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    Kenwood receiver

    About 10 years ago I curb found a Kenwood or 707 home theatre receiver. I can't find any information on this model online anymore familiar with this I have been using it in my living room system
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    Carl Reiner, longtime comedy legend, dies at 98

    https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/30/entertainment/car-reiner-obit/index.html
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    Mardi Gras: What are you playing

    #GratefulDead #AllTheYearsLive #IkoIko Grateful Dead - Iko Iko
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    Making A Record (1918-1924)

    British Pathé
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    The studio at the Coltrane home

    Two articles about The studio at the Coltrane home https://www.prosoundnetwork.com/recording/a-labor-of-love-supreme-jazz-john-coltrane-studio-home-restoration-landmark-music https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/john-and-alice-coltranes-long-island-home-named-national-treasure-733485/
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    A Lost Album From John Coltrane Is Found

    https://www.npr.org/2019/08/16/751516859/a-lost-album-from-john-coltrane-is-found-with-thanks-to-a-french-canadian-direct?fbclid=IwAR0UrFGpIL0XsJgFZgDmLaY5XqSKnN-a9kI61C2Wngvel5ATQ7DeEg0gihY&t=1565969314904
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    A Man Called Adam

    On 3 August 1966, 'A Man Called Adam' was released to American cinemas. The film starred Sammy Davis Jr and Louis Armstrong - as the character Willie "Sweet Daddy" Ferguson - as well as singers Mel Torme and Frank Sinatra.
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    Recording studios

    In my research about sessions, I became interested in the studios where some of these great recordings were made. Here’s a youtube video about Capitol studios in LA.
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    RIP Roy Hargrove

    Trumpeter Roy Hargrove passed away on November 3, 2018. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Hargrove
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    Radio OTA vs. online

    I know this has been addressed elsewhere but I need additional input. I am not an early adopter of new technology and I would prefer to listen to an analog tuner but my favorite two stations WBGO and WKCR are not accessible to me anymore. WBGO moved there antenna from Newark to MId town...
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    Happy birthday Frank Sinatra

    Yesterday was Frank Sinatra's birthday, I'm a day late and a dollar short but I'm going to make up for it today.
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    RIP Grady Tate

    Grady Tate, Prodigious Jazz Drummer And Noted Vocalist, Dies At 85 http://kosu.org/post/grady-tate-prodigious-jazz-drummer-and-noted-vocalist-dies-85
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    Pray For Della Reese, She Reveals Sad News About Her Health

    American nightclub, jazz, gospel and pop singer, film and television actress, one-time talk-show hostess and ordained minister, Della Reese, whose career has spanned six decades needs your prayers. http://www.iloveoldschoolmusic.com/praying-for-della-reese-she-reveals-sad-news-about-her-health/
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    stereophile announces Record Sale at The Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of

    https://www.stereophile.com/content/record-sale-rodgers-and-hammerstein-archives-recorded-sound
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    RIP Clement Moorman

    I am so sad and sorry to inform you that Clem Moorman, a friend of more than 50 years, passed away yesterday at the age of 101. Clem was one of the most wonderful persons I've ever known - talented, funny, charming - just a great guy. He leaves he wife, Kris; daughters Clementine and Melba...
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    Remembering John Coltrane

    On July 17th , 1967 ‘Trane died of liver cancer at age 40.Had he lived he would have been 89. John Coltrane: cultural saint of the black power/ Black Consciousness/ Black Arts movement as well as an actual Saint of the African Orthodox Church, which owes its Episcopate and Apostolic Authority...
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    RIP Geri Allen

    Geri Allen, a world-renowned jazz pianist who had been serving as the University of Pittsburgh's director of jazz studies, died Tuesday. http://www.post-gazette.com/news/obituaries/2017/06/28/geri-allen-obituary-pitt-jazz-studies/stories/201706280103
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    Militant analog audiophile

    My alter ego.
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    RIP Mickey Granville Roker

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Roker
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    Anyone here use TVFrog

    I just heard about the TVFrog does anyone here use it? Is it any good? https://www.freeseetv.com/tvfrog/index.html?Affid=497&s1=t56&s2=5k0hg253l5du&s3=&s4=&s5=74394934
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    All the Presidents' HiFi

    Discussion in Fisher forum made me currious about what systems the Presidents listen to. Here is President Obama's White House system Dmitry Medvedev president of Russia from 2008 to 2012
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    Dave Valentin (Stroke)

    I heard through the grape vine that Dave Valentin passed away, I cannot confirm it at this point however I believe the source. Dave suffered a stroke in 2012 and has been trying to recover ever since. When I get credible conformation from a news source I will post loink.
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    Earliest jazz recording was made 100 years ago this week by New Orleans musicians or was it?

    http://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/entertainment_life/music/article_04e8c0d4-f586-11e6-8db9-f3d44537ad63.html “Livery Stable Blues,” the first studio number scratched into wax by the Original Dixieland Jass Band in Feb. 26th 1917, sold more than a million copies and became the first product...
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    A member of the Godfather of Soul James Brown’s band drummer Clyde Stubblefield passed away

    https://blackamericaweb.com/2017/02/20/little-known-black-history-fact-clyde-stubblefield/#.WKrLuT15z9I.facebook
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    Barbara Carroll, Pioneering Jazz Pianist and Singer, Dies at 92

    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/arts/music/barbara-carroll-dead-cabaret-singer.html
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