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Same board, different universes.

Great set. Is the "old buddy" a literal reference?

I'm on the lookout for same. Also of the Ill Considered CD. Going price for both seems to be $20+, and that's not happening for me.

Anything free and rebroadcasting "State of Grace" episodes? I don't keep up, watch no TV except sports and cable news (and I ration both of those).

Inexpensive (well under $30), beautifully executed box set, and some of the music is great. Nile Rodgers/Bernard Edwards (Chic) did wonderful work with them on the two albums they did together. Rodgers/Edwards/Thompson were the rhythm section that most sounded like the beat of life to my blood.

Never heard of #2 and #4, now firmly on my radar, thanks! Is it legal to have three Sun Ra cuts on the same BFT?

The they will surely be bailed out in package #4.

I work with the hospital systems for, among others, Northwell Health System (Northshore University Hospital, Long Island-Jewish Medical Center, and 21 other hospitals), New York-Presbyterian Hospital (whose campuses are the teaching hospitals for Columbia and Cornell), and New York City Health and Hospital Corporation (Elmhurst, Bellevue, and 11 other hospitals). I guess the medical staff, the sick patients, and the corpses didn't get the message that this is all fake.

That's a great idea. I'm sure it was done with bongos in coffee houses many times.

Now you're playing dirty, that's bad-bad, and I even hated it as a 9 year old. There was also plenty of good-bad (or in the case of the first one, iconic-awesome-great-bad).

I agree, but 60's rock ain't one of them!

Here is the definition. Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young have not received it, but Gloria Estefan and Billy Joel have? Huh? Gershwin Prize The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song celebrates the work of an artist whose career reflects lifetime achievement in promoting song as a vehicle of musical expression and cultural understanding. The styles in which these works are composed reflect myriad contemporary traditions like rock, jazz, country, pop, blues, folk, and gospel. The recipient-whether composer, singer/songwriter, or interpreter-is recognized for entertaining and informing audiences, for drawing upon the acknowledged foundations of popular song, and for inspiring new generations of performers on their own professional journeys. The selection is made by the Librarian of Congress in consultation with a board that is both credible and broad enough in scope to represent the full spectrum of popular song. Board members may include but need not be limited to scholars, producers, performers, music critics, songwriters, and subject specialists within and outside the Library of Congress.

Me, I've always liked "Helplessly Hoping".

Yes, I get out almost every day for a walk or two, weather permitting, thanks. Brings some sanity and is the only face to face (from a safe distance) contact I have with people outside our family.

Promising = competent and young? That didn't work out so well 30-40 years ago with the Marsalis "young guys in nice suits and hats" generation, even though they were all "promising and young". None moreso than Wynton and Branford themselves, and, say someone like Joshua Redman or Courtney Pine. They're all still competent plus, but I can't think of many that really have made a meaningful lasting (positive) mark. She did a nice version of the Tyner song, and I really like the bass player. But to me, the drummer doesn't cut it. But is it gonna ever hit my speakers in place of Tyner/Henderson more than once. Nope. But I wouldn't mind giving the album a listen.

Yes it is. I am sitting here with tears running down my face. As flawed as we are, we have been gifted with an amazing spirit within and among us as a people. Thanks so much.

Yes, everything comes at a price, and everything has pu$hback, for sure, but there is still good that can come from it. The economy will need to adapt, for sure. And it will. BTW, Trump just extended the social distancing guidelines until April 30. Thank you, Dr. Fauci. I am also often not enamored of Team Building activites, but I think they do have some value. But when given the option, I pick and choose the extent of my involvement. We may have different types of jobs which have different degrees of benefit from team building. Mine does optimally require a good bit of collaboration and mutual trust, and to whatever degree we can build goodwill and understanding of how we each tick, things do go better.

Their Cecil Taylor Montmartre set wasn't so hot sonically, either, from what I remember. But the material is so great.

So many good things can come of the telecommuting, as Mark and Jim have pointed out in the last two posts. I've used the tools for years, since we went to a worldwide distributed model for our workforce. Since we are meeting with people from Brasov and Bangalore (often together), we don't bother to get a conference room for the Malvern-based employees, we just all sit at our desks and meet on Microsoft Teams (Webex and Skype before that) It's not as good as being in the same room, but it works, and you get used to it plenty fast enough. And Teams has a lot of good features such as Whiteboard, where we are all able to write and draw on the same screen. Managers such as mine are starting to find ways to do team-building that are effective. We have "virtual happy hours" for our team on Thursday afternoons, and are having a contest for coolest home office setup at our next team meeting. I actually am spending more time communicating with the rest of my team now than I did when in the office. The positive impact on the environment can be staggering over time. The savings for businesses not needing so much expensive commercial real estate is great, and if less land is used for commercial purposes, more can be used for housing, which can re-calibrate the supply/demand for that and make housing more affordable. And families spend more time together, and people get back their commuting time, energy, and expense, and can reinvest that in different ways. And so on and so forth.

I saw Sun Ra at the Empty Foxhole on Penn's campus, probably a year or two earlier. Quite a spectacle. Small venue, and they came marching in down the aisles, in full regalia, playing their instruments. I'm thinking it was Halloween, but I could be wrong.

I love that album! To each his own.

Some things are going to change permanently, I believe. For instance, this will usher in the telecommuting revolution.

We won't be able to return to "normal" until we have more protocols/capacity to test/identify, treat, and immunize against the disease. And it will be a "new" normal in many ways, for sure.