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"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Second Sunday: You’re Only Young Twice – Dec. 8, 1968 – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection There was a time, eons ago, when getting older was a rite of passage. There was a certain degree of honor and…
– Leon Boellmann Cello Sonata – 1949 – ORTF, Paris – Another rarely performed composer this week, as performed by a then-rising-star Cellist, Jacques Ripoche and legendary pianist-teacher Jean-Jacques Painchaud in a broadcast recital recording made by French Radio in…
Pres. Eisenhower – Latin America Policy address – July 11, 1960 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection When vice-President Nixon returned from a disastrous tour of Latin America in 1958, concern was high that we were losing our sphere of influence…
Wire in Session for John Peel – BBC – January 18, 1978 One of those bands who made a lasting impression on me during the halcyon days of the late 1970s. Wire had an uncanny knack of forcing your attention…
– Catherine Wheel – In Session for John Peel – July 12, 1995 – BBC Radio 1 – Another session tonight from one of my favorite bands of the 90s – Catherine Wheel, this time from 1995 for the inimitable…
Robert Casadesus – Quintet for Piano And Strings – Gaby Casadesus and The Pascal String Quartet – Back to French Radio transcriptions this week with a work by legendary pianist Robert Casadesus, who was not as well known as a…
B. Mitchel Reed – WMCA – June 28, 1963 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – I’m sure it’s a bit more complicated now, but back in the Dark Ages, when AM radio was the only game in town and Top-40…
Grand Ole Opry – Sept. 20, 1941 – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection It’s interesting to consider there was a time when Folk Music and Country Music were practically one and the same. And I suppose it’s not…
Duke Ellington Live at Basin Street – 1956 Another installment of our weekly Past Daily Downbeat series – this time its over to Basin Street in New York for this CBS Radio broadcast of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra…
It helps, a lot: Become a Patron! From NPR’s legendary and much lamented Jazz Alive! series comes this weekend’s Downbeat post. Recorded at the 3rd Annual Art Park Jazz Festival in Lewiston New York, between September 1-3, 1979 and featuring…