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It’s Nice To Go Traveling, But…

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…The mailman and the UPS and Fedex folks bring bills, the junk mail that metastasizes around holidays, and—if you’re in the reviewing game—recordings, lots of recordings.

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This was the start of unpacking two weeks’ worth of packages containing dozens of CDs and a few audiophile LPs from record companies and artists hoping for reviews, mentions and votes in the polls that proliferate at the end of the year. There’s a lot of (I hope) rewarding listening to do. It is impossible to catch up, but fun to try.

It’s good to be home.

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Doug is a recipient of the lifetime achievement award of the Jazz Journalists Association. He lives in the Pacific Northwest, where he settled following a career in print and broadcast journalism in cities including New York, New Orleans, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, San Antonio, … [MORE]

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