"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Become a Patron! Live Jazz from the 1950’s this weekend with a double bill, live from Birdland in New York City on September 9,1952. Not together, though sharing the same stage, Slim Gaillard and Arthur Prysock. Starting off the set is the ultra-smoothe and mellow Arthur Prysock, who does several...
With the very sad and shocking news of the passing of Neil Innes, co-founder of the legendary Bonzo Dog Band, as well as being considered an honorary member of Monty Python as well as the brains behind The Rutles along with countless other collaborations, 2019 is going down as one...
A classic concert to start the week off – this time from Simon & Garfunkel in a rare performance at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, recorded by VPRO on May 2, 1970. With all of these classic concerts surfacing lately, you’d think someone finally got around to opening up the closet door,...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Not that long ago, if you were a band from Continental Europe, you’d have a hard time getting arrested looking for a label deal, or even a pair of willing ears, in the U.S. – unless you were classified as...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: 77 Bombay Street – Live At Eurosonic 2013 Back over to this months Eurosonic 2013 Festival in Holland, recorded by the venerable (and thorough) VPRO Radio Channel in Hilversum. A set by Swiss Alternative/Indie band 77 Bombay Street. I was under the...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: EverlyBrothers 1963-09-23 TheOlympia Paris France Something historic tonight. A rare live concert performance by The Everly Brothers, as recorded by ORTF at the Olympia in Paris on September 23, 1963 in what has to be one of the most frantic 20 minutes on...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Ravel- Sheherazade – 1951 A few weeks ago I ran a performance of Barraud’s Offrande, featuring the French National Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Bigot. After receiving a wonderful note from Bigot’s son, Jean-Pierre, I was informed, not only of the date of...
Become a Patron! Classic concert this New Years Eve from Blondie, performing in Glasgow on New Years Eve 1979. At the top of their game and their popularity, Blondie ran through a virtual Greatest Hits catalog of iconic songs. I forgot how many hits they had over the course of...
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Lalo – String Quartet op The music of (relatively) familiar 19th Century composer Edouard Lalo this weekend. But perhaps one of his lesser-known works. His String Quartet in E-Flat Major op. 19 as performed by the Quattrocchi Quartet in this broadcast studio recital...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Part 1: Real Filharmonia de Galicia in Concert – 1 Click on the link here for Audio Player – Part 2: Real Filharmonia de Galicia in Concert – 2 Over to Spain this week for a concert by Real Filharmonia de...
