More recently, and in the real world, the best gift ever was the release of pianist Les McCann's Never a Dull Moment! (Live from Coast to Coast 1966-1967) a few weeks before Christmas 2023 and less than a month before his death at 88, on three vinyl LPs.
After he passed, McCann received numerous glowing obituaries, in both the jazz press and the larger international media landscape, the latter focused on his second act as a fount for hip-hop samplery. His music was borrowed more than 300 times by the likes of Snoop Dogg, Notorious B.I.G., Mobb Deep, and Cypress Hill. One hopes this provided an added revenue stream to the royalties he received on the 50+ albums he released since his first in 1960; still, such a commemoration unjustly puts McCann's original work in the shade.
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Audia Flight FLS10
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Totem Acoustic Element Fire V2
Totem Acoustic was founded in 1987, in Montreal, Canada, by a former high school math teacher named Vince Bruzzese. The company's first product, the Model 1 loudspeaker,' impressed me so much I bought a pair.
MoFi Electronics MasterDeck
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Soulution 727
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Alex goes to Japan
Arriving in Japan from the United States is like being turned upside down. This condition lasts for much of the first week. When I visited in November, the time difference between Tokyo and New York was 14 hours. \"The floating world\" is a term for the pleasure-addled urban culture of Edo-period Japan, but it's also an apt description for the twilit and not-entirely-unpleasant weirdness of first arriving in Tokyo. Everything seems slightly unreal.
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Since the original WATT/Puppy concept kicked off in the late 1980s,' there has been a 40-year evolution leading to the latest version reviewed here.
