So, I randomly came across the Rockville TubeHead headphone amplifier for $44 USD on Amazon. I've never heard of this company and have no affiliation. Anyway $44 seamed strangely cheap and the VERY scant information available online made me suspicious. That said, given Amazon's generous...

http://nypost.com/2016/02/25/bh-forced-hispanic-workers-to-use-separate-bathroom-feds/     An interesting article to remind us that it matters who/where we buy stuff from.

Apparently died in November.Not much in the news obviously. Huge figure in the development of Avant-garde electronic music.

As many of you know we lost a truly great jazz guitarist/human being this week. Jim Hall passed away.   These sorts of towering figures in the jazz world are getting fewer and fewer.   It's hard to underestimate the influence Jim had on jazz guitarists and those he worked with.   Those of...