"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Amy Winhouse in concert tonight. Recorded live at The Hove Festival in Norway from 2007. Amy Winehouse had an astonishingly short career, having arrived and peaked within a period of less than five years, with the remaining years mired in drama and tragedy; ending in death in 2011 at 27...
Frank Sinatra turns 105 today. The singer who became so identified with the Big Band era of the 1940s, and who branched out to become one of the Entertainment world’s great icons of the 20th century, was born on this December 12th in 1915. There is very little...
Joachim Kuhn – Trio and Big Band – Jazzfest Berlin – November 6, 2010 – WDR-Radio Checking out the atmosphere in recent strides, German Jazz pianist and Bandleader Joachim Kuhn brought down the house at the Berlin Jazzfest in 2010. Here’s what The Guardian had to say about that gig:...
Dolly Mixture – In session for Kid Jensen -October 27, 1983 – BBC Radio 1 – Dolly Mixture tonight. American audiences may not know who this band is/was. UK audiences certainly will. Not considered commercially successful or together that long (1978-1984) they have been considered highly influential and were regarded...
Gene Krupa Band, featuring Anita O’Day and Charlie Ventura – Spotlight Bands – January 1946 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Digging deep into the vault this week for a performance by The Gene Krupa Band, featuring the legendary singer Anita O’Day, along with the pre Bop-For-The-Peaple Charlie Ventura on...
Dizzy Gillespie Sextet – Live at Theatre National Populaire, Palais de Chaillot, Paris – Oct. 22, 1971 – Radio France – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Dizzy Gillespie – something legendary this weekend. Recorded live at the Palais de Chaillot in Paris on October 22, 1971 by Radio France. This...
Bobby McFerrin’s Voicestra – Lugano Jazz Festival 2004 – July 10, 2004 – RAI-Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The ever-changing, ever-musical, ever-unpredictable Bobby McFerrin this week. From the 2004 Lugano Jazz Festival, recorded on July 10, 2004 by RAI Radio. McFerrin is a hard one to pin down...
Thin Lizzy – in session for John Peel – Feb. 12, 1976 – broadcast March 9, 1976 – BBC Radio 1 – Thin Lizzy to end the week. Of the crop of Hard Rock bands coming out of the UK during the late 60s’/early 70s, Thin Lizzy, an Irish band...
Nat “King” Cole with Quincy Jones Big Band – Live In Paris – April 19, 1960 – Radio France FIP – Much as I like to rely on my own archives to offer those unique and historic recordings on Past Daily, I run across something from someplace else that stops...
Small Faces – In Session for Top Of The Pops – BBC Radio 1 – March 2, 1968 – BBC Radio 1 Dialing it back to the 1960s tonight with a live session by the high priests of Mod, Small Faces. Unfortunately, most people will remember Small Faces either by...
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