"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Thelonious Monk Quartet – Sendesaal, Radio Bremen – Bremen, Germany – March 8, 1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The legendary, inimitable, pioneering Thelonious Monk for an Easter Sunday. Can’t think of a better occasion to celebrate this joyous, astonishing and thoroughly captivating music from one of the innovators...
Dolly Mixture – In session for Kid Jensen -October 27, 1983 – BBC Radio 1 – Dolly Mixture tonight. American audiences may not know who this band is/was. UK audiences certainly will. Not considered commercially successful or together that long (1978-1984) they have been considered highly influential and were regarded...
Cannonball Adderley Quintet – live at Philharmonie Hall, Berlin – November 2, 1972 – RBB-Berlin – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Cannonball Adderley this weekend. Joined by his brother Nat on Cornet, George Duke on keyboards, Walter Booker and bass and Roy McCurdy on drums. Recorded live at Phhilharmonie Hall...
Lillian Gish – in conversation with Robert Cromie – “The Movies, Mr. Griffith And Me”. – June 25, 1969 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Lillian Gish, a name synonymous with the early days of Hollywood, and along with her sister Dorothy, household names in both Theater and Film from...
– Conversation: The Good Life – Mid Century – November 29, 1956 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – What constitutes The Good Life? In mid-century America it ran the gamut. In 1956 we were hot in the throes of conspicuous consumption, and the Good Life to many people meant...
– Grapefruit – In session for Bouton Rouge – March 16, 1968 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – I suspect a lot of you have no idea who Grapefruit were, or have heard anything about them. Grapefruit were a short-lived phenomenon, lasting a little less than two years but turning...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Netherlands Radio Symphony – Carlos Miguel Prieto, cond. December 4, 2005 – VPRO Over to Hilversum this week for a 2005 concert by the Netherlands Radio Symphony, conducted by Carlos Miguel Prieto in music by Alphons Diepenbrock...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – The Eastman School Symphony – Howard Hanson, Cond. – Copland: Quiet City – March 9, 1953 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. Something familiar this week by one of America‘s greatest composers. Quiet City by Aaron Copland, in...
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