can't decide among several so I will toss them all in!

1) long ago, Sharon taught me that, if the name of the month contains an R, it is good luck for the first word you say upon waking on the first of that month to be “rabbit”. And yesterday I learned that the Japanese consider it good luck to watch the sun rise on January 1. Today I did both, so ( Read more... )

My fave Christmas album!

rediscovering a track I fell in love with forty years ago and then sorta forgot about... [if I could find a link to share it here, I would]

geting a terrific bargain on CD bundles of reissues of like twenty Sonny Rollins albums from the 50s and 60s -- ultimo-primo sutff!!


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Over sixty years after it was recorded... and over forty years after I first had it recommended... I am finally hearing Jazz Goes to College!


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the music and musicianship of Chico Hamilton

The Song of the Autumnal Equinox!

a nice lady at the car-audio shop who saved me a trip in for a service appt by walking me through “how to remove the front of my player and hit the hidden internal reset button”

being able to listen to [purdy damb near] the compleat recorded works of Thelonious Monk

the arrival of the second Sulk album:


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