lost recordings

  • I Listened To A Lost Jazz Recording, Revived For One Night

    A sweltering summer night in the Netherlands, 1975: renowned jazz vocalist Sarah Vaughan gives a magnificent concert at the Laren Jazz Festival. The recording of the festival was lost, though. For four decades, two tapes sat hidden in the archives of the Dutch institute for sound and vision. A freezing winter evening in Victoria, 2017:…