"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– Steve Swallow Quintet – London Jazz Festival 2011 – Nov. 18, 2011 – BBC Radio 3 – I originally ran this concert some years back (2014), but I wanted to do a follow-up on my earlier Carla Bley post…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
. . . 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…
. . . 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…
. . . 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…
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…