Jazz for aficionados
I did not know that . I was buying a good Saxophone, for a niece I love dearly , who was going to music school at Indiana .(on my advice) I called a friend who was a brass man in Navy Band and an excellent HS music teacher . He told me what to buy but not how much it would cost . No never mind , I would take out a $100, 000 loan for her . |
Forgive me father for I have sinned . . . . When I began collecting records (for the music) I had a Steelman suitcase style portable with a 3" speaker, 4-speed BSR record player, "flip over" needle for LPs and 78s, AM radio, and some tiny tube amp with 2-3 watts if I was lucky. I didn't know any better. Some years later in college a couple of friends put together "hi-fi" systems by buying each piece separately rather than something all-in-one. By that time too stereo recordings were common. I was blown away by how much better music sounded on their "systems". Thus started a long and slippery path of selecting and upgrading individual components for my own system. I will admit that after many years I reached a point when I spent as much time "obsessing" over my system as I did listening to music. Then I came to my senses. As much as I enjoy the musical presentation of my system it is the music itself that provides the real pleasure. |
To me , this classic speaks, a few mm down , of the plight of the several hundred thousand foreign students , from freshman to PhD, whose visas were voided by DC this July 6 , immediately, because their college’s and universities had with hard work and great expense set up on-line classes that they might not be devoured by C/ 19 . https://youtu.be/fOUrnUktTjU?t=3 |
