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Just learned that yesterday (forget from what media source, maybe an extended NPR obit). And I can totally hear it too. Can't say I'd heard the song more than 2-3x before (total), nor am I very schooled in the Bee Gees -- but that harmony between Dolly and Kenny is unmistakably the sort of sound I associate with the Bee Gees. Here's the first Bee Gees version of the song that came up in a quick search...

FYI, just a word about the wonderful reporting that Talking Points Memo is doing (and all their Covid19 coverage is outside of their paywall), and has done for nearly 2 decades now. I’m a proud paying member for 3 years now (at the $100/year level), but basic membership is just $50/year. I can’t say enough good things about TPM, and I’ve been a loyal reader for 15+ years. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/ I won’t be so crass as to link to their membership page, but check out the site, visit often (lots of their reporting is available FREE), and 6 months from now, if you’re still checking them out frequently, please consider joining. If I could afford to join at their $500/year level, I would in a heartbeat.

Nice one! I’ve had this on CD for 15+ years, iirc. Recorded at a church somewhere in St. Louis (I grew up outside of St. Louis), and I’ve meant to try and track down the exact church, which I imagine is still around (or the building, anyway). Free-jazz with a bit of a “James Brown’s rhythm section” kind of feel. Recommended! 👍🏾

Those were the best 3 IMHO too, but the Dizzy Reece especially, is just phenomenal.

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-us-canada-51986611 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/21/arts/music/kenny-rogers-dead.amp.html https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1165531

Don’t know about that. Yeah, sure they’ll sell, probably just like ALL thermometers in these times. But I’m sure they’re not cheap, and they don’t actually offer any actual extra protection (that I’m aware of). That is, unless they are specifically informing individual users when their temperature readings pattern looks like it “might” be Covid19. I saw coverage about this on Rachel Maddow (MSNBC) last night, and I don’t know a lot more details than that for the moment.

Reuters is as non-partisan a source as I could find (and appears to be the very first source on this story as well)... https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-germany-usa/germany-tries-to-halt-u-s-interest-in-firm-working-on-coronavirus-vaccine-idUSKBN2120IV BERLIN (Reuters) - Berlin is trying to stop Washington from persuading a German company seeking a coronavirus vaccine to move its research to the United States, prompting German politicians to insist no country should have a monopoly on any future vaccine. ...which I find... https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unconscionable

I think(?) if you "leave a message on (Username's) feed..." -- THAT'S what turns out to be publicly visible to anyone/everyone (and it turns up in the "unread content" feed, further calling attention for everyone to see it). If you (instead) hit the "Message" button (the one to the right of the button that says "Follow Member") -- I'm pretty sure that creates/sends a message that's private only to whom you send it (although you can sent it to multiple recipients, and maybe even invite other new members to existing message exchanges -- which does allow more than just one recipient to see your message -- but only those to whom you specifically send it / invite). At least that's my understanding of it all.

More than that, it's fake and false in many respects... https://www.lamag.com/article/coronavirus-hoax-stanford/ https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/coronavirus-symptoms-stanford-tips-protection-pandemic-advice-a9399621.html https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/viral-social-media-posts-offer-false-coronavirus-tips/ https://www.fastcompany.com/90477045/no-you-cant-test-yourself-for-covid-19-by-holding-your-breath-viral-email-chains-debunked And there are plenty of other reputable on-line articles debunking this supposed "Stanford" guidance viral email. Dan, please edit your post to remove all that, and thank you.

