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For those who have not heard the news: "The Orleans Parish School Board officially reversed the 100-year-old ban on jazz music and jazz dancing in schools..." https://www.nola.com/news/education/article_8b4a35b2-abd0-11ec-a730-abe8c1566420.html

Max Roach also performed for the movie Death of a Prophet - The Last Days of Malcolm X

Santana appears, but there was the other guitar player:

Asbury Park has the uncut versions of the songs "Asbury Park" and "Easy Money". On the USA album, the two songs were edited to about half their lengths. If you are a fan of Bill Bruford, I recommend the uncut version on the song "Asbury Park". Another description of the CD is here: https://www.dgmlive.com/tour-dates/367

"On December 13, 1968, the military introduced Institutional Order No. 5, which shut down Congress and authorized the government to detain and torture anyone it considered subversive of the public order. Veloso, who was then twenty-six, was writing songs such as “É Proibido Proibir” (“It’s Prohibited to Prohibit”), with his leftist detractors in mind. He had no idea that he was the subject of a thick government file, dating to 1966, with a list of his putative crimes, such as attending protests and cultural events." https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/02/14/how-caetano-veloso-revolutionized-brazils-sound-and-spirit

I recommend at least the CD that has the Live in Asbury Park recording. https://www.dgmlive.com/news/the-collectable-king-crimson-competition

My list of Woodstock artists/bands I've seen in concert: Santana (many times) Ravi Shankar (when Norah Jones was a young child) My list of artists/bands that I've seen and who were going to play at Woodstock, but decided to go elsewhere: Jeff Beck

For those who don't already know - the Library of Congress has posted unseen footage from the Altamont concert - all of it silent - but with Santana, the Flying Burrito Bros, the dudes who wrote "Satisfaction" and "Jumping Jack Flash, and other bands: https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2022/01/the-rolling-stones-hells-angels-and-altamont-a-new-view/

Take a look at the cover of the 1978 album Love Beach by Emerson, Lake and Palmer - why do the three bandmembers look like the Bee Gees?

I had the impression that the oil embargo of 1973-1974 had a significant impact on the quantity and quality of vinyl in the second half of the 1970s.

Nice to hear "Peace on Earth" without the strings - and during the Christmas season.

Massive modernization of the Massey Hall: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/massey-hall-renovation-reopening-1.6243825

My copy arrived to my hands this morning when I walked into a CD store, sanitized my hands with the store's hand sanitizer, and then bought the CD with dirty-looking cash.

Sounds like an episode of Candid Camera.

A few people still believe that the cover of John Lennon's Plastic Ono Band album is identical to the cover of Yoko Ono's Plastic Ono Band album. Take another look at the two covers side by side.

For those who have not seen this video:

pp. 167-169 of Benson's autobiography: Tommy Lipuma suggested to Benson the song "Breezin" - "a composition that was cowritten by soul singer Bobby Womack and Tommy's old friend Gabor Szabo". Benson heard the song and writes: "The guitar line was melodic, soulful, and simple, and the medium-tempo, churning groove would allow me the opportunity to play some hot double-time licks, some Wes Montgomery octaves, and a whole bunch of pretty stuff". Bobby Womack subsequently told them "the story" behind "Breezin": "Believe it or not, we just threw it together at the end of the recording session. It was like a jam tune. But Gabor was good at that stuff, you know, what with his folksy style, simple but jazzy. He didn't think the song was going to be anything because it was so simple - to him, it was just do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-ti-do, so he took his name off of it". Per Benson, Womack said, "there was something I wanted to do on the track, but it never made it onto the record"...And then he [Womack] sang me the opening lick, and man, what a lick it was...I mentally patted myself on the back for coming up with the idea to bring Bobby into Capitol Records Studios."

It was a memorable evening: Louis Armstrong, his wife and a diplomat from the US embassy were out for dinner in a restaurant in what was still Léopoldville, capital of the newly independent Congo…. What Armstrong did not know was that his host that night in November 1960 was not the political attaché as described, but the head of the CIA in Congo. He was also totally unaware of how his fame had allowed the spy who was making small talk across the starters to gain crucial information that would facilitate some of the most controversial operations of the entire cold war. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/sep/12/louis-armstrong-and-the-spy-how-the-cia-used-him-as-a-trojan-horse-in-congo

I suggest installing a security camera on all nearby dumpsters.

Has anyone had a chance to listen to or go through the Marian Anderson 15-CD set Beyond the Music? https://www.amazon.com/Marian-Anderson-Beyond-Music-Anderson/dp/B0954JTNKP

I saw a lady ask Paco de Lucia for his autograph - he gave her his autograph and immediately asked her for a kiss. She gave him a kiss.

Did Joe Strummer ever walk into a grocery store and hear "Rock the Casbah" being played as part of the store's background music?

I believe the Lena and Lennie title is a reference to Lena Horne and her husband Lennie Hayton

I would be happy to buy a 16-CD set of 1970-1975 Santana

Greek tragedy meets American ingenuity in Iphigenia, the long-awaited opera by Wayne Shorter and Esperanza Spalding. A mythical work in progress for the last several years, it has now reached a developmental stage foreign to most other operatic productions: a crowdfunding campaign. https://www.wbgo.org/music/2021-03-15/wayne-shorter-and-esperanza-spalding-make-an-appeal-to-get-their-opera-to-a-premiere