Armand loves jazz! Jazz with a powerful bass and strong ending. "Not the kind of music that ends as though they're tired of playing it."
In the early 1920's, jazz was gaining popularity and as a 7 year old afficionado, Armand wrote a song titled the Washerwoman Blues. He has a dance style that's all his own, moving to the music and not to a set of prescribed steps and turns. Jazz gyration at its best!
"I get all worked up and sometimes I scream, sometimes I cry." A few nights ago, he went to sleep to the sounds of Gerald Wilson blowing through the late night darkness.
Armand continues to prepare for his philatelic exhibition in San Francisco later this month. Color scans of his collection have been completed for a revised version of The Chinese Presence in Tibet, which will be translated this year into Chinese.
But first Armand must file his income taxes, like everyone else. He's been paying taxes since 1941, when he made a record $1,480! Twice in his tax paying career, he sought the services of a tax preparer. Dissatisfied with their outcomes, he's done his own taxes ever since.
Check the blog over the next few days for samples of Armand's jazz favorites. They may help you to gyrate the tax blues away.
Photo: Payroll Systems, Walnut Creek, CA