"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Further evidence that the Internet is one of the truly most astonishing innovations in recent memory is the amount of access one has to just about every corner and crevasse on the globe, and every musical taste that goes along with it. Case in point – tonight’s Soundbooth features a...
Dexter Gordon Quartet – Live In Paris – Maison de la Radio – Studio 104 – February 9, 1973 – Radio France – Dexter Gordon this weekend. Last week I ran a concert featuring Wardell Gray, whose Tenor duels with Dexter Gordon in the early 1950s were legendary. This week it’s...
Barbara – in concert at Radio France – Sept. 15, 1965 – ORTF, Paris – Any fan of French singers of the 1960s will know who Barbara is – you probably have several of her albums in your collection. Or you’ve just discovered her by way of the many reissues...
– Last Train – Live at Inrocks Festival, Paris – November 11, 2015 – Les Inrocks Festival – Fall Festival Season is heading into high gear this year. Last Train are a French Indie Band I confess to not knowing much about (for no other reason than a real lack...
– Lou Doillon – In Session at Studio Kerwax – October 8, 2015 – Studio Kerwax, France – Lou Doillon is one of those multi-talents the French seem to be so good at finding and cultivating. The daughter of film Director Jacques Doillon and British actress and singer Jane Birkin,...
– Temples – Live At Oüi-FM Festival, Paris – June 23, 2015 – Oüi-FM – Earlier during this festival season, I posted a Temples gig at the Best Kept Secret Festival in Holland from June 20. Here is another performance by this seemingly everywhere-band, recorded three days later in Paris...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Laetitia Sheriff – In session at Oui-FM, Paris – April 1, 2015 – Oui-FM Laetitia Sheriff is a French Singer-Songwriter with three albums to her credit. Sheriff has been gigging around her native France of late, promoting...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Sarah Vaughan and her Trio – Live In Berlin – November 9, 1969 – RBB Radio Berlin One of my all-time favorites this weekend. Sarah Vaughan in concert from Berlin this weekend, recorded on November 9, 1969....
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – The Warlocks – Live At Route du Rock Hiver 2015 – Feb. 22, 2015 – France Music Le Mouv’ Continuing our look at St. Malo’s Route du Rock Hiver 2015 festival from two weeks ago with a...
. . . Or click on the link here for Audio Player – NPR reports on Danish Cartoon Controversy – Feb 6-7, 2006 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection . . . Or click on the link here for Audio Player – ABC Radio National (Australia) Late Night Live – 2...
Gordon Skene, two-time Grammy Nominee and archivist runs The Gordon Skene Sound Archive and this website, which is dedicated to preserving and encouraging an interest in history and historic news, events, and cultural aspects of our society. Past Daily is the only place on the Internet where you can hear a Nixon speech, listen to an interview with John Cassavettes or play a broadcast of Charles Munch rehearsing the Boston Symphony in 1950, all in the same place. It's living history and it's timeless.
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