"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Public Enemy – Live At Phoenix Festival 1995 – BBC Radio 1 Public Enemy in concert to end the week. A suspicious lack of Rap and Hip-hop on these pages over the years. Any particular reason? No – other than there are very few live/in-concert examples to choose from that...
April 20, 1994 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 20, 1994 -Busy day, news-wise. Beginning with word that former President Nixon had suffered a stroke and was not expected to pull out of it. Nixon had been in deteriorating health in recent months. On...
Franco Gulli, violin – Enrica Cavallo, Piano – Ned Rorem: Day Music – Santa Fe Chamber Festival, Alice Tully Hall- August 11, 1980 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Americana this weekend, as interpreted by one of the legendary Husband and Wife/Violin-Piano duos this week. Franco Gulli and Enrica Cavallo...
The Sea Nymphs – In session for John Peel – October 4, 1998 – BBC Radio 1 – The Sea Nymphs to start the week. A side project of The Cardiacs’ Tim Smith, Sarah Smith and William D. Drake, The Sea Nymphs were a decided change of pace for 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...
The Bee Gees, The Herd, The Pretty Things, Paul Jones, Long John Baldry – Top Of The Pops -January 12, 1968 – BBC Transcription Service – Staying with our Top Of The Pops marathon this week with live performances by The Bee Gees, The Herd, The Pretty Things, Paul Jones...
Mass Killings – news reports – Sandy Hook, Columbine, Orlando, Oklahoma, San Bernardino – 1991-2016 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As the news reports and bulletins continue to pour in over the latest mass shooting, the questions and the hand-wringing begin. The mantra of Gun legislation Now and the...
Forgive me for stepping outside my usual role of posting news of the past and reminding you of what you may have missed. The events that are unfolding in Las Vegas; the deadly mass killing of concertgoers to the last night of a Country Music Festival, are disturbing and horrifying...
Buddy DeFranco Quartet with Helen Forrest – The Navy Swings session – Los Angeles, May 1957 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Buddy DeFranco this week. His Quartet and singer Helen Forrest in one of several sessions DeFranco did for the Navy Recruiting radio show The Navy Swings, and recorded...
Dizzy Gillespie with Charlie Parker – live on Jubillee – Dec. 29, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Two legends together this weekend; Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker, together with Milt Jackson on vibes, Al Haig on piano, Ray Brown on bass and Stan Levey on drums. All appearing...
