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I walk about 5 miles a day, sometimes 6-7. Every day. Every single day. 10,000 steps a day keeps the cardiologist away!! (And that’s about 4.5 miles). As of today, I’m now up to 285 days in a row — NO SKIPS — of 10k steps-per-day minimum. Aiming for 365-in-a-row, if I can manage it. And honestly, I really need to up my daily goal to 12k/day (and try and hit THAT every single day, no skips). All that said, I haven’t done any strength training or even light weights in several years (not since the Covid shut down) — but I really probably should. I’m just a hair less than 220 lbs (way down from my worst weight years ago of 254) — but my BMI is 33.5, and I really need to loose 20 more lbs. I’m making progress, but NOT trying to loose it all in 6 months.

I just turned 57 — and my wife is ~16 months older than me.

Fortunately my wife and I have been “old fogies, in-training” for about the last 25+ years (something we’ve literally been saying almost that long). Speaking of which, our 25th wedding anniversary was just this week — and it’ll be 30 years since our first date next month. We’re hoping for another 25-30 years together (when we’ll be in our mid-to-late 80’s), but only time will tell. But seeing my dad now at almost 99, I don’t think I want to live too much past 90. We ended up retiring somewhat early, just in the last year (in our late 50’s) — my wife in March last year, and me just in January of this year — and we feel very fortunate to have been able to do so.

Pretty old thread. Anybody got any more recent data??

For those curious about the contents of the CD, I dug around and found the track-listing… https://www.discogs.com/release/36500956-Various-100-Miles-The-Classic-Sounds-Of-Miles-Davis-Friends

I’ve always loved this Boykins tune (or at least that baseline is totally the bomb) — “The Will Come, Is Now”. It came up in this other Boykins thread of mine too, fwiw.

I probably would too!! 👍

In many ways, KCMO & KCK are really one big city (plus the other inner-ring suburbs on both sides of State Line Rd). But the majority of the Black community was in KCMO, specifically east of Troost Ave — and the heart of that community was around 18th and Vine, and 12th and Vine (all around there). As in many, many cites in the US — there was redlining, and before that, racial covenants that excluded minorities and Jews from certain developments (effectively certain entire neighborhoods). Not sure how far back the redlining goes historically, but the reasons for all these patterns have to do with segregation, both formal and semi-formally ‘enforced’ through all sorts of methods used widely (certainly not just in either of the Kansas Cities).

Not counting any of the 26(?) boxes of CD’s and books (prob gonna wait until April to dig into any of that)… …we’re about 60% unpacked now. All the kitchen and bathroom stuff, and 2/3rds of the clothes — but none of the office stuff and other whatnot. There’s SO much more room in the combined LR/DR/K space than we had in DC — it almost feels more like a loft. The top 18” of the walls of the BR are totally open to the LR too, and music and TV sound carry into the BR — even the BR clock radios carry all the way into the kitchen when I’m cooking breakfast. Everything just feels more open. Windows sorta face east too, so we get great morning sunlight — but NONE of the blinding afternoon sun. (Apt in DC faced north, so we never got any direct sun.)

Same here, and on both counts. RIP.

Discovered yesterday at breakfast (on a handbill posted in a diner right in our neighborhood), that this probably/presumably amazing group is playing here on Sunday night (3/1) at a coffeehouse less than a 15 minute walk from our new digs… http://joefonda.com/eastern-boundary-quartet.html > The EASTERN BOUNDARY Quartet is a collaborative quartet featuring the Hungarian master musicians drummer Balazs Bagyi and saxophonist Mihaly Borbely and the long-standing bass/piano partnership of New York City bassist Joe Fonda and pianist Michael Jefry Stevens (co-leaders of the Fonda/Stevens Group). further in their band bio: > This unique collaboration is a mixture of avant-garde jazz and ethno music from Hungary, like a cultural bridge between the USA and Eastern-Europe. Needless to say I’m def going!

Thought I’d better tell all yinz — we’re officially in Pittsburgh nah. Drove up from DC Tue night — and the truck (and movers) with our stuff followed yesterday (all unloaded by 1:30pm). Our new adventure has begun!

Prior discussion of this tune!!

