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Norah J. is the only Blue Note performer I have seen perform inside a CD store, with me standing about 4-5 feet from her keyboard and her mother standing about 2 feet to my left.

"No official cause of death was given, however the family said Mendes had been suffering with long-term Covid, and the musician was known to have suffered respiratory problems since the end of 2023." https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2ng6ng17no

Decades ago, I would hear this song coming out of houses:

"Did Charles Mingus write the first punk song? And who was the Butthole Surfer of jazz? Suren answers these questions and many more. Reading his irreverent guide to jazz, filled with punk references and colorful language, is more fun than getting arrested for vandalism..." https://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/books/52163 What inspired you to write your book? Bob Suren: An unsatisfactory experience at a jazz club. When I first got into punk rock as a teenager, some more seasoned punks taught me about how punk rock works. They loaned me records and zines and made mix tapes and invited me to shows. The few jazz clubs I have been to have not been particularly welcoming. After a visit to some snobby club, I thought, jazz isn’t supposed to be like that. Really, nothing should be like that. But jazz was the original outsider music. Granted, I wasn’t kicking around when it was but it sure seems dusty and aloof now. I belong to several jazz groups online, to gather knowledge and read opinions, and there’s very little sense of humor in the groups. There is a lot of what the kids call “gatekeeping” and a lot of jazz experts flexing their credentials... https://microcosmpublishing.com/blog/2024/03/interview-with-bob-suren-author-of-weird-music-that-goes-on-forever/

Roll Over Beethoven

https://www.npr.org/2024/08/09/nx-s1-4969761/milton-esperanza-is-the-new-album-from-esperanza-spalding-and-milton-nascimento

Be among the first to get the Celia Cruz quarter: https://catalog.usmint.gov/american-women-quarters-2024-rolls-and-bags-celia-cruz-MASTER_AWQCC.html?cgid=2024-product-schedule

"I made the argument to my wife that we should do a clean sweep. I took all the discs we had to an Oxfam on Kentish Town Road. I remember handing the bag over dubiously, with no faith in the resale value of the contents. What a cool thing, I told myself, as I walked away unencumbered, to own no albums… yet somehow to own every album. What freedom! What choice! "I don’t know how long it took for the regret to sink in. Three years? Five? I know that I miss my pile of CDs now." https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/jul/28/cd-sales-rise-taylor-swift-collection-nostalgia-90s-oasis-bashy-metronomy-kitty-liv

"Santana was amazing" https://www.nbcnews.com/video/woodstock-attendees-record-oral-reflections-214437445834?utm_medium=paid&utm_source=fb&utm_id=120211100185990033&utm_content=120211101585230033&utm_term=120211100733090033&utm_campaign=120211100185990033&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0BMAABHdJecfSNiFwfLqShDDx0i33lxEzzP3ULupP8JfnBgx2tHdCNXYmq6POvag_aem_VdkFks0-xjlzQmbEs7_47A I hope the above weblink works.

'But as well as providing a decade-by-decade summary of Armstrong's career, the Louis in London album also captures his complex identity as a performer." https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20240722-louis-armstrong-the-us-jazz-icon-with-a-controversial-legacy

"The records were to be destroyed after the war but many of them survived." https://archive.org/details/V-discs1-991943-1944

I hope the set includes Lena Horne.

A town's local history society has said a punk gig which “caused mayhem” and resulted in certain types of live music being banned in public buildings for two decades is "not worthy" of a blue plaque. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp38z28yjpvo

In my opinion, Colombia’s goalkeeper should have been able to prevent Argentina’s goal.

I will be watching the final of the Copa America, including the Shakira halftime.

I had the same experience shipping packages Media Mail from Texas to Florida. I mailed the first package on a Wednesday and it arrived to its destination on Friday. My guess was that the Media Mail plane flies out of Texas on Wednesday evenings. From then on, I shipped all Media Mail on Wednesdays and each time the package arrived in 48 hours.

This video reminds me of the reenactment of the original ballet for The Rite of Spring.

If you don't mind another Rick Beato video, here is his point of view:

Hadley Caliman's Iapetus - if you are a Santana fan, you might want to compare this recording to the beginning of the Caravanserai album.

Well, the concert probably rocked Toronto:

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/jun/11/how-music-got-free-docuseries-paramount

Has this Asian band already been posted here?

A bluegrass version of a rock song:

A protest song:

Maybe the best view of the saxophone is at the 0:48 seconds mark of the video.