"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Become a Patron! Live Jazz from the 1950’s this weekend with a double bill, live from Birdland in New York City on September 9,1952. Not together, though sharing the same stage, Slim Gaillard and Arthur Prysock. Starting off the set is the ultra-smoothe and mellow Arthur Prysock, who does several...
Michel Perrault: Quebec Folk Sketches – CBC Toronto Chamber Orch. Cond. Michel Perrault – CBC 1958 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The music of Michel Perrault this weekend, performed by the CBC Toronto Chamber Orchestra, led by the composer. This comes by way of a broadcast transcription made...
Please do what you can – it’s personal, so you may feel a bit differently. Click on the link below: Gofundme Donations Site Hey everybody. I have been a little absent from fresh posts on the site the past few weeks because I was caught up in a terrible...
Blink 182 – In session at The BBC – 2000 – BBC Radio 1 – Jumping into Hump Day with a West Coast band doing a BBC session in 2000. Blink 182 are from Poway California, a little over 2 hour drive from L.A. to San Diego. They got started...
The Woodentops – live at Glastonbury 1987 – BBC Radio 1 – The Woodentops to close the weekend and get ready for the new week. A band whose boost in popularity was largely due to Morrisey who wrote a glowing review in Melody Maker in 1984. Together since 1983 and still...
Autour de Lucie – live at Benicasim Festival – Aug. 6, 2002 – RFI-Le Mouv – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Autour de Lucie, or Around Lucie if you’re so inclined, in concert from the Benicasim Festival, recorded by RFI’s Le Mouv on August 6, 2002. Getting started in 1994...
November 10, 2000 – CBS News On The Hour – Special Reports – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – November 10, 2000 – Election 2000 – not that long ago that people have forgotten, but long enough ago to serve as a reminder that our electoral system has been prone to...
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...
November 2, 1978 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – November 2, 1978 – News for this day 39 years ago had much to do with the economy, and a state of euphoria that settled in on the world market. Cautious euphoria, and certainly a marked...
Wire – in session for Marc Riley – BBC6 Music – Oct. 30, 2017 – BBC 6 Music – I couldn’t resist – I heard this earlier today and I had to include it. Wire are one of my hands-down favorite bands of all time and certainly the band that...
