There were hundreds of LPs, most of which had belonged to my father, vestiges of his lifetime spent in radio. But lately I’d begun making contributions of my own. Jackie McLean, John Coltrane, Hank Mobley, Thelonious Monk, B.B. King, McCoy Tyner, Bill Evans, Duke Ellington, and Nina Simone were just a few of the recent additions I’d made to the shelves.

