"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Radio – Woody Herman And His Third Herd, live from Peony Park, Omaha – September 24, 1954 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Some 1950s big band this weekend. Woody Herman…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Duke Ellington – 25th Anniversary concert – Birdland, New York – November 25, 1952 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Another classic this weekend. Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra, celebrating 25…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Radio All-Star Parade Of Bands – Louis Armstrong – Live At Basin Street, New York – May 8, 1955 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Cooking up some Traditional Jazz this…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Teddy Wilson Trio – Eddie Heywood Trio – Live At The Embers, New York City – New Years Eve 1957 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Since we’re heading on a crash-course…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Jim Hall and Bob Brookmeyer – live at North Sea Jazz Festival – 1979 – AVRO-Hilvserum Another tribute – one of too many this year. Legendary Jazz guitarist Jim Hall passed…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – The John Abercrombie Quartet – Live at the 2013 Skopje Jazz Festival – October 23, 2013 – Radio France FIP Further evidence that Jazz as an art form is far from…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Frank Wess Quintet – live at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, New York – Nov. 2, 2011 More sad news earlier this week with the passing of Frank Wess, a cornerstone in the…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Wayne Shorter – Larry Coryell – Live at Montreux – July 20, 1990 – Swiss Radio Over to Montreux this weekend for a classic meeting between legends…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – All-Star Parade of Bands – Stan Kenton, live At Sardi’s, Hollywood – June 4, 1956 – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection The Golden Age of Big Bands was rapidly…
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Joshua Redman – live at Elb Jazz Festival, Hamburg Germany – NDR – May 24, 2013 I realize that most of what I run on the Downbeat feature concentrates on older…