I put together a YouTube playlist of some of my favorite jazz / jazz-rock / jazz-blues tunes. This is just one list. I’ll make more. The entire YouTube list is here, with the songs shuffled a bit so that tunes from the same artist don’t necessarily play in sequence. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIZg5UVGaR2Mz5xLAPdnZCwTstb2V9xJM&si=-5w20YNMo4H49VpR Here’s a list of the performers, sorted alphabetically by the first name of the performer / group : Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers Moanin’

Radio was a constant in my early childhood and teen years. I don’t have the old gear that I used to, but in trying to piece together old memories, I’ve searched the Internet for pictures of the now-vintage radios that I used to have. The First Radio I believe that it was Christmas Eve of 1970 when I received an AM radio as a gift from my eldest brother and his wife.

When I was a kid … ten or eleven years old … I happened upon a local AM radio talk show called Beatles Trivia. It aired Sunday nights at 10:30 p.m. I was a burgeoning Beatles fan, having “discovered” them in the mid-70’s. The show began as a 5-minute segment during the 7:00 p.m. to midnight “Hall of Fame Show” on Omaha’s WOW AM radio (590 on the AM dial.) By the time I happened upon it, the show ran for about an hour.