Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes …

… TT: The machine age | About Last Night.

Needless to say, there is no substitute for on-the-spot research. As I wrote two years ago: “To be sure, microfilm and its successor technologies are (mostly) unmixed blessings, but any scholar can tell you that there’s no substitute, emotionally speaking, for handling the thing itself, be it a scrapbook or a holograph manuscript. Though constant use has drained the word awesome of much of its meaning, I don’t know any other way to describe what it feels like to turn the crumbling pages of the personal scrapbooks of the greatest of all jazz musicians.”