Less than 36 hours ago (I forget which night it was, around 11pm Friday night, iirc), the DOD banned all DOMESTIC travel for ALL Defense Department employees and all Military personnel, including all Defense Contractors, and all of their families -- for something like the next 45 days. The Military knows this is fucking serious. You will quickly see a wall between the entire Military (and all of its support personnel), and all of the rest of us. I'm betting DOD's orders on this will only escalate in the next 7-10 days. Spokespersons for the Federal Government (for the Executive Branch, let's just say it), who are doctors and epidemiologists are all TELEGRAPHING that we should be shutting most everything down to some degree or another, for several weeks. But none of them will answer any direct questions about whether we should do X, Y, or Z that is CLEARLY consistent with everything they are telegraphing -- instead saying it's up to local authorities to make those determinations. All of whom, are also flying blind without widespread testing available. Sound Korea can test something like 15K people for Covid19 every single day. The US hasn't even tested 15K people TOTAL, the last I heard -- and the majority of tests conducted in the entire state of Utah were on a pro basketball team. That got the NBA shut down, which was the first domino in shutting down all sports, pro, college, and amateur at all levels -- so that's good. But it's a crime that something like less than 150 tests were even available in the entire state of Utah (at the time the Jazz got tested). I'm sure testing will get better in the next 7-10 days, but where the fuck was that 3 weeks ago? The WHO had a test we could have bought, and had an ample supply of 3 weeks ago - but we decided to go it alone. American Exceptionalism, YAY!!

I posted the article, and I'll defend it. The degree of shutdown in this country (US) should be significantly greater by now. Only hindsight will eventually tell if that's correct (or not), but we are headed the direction of Italy more and more with every passing day. My wife is a Federal employee, but the Federal Government isn't telecommuting yet (or it's only "optional" - and only for some). That's where they should have been 7-10 days ago, but it's not clear that they'll make everyone work from home even by the end of this week. Lower middle-level managers are privately being encouraged (by their Middle middle-level bosses) to "be bold" in granting telecommuting approvals, in the complete absence of any clear direction from above. And every agency is on their own in deciding what to do. It's staggering. I won't get political, but these are all executive agencies (each headed by cabinet members), and you know what I'd probably say next. It's not hyperbole to say that in large measure, the fate of the nation rests on the 50 Governors of our states, and each state's individual plans (and the individual strengths and weaknesses of each of those governors and states). Articles like this about "worst cases" shouldn't have to be helpful (and I agree, under normal circumstances they probably aren't). But when the Federal Government is completely dragging their feet, week after week (wide scale testing has been promised "next week" for 3 weeks running now, but with an extremely slow rollout), then articles like this are probably both usefully and unfortunately necessary, to get people to wake the fuck up. I've seen polling on the news (from 2-3 different sources in just the last 48 hours) saying the degree people are taking this unfolding crisis seriously (or not), is CLEARLY correlated to the political affiliation of those being polled. WTF?? I hope to hell that we're only looking at a couple 10's of thousands of deaths (when this is all said and done) -- but the stakes are potentially MUCH, MUCH, MUCH higher. Which is all this article was trying to say. A reputable guest on Face The Nation this morning said that we're looking the potential of multiple Wuhan-size events in this country alone (Washington State, and New York City being just the most likely first two instances). Unchecked, the infection rate doubles every 6 days (I've seen 5-6 days cited a lot, as well as 6-7 days). Exponential growth is not something you fuck around with. Everything that can be shut down, should be. EVERYONE should be limiting their social contact to AT LEAST 80% LESS than normal. Notice, I didn't say 99%. I'm not being alarmist about demanding a perfect response. But the message from the Federal Government has been extremely muddled, and limp, and with extraordinary mixed messages -- resulting in the partisan divide on how serious all this is. By the time it's all so bad that it's CLEAR we need to do something WAY more serious, it'll be two weeks too fucking late. And it may already be. Ask Italy. Or Iran. We've had at least 6 weeks to prepare for this, and it seems like we've only been fairly serious about it for 7-10 days, and the best laid plans seem to be about 3-4 weeks behind schedule. And in the absence of widespread testing, our best healthcare and virologists are flying blind. I shut up now, before I get political about it.

