Click on the link here for Audio Player – Georgie Auld – Blue and Sentimental – Coral Records – 1953 Not that I got out of my way to collect them, but I’ve been running across quite a number of discs by musicians who were, in one way or another,
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Claude Thornhill (Piano Solo) – That Old Feeling – Columbia Records – 1948 We tend to think the Wall of Shame, that grim testimony to all those overlooked and underrated bands and musicians is the exclusive property of Rock n’ Roll.
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Radio – All-Star Parade Of Bands – Les Brown – live at The Hollywood Palladium – October 12, 1953 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection By the 1950s, the era of the Big Band was heading into the sunset. Musical tastes
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Radio – Woody Herman And His Third Herd, live from Peony Park, Omaha – September 24, 1954 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Some 1950s big band this weekend. Woody Herman and his New Third Herd, live from Peony Park in
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Illinois Jacquet Big Band – Live in Burghausen, Germany – March 24, 1996 – WDR Something classic this weekend. The legendary Illinois Jacquet, leading his Big Band in a concert at Burghausen, Germany on March 24, 1996. Here’s what you’re in
Click on the link here for Audio Player: TBoneWalker1967-09-16MontereyJazzFestivalCA Tonight it’s the Original/One-And-Only/Accept-No-Substitutes T-Bone Walker, in concert at The Monterey Jazz Festival, recorded September 16, 1967. T-Bone Walker was probably one of the most influential and pioneering artists to straddle the worlds of Jazz and Blues in the 1940’s all
