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June 16, 2024: Billy Harper Quintet, Stateside Theater, Austin June 18, 2024: Peggy Stern, Monk's Jazz Club, Austin June 21, 2024: Buddy Guy, Shreveport Municipal Auditorium, Shreveport, Lousiana June 22, 2024: Buddy Guy, Oaklawn Event Center, Hot Springs, Arkansas June 29, 2024: Mokoomba, Thomas Mapfumo, African Vibration Festival, District 121, McKinney July 3, 2024: Mokoomba, Antone's, Austin July 18, 2024: John Primer, Antone's, Austin August 24, 2024: Bobby Rush, Arlington Music Hall September 14, 2024: Abhishek Borkar (Sarod) and Yashwant Vaishnav (Tabla), Allen (?) September 20, 2024: Aba Diop Trio, Cullen Theater, Houston September 21, 2024: Mandolin Rajesh (mandolin) and Rajhesh Vaidya (veena), Frisco September 28, 2024: Abhishek Borkar (Sarod), Yashwant Vaishnav (tabla), Cullen Hall, Unverisy of Saint Thomas, Houston October 4, 2024: Spanish Harlem Orchestra, Cullen Theater, Houston                               Bombino, Lowdown, Tulsa October 6, 2024: Delvon  Lamarr Organ Trio, Antone's, Austin October 11, 2024: Branford Marsalis, Bates Recital Hall, Austin October 13, 2024: Branford Marsalis, UTD October 17, 2024: Buena Vista Social Orchestra, Majestic Theater, Dallas October 19, 2024: Manas Kumar (violin), S. Akash (flue), Amit Kavthekar (tabla), Allen (?) October 22, 2024: Joel Frahm Trio, JazzTX, San Antonio November 16, 2024: Matthew Whitaker, Eisemann Center, Richardson December 6, 2024: Shemekia Copeland, Sam's Burger Joint, San Antonio                                  Terri Lynne Carrington's New Standards, Cullen Theater, Houston December 7, 2024: Shemekia Copeland, Kessler Theater, Dallas January 25, 2025: Lakecia Benjamin, Cullen Theater, Houston February 14, 2025: Immanuel Wilkins Quartet, Zika Hall, Houston March 1, 2025: Vijay Iyer Trio, Cullen Theater, Houston March 15, 2025: Fort Worth African American Roots Music Festival March 18, 2025: Anoushka Shankar, Eisemann Center, Richardson March 27-30, 2025: Big Ears Festival, Knoxville, Tennessee March 28, 2025: Jason Moran's Duke Ellington Project, Cullen Theater, Houston April 11, 2025: Brad Mehldau Trio with Christian McBride, Cullen Theater, Houston April 12, 2025: Hiromi's SonicWonder, UTD April 24-27, May 1-4, 2025: New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival  

The rainy weather is still lingering on, so some ☀️☀️☀️ is requiered ....

The Emotions "I Don't Wanna Lose Your Love (M+M Mix)" (BBE Music) 2017 .... obviously teaming up with Earth, Wind & Fire was a jackpot for The Emotions .... this John Morales mix makes the Verdine White bassgrooves clearly audible .... and Wanda Hutchinson soars .... Disco/Funk borderliner ....

Is it collection or is it consumption?  The big difference between buying music and having a great restaurant meal is that once the meal is over, it’s gone.  But you can listen to a great album and, at the end, have that album still in excellent condition.  But the impetus for both was still the same: to have a great experience. I recently bought from Dusty Groove a mono copy of The Dave Clark Five’s Greatest Hits.  I bought it because I haven’t heard it since I was 10; my best friend had it and we played it all the time.  So it will bring back a lot of great memories for me - not for anyone else in my family, but specifically for me.  And I’ll get to hear it with fresh ears, which should be a treat.  I’m not at all thinking about what I’ll do with the record afterwards - it’s almost irrelevant. Writ large, that’s my attitude towards my music collection.  If I cared about what other people thought or how they’d react, I probably wouldn’t own 90% of it (and these days, I probably wouldn’t even own a CD deck - I’d just stream everything).  I buy and listen to music because I enjoy it.  When the day comes, I figure my kid’s smart enough to research what everything’s worth.

Ever since I started purchasing jazz in earnest, and after a few duplicate purchases, I started keeping a list in Word of everything I own. When the time comes I can provide a buyer with the list.  I hadn’t heard about DG buying collections but it’s something i will keep in the back of my mind.