This is a New York Times article (and all their Covid19 articles are NOT behind a paywall). There’s more context in the entire article, but I’m quoting two full consecutive paragraphs from the story. I recommend reading the whole article. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/us/coronavirus-deaths-estimate.amp.html Headline: Worst-Case Estimates for U.S. Coronavirus Deaths Between 160 million and 214 million people in the United States could be infected over the course of the epidemic, according to a projection that encompasses the range of the four scenarios [See earlier in the article for more context.] That could last months or even over a year, with infections concentrated in shorter periods, staggered across time in different communities, experts said. As many as 200,000 to 1.7 million people could die [in the U.S.]. And, the calculations based on the C.D.C.’s scenarios suggested, 2.4 million to 21 million people in the United States could require hospitalization, potentially crushing the nation’s medical system, which has only about 925,000 staffed hospital beds. Fewer than a tenth of those are for people who are critically ill. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/13/us/coronavirus-deaths-estimate.amp.html

Apart from making meals at home WAY more (probably 80%-90%), my wife and I have decided to only get take-out food specifically from a very small number of mom-and-pop local places (no chains). There’s an incredible Ethiopian restaurant about 3 blocks from us, with just the loveliest people ever who run it. And we’re gonna get takeout from them 1-2x per week, and I’m planning to have them charge me for an extra 2 entrees each time we get food there (starting tonight), just to try and help keep some cash flowing for them. I know it’s not a lot, and not enough to make or break them. But they’re SUCH good people - really about THE nicest people at any restaurant we’ve ever frequented in all our years. Not a penny (from us) for Chipotle any more during this crisis (which is gonna get a lot worse), or for/to any of half-a-dozen other fast-casual food chains we’ve always gotten half or more of our meals from (simply out of convenience). Every penny (of our pennies) for take-out, (now) goes to the French bakery storefront in our apartment building (run by the sweetest older couple you’ve ever seen), or the aforementioned Ethiopian place, or maybe 2 other mom-n-pops off the top of my head — from now until life gets back to normal (or some kind of new normal, where those kinds of businesses are staying afloat ok).

Is the US just 2-3 weeks away from where Italy is now? https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/who-gets-hospital-bed/607807/

Just did a grocery run myself. Pretty busy for a Friday at 1pm. Some things were pretty wiped out: rice, beans, pasta. Didn’t even notice if there was toilet paper (we’ve got plenty). I’d say it was as busy as a Sunday mid-afternoon (which isn’t quite as bad as Sunday nights, which are the worst): Headed back out on a Target run in a few more min (no car, so every set of errands I can only carry so much). If I can get ~4 packages of frozen fish fillets, plus what all I just got, we’ve got plenty of food for 5-6 days, maybe 7. I *know* we’re not sheltering in place, but there’s no telling if there’ll be such a run on stuff, that by Monday or Tuesday a lot of the shelves may be bare a couple days. I’ll admit to stocking up of a bunch of toilet paper a couple weeks ago (when I first heard of Australia literally running out in 48 hours). There was PLENTY here at that time, and I figured better now (then), than having to worry about running out when everyone else had stripped the shelves bare (which probably is the case now, or close to it). We’re not worried about things very much. We’re both healthy, relatively young (51 & 52), and we don’t have any kids (and all our folks live 1,000 miles away). We’re pretty much hermits half the time anyway, so it shouldn’t be any big deal to us (as compared to plenty of other folks).

Please change it, Jim.

Can we please get the thread title changed in some way? Maybe “Has Kenny Rodgers died?” at least? - so it doesn’t sound so declarative, since there doesn’t seem to be anything corroborating in the news (nothing at all, it seems).

