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"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Heading in a smooth and mellow direction this week with The Dave Brubeck Quartet featuring Paul Desmond, at a private party in Carmel and recorded on June 26, 1955 by a fan, by the group – who knows? One of…
The Timex All-Star Jazz Concert – Dec. 30, 1957 – NBC-TV – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Live Jazz on radio had been around practically since radio was invented. But Jazz on TV was something new – and Jazz on…
Just in time for Christmas. Again from the French Radio Transcription collection. Here is a 1955 radio broadcast performance of A Christmas Cantata by Arthur Honegger, featuring Baritone Pierre Mollet, Maurice Duruflè, Organ. The Chorus of the ORTF, conducted by…
Roger Calmel – Concerto For Organ, Strings and Percussion – Pierre Cochereau, Organ – ORTF Chamber Orch. Pol Mule, Cond. ORTF Session – December, 1968 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Back to France this week for music of a…
– The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Live At Grugahalle, Essen, Germany – November 1961 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Taking things down a few pegs this weekend with a concert by The Dave Brubeck Quartet, in concert from Grugahalle…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Stan Kenton and His Orchestra – Live At Steel Pier – Atlantic City, New Jersey – Aug. 4, 1953 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection This might take a little getting used…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Keely Smith in Concert at The Hollywood Bowl – June 1962 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection With the sad news this weekend of the passing of Keely Smith, I remembered this…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: I originally ran this on my previous site a few years ago, but it seems as apropos now, maybe even more so, than it did then. There seems to be…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Dave Brubeck – The Christmas Song A nod to the late, great and much loved Dave Brubeck tonight and a cut from his 1996 A Dave Brubeck Christmas album. The perennial Christmas Song,…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Spirit – All The Same – 1968 It hasn’t been a very good week for music. First losing Dave Brubeck and now losing Ed Cassidy, who passed early Thursday morning. Dave Brubeck,…