"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
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...
Carla Bley Big Band – live from Paris – Studio 104, Maison de la Radio, Paris – March 16, 1982 – Radio France – Carla Bley Big Band for this Christmas eve. Okay, maybe not full of Christmas music, but this concert is joyous as hell – and if it...
Nothing But Thieves – in concert at Reading/Leeds 2016. Heading into the home stretch for Summer Festival season, Nothing But Thieves kept the audience suitably wired, on this first day of the weekend festival – recorded only hours ago by the venerable BBC Radio 1. If there is one thing...
Jean-Jacques Grunenwald – Concert d’ètè – Marie-Claude Warkowski – ORTF Chamber Orch – Jean-Paul Krèder, cond – ORTF, Paris – Jean-Jacques Grunenwald – a name much more familiar in Europe, particularly France, than here in the U.S. – Grunenwald was a celebrated Organist, a student of Marcel Duprè and his...
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 find something to run as way of tribute and found...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – BBC Radio 1 – Vivian Stanshall’s Radio Flashes – August 1971 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. To explain Vivian Stanshall is next to impossible – as founding member of The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, he was front...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – The Bluetones – John Peel Session – August 4, 1996 – BBC Radio 1 The Bluetones tonight. Maybe a little overlooked and underrated to some, they were a very enjoyable band to listen to. They had a...
. . . Or click on the link here for Audio Player – Prague Radio Symphony, Marek Stilec, Cond. – Dec. 21, 2009 – CRo2 Vltava/BBC Radio 3 Getting festive with the (mostly) unfamiliar this week. The Christmas 2009 Prague Radio Symphony Concert featuring works by Jan Jakub Ryba, Jan...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Fine Arts Quartet – Live At The Chipping Camden Festival – Part 1 Click on the link here for Audio Player – The Fine Arts Quartet – Live At The Chipping Camden Festival – Part 2 Over to the UK...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Reikiavik – live at Los Conciertos de Radio 3 – April 22, 2014 – RNE Radio 3, Madrid Over to Madrid tonight for a set by Spanish Indie/Alternative/Pop group Reikiavik, in session at RNE Radio 3 for their Los Conciertos...
Gordon Skene, two-time Grammy Nominee and archivist runs The Gordon Skene Sound Archive and this website, which is dedicated to preserving and encouraging an interest in history and historic news, events, and cultural aspects of our society. Past Daily is the only place on the Internet where you can hear a Nixon speech, listen to an interview with John Cassavettes or play a broadcast of Charles Munch rehearsing the Boston Symphony in 1950, all in the same place. It's living history and it's timeless.
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