Fellow music lover Charlie Schnyder asked me if I would be willing to write a quick and easy “how-to” post about getting started with a computer hard drive as a digital source. As Charlie mentioned in his e-mail to me, there are a lot of music lovers who would like to take their existing CD [...]

Dorothy Masuka is the ‘Grand Dame of African Music’ and a must hear for those not familiar with her. This is the kind of music you hear and it puts a smile on your face and you wonder ‘Why didn’t I find out about this earlier – this is great music!’. I fired up Dorothy’s [...]

I have been listening to Stan Getz’s Bossas and Ballads a lot since I bought it from Amazon a while back – I just can’t seem to get enough of it. The material for this album was recorded just before Stan’s death in 1989 and ranks up there with his best recordings like Getz / [...]