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"Far from being nostalgic and conservative, the maintenance of a stock of physical media at home is a progressive act of defiance." https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/what-we-lose-when-streaming-companies-choose-what-we-watch

If can make it to Austin, for Shakti and John McLaughlin: http://www.riverbendcentre.org/upcoming-events/2023/9/16/icmca-concert

Ella does not want money:

Sometimes, in some places, some people use any kind of alcohol (methyl alcohol? isopropyl alcohol?) to make an alcoholic drink. Some types of alcohol can mess up your eyes.

"An alien arriving on Earth in the year 2023 might believe social media was created solely for strangers to yell at each other..." https://thewalrus.ca/the-inescapable-rise-of-moral-superiority/

"Jazz, too, now makes an occasional appearance. It’s not an area I know a huge amount about, so there have been some revelatory weeks for me, telling the stories of Billy Strayhorn, Carla Bley, Mary Lou Williams, Thelonious Monk and Bill Evans among others." https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/01/radio-3-composer-of-the-week-turns-80-donald-macleod

I am listening to this hippie anthem:

Looks like the US Mint chose the design for the Celia Cruz quarter: https://www.usmint.gov/coins/coin-medal-programs/american-women-quarters/celia-cruz

I had no problem playing the CD on my $25 portable CD player that I bought at WalMart, and I have played the CD on the portable player about 5-6 times by now.

Helen Grant announced on July 10 that she intends to sell the 10% share in Led Zeppelin revenues that she inherited from her father. Since then, “we have been deluged with offers”, her solicitor Ian Penman told LedZepNews. https://ledzepnews.com/2023/07/16/exclusive-helen-grant-has-been-deluged-with-offers-for-her-10-stake-in-led-zeppelin/?fbclid=IwAR2r_qMmlFvbCyJeSJ9R37EzkssJBYaU9yhIF0EPyGVz4fPhd4Pol-uGemc

If I were flying back to Australia (or to anywhere else), I would keep the SHM CD in my pocket next to my passport.

I once had a conversation with a guitar player who has been in several rock bands, and I commented on the books that talk about his bands. He told me, “the authors of those books write about everything but not about the music.”

A cover version, decades after the original version:

For those who have not seen this documentary already. Late 1960s:

Check out her "Razzle-Dazzle": https://archive.org/details/78_razzle-dazzle_ella-mae-morse-big-dave-and-his-music-charles-e-calhoun_gbia0428603a

Reminds me of the "Miles Davis' Bitches Brew" https://untappd.com/b/dogfish-head-craft-brewery-miles-davis-bitches-brew/6303

I am waiting quietly for the next Coltrane release.

Schwartz on NPR re Giuffre, great interview: https://www.npr.org/2008/04/28/90004452/jazz-clarinetist-jimmy-giuffre-a-look-back

I do not believe Maradona was the best soccer player, but 37 years ago he did this:

If I am not mistaken, Giuffre married Juanita around 1961, when he was about 40 years old. There was plenty of time for him to be married to other women before 1961. But if you have evidence that shows I am mistaken, please share with us.

Perhaps we can start our own biographical thread on Giuffre. Here are two sentences from a 1941 Dallas newspaper (“North Texas Symphony Opens Season,” The Dallas Morning News, December, 1, 1941, page 13 [the spelling errors are from the source]): “The high light of a program, otherwise confined to Nineteenth Century music, was Debussy’s Premiere Rhapsodie Pour Clarinett et Orchestra with the clarinet solo admirably performed by James Guiffre of Dallas. Guiffre has been a member of the college staff band, the symphonic band and the college symphony orchestra during his four years at North Texas.”

My guess is that James Harrod already has a lot of details about Jimmy Giuffre. You can find archives of newspapers and magazines online that are helpful. As you know, there are many details about Giuffre spread across many decades, many bands, many musicians, many wives (Giuffre got married 4 times? 5 times?)...

Astrud Gilberto, whose dreamy interpretation of The Girl from Ipanema became the most popular version of the song, has died aged 83. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jun/06/astrud-gilberto-bossa-nova-singer-of-the-girl-from-ipanema-dies-aged-83

The solution was to put Keith Jarrett's The Koln Concert on the turntable because, as others have pointed out for years, "the chicks dig it".

LIgeti's Mysteries of the Macabre with Barbara Hannigan