Can somebody set up one of these for Kenny then? http://isabevigodadead.com/ There were repeated reports of Abe Vigoda's death from about the the time he was 60, until he actually died at age 94. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abe_Vigoda#Mistaken_reports_of_death

I've been meaning to dig out that CD for about a month or two, which I definitely have (somewhere) -- not with the book, I have to confess, but in some slimline jewel-box around here somewhere. I seem to remember one particular large-group track specifically with some really nice free-leaning TRUMPET-playing (a fairly extended solo, iirc). And looking at the discographical details of that CD now (HERE), it must be that same "Eternal Egypt Suite, Part 4" track (which discogs thinks is the only one with any trumpet whatsoever). Hell's bells, here that very track from the "book" CD. That trumpet solo I really loved comes in around 2:30 (2:35, actually), with Steve Smith on trumpet. And OK, so here's ANOTHER live version of that very same tune(!), as performed at Harvard in 2011 by the " Dudley House Jazz Band". Just goes to show you never can even imagine all the unbelievable stuff that's up on YouTube sometimes... WTF, there's MORE versions on YouTube still! Another one still!! And yet ANOTHER version...

Just watching this doc again today (actually just have it on to listen to, while working on other stuff from home). For the first time, via what PBS broadcasted. I'd previously seen the doc in a theater here in DC like 6-8 months ago (with no censored language). And seeing the comment above, I thought "well, yeah, it's PBS and broadcast TV, so of course they're gonna have to censor stuff" - and I thought, no biggie. But man, they could have done a MUCH more artful job of eliminating the offending language, than all those loud, high-pitched BLEEPS. I don't mind the censorship, but why couldn't the documentarians have muted the interview/speech part of the audio track (leaving the underlying music), so the 'bothersome' words were just gone. I'm *sure* they had designs on this doc being broadcast on PBS as part of a series like this, either American Masters, or the Trane doc aired as an Independent Lens doc. In any case, the filmmakers HAD to have known this would be on broadcast TV. Hell, it had to have been their *AIM* - to get picked up by PBS. So to serve this up to PBS with all those goddamn BLEEPS, instead of more artfully taking out the language, is just a minor bit of malpractice, far as I'm concerned. Shameful. Not the censorship, but the WAY it was done. If this gets released on DVD/Blu-Ray through PBS (under some "American Masters" series release), I sure as hell hope it doesn't have those BLEEPS.

I am supposed to go visit my Dad in St. Louis the end of this month, but I’m about 95% sure I’m going to postpone the trip until May or June. The next 2 weeks and beyond are really going to reveal the depth of the situation here in the US (however deep it goes). Not trying to be doomsday-ist about things, but I think the cat’s probably more than out of the bag here than most people realize yet. I hope I’m wrong. My Dad is 92, and generally in good health (or at least none of his ongoing medical issues would predispose him to Covid19 hitting him especially hard). But at 92, who knows? Certainly at 92, this thing is going to hit my Dad’s age cohort hard; harder than any other generation.

Set up an automated search on eBay, and it'll alert you whenever a new copy is being sold. Bet you'll snag a decently priced on inside ot 10 weeks.

I should listen to the Miles & Stitt 1960 recordings again, specifically for Kelly. I think Miles’ playing is a lot more fiery (with Stitt), than earlier with Trane - probably because Miles didn’t need/want two fireballs going at the same time (but I often wished Miles had played more aggressively w/ Trane).

Most influential jazz pianist since Bill Evans?

I must regularly watch a good smattering of YouTube videos that demonstrate things, and explain them -- because I'm forever seeing such things in the suggestions YouTube's algorithms serve up for me from my viewing habits. I'm guessing some of that comes from the various Reddit sub-forums that I subscribe to (especially /r/mechanical_gifs - which often have better related YouTube videos in the comments -- and also /r/TIL - which stands for "Today I Learned"). And gosh knows there's plenty of music-related 'explainer' videos I stumble on a lot (and usually watch). In any case, here's a wild one to kick off this thread. Feel free to post any sort of "explanation/demonstration" video you like here -- good, or bad -- and of course, let's discuss... Decoding the (Swindon) Magic Roundabout (actual discussion specifically of the certifiably insane Swindon Roundabout starts at the 6:00 minute mark, exactly)