"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Over to Austria this week for a concert by the legendary Drummer/Percussionist Max Roach, recorded live at the Vienna JazzFest on July 8, 1994. In the early 1980s, Roach began presenting solo concerts, demonstrating that multiple percussion instruments performed by one player could fulfill the demands of solo performance and...
March 28, 2000 – CBS World News Roundup – Late Edition – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 28,2000 – a day full of mixed signals, not the least from Mars. On this day 16 years, OPEC was meeting in Vienna, debating a production increase of oil production. If they...
– NDR Symphony – Christoph Eschenbach and Elizabeth Leonskaja – Live In Hamburg – May 3, 2009 – NDR – Part 1 – – NDR Symphony – Christoph Eschenbach and Elisabeth Leonskaja – Live In Hamburg – May 3, 2009 – NDR – Part 2 – One of the most...
– Orchestre de Paris – Pierre Boulez, cond. – Bertrand Chamayou, piano – Dec. 21, 2011 – Radio France Musique – Part 1 – – Orchestre de Paris – Pierre Boulez, cond. – Bertrand Chamayou, piano – Dec. 21, 2011 – Radio France Musique – Part 2 – Classic concert...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Mutual – John Steele, Reporting From London – Feb. 21, 1938 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. 1938 started out with War jitters. With the German issues over the situation in Austria and a general purge of Hitler‘s...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Tangerine Dream – live in Berlin – November 15, 1982 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. And another loss this week – Electronic Music Pioneer and founding member of Tangerine Dream Edgar Froese passed away earlier this week...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – L.A. Philharmonic – Hans Swarowsky, cond – Claudio Arrau, Piano – January 26, 1967 – Part 1 . . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – L.A. Philharmonic – Hans Swarowsky, cond. –...
. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – United Nations Security Council Session – Dec. 2, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection With the U.S. Embassy takeover in Tehran and some 50 Embassy employees held hostage for some 28 days, it was time to get...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – Horace Silver Quintet – live at Konzerthaus, Vienna – March 11, 1968 – ORF Radio A few months ago I ran a post of a concert featuring Horace Silver, after hearing a number of unsubstantiated rumors that the great Pianist and...
Click on the link here for Audio Player – NBC Radio Special Report – Nikita Khruschev Reports – Jan. 16, 1961 As the Kennedy Years started to unfold, the Cold War took on new aspects. The U-2 incident during the last months of the Eisenhower administration put a damper on...
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