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Avenue Greenlight, which has funded more than 300 free community events in the city over the past few years, is giving the Fillmore Merchants Association a grant https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/sf-crypto-mogul-saves-fillmore-jazz-festival-2025/ar-AA1CtDsD

Anoushka

Luiz Bonfa - Tenderly

If you still remember when "My Sweet Lord" was released, you might be interested in this archive: https://www.georgeharrison.com/archive/

Yes, Jim's research is an example that other researchers should follow.

Miguel Flores - Primitivo

Mathis was once the record holder for the album with the most weeks spent on the US chart: his compilation Johnny’s Greatest Hits, which was on the chart for 490 weeks between 1958 and 1968. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/mar/27/johnny-mathis-89-retires-from-performing-age-memory-issues

Extended until March 22! https://www.rocknrollpl.com/

Any issue I may have had with ECM disappeared when ECM released the Jimmy Giuffre 1961 album and Carla Bley’s Escalator over the Hill album.

Another version of Todos Vuelven

Hair of the Dog:

On Thursday, music labels sought to add nearly 500 more sound recordings to a lawsuit accusing the Internet Archive (IA) of mass copyright infringement through its Great 78 Project, which seeks to digitize all 3 million three-minute recordings published on 78 revolutions-per-minute (RPM) records from about 1898 to the 1950s... https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/music-labels-will-regret-coming-for-the-internet-archive-sound-historian-says/

You can hear the influence of King Crimson and the Projeckts

He set up a website where people who lost instruments in the Eaton and Palisades fires can register and people can provide donations. https://laist.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/altadena-musicians-website-instrument-donations

Brian May said "it's a good riff":

Musicians lost not only their homes - also their instruments. https://symphony.org/features/music-musicians-and-the-la-wildfires/

From Smithsonian: Estoy Aquí: Music of the Chicano Movement (6-8) | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings Cajun and Zydeco Music: Flavors of Southwest Louisiana (6-8) | Smithsonian Folkways Recordings I hope the weblinks work.

Yes, I remember when I could hear "Mirage" on AM radio - it was another world

Marianne Faithfull's 1979 album Broken English is unforgettable for me. RIP.

I know of two ladies who sat in the last rows (cheapest seats) to see Aerosmith - but just before the concert began, a band representative walked up to them and asked if they would like to sit on the front row for free. They happily moved to the front row – but then they had to watch out for the saliva and sweat that came from the stage.

More on Schoenberg: The composer’s son stored over 100,000 of his father’s scores at Belmont. The scores were held in a digital back-up, but this was also destroyed in the fire. https://www.classicfm.com/music-news/arnold-schoenberg-scores-destroyed-la-fires/

The Palisades and Eaton fires wiped out two neighborhoods with unique significance in L.A.’s music industry. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/music/story/2025-01-15/fires-la-music-jake-viator-bob-clearmountain-poolside-musicares

Speaking of Schoenberg, the fire has done some damage: https://www.ludwig-van.com/main/2025/01/13/schoenberg-archive-incinerated-historic-blaze/

Yes. Right now I am listening to the Boulez piece, Le Marteau Sans Maître

Composer, conductor, polemicist and iconoclast Pierre Boulez was born 100 years ago and, on his death in 2016, left classical music utterly changed. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jan/08/pierre-boulez-centenary--he-jolted-us-out-of-our-comfort-zone-antonio-pappano-martyn-brabbins-and-more-on-the-composer