Dmitry

Today, wife and me watched All Things Must Pass , the Tower documentary. Thank you for the heads-up. My kids were so bored that they watched the whole thing with us. Russ Solomon made us a family for 90 minutes. I really liked it, but I do have a couple of questions regarding the making of the company into what it was at its peak. Solomon owned the one record store for 8 years, when he opened the second one, this one became the world-famous location on Sunset Blvd. I didn't understand, from relying on the information from the film alone, how he went from 2 stores to 200, and a billion in gross sales in its pinnacle. It's a big difference. The film-maker almost made it so a group of California stoners got this operation going to the top. Anyhow, watching it was absolutely time well spent, and made me remember things from my past in the Tower Records, which was 15-20 years back. I'll add more later.

The link is dead. Just bought the book on Amazon, for under $10. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1606997866/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I'm a sucker for looking at jazz photographs. Thank you for the alert!

Thanks! An eventful year....let's leave it at that.

The article is overtly apologetic towards the jazz musicians who ventured into the commercial genre, like hip hop and smooth jazz. The writer is disdainful towards the sex of the critics, calling attention to the fact that the critics were all male (as if it made a difference?). At least the phrase 'old white men' is absent, because some of the critics the author lambasts were black. The article seems to be geared mostly towards African-American players, and not the whole strata. It also omits vocalists. I know, this is not a Wikipedia-caliber article, but it could be one day, couldn't it?! Just my $.02 Personally, and in retrospect, very unfortunately, I was not into jazz at all, until the end of the decade, but I did see some gigs in NYC, one in particular that I remember, was T.S.Monk's group at New York University ca.1995. They performed at the student center. Tickets were $5 or so.

Happy 55th!!

Paul Bley with Gary Peacock, ECM 1003, 1970, German release, I’m assuming it’s an original pressing. An introspective, wild, and searching trio recording, not very good from the engineering aspect, to me it sounds recorded on a single stereo mic directly to a reel deck, in a rehearsal space somewhere in New York.

Paolo Rossi died today, only 64. The 1982 Mundial in Spain was the first one I've watched critically as a very young fan, with my grandfather. https://www.goal.com/en-us/news/italian-legend-paolo-rossi-dies-aged-64/xquud7u9e9981en3z9rctoue7

I'm reading Amy-Joe Albany's Low Down: jazz, junk and other fairy tales from childhood . My first Kindle book. Just bought this gizmo. I like it, just discovering how my life will be altered around this Kindle. I now have no excuses to not read.

Why isn't there a camera in the mail room? Also, your security guard can call the package recipient, or at least log in deliveries, when they are picked up..

To enter, do you have a buzzer, or a panel on which one enters a passcode?

I'm afraid it does. I don't think car comparisons are needed. Electronics can be explained within its own parameters. If two amplifiers measure the same on the test bench, they will amplify the sound in the same way, regardless of their design. Just my $.02

My elderly uncle and his wife live in a large apartment building in Brooklyn. When we visit them , I see many packages on the lobby floor ,under the very long row of mailboxes. It's a basically a free for all. I'm sure packages disappear there all the time. Mail carriers just drop them off, and don't deliver to individual tenants. There are pictures of package thieves pasted in the lobby, taken from the CCTV in the lobby; the building is a rent-controlled home to many elderly people, and thieves take advantage of the age of the residents. I'm sure some of them are too trusting, and buzz in people that shouldn't be there. Easy pickins for the thieves.

Jay Hoggard - Mystic Winds, Tropical Breezes. Was listening to this record just now, after almost two decades. This is very VERY good. Surprised it wasn't released on cd.

Jay Hoggard - Mystic Winds, Tropical Breezes

Was this part of the 300 million deal? I told you he made out like a bandit!

Did you see the nod to the Battle of the Little Bighorn and general Custer?

I love this cover!

Well, I set up the Grado Me+ late yesterday night, and had time to play just 2 mono albums - Song For My Father, BLP 4185, New York USA - right away noticed less surface noise than with the stereo cartridge. The Modern Jazz Quartet, PRLP 160, 10" original from 1953 - there's no magic, record wear from a heavy 1950s needle can't be reversed. Like porcy62 said, the mono cartridge seems to track the grooves better than the stereo. I noticed that on the much more dynamic Horace Silver album. I'll do some fine tuning tonight.

There's a English term FRENCH FITTING, which refers to boxes usually [think today's apartments], where a number of items are nicely placed next to each other, maximizing the use of enclosure. Like the brace of Le Page pistols above. Scandinavian design ideas of simplicity certainly didn't manifest in your automobiles. Saabs, especially, were anything but simple to work on. In good news, I received my cartridge, and will be mounting it tonight.