Tyler...thank you for the most recent installment. Like you, I’m curious how all those jazz records found their way to West Point! I used to do the same thing, in terms of going to a record store (really, CDs for me) and pick something I liked or look for a particular artist I had heard. I miss those days of coming home with something like Moanin’, Ellington at Newport, or Sidewinder and realizing that I’d hit the jackpot. Thanks for sharing that version of Naima...very cool!
Back in the day, before you couldn't find a record on YouTube or on the Internet, you could only find out if you hit the jackpot by buying the album. You had much more skin in the game. Unless you had a good radio station that played the old stuff, you were riding blind. It was an adventure. Some of the fun of that is gone, but we do have access to much more music now, which is great.
Eddie Harris yes! Found that album a few years ago, a few tracks on the Dinner Jazz playlist!
What a great photo. "Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does" -Jean-Paul Sartre
Best discovery from last installment: Eddie Harris. Offering Jeff Beck as exploration
Thanks, Bill. I will walk his way....
Jumping off now!
Keep on walking!
Tyler...thank you for the most recent installment. Like you, I’m curious how all those jazz records found their way to West Point! I used to do the same thing, in terms of going to a record store (really, CDs for me) and pick something I liked or look for a particular artist I had heard. I miss those days of coming home with something like Moanin’, Ellington at Newport, or Sidewinder and realizing that I’d hit the jackpot. Thanks for sharing that version of Naima...very cool!
Back in the day, before you couldn't find a record on YouTube or on the Internet, you could only find out if you hit the jackpot by buying the album. You had much more skin in the game. Unless you had a good radio station that played the old stuff, you were riding blind. It was an adventure. Some of the fun of that is gone, but we do have access to much more music now, which is great.