At one time we used to make records and CDs and sell them. We used merchandising and live performances to some degree as a promotion to generate sales of records, but now we use the music to promote the live show experience and sales of merchandise. In a way this represents a much mor...
The most frequent gifts were jazz records. Abdul-Jabbar was literally given wheelbarrows full of CDs. It got to the point that Lorin Pullman, Abdul-Jabbar’s personal publicist, discouraged teams from further supplementing his overflowing collection. “After about the seventh city with CDs, I did...