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Allen, to get back to the first post in your thread, Chuck Haddix of the University of Missouri-Kansas City supervises the Marr sound archives there, which reportedly has a truly massive collection of early blues records. Chuck does a radio show every Friday and Saturday night on public radio which reveals his depth of blues knowledge. He has also had a biography of Charlie Parker published within the past few years.

Allen, remember, to have a friend, be a friend. Up, Up with People! You meet them wherever you go Up, Up with People! They’re the best kind of folks you’ll know! If more people were for people, People everywhere There’d be a lot less people to worry about And a lot more people who care!

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Do you need to have a cassette player in your car to use the tape adapter?

My Dalkin FM transmitter was not that successful, within Kansas City, which probably has an average number of radio stations across the dial. We have had a consistent experience with the FM transmitter. We will get good IPod reception for a while, but then abruptly a radio station will kick in and loudly substitute for whatever is playing on the IPod. It is jarring. After a time, we came to know where certain radio stations would interfere with the IPod music. At 75th Street and the I35 exits in Overland Park, a fire and brimstone preacher's shouted sermons will come on literally in mid-note of the music playing on the IPod. The sermons come in at a volume louder than the IPod's music. That is a shock to the system. In some entire sections of the metro area, the IPod music comes on in a faint, static filled way, like you are getting a weak radio signal.

This is an underrated session in my opinion, from the late 1970s, which works better than one might expect: This is an amazing set all around, with great big band sides, featuring some of the hottest Harry James I have heard, and with many quartet sides with lots of solid Hampton solos:

Must have been the same guy who asked BBC Jazz Record Requests for records by The Lonliest Monk and Fat Swallow! In my youth jazz friends of mine were intrigued when a waitress listed her record collection of current pops and included a Sonny Rollins. "What's the Sonny Rollins?" they asked. "Oh, you know," she answered,"it's one of those cowboy records." Yes, you've got it! Maybe she was thinking about Way Out West.

I am always amazed these days that anyone goes to a jazz club, or seeks out a jazz CD to buy. I assume that everyone there will have little or no knowledge of jazz. I am just glad that anyone supports jazz in any form. If I went to any contemporary rock concert or festival, just about anything I said might get laughed at by those "in the know" at the event. One thing that posting on this board has taught me--I am ignorant about jazz, compared to some others. I thought I knew quite a lot about it, but not compared to some others.