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Nonetheless, we'll miss the USPS if/when it is gone. Hope they take care of the funding soon.

Awaiting arrival from Amazon, due in Monday-Tuesday.

Another new Bob Dylan cut distributed this morning! He's really inspired right now.

I have three packages sitting somewhere between here and St. Petersburg, Russia, so I feel your pain and will raise you one. When USPS misroutes them, they do eventually arrive. Overseas, not always.

We have some friends who are teachers, and they are having a very hard time coping with the online format day after day. I couldn't do it, find myself sometimes mentally exhausted after leading a single meeting on MS Teams.

Amazingly good. By far the best rock record of 2019 that I am aware of.

Shipping was $6.37 not terrible. I did order it but couldnt find anything else worth buying for the free shipping

Not fair, but good!

But it is limited and cannot be used for this set (I tried).

I'm also a big fan of those Marion Brown Impulse! albums, and the other two he did on the label, "Three for Shepp" and "Vista" (all very different from each other). I've never really "gotten" Fawn, but need to try again.

I love working from home - good company!

My absolute favorite Mingus (which is saying a ton), and a desert island disc for me.

This just showed up from the same source (Philadelphia Inquirer website): CORRECTION: Gene Shay in hospice with coronavirus by Dan DeLuca, Updated: 17 minutes ago Editor’s Note An earlier report indicated that Gene Shay had died of coronavirus. He remains hospitalized at Lankenau Medical Center, his daughter said. The news of Shay’s death had been posted on the Philadelphia Folksong Society Facebook page on Wednesday morning and reported by WXPN-FM, the radio station where Shay hosted the Folk Show until 2015.

Philadelphia broadcasting icon and Philadelphia Folk Festival co-foudner Gene Shay has passed due to Covid-19 complications. He was 85,and on the scene in Philly since 1962. He, Ed Sciaky, and especially Michael Tearson were the premier FM voices in Philly during the early-mid 70's WMMR/WIOQ heydey. Shay, Tearson, David Dye, and Michael Cuscuna all had runs at WXPN, Penn's university station. https://www.inquirer.com/obituaries/gene-shay-dead-coronavirus-dj-philadlephia-folk-festival-20200415.html Here are a few career highlights from the article: In 1963, he and his wife Gloria brought Bob Dylan to town for the first time, for a sparsely attended gig at the Ethical Society on Rittenhouse Square. In 1967, Joni Mitchell, who he called “the most creative person I ever met,” played “Both Sides Now” for the first time on his show. But it was as an informal — but seriously informed — presence on the radio through the decades where Shay had his most influence, particularly on the generation of rock deejays who came of age in the 1970s were shaped by his style. Legendary Philly DJ Ed Sciaky, who was Shay’s assistant in the 1960s, called him “the father of FM rock radio in Philadelphia.” “I always tell people he’s the reason I’m doing what I’m doing,” said David Dye, the former host of World Cafe. The nationally syndicated show on WXPN-FM (88.5) was named by Shay when it was founded in 1991 as part of his side gig as an advertising copy writer. When Shay retired from the XPN iteration of his Folk Show in 2015 after hosting it for 20 years at the University of Pennsylvania station, Dye said “he had a great, non-announcer announcer’s voice. And he also had complete command of the subject matter. His interviews were always really casual, informed and interesting.” "Without Gene Shay, I would never had had the career I did,” said Michael Tearson, who was at WMMR with Shay in the 1970s. “He was one of the most universally liked and loved people I have ever known.” At the Folk Festival, “his terrible jokes became an institution.”

LOL!

Got a second response back from the guy at Cherry Red, and he is moving the idea to some others there for further consideration.

Great story in retrospect, but could easily have been a terrible tragedy.

I got a positive response from Cherry Red, saying they would consider the sets, and asking my thoughts on which of their family of labels would be the best home for them. I'll let you know if I hear anything more from them.

would have been more impressive had they kept it to artists who were on the BN roster in or around 1959. Think what you will of Robert Glasper (my opinion is mixed), he and Charles Lloyd recorded for a whole different BN, which to me has basically nothing except a name and label design in common with the 1959 BN. Off the top of my head, Morgan, Dizzy Reece, Louis Smith, McLean, Donaldson, Sonny Red, Mobley, Clifford Jordan, Stanley Turrentine, Curtis Fuller, Bennie Green, Jimmy Smith, Horace Silver, Duke Pearson, Gene Harris. Sonny Clark, Freddie Redd, Horace Parlan, Paul Chambers, Art Taylor, Art Blakey, Kenny Burrell.