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Not "Joe"'s birthday, but curious if anyone is in contact/knows anything about... Just thinking about him today, as I do from time to time.

Total Jazz by Blutch

I'm on holiday in Malaysia. Living on Africa, off-the-grid and without music there.

Jim, thanks for the SOTW link. I slept through that one. Amazing to me that Selmer would make just a handful of anything. One or two, for a marquee player. A million for tout le monde.

My C Melody is a Buescher. I imagine a Selmer Mark VI C Melody, if such a thing existed, would play closer to in-tune.

I spend most of my time off-the-grid: no internet, no electricity. But I'm on my annual trip to on-the-grid Malaysia. So what have I got? No LPs, no CDs, no Spotify (does that still exist?). Nope, from this computer, I can access the couple-dozen MP3 files I own. Organissimo Christmas music and downloads of albums "bought" (?) through Kickstartr.

Sorry, it is probably behind a pay wall. Interesting to me. I grew up playing altogether and tenor in the sixties, seventies, eighties... The article captures the sentiments of my days around these horns. My cousin owned the largest musical instrument store West of much-of-America. I could have had innumerable Mark VIs at wholesale or less. Still these were more expensive than other horns (at same discount), so I went with the product I could more readily afford. Regrets? I would go with the milder "occasional twinges". And yes, I still play. Yamaha, mainly. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/the-legend-of-the-selmer-mark-vi?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Daily_010624&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&utm_term=tny_daily_digest&bxid=5bea04523f92a404693e5cf0&cndid=8049298&hasha=249c6f3ba6da9f452aaf57df6b7689e6&hashb=0672c70953f2ad5edeb32477a04ceaecfa9574a2&hashc=6050ecdeb31a7e169e20bc9c2aef4a17a508003dbc0f35d165412ddfed82949c&esrc=OIDC_SELECT_ACCOUNT_&mbid=CRMNYR012019

Jazz music is "the clearest of all signs of our age's deep-seated predilection for barbarism". Richard M. Weaver

I received that message too. I interpreted it as the end of the print magazine. Online magazine does me no good.

I picked this up from Axios Chicago. Chicago jazz great Redd Holt died late last month. He was the last surviving member of the Ramsey Lewis Trio. (NYT)

It doesn't matter what I'm searching for. Books, music, hot sauce, baseball caps. Lowest price to highest... Highest price to lowest... Most popular... Highest rated... The sort I always want: Least popular to most. Once in a while, I can choose "Most popular" then reverse sort. Am I alone in wanting "The Lost-to-the-Mists-ofTime, Pre-Fame Recordings of..." over "The Greatest Hits of A Seventy-Year Career Collected in One 45-Minute CD". Don't make me scroll 400 pages.

My print collection goes back to about 1971. db and Jazz Times, plus some random five-or-so-issue flashes in the pan. I will say, once again, some day...

Wishing you a speedy return to robust health.

Amen to "West End Blues Add: "Ain't No Sunshine". MY late wife and I didn't really have "our song", but this one comes pretty close, in my mind. "Strange Fruit". Even an instrumental, since the words are lodged in my mind.

I spent my late teens and early twenties sitting behind Jessica, watching her play at the Keystone Korner. Thanks, and RIP.

Richard Hadlock Passes

I go to the internet. Yeah, there are some limits to the 3x5 cards. Frankly, it isn't that often that I (just speaking for myself) am looking to hear every version of "all the Things You Are" that I have. If I'm looking for, say, James Moody's "Darben the Redd Foxx", I have a good first place to look, and I can go to the interwebs for others. I did, basically, start with the 3x5 cards on my first record purchase back in the 60s. Funny to look back: first LP was "Way Out Wardell", a Wardell Gray album with almost completely wrong discographical notes on the cover.

Are you ready? My collection, about 10,000 items, is cataloged on 3x5 cards. Every person appearing on any recording (leader, sideman) has a card. On that card, I've listed every recording that that individual plays on. I've color-coded things: LPs are written in black; 78s in green, 10" and other less-common (in my collection) formats in red; CDs in blue (just so I know what part of the house to search).

Don't want to derail thread, but thanks, Dan. Still travelling 365 days, subject to pandemic constraints. It's volunteering and consulting. Settle down? Not within me to do that.

I put in 36 years. New leader and the desired demographic of the organization changed, younger among other things. Watching the axe fall around me, I pulled the plug. Preëmptive. No severance. Real point of the story is that I turned life to a mix of volunteering and "consulting" and have never been busier or happier. Instead of taking out a business license, liability insurance, a limited liability company, a taxpayer ID and all the other stuff that "real consultants" do, I opened up an account and a "looking for short term gigs" profile on LinkedIn - my only social network - and harvested weekly offers...selectively. I know there is (or was) a better site for IT people, but you'd probably know better. More tech-y friend of mine used Indeed. Just be sure to pay quarterly estimated income taxes. My biggest hurdle was accepting that the world has changed. People coming up these days don't think about 36 or 40 year careers.

Richard Wyands, native of Oakland, back at Keysone Korner in San Francisco, an Oakland suburb. Photo features back of my head. (Thanks to person who posted on Twitter.) https://mobile.twitter.com/i/web/status/1337280360699359232

Sonny often used to play outside the window of my San Fransisco office (1982-1986). I, a dude in a suit, chatted with him a few times. After a while, he recognized me, but I was pretty self conscious about being a guy in a suit. I'm so glad to have gotten to hear him there and later in concert.

I wasn't sure when I'd be able to.post in this thread again. Tonight at Andy's in Chicago, Eric Schneider. It's been a really nice show. Casual and friendly. The audience, perhaps ten people at the first set. I don't think I've been to Andy's since seeing Organissimo here. Will be back again Friday.

I work in a health care facility, though I'm not a doctor. Current projections show I will be eligible to register in June. Considering my lockdown began in January 2020 (in China), it's starting to feel like a long wait. Then again, we weren't even supposed to have a vaccine available until about now.

Bagpipes, absolutely. Clarinet, yes. (Worse, for me: oboe.) I'm really pitch-sensitive, so trombone is "vulnerable" and somehow bothers me more than, say, cello.