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The US Postal Service will probably release a stamp commemorating Quincy Jones in a few years.

I am not a fan of "Greatest 50 or 100 or whatever" lists. Nevertheless, here is one on salsa: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/best-salsa-albums-1235139298/la-33-la-33-2004-1235139611/?fbclid=IwY2xjawGSQaBleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHYFL9fe8YwzJddvXggy5kSkoprkaqq6PNBzFXEyQgeS3nQb9F4MWDAUNuA_aem_5ft-TmYZYacxgFw2mYPc0A

I could not stop looking at the blond lady in the back...

Barbara’s friends and collaborators extensively documented her important life while she was still here. One standout is The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane, directed and co-produced by her friend Maureen Gosling. A video oral history was done by James Early and Dan Sheehy. She published an autobiography, This Bell Still Rings: My Life of Defiance and Song. We are fortunate to have her words and memories. https://folkways.si.edu/news-and-press/remembering-barbara-dane-1927-2024?mc_cid=6cd8ac245b&mc_eid=2c917bba9f

Michael Brooks, was an archivist, a music salvage expert. He worked deep into old age at Sony’s New York office: curating the company’s labyrinthine back catalogue… Today it is the turn of Mongo Santamaría, a Havana-born conga drummer who died in 2003. Santamaría specialised in Afro-Cuban pop and Latin-flavoured covers of songs such as Proud Mary and My Cherie Amour. Matt rubs down the vault copy of his album Workin’ on a Groovy Thing and gives it a spin. I’m braced to dislike it but it sounds terrific…. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/oct/21/my-father-the-music-archivist-sony-novel-catchers

Got to listen to some Rory Gallagher once in a while:

I have CDs that I also thought I would not listen to more than once – but then comments I read (often on this forum) about the music on the CDs make me pull out the CDs and listen again!

There probably are several live stream cameras in the Tampa area that will let you see (on the Internet) the hurricane's landfall - at least while the cameras do not go offline.

For those who have no problem with Norah J.

The "White album" comes with photos of the Beatles inside, but I would say the cover is entirely white without "them on the cover".

Takei and his family were placed in a camp for Japanese-Americans during WWII. https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2019/12/04/george-takeis-familys-japanese-american-internment-nightmare/

You will be reading about heroin and needles on the first page of the book's preface.

Take a look at Anita O'Day's autobiography, High Times Hard Times.

cover of While My Guitar Gently Weeps

In the “Ready for Freddy” recording, Jane Getz says she called Henry Grimes after the alleged assault. So presumably Grimes saw the scratches, bruises and welts that Getz says were on her body. So…maybe, perhaps weeks or years after the alleged assault, Grimes wrote down what he saw, perhaps in some oblique statement; and, maybe again, some historian can find what Grimes wrote in the “Henry Grimes Papers”: https://archives.nypl.org/mus/29957