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Gato Barbieri's "Tupac Amaru"

Even if not a fan of the Rolling Stones, I would still thank the band for letting me hear a Sonny Rollins solo while shopping at a grocery store. Yes, sometimes "Waiting for a Friend" is the background music in the grocery store I go to. When I hear the song begin, I stop in some aisle (maybe the aisle with the toothpaste) and wait for the solo.

Herbie Flowers (1938-2024):

A passenger in a plane helped ease the pain of the other passengers when they were stuck waiting on a delayed flight He took out his saxophone and performed a few tunes. Video: https://www.fox5atlanta.com/video/1561769 https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/18/travel/christmas-songs-plane-atlanta-delta-cec/index.html

Probably the first time I heard Zakir Hussain was in George Harrison's Living in the Material World, maybe 50 years ago. At that time, I had no idea who Zakir Hussain was, but as years went by I became a fan.

Happy to see Alex Acuña remembered on this forum. The Peruvian government has still not given him any recognition. Here he is giving a quick merengue lesson.

"The sitar is quite painful": https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0k6r1mv/explore-anoushka-shankar-s-genre-defying-style

A Robert Fripp guitar solo, starting at around 1:25

...They inspired two popstars – The Boom Town Rats’ Bob Geldof and Ultravox’s Midge Ure – to write the charity single Do They Know It’s Christmas? It was hastily recorded by the super-group Band Aid. But the lyrics did not paint a full picture of the famine. They recycled many of the old colonial tropes of Africa as a barren land requiring western salvation... Geldof: “Colonial tropes” my arse. https://theconversation.com/band-aid-at-40-how-the-problematic-christmas-hit-changed-the-charity-sector-241649

He helped shape classic songs by the Rolling Stones, the Who and the Beatles but his influence on music has been largely ignored…In some cases, he didn’t get proper financial compensation either. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/nov/06/nicky-hopkins-pianist-rolling-stones-who-beatles

Lena Horne's "Push de Button" - found a used inexpensive copy

A hippie anthem

Yes, Klaus Kinski was not someone you messed with. Still, I recommend the 1982 movie that Werner Herzog made with Klaus Kinski: Fitzcarraldo. The documentary Burden of Dreams (about how Fitzcarraldo was made) is also good.

The US Postal Service will probably release a stamp commemorating Quincy Jones in a few years.

I am not a fan of "Greatest 50 or 100 or whatever" lists. Nevertheless, here is one on salsa: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-salsa-albums-1235139298/la-33-la-33-2004-1235139611/?fbclid=IwY2xjawGSQaBleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHYFL9fe8YwzJddvXggy5kSkoprkaqq6PNBzFXEyQgeS3nQb9F4MWDAUNuA_aem_5ft-TmYZYacxgFw2mYPc0A

I could not stop looking at the blond lady in the back...

Barbara’s friends and collaborators extensively documented her important life while she was still here. One standout is The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane, directed and co-produced by her friend Maureen Gosling. A video oral history was done by James Early and Dan Sheehy. She published an autobiography, This Bell Still Rings: My Life of Defiance and Song. We are fortunate to have her words and memories. https://folkways.si.edu/news-and-press/remembering-barbara-dane-1927-2024?mc_cid=6cd8ac245b&mc_eid=2c917bba9f

Michael Brooks, was an archivist, a music salvage expert. He worked deep into old age at Sony’s New York office: curating the company’s labyrinthine back catalogue… Today it is the turn of Mongo Santamaría, a Havana-born conga drummer who died in 2003. Santamaría specialised in Afro-Cuban pop and Latin-flavoured covers of songs such as Proud Mary and My Cherie Amour. Matt rubs down the vault copy of his album Workin’ on a Groovy Thing and gives it a spin. I’m braced to dislike it but it sounds terrific…. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/oct/21/my-father-the-music-archivist-sony-novel-catchers

Got to listen to some Rory Gallagher once in a while:

I have CDs that I also thought I would not listen to more than once – but then comments I read (often on this forum) about the music on the CDs make me pull out the CDs and listen again!

There probably are several live stream cameras in the Tampa area that will let you see (on the Internet) the hurricane's landfall - at least while the cameras do not go offline.

For those who have no problem with Norah J.

The "White album" comes with photos of the Beatles inside, but I would say the cover is entirely white without "them on the cover".

Takei and his family were placed in a camp for Japanese-Americans during WWII. https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2019/12/04/george-takeis-familys-japanese-american-internment-nightmare/

You will be reading about heroin and needles on the first page of the book's preface.