"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers – Live at The Paris Olympia – 1958 – RFI One of my all-time favorites this weekend. Art Blakey was one of the truly innovative, individual and…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Melissa Laveaux, In Session at FIP – Studio 105 – June 6, 2013 Melissa Laveaux (singer-songwriter-guitarist) comes from Haiti via Montreal. She’s been gigging around Canada the past few years. Has two…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Ray Charles, live at Palais des Sport, Paris – October 22, 1961 – Radio France Since I’m a firm believer that you can’t really have too much of a good thing, as…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Starting off the weekend with the inimitable Koko Taylor, live in Bordeaux, France on November 15, 1993. The whole thing (or about an hours worth) recorded live from the stage…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Not the world premier recording (that happened in 1934 and that performance may not exist), but instead the performance by the dedicatee, who conducted the same orchestra as the premier.…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: CharlesLloydQuartet1966JuanLesPinsJazzFestivalAntibesFrance One of the pivotal voices in the Free Jazz movement, The Charles Lloyd Quartet (featuring Keith Jarrett), live at the Juan Les Pins Jazz Festival in Antibes on July 1966. Here’s…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: Art Pepper – Live in Nice, France – 1980 Any one who is familiar with the story of Art Pepper knows what a brief and troubled career this brilliant musician had. Maybe not…
Click on the link here for Audio player: Miles Davis – Live at Salle Pleyel – 1969 The legendary Miles Davis this weekend. Featuring the classic Quintet lineup and recorded live by Radio France, direct from Salle Pleyel in Paris…
Click on the link here for Audio Player: 4 Guys from the Future – Sesssion – March 5, 2012 4 Guys From The Future are a band from Denmark that, if you haven’t already heard about them, here is ample…
Click on the link here for Audio Player-Part 1: International Chopin Festival – Part 1 Click on the link here for Audio Player-Part 2: International Chopin Festival – Part 2 Since we’re still hip-deep in Festival season throughout Europe, I…