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Had a bit of a chill and headache yesterday. Nothing serious, though, and ibuprofen helped. Today is starting off just fine.

With a special recognition to member optatio, who took a chance on faith when it looked like there was none left to be had. But everybody who plays is a winner!

Slam Stewart Billy Bang Captain Obvious!

Got Pfizer #2 yesterday afternoon, not quite 24 hours ago. No side effects yet, fingers crossed there won't be any. My son and his wife both had their side effects about 24 hours post-shot. They said they felt like shit for "the day" and then it was gone.

Richard Roundtree Otrie Barrett Barrett Deems

Hugh Brodie is on this record!?!?!?!?! oh my, originally a Cobblestone! Ah, nee Juan Amalbert. I see!

The Sunshine Of My Life Jimmie Davis Sheila Jordan

Von Freeman lived to be 88.

Minus some intervals of sobriety, Dexter did not take care of himself in terms of lifestyle He lived well, regally, actually, which is a different thing altogether. That, too, was common knowledge, I thought. Look, none of this matters, really. It is what it is.

Chico's music always has such texture because it starts with him, his drumming, the way he tunes his kit and his stick/mallet technique on both his drums and his cymbals (his cymbals are always particularly exquisite). He was one of the most sound conscious drummers ever, imo. He lays such a bed of sound down himself, that everything else on top of it has no choice but to sound rich.

Louis comes down to Earth from the sky and lights up the joint for everybody waaaaay more than they could ever have lit it up without him. Sounds like reality to me.

Blood Ulmer Al Gore Violencia

He was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis, and there's footage (CNN?) of him getting the hell out of the neighborhood after the attack, when all kinds of shit was still live in the air. It was him and his horn. I started hearing his tone getting more "craggy" on on Global Warming (pre-9/11, 1998), but that would have been simple "old age". Hawk had the same thing happen to his tone. But it continues on through the years, his sound definitely was not as full of air as it once was..In hindsight, yeah, it was an evolving thing, already underway, but accellerating gradually) Stamina...it appeared that more and more, he was picking his spots to go long, like one or tow tunes per gig, and letting the band carry more weight for the rest of the show.. It was obvious to me that he was his body slowing down, but he still had the will and he still had the mind. Nothing to make be think that he was going to be forced to stop playing, but when it became clear that he wasn't playing...then there was word out that he was "recuperating" and "hoping to return soon,, I was, like, uh-oh...and then the diagnosis came and that was it. Sonny had long been a physically fit guy, so maybe that allowed him to slow the progress of the disease, I have no idea how that works. And all "we" can see is the public side of it. Who knows how the disease was progressing for the man off-stage? For that matter, when he makes his on-line speaking appearances now, who knows what prepping up he has to do for those? We don't know. Nor, really, should we have to. None of our business, really. Just know that he's doing it, as much as he can, while he can. As I told people when he was out there playing and they were casually dismissing it for various reasons, this ain't gonna last forever, don't take Sonny Rollins for granted, you better appreciate this while you have it, because when it's gone...and it's definitely going to be gone sooner rather than later now. So...appreciate what you have, while you have it.

This is common knowledge, correct?

Shemp Thomas Dewey Adlai Stevenson

Sep 29, 1947: https://www.carnegiehall.org/Explore/Articles/2020/08/27/Diz-n-Bird-at-Carnegie-Hall Epic:

Count Basie Count Basic Count von Count

Roscoe Mitchell & Mike Reed - the Ritual and the Dance All of that!

Up to say that I've been dividing the last two days between these four discs (and the new Missy Mizzoli opera), and it's all interesting in ways that I had hoped for, The more excavatory collectors among us here will be served well by finding these records - Paul Plummer, wow, a truly unique voice, phrