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Disc 1. . . it's probably my favorite.

Jose James "Love in a Time of Madness" . . . something different, though his voice and phrasing is not un-Mose Allisonesque.

I'm sorry it seems strange to you. It's just an arrangement I have to have at least for the foreseeable future, and for the last six years it has been manageable. The storage unit is about 45 minutes away, near my father who is 55 minutes away. As I travel to see him a few times a week it's not inconvenient for me to stop in at the storage unit and either drop off music from home, pick up music from storage, or both. In general because I have over 20,000 cds at home and about 700 LPs, and I have about 10,000 cds in storage, I don't struggle to find things to listen to. And I can waith a few days to a week to hear something if it is not handy here. I also have about 1,000 books and about 18 instruments in storage. In all honesty I can do without a lot of these recordings and in time will (in 2020 I got rid of about 1,000 discs, but that's just the beginning of a far bigger project that I will probably begin undertaking when I no longer can visit my father--he's been in hospice for four months and that situation won't last forever). I'm enjoying having a large archive while I may. For a spell the situation continued because Lucy and I were unsure of whether we were going to stay in this tiny expanded cottage in the woods we have or move to a larger place. But in the last few years we realize we just love being out in nature and our little 103 year home and have decided to stay here. In time we may expand and build a garage and a storage space so it's a matter of when that may become feasible that determines the fate of my collections. . .

From the newly released box set of his Atlantic work, two Mose Allison releases. Mose Allison, "I don't Worry about a Thing" Mose Allison "Swingin' Machine"

I know the expense. I've budgeted it for years. Moving into a smaller house in the country from the house I had in Austin has its repercussions. But since I have also saved a helluva lot on mortgage payments, taxes and bills, I have still come out ahead with a climate controlled storage unit and still get to keep my collections if not immediately at hand.

No.

Thanks, but I don't listen to music on my computer and at the moment I don't have a way to move music from my computer--no usb connection etc. on my MacBook. I really have found all the things that I need to have so far on disc without paying 50 dollar prices. And as I have half my music in a storage unit, one could argue I don't need to find many more.

Okay. thanks--I was hazy about Quoboz as I don't do downloads either. I bet you don't encounter that choice too often.

Okay. If Quboz is not streaming I don't do that either.

Sorry about that. I'm totally disc-oriented, no streaming for me. I might have a cdr of the LP in storage. . .I am unsure, I may have let it go, I'm not a big fan of London.

https://www.discogs.com/Chris-Connor-Julie-London-Carmen-McRae-Bethlehems-Girlfriends/release/11554025

https://www.discogs.com/Carmen-McRae-Julie-London-Carmen-McRae-Julie-London/release/17368390 https://www.discogs.com/Julie-London-Lonely-Girl-An-Album-Collection/release/8054336

Gonzalo got his Zawinul on

Good price.

That Allen Eager is great! Now playing

Kenny Burrell "Asphalt Canyon Suite" Verve/Universal Japan SHM-CD This album keeps climbing high in my esteem. And the engineering is just right, as is the mastering on this new cd from Japan. Now listening to this one again, the US cd this time. This fascinates me. This is truly spiritual music. The organ and organ pedal sounds she produces are wonderful. Alice Coltrane "Kirtan--Turiya Sings" Impulse cd.

Jose James "New York 2020 Live" disc 1 of 2 Nice sound . . . live at Levon Helm Studio.

Louis Armstrong and the All-Stars, "Satchmo 1950" Universal Japan UHQCD, 2021. Same music as the April 1950 material on the very first Armstrong Mosaic set. Sure sounds good on this disc. Teagarden, Bigard, Hines. . . this is one heavy-hitting group of All-Stars.

Thanks John.

To be honest, Porgy and Bess is more DuBose Heywood than Gershwins--he wrote a novel, he and his wife turned that into a play and then worked with George to transform it into a musical.

GOT, final season, again.

The Complete Louis Armstrong and the Dukes of Dixieland, Disc 3, the Alternates.

Happy Birthday to one of the most important men of the Twentieth Century! I'm playing your music today Louis!

Time to play something from the Birthday Boy! This is the fourth volume of a great series of discs from Storyville featuring great-sounding live appearances from the All Stars in Scandinavia. I think I like this volume best but all four are dynamite. "Louis Armstrong in Scandinavia, Vol. 4"

I've made chili with Ethiopian chili powder as well. I lived in Ethiopia for two years as a Tween. There when you hear the spice pronounced then it sounded more like Peeree Peeree. I like injerra and wot but none I've ever had in the US competes with the memory of the food in Addis Ababa.