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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.

Take a look at Anita O'Day's autobiography, High Times Hard Times.

cover of While My Guitar Gently Weeps

In the “Ready for Freddy” recording, Jane Getz says she called Henry Grimes after the alleged assault. So presumably Grimes saw the scratches, bruises and welts that Getz says were on her body. So…maybe, perhaps weeks or years after the alleged assault, Grimes wrote down what he saw, perhaps in some oblique statement; and, maybe again, some historian can find what Grimes wrote in the “Henry Grimes Papers”: https://archives.nypl.org/mus/29957

"Eno thinks of music in terms of landscape; he might expand the space of his composition by adding low and high elements—wind and birds, metaphorically speaking—that also change over time. The idea is that the music isn’t finished. It will continue growing without him. He is the person who puts the art work into motion, but he isn’t at its center, and he isn’t responsible for every detail of what it becomes." https://www.newyorker.com/culture/open-questions/how-should-we-create-things

Norah J. is the only Blue Note performer I have seen perform inside a CD store, with me standing about 4-5 feet from her keyboard and her mother standing about 2 feet to my left.

"No official cause of death was given, however the family said Mendes had been suffering with long-term Covid, and the musician was known to have suffered respiratory problems since the end of 2023." https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2ng6ng17no

Decades ago, I would hear this song coming out of houses:

"Did Charles Mingus write the first punk song? And who was the Butthole Surfer of jazz? Suren answers these questions and many more. Reading his irreverent guide to jazz, filled with punk references and colorful language, is more fun than getting arrested for vandalism..." https://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/books/52163 What inspired you to write your book? Bob Suren: An unsatisfactory experience at a jazz club. When I first got into punk rock as a teenager, some more seasoned punks taught me about how punk rock works. They loaned me records and zines and made mix tapes and invited me to shows. The few jazz clubs I have been to have not been particularly welcoming. After a visit to some snobby club, I thought, jazz isn’t supposed to be like that. Really, nothing should be like that. But jazz was the original outsider music. Granted, I wasn’t kicking around when it was but it sure seems dusty and aloof now. I belong to several jazz groups online, to gather knowledge and read opinions, and there’s very little sense of humor in the groups. There is a lot of what the kids call “gatekeeping” and a lot of jazz experts flexing their credentials... https://microcosmpublishing.com/blog/2024/03/interview-with-bob-suren-author-of-weird-music-that-goes-on-forever/

Roll Over Beethoven

https://www.npr.org/2024/08/09/nx-s1-4969761/milton-esperanza-is-the-new-album-from-esperanza-spalding-and-milton-nascimento

Be among the first to get the Celia Cruz quarter: https://catalog.usmint.gov/american-women-quarters-2024-rolls-and-bags-celia-cruz-MASTER_AWQCC.html?cgid=2024-product-schedule

"I made the argument to my wife that we should do a clean sweep. I took all the discs we had to an Oxfam on Kentish Town Road. I remember handing the bag over dubiously, with no faith in the resale value of the contents. What a cool thing, I told myself, as I walked away unencumbered, to own no albums… yet somehow to own every album. What freedom! What choice! "I don’t know how long it took for the regret to sink in. Three years? Five? I know that I miss my pile of CDs now." https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/jul/28/cd-sales-rise-taylor-swift-collection-nostalgia-90s-oasis-bashy-metronomy-kitty-liv

"Santana was amazing" https://www.nbcnews.com/video/woodstock-attendees-record-oral-reflections-214437445834?utm_medium=paid&utm_source=fb&utm_id=120211100185990033&utm_content=120211101585230033&utm_term=120211100733090033&utm_campaign=120211100185990033&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0BMAABHdJecfSNiFwfLqShDDx0i33lxEzzP3ULupP8JfnBgx2tHdCNXYmq6POvag_aem_VdkFks0-xjlzQmbEs7_47A I hope the above weblink works.

'But as well as providing a decade-by-decade summary of Armstrong's career, the Louis in London album also captures his complex identity as a performer." https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20240722-louis-armstrong-the-us-jazz-icon-with-a-controversial-legacy

"The records were to be destroyed after the war but many of them survived." https://archive.org/details/V-discs1-991943-1944