This record is an amateur-recorded acetate disc containing two performances broadcast in 1948 on the BBC radio programme Jazz Club , on the BBC Light Programme , featuring Ronnie Scott and an all-star lineup of British jazz musicians. The songs are Buzzy by Charlie Parker and Hot House by Dizzy Gillespie , both bebop numbers, a recent stylistic arrival in the United Kingdom. It had been pioneered by Scott and fellow saxophonist Johnny Dankworth (also present on this record), who had travelled...
Topics: jazz, bebop, Ronnie Scott, BBC Jazz Club, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie

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In January 1986 the Philip K. Dick Society published a double issue in the form of a cassette tape, 90 Minutes With Philip K. Dick . The program notes: The first side of this cassette was edited by Paul Williams from recordings made October 30 & 31 and November 1, 1974, at Philip K. Dick's apartment in Fullerton, California. PW was interviewing PKD for a Rolling Stone magazine profile; Tessa and Christopher Dick can also be heard briefly on the tape. Other sections of these same tapes serve...
Topics: Philip K. Dick, interview, science fiction

The Harmon e. Phraisyar Show Originally broadcast on London-based arts radio station Resonance 104.4 FM from 2002-2006, The Harmon e. Phraisyar Show was created by Xentos ‘Fray’ Bentos, aka Jim Whelton, a sound designer and audio artist. Every week the listener would follow Bentos, as Resonance FM radio presenter Harmon e. Phraisyar, on an unpredictable journey into a surreal, satirical world of radio adventure and plunderphonic musical collage. The recordings in this collection were...
Topics: Resonance FM, radio, drama, collage, improvisation, plunderphonics, comedy