"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audio Player: CBS World New Roundup – August 7, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection News on this August 7th in 1945 was about the event that had taken place less than 24 hours…
Click on the link here for Audio Player George Duke Band, live at Philharmonie Hall, Berlin – November 3, 1977 – RBB Radio Berlin With the sad news (again) today of the passing of one of the great Jazz/Funk/Fusion keyboard…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Idriss El Mehdi – live in session at RFI – Musique du Monde – July 20, 2013 – RFI Further evidence new music is happening everywhere, and clearly it always has. Tonight…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Sarah Vaughan and Her Trio – Live at Berliner Jazztage – Philharmonie Hall – November 9, 1969 – RIAS The soothing sounds of Sassy this weekend. Sarah Vaughan and her Trio, live…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Nina Simone, in concert at The Royal Theatre, Drury Lane, London – December 1977 Something just a little out of the ordinary this weekend – a concert by the legendary Nina…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: If – Recorded live in concert at The Paris Theater – 1972 An undeservedly obscure band tonight. If got started in 1969. They were considered to be one of the first Jazz-Rock-Progressive…
Click here for Audio Player: Joe Pass and Lee Konitz – live in Copenhagen 1988 A couple of Jazz legends this weekend (not that there aren’t Jazz legends here every weekend), by way of Joe Pass and Lee Konitz, recorded…
Editors note: This was originally posted in 2013, but since today (August 16th) is Bill Evans’ birthday, it only seems fitting to celebrate a remarkable talent and light. In an era that produced a phenomenal amount of truly revolutionary talent…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: As much as I like to run concerts from the past on Downbeat, I am always reminded that Jazz (or Modern American Music) is as vital today as ever. Certainly…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Over to Hamburg this weekend for a broadcast concert from the 1984 New Jazz Festival featuring The Milt Jackson/Ray Brown Quartet. While part of the legendary Modern Jazz Quartet, Milt…