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It must have been a foot or more over here. But things have been cleaned up fairly well. I was out on the roads once. I've seen people playing in the snow! Plenty of school and college closings on Monday.

Wife requested it

Sometimes keeping your "fingers off" is a worthy contribution.

👍Totally agree.

Cannot recommend. These are the daily strips from the 2020-2021 Covid lockdown, and most of them aren't funny. *****

Philly is "youse guys", I don't remember hearing "youse" without "guys". Pittsburgh was/is "yins", Huntsville, Ala. was/is "y'all". Don't remember what it was/is in the other places I've lived (Cincinnati, OH and West Palm Beach, FLA).

Tonight the first viewing of There well be more. Delighted to see Buddy Guy at the end.

I found a used LP of it awhile back and was kinda WTF? that it was on Emarcy?!?!?

I kinda thought that "youse" and "youse guys" were distinct and desperate phrases?

Thanks for this. Wasn't on my radar at all. Barre Phillips and Daniel Humair are holding it down! Friedman and Zoller together...magic.

Yeah, NYC.

you are damn right, loud !!!!! I heard that group in 1978 at Kongresshaus in Vienna. That venue doesn´t exist anymore, now there is a BILLA market in it🤢 Anyway, it was really loud and I was sitting near the amps, but it was one of the best live shows I ever heard, I heard Max Roach later too, with Odeon Pope and Calvin Hill, but I liked the quartet with Billy Harper more, and liked Reggie Workman more as a bassist. This is a very fine album. I think some of the albums Bud recorded in the mid fifties were not as good as earlier albums or later albums, but this one is very fine. The Monk tunes like Epistrophy are outa sight, as is Salt Peanuts and a boppish theme on Sweet Georgia Brown. Bud was really in very fine form on it.

That´s what me had told Allan Praskin with whom I have played very often. He recorded for ESP, is the co-leader of the James Zitro album. I like that album very much.

Thx. I do have 'Dreams and Explorations' and 'Metamorphosis'. Thx!

Here’s an article about the 1944 Burley handbook of jive. I have a paperback reprint that includes it and Burley’s 1959 book Diggeth Thou?: Dan Burley’s Jive I have a friend here in town, also a Burley fan, who happened upon one of the original Calloway jive volumes that were sold at Cab’s shows in the 1940s. It was a flea-market score iirc.

Now spinning: Dave Holland Quintet - Seeds of Time (ECM, 1985) with Steve Coleman, Kenny Wheeler, Julian Priester, and Marvin "Smitty" Smith Here's a YT link:

Never seen this one before...

truly extraordinary album! all three Friedman/Zoller dates are classics.

At least 2 NBA games canceled because of weather.

Eliane Elias “Quietude” Candid cd

Sante Palumbo: Jazz Alive In The Gallery. Si SI 001/2 [Italy 1975] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galleria_Vittorio_Emanuele_II