"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
A buck here, a buck there – it adds up: Become a Patron! Keeping the Americana theme going tonight with a portion of a concert given in Amsterdam by the sadly neglected, maligned and overlooked Moby Grape. Recorded by VPRO…
Editors Note: This post was originally published on February 2013, but owing to requests and inquiries about Jacco Gardner, I thought I would run this concert to give you some idea of what you’ve been missing, these past seven years.…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Art Pepper – Live in Nice, France – 1980 Any one who is familiar with the story of Art Pepper knows what a brief and troubled career this brilliant musician had. Maybe not…
As long as you’re housebound: Become a Patron! Sadly, I didn’t get to work with Roy Orbison until near the end of his career. It was during the resurgence in his popularity around the time of David Lynch‘s Blue Velvet…
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…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Hank Jones Trio w.Friends – Stockholm 1983 001 A classic concert, recorded live by Sveriges Radio in Stockholm on June 4, 1983, featuring the legendary Hank Jones Trio (w/ Red Mitchell, bass…