Brad

Currently watching a series on the Silk Road on Amazon, by a French journalist, called The Silk Road. I watched Gomorrah a few years ago when it was on Sundance. Very compelling.

Here’s an example from my Word file, which is similar to Ken’s (I chose a page at random): Teddy Edwards and Houston Person – Horn to Horn – Muse 5540 Teddy Edwards – Steady with Teddy – Cool ‘n Blue 115. Sides from Dial Records (1946 and 1947) and Rex Records (1947 and 1948) Teddy Edwards - Sunset Eyes - Pacific Jazz Records (CDP 7243 4 94848 4 5) Teddy Edwards and Howard McGhee - Together Again!!!! - Contemporary Records S7588 (OJCCD-424-2) Roy Eldridge and His “little jazz” – Joue Pour La Dance – Vogue L.D. 004 (Vogue No. 3) Roy Eldridge - Roy Eldridge in Paris - Disques Vogue (BMG-09026-68209-2) Roy Eldridge – Heckler’s Hop – Hep 1030 Roy Eldridge - Little Jazz - Columbia Jazz Masterpieces (CK 45275) Roy Eldridge - Little Jazz: The Best of the Verve Years - Verve (314 523 338-2) Roy Eldridge and Dizzy Gillespie - Roy and Diz - Verve (314 521 647-2) (BMG Club Edition) Duke Ellington – And His Mother Called Him Bill – RCA LSP-2906 Duke Ellington - The Blanton Webster Band - RCA (5659-2-RB) Duke Ellington – The Cosmic Scene – Columbia CL 1198 (Mosaic MCD-1001) Duke Ellington - Ellington At Newport 1956 (Complete) - Columbia/Legacy (C2K 64932) Duke Ellington – Masterpieces by Ellington – Columbia Masterworks ML 4418 (Columbia Legacy CK 87043) Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins – Impulse! IMPD-162 Duke Ellington – Piano in the Background – Columbia CS 8346 (Columbia Legacy CK 87107)

I’d like to see some restructuring of our healthcare system but I doubt that will happen.

Begs the question of what will be “normal.” Maybe normal will only become 2019 normal when there is a vaccine.

My Word file has everything yours does except the name of the musicians. I’ve been keeping it since the late 90s when I first started listening to jazz.

Love that video of Spin Me Round Records. Phillipsburg is about an hour from here — yes, a little far — but will go there once this is all over.

Things are getting expensive! https://photos.smugmug.com/Family/i-zw4xmnt/0/a7695013/640/IMG_0344-640.mp4

Spanish officials seem to think that cases will hit the apex very soon and then level off. We are a couple of weeks behind Spain. Unfortunately, Spain has not yet hit that mark.

Is that one of those rider ones. We only had half an acre.

I’ve decided to keep using Discogs and not Collectorz. I put in sufficient time inputting the albums into Discogs and don’t want to repeat the process. Moreover, Discogs has more information than Collectorz but I only need basic information. I also found that if you tried to input a boxed set into Collectorz, it would only do one disc so you’d have to repeat it several times for the remaining discs. For me, they are essentially the same.

This was back in the mid 80s so a crappy gas powered push kind.

I’m with Lon on this. Sometimes we are too analytical from an audiophile mindset. On the other hand, whatever works for you is good too.

Wilton is right next to New Canaan; I used to live in the area.

Gov. Cuomo thinks this will peak in the next two to three weeks. I assume the same pattern will follow in NJ, which now has 11,000 cases. I’m not even sure I will go to the grocery store during that stretch.

PayPal transfers are free for the buyer but the seller gets charged a fee, unless it’s a friends and family transaction.

Unfortunately, I don’t really know the answer. Perhaps PayPal marketed itself better as the preferred payment option.

PayPal doesn’t necessarily bring bank accounts together; the money in your PayPal account and CC are the first source of funds. Besides interbank transfers and PayPal, there is also the possibility of Venmo, which is quite popular with many and in some quarters has superseded PayPal.

I’m not going to address whether a debit card payment is an interbank transaction because the topic is complicated. PayPal acts as an intermediary to bring payees and payors together. When a payor makes a debit card payment, it’s usually to a merchant. For a there to be a debit transaction between two similarly situated person such as a record buyer and record seller, you’d need a third party to act as intermediary. I’m not sure — but am glad to be proved wrong — our debit card system is set up like that.

I’m not sure of the answer but PayPal took off when eBay started to use them. Interbank transfer is not a concept that we are generally familiar with in this country.

Here’s an article about books that, as the author puts it, “evoke a sense of place so strong that they make me forget, momentarily, that it’s March and I’m inside. Some are new, some old, some longstanding favorites, and some I’ll be reading for the first time. May they take you somewhere, too.” In This Moment of Solitude, Books Can Be Our Passports

Does your wife have a paypal account. If she’s savvy, maybe she could do it.

Hans, glad to hear it. When I can go down there, I will do so.

Same here. It’s a great one.