Unfortunately we just unplugged and turned in our cable box yesterday — before our move to Pittsburgh in two days (this Monday). Will have to watch it on Passport in the next few weeks when I can (we’re PBS subscriber/supporters, NPR too).

OK, here's the most epic one of Kansas City that I know of... Jimmy Witherspoon With Jay McShann And His Band – Goin' To Kansas City Blues And after a LOT of digging around on DIscogs (simply searching on 'Pittsburgh' - and scrolling through pages and pages of results), this might be the only(?) jazz album I can find with an actual pic of downtown PGH on the cover... Frank Cunimondo – Frank Cunimondo Plays George Benson Live In Concert – Vinyl (LP, Album, Stereo), 1978 [r9325057] | Discogs Seems to have been a local guy, best I can tell. It's been on CD too -- but the cover looks way too 'CD modern' for my taste -- but I'm looking for LP covers anyway (if I'm gonna hang any). Every release on that same label is by Cunimondo -- so it's essentially a private label then... Mondo Records Inc. | Discogs Here's the cover of the CD reissue...

Those are all four of the bigger cities I’ve lived in throughout my life (well, Pittsburgh starting in a few weeks). But rather than devoting an entire topic to Pittsburgh only (which there don’t seem to be dozens of examples from Pittsburgh alone) — I thought I’d go for our four cities in one thread. How many can we come up with?? The landmarks can be obscure, and don’t have to be incredibly well known — but outdoor shots that include buildings, venues, what-have-you — or best of all, entire city-scapes. Who knows — maybe I’ll decide to track down physical copies of the very best example from each city — and put framed copies of the covers in a hallway in our new place in Pittsburgh.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m unquestionably ALL in on getting this on CD. But with a total of 5(!) tunes that are all 22+ minutes each — by just a quartet (Joe + piano trio) — that’s gotta mean a LOTTA bass solos.

Track listing for the Joe Hen… A1 – Mr. P. C. (24:00) B1 - Inner Urge (26:46) C1 - Invitation (22:15) C2 - Relaxin' at Camarillo (7:41) D1 - Recorda Me (23:33) E1 - 'Round Midnight (16:10) E2 - Good Morning Heartache (9:30) F1 - Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise (23:39) F2 - Isotope (6:37) https://recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/19818

Technically mine was the Don Cherry Complete BN Mosaics — all of two CD’s total!! But that was just to dip my toe in the pool with Mosaic, just to see what one of their sets even was like (and I’d never seen a jazz CD box set up close before, of any kind). But almost immediately after, I bought the Andrew Hill and Jackie McLean Mosaics (same order), and others not a year more later (I forget the chronology). So I really consider those Hill and McLean Mosaics as my first ‘real’ box sets.

Books and CD’s were the first thing we packed — about 50 cubic feet of boxes, iirc. And that was AFTER we donated or sold off 20 cubic feet (combined) of books and CD’s. I only have about 200 LP’s (if that even) — and of those, only about 50 are ones I especially wanted to keep (but I’m probably gonna wait to get to Pittsburgh before I thin out the LP’s — mostly in the interest of time).

I’ve heard Christian McBride’s name mentioned here and there — just wishful thinking (nothing from any insiders). I suppose Jason Moran is available too (after he left the KC).

I’ve got about 55 box sets (including maybe 20 selects). At least HALF of them I haven’t spent anywhere near enough time with over the last 20–25 years — which I plan to rectify in retirement, a whole box a week sometimes (with luck). Most of them are Mosaics — but I think I’ve got about 10 non-Mosaic big boxes too.

So, a little less than 4 weeks til we and all our stuff moves to Pittsburgh. As of this post, I think we’re about 60% packed (+/-5%) — and since neither of us are working any more, we should be 90% done within 2 weeks. Which is good, because we’re taking 2-3 days to run up to PGH with a carload of artwork — plus a few clothes, and some kitchen stuff — the week before the movers take everything. Won’t be too much longer!!

No, afraid not. The set is 8 discs long — and comes in 2 four-disc ‘fat-boy’ jewel box cases — along with a tall booklet that has all the notes.

On the Dusty Groove site alone (all because the spellings on the releases themselves) — sometimes he’s Rickey, sometimes Ricky (no ‘e’) — and I think I’ve occasionally seen Rick.