"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Over to Paris this week for one day of a multi-day recital of the complete solo Piano music of Claude Debussy, as well as music by other composers who inspired Debussy, performed by Pianist Phillippe Cassard. A pretty Herculean task,…
Khatia Buniatishvili Recital at The Verbier Festival July 24, 2012- RSM – Espace 2 This week it’s a Concert Recital from the much-talked about and discussed Kathia Buniatishvili, recorded live from the stage by Radio Suisse Romande’s Espace 2 at…
Over to the legendary Horace Silver this weekend. From a 1973 concert at The Jazz Workshop in Boston, featuring Michael Brecker on Tenor Sax and Flute, Randy Brecker on Trumpet, and Al Queen on Drums – the set was recorded…
Can were one of those bands no one thought would be as influential in 1974 as they became. They had taken the cause of Progressive Rock and ratcheted it up a few notches and introduced Electronic music in a way…
– Sonny Rollins Trio – live in Aix-en-Provence – March 11, 1959 – Radio France International – Something special and historic this weekend. The legendary Sonny Rollins in one of his last appearances in 1959 before his self-imposed withdrawal from…
Dutch psych-meister Jacco Gardner tonight, in a concert recorded during the 2013 London Calling Festival, held at The Paradiso in Amsterdam and faithfully recorded by VPRO in Hilversum. A little bio sampler via Tim Sendra at AllMusic: Dutch-born psychedelic explorer…
– Izia – SFR Studio Concert – March 19, 2012 – Over to Paris this week for a concert by the deceptively dramatic and dynamic Izia and her band, recorded live at SFR Studios in Paris on March 19, 2012.…
Described in the European press as “one of Americas best kept secrets”, Smashing Orange were a band from Wilmington Delaware, who landed in the UK and became part of the wave of Shoegaze bands of the early 1990s. Sadly, the…
Over to Paris this weekend for a Radio studio recording of the Lalo Cello Concerto, with the legendary Andrè Navarra, cello and the Paris Conservatory, conducted by the great Andrè Cluytens. No date on the disc, but judging from the…
Become a Patron! Another of the lately-less known French composers featured this weekend. Rene Challan is probably better recognized among collectors as the producer of some of the great recording sessions to come out of France in the 1950’s and…