing of the passing of Jazz giant Lee Konitz, the direct result of COVID-19. I was trying to…
– NBC Second Sunday: The Young Rebels – October 1968 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – If you’re of a certain age, you’ll remember what a period of upheaval the late 1960s were. Everything that had been considered the…
– Jethro Tull – live in Chicago – August 16, 1970 – WXRT-FM – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Ironically, this concert happened 45 years ago, almost to the day. Jethro Tull were in the midst of a musical shift;…
– Let’s Go, Hollywood! with George Fisher – September 12, 1951 – KNX-AM – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Politics and Popular Culture – not a new phenomenon. During the Postwar/Cold War period, the Red Scare sweeping over America was…
– The Boomtown Rats – Live At Hammersmith Odeon – 1982 – BBC 6 Music – If the Boomtown Rats did nothing else in their careers, being the purveyors of the 80s anthem I Don’t Like Mondays would assure them…
– FDR – address on signing the Social Security Act – August 14, 1935 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Lest we all forget 80 years today, on August 14, 1935, President Roosevelt signed into law the Social Security Act…
– Chicago University Roundtable: Atomic Force: It’s Meaning for Mankind – August 12, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As the world waited for the official end of World War 2, and as the effects of the Atomic bombings…