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R.I.P.

Five beautiful ladies:

"lowball" is to put it mildly or politely - do not be surprised if what Half Price Books offers you is less than what you paid to take the 78s to the store.

...he’d wandered into the back room at Village Music Record Store in Mill Valley, where he was quickly overcome by a feverish mania reminiscent of Humphrey Bogart striking a vein of gold in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. CDs? We don’t need no stinkin’ CDs! Not when there are thousands of vintage 78-rpm records piled to the ceiling. https://www.sfcv.org/articles/feature/these-record-collectors-78s-arent-just-music-theyre-way-life

Your memory is doing fine.

A Tito Puente reissue:

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/rick-derringer-dead/

Maximum Rocknroll is heartbroken/excited to announce that we are donating our archives — paper files, photos, notes, zines, books, ephemera, and yes, the greatest punk record collection the world has ever known — to the Center for Popular Music at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. https://www.maximumrocknroll.com/the-mrr-archives-find-a-new-home/?fbclid=IwY2xjawKZ_WdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFUMlpDSm1mNFlCUjc0M0g3AR7XaxPqGHbz9hDRDoTfdJVJ1Oo_TMn-9Bo-lkJicjQkARubjoONGgvIJe8Y8w_aem_Kz49b31So1D6kjdllY4ASg

Some greasy stuff

In the last few years, I have slowly given away some CDs. To a coworker who (inexplicably) brings me 2 breakfast tacos every week, I gave 2 CDs of Carl Palmer (she had mentioned that she likes prog rock); to a coworker from Aruba, I gave her a compilation CD of Louis Armstrong last Christmas (and she gave me a big smile), etc., etc. I am keeping my Mosaics until the end.

Sky Islands by Susie Ibarra

Has this short discussion/video been mentioned already? https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0kmftwy/a-great-day-in-harlem-when-jazz-royalty-had-a-family-photo

Into the evening with "Ionisation"

The sensuality of Alice’s compositions is an imposition on those who were seduced into loving Miles’ impervious cool or Art Blakey’s hard bop sound. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/deifying-alice-coltrane-were-missing-194322776.html

I do not remember seeing this mentioned here: https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/hazel-scott-documentary/35137/

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