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Starting off with an album that sounds better when I can turn it up more. . . will revisit it later. Jose James “1978” Rainbow Blonde cd Funky, dnaceable, R&B crooning James music. Nice!

regarding Donald MacDonald, the one thing I could find out easily is that he was dead by the time his wife, the violin player Betty MacDonald died in 2010...  https://web.archive.org/web/20180817035122/http://macdeemusic.com/index.html there it says that he left the family at some point... the fact that they were still married decades later suggests that he may have died not too long after leaving his family... for instance, I can find one Donald MacDonald from Massachusetts born 10 August 1940 who died in August 1979... that might be him but without a birth date it's impossible to confirm edit: Actually, there was an obit in Downbeat back in 1979,  Drummer Donald MacDonald died March 21 in New York City at age 41. Ill health had forced him to retire from performing, and he was residing in Woodstock, New York, at the time of his death. First studying percussion at Fredonia State Teachers' College, he played in Florida for several years. MacDonald worked and recorded with Jackie Cain and Roy Kral, Tim Hardin, Richie Havens and Gary McFarland, but was probably best known for his membership in Jeremy Steig's early jazzrock band the Satyrs, which included Warren Bernhardt, Eddie Gomez and Adrian Guillary; he was also in the White Elephant Band led by Mike Mainieri. MacDonald is survived by four children and his wife, who wrote db that a Final Bar "seemed the most fitting way for me to let all the musicians that he played with over the years know that he has passed on."

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I'm wondering how the master-transfer will sound like. On Porter Records anthology "The Complete Recordings vol. 1" it's a bit mushy and distorted here and there.

September 10 Dave Burrell - 1940