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Watching a very nice, clear partial eclipse that is visible to 52.95% of the world's population (4,220,000,000 people).

From child prodigy to one-man hit factory to soul visionary, and beyond

Yup. He's only recently retired (last spring) and, yes, those were the days of freeform radio and some of the beginning days of Community Radio as well. Both of which exist in their various forms of glory these days with some of those original stations still broadcasting and doing their freeform thing. It's the only kind of radio I've ever been involved and/or interested in.

On your birthday in three months, I will have been here for twenty years. Every album cover and every book that I've posted has linked to info about "it." I'm still amazed that I still have to keep pointing this out dozens of times. Are they showing up just for me and I've been deluding myself all of these years?

I suppose you can call your record anything you want. I don't see the sleaziness in doing that. Jim Sangrey's new album, "The Eleventh House." Plus: as you can see, this Reitman album came out two years before the first Coryell album. Also, Reitman had a radio show beginning in the 60s called "The Eleventh House" - years before Coryell's band. ... but again, the idea of "Eleventh House" (Aquarius -"age of" and all that) was in the heavily perfumed air of the time.

If you look, you'll see that it has nothing to do with Larry Coryell. Eleventh House is an astrological thing - and was the big "thing" during that time. I'm revisiting it 'cause I'm incorporating more spoken word into the shows.

Storm Boris brings heavy floods to central, eastern Europe

If I can't separate the final product of a person's creativity from their personality, then I've totally unrealistically homogenized their whole life. If I insist on blending a person's creative output with their personality, I’m painting their entire life with a single, unrealistic brushstroke. By refusing to separate the artist from their work, I’d be collapsing all the layers of their life - their contradictions, their failures, their virtues into one neat, over-simplified story. But people aren’t neat, and life isn’t simple. It’s messy, and humans are full of shades, not just black and white. To flatten an artist’s life based on a single part of their behavior, no matter how vile, ignores the richness of human nature. It’s like saying only saints can create beautiful things, which is a fantasy at best. Often, creativity comes from the same tangled, shadowy places where flaws and contradictions live. Recognizing this complexity doesn’t mean we excuse terrible behavior. It just means we understand that people, like their work, are multi-layered. We’re all walking contradictions, and sometimes, art is the truest expression of that struggle. Reducing someone to their worst actions strips away the humanity that gives art its depth in the first place. So, maybe it’s more honest to hold both the art and the behavior in view, without pretending they’re inseparable. Life isn’t an either/or - beauty and flaws often stand shoulder to shoulder, even in the same person.

I think externals are still the very best we've got these days. I still love Backblaze, but I still don't completely depend on someone else to hold my stuff, so, for example, before their first rate hike in ages, I figured it was a good idea to have them send me my music again on externals. There are just times in your computer life that you decide that it's time to send your stuff to a fresh drive. It's really a small price to pay to be able to have huge quantities in such small packages. Even with the new computer that I'm gonna have to buy soon, externals will be the go-to 'cause SSDs just can't cut it when it comes to archiving.

Yup. He (or maybe "they") started with "jazz and pop to krautrock and beyond."

The hard disk drives that the music industry relied on to archive a generation of albums are increasingly unreadable.

It's been available to the general public for years. I use it at times, but never have thought to alter a jazz recording. Not aware of actual re-released jazz recordings that have been altered in this way, but it wouldn't surprise me if they existed. (I'm assuming you aren't referring to things like "Kind of Blue"-type enhancements and so forth).

The Very Air: Pibroch ca. 1964 by Pipe Majors John Burgess & John MacLellan with Calum Johnston

Polarity 3 by Ivo Perelman & Nate Wooley

Hellenic Hinterlands: Independent Greek-American 78rpm Discs from Baltimore, Boston, and Cleveland ca. 1953-57

Legendary R&B artist, native Philadelphian Frankie Beverly dies at 77