mikeweil

Where did you get this? Me want! Seeing that Monterey performance on TV was a key moment in my musical lfe! No copies for sale on discogs.

Agreed. It was so nice to have a series of CDs which heavily featured percussionists.

So far today:

Pic from a surprise family meeting a week ago. We were invited by a friend who had just moved to Lübeck, and my wife secretly arranged that my daughter showed up to congratulate me for my 70th birthday. My daughter in the center, where she belongs, with the two most important men in her life at her sides, me and her husband to be, her mother on the left and my wife on the right. She is blessed to have two mothers now.

Oh yeah!

I will be back home later today to download.

In Opera browser it works, and better than before.

Link, please. I intended to listen during the train ride today ..... there still is the ride back home next week.

I just tried to access Thom Keith's page to download the BFT but received an error message. Anybody else with that problem?

https://www.discogs.com/release/3366079-Mongo-Santamaria-Afro-American-Latin

$ 20.00 is very reasonable. I could afford it.

This is from an MGMN session. No Universal CD release AFAIK. Why not get the Jasmine CD? https://www.discogs.com/release/11582130-Billy-Eckstine-All-Of-My-Life Seeems to be nice compilation. Don't have the time right now to check for overlaps with existing Unversal compilations. https://jasmine-records.co.uk/gb/easy-listening/2361-billy-eckstine-all-of-my-life.html

Ear wax check and removal once a year is covered by health care, as well as controlling the hearing aids. I'm skeptical about cleaning my ear tubes in the shower, as contact of the ear drum with water is not recommended, ear way does not dissolve in water, and the same goes for cleaning agents of any kind. Mineral oil cannot be absorbed by the human body and I will let none of this contact any part of my body. (Vaseline would be the exception only if protecting the skin from anything after any damage would be advised. Cleaning the hearing aids is another question. I try to do it, but is tricky and requires much care or you damage the intricate tiny electronic parts. Nothing like the real thing ..... Thankd for posting the links about dementia. As I understand it, it is the restricted stimulation by reduced social contact and aural information, kind of a deprivation, that enhances demtial processes. Whether hearing aids can remedy that, is another question. But they are helpful, I would be the last to deny that. I use mine based on the situation.

My problem is, I can't afford 6.000 for a pait of hearing aids, and, even though they are tiny with sophisticated electronics, I think the price is somewhat high, if you consider what excellent hifi you can get for that money. I tried them and thought they didn't sound that much better than the health care covered basic models that still cost 1.500. Only inconvenience is the need for frequent battery change and oustide filters (my production of ear wax is quite high and triggered by the othoplasts in the ears.