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August 21, 1999  |  By Edward J Boyer  |  In Short Takes

Record Lovers Get What They Need From the Music Man

By Edward J. Boyer — Aug. 21, 1999 When Duke Ellington had trouble finding a copy of one of his own records, he knew where to look. The same was true for Louis ‘‘Satchmo’’ Armstrong. They would put in a call to Murray Gershenz, better known as ‘‘Music Man Murray,’’ a used record dealer whose […]

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I was hooked on becoming an ink-stained wretch after seeing my first byline when I was in 4th Grade and covered a basketball tournament for our elementary school newspaper in Detroit. Those bylines continued on newspapers in high school, at Wayne State University and at the two dailies in the Motor City. I left daily journalism for nearly six years to work as a correspondent for Time magazine, but returned as a writer and editor at the Los Angeles Times…[Read More]

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