"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Mal Waldron – Jackie McLean duet – Recorded at Piazzo Dante, Verona Italy – June 25, 2001 – RAI-Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Two legends of Free Jazz this weekend; pianist Mal Waldron and alto-player Jackie McLean in one of their many collaborations, recorded live at Piazzo Dante...
Aztec Camera – in session BBC Radio 1 -1983 – BBC Radio 1 – Making a brief stop in the 80s tonight with a session by Aztec Camera, a Scottish pop/new wave band formed by Roddy Frame, the group’s singer, songwriter, and only consistent member. Formed in 1980, they released...
Jules et Jim – Original Soundtrack – Philips ep 432.728 – 1962 – Diving back into vinyl this weekend for the original soundtrack recording to Francois Truffaut‘s landmark film Jules et Jim from 1962, composed by the veteran film composer Georges Delerue, who frequently collaborated with Truffaut throughout his career...
Maurice Blackburn: Charpente: Canadian Forest – 1944 – CBC Symphony – Jean-Maurice Beaudet, cond. – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The music of Canadian composer Maurice Blackburn in this premier performance of his Charpente: Canadian Forest, written in 1944 and featuring the CBC Symphony of Montreal, conducted by Jean-Maurice Beaudet....
Jazz At The Philharmonic – Stockholm, Sweden – May 20, 1958 – Sveriges Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – A convocation of Cool this week – a gathering of legends under the auspices of Jazz At The Philharmonic. This one from May 20, 1958 at the Stockholm Konzerthus and...
Orchestre National de France – Tugan Sokhiev, cond. Truls Mork, Cello – October 8, 2009 – Radio France Musique – Something of more recent vintage this weekend. A concert by the celebrated Orchestre National de France conducted by the Russian-Ossetian wünderkind, Tugan Sokhiev and featuring Truls Mork as cello soloist....
The Vaselines – in session at BBC 6 Music – Sept. 8, 2010 – BBC 6 Music – The Vaselines for a Hump Day. Originally a duo from Glasgow starting in 1986, The Vaselines pretty much stayed known around Scotland. That is, until Nirvana happened across them, and all that...
Flop – live at CBGB – August 12, 1993 – In Session for VPRO, Netherlands -February 1994 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Flop to end the week. One of the most criminally underrated and overlooked bands of the Seattle scene in the 1990s. Together for only 5 years, but...
Four by Mme. Damia – with Orchestra conducted by Pierre Chagnon – Columbia Records France – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Four songs as sung by Marie-Louise Damien, more popularly known as Mme. Damia – a French singer, actress and stage personality who was born in 1889 and died in...
The Drug Scene In America – Groovin’ – May 18, 1970 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – America’s long-standing love affair with all things distracting. Drugs, by the late 1960s were just as much part of American culture as Hot Dogs. Part of it was understandable – if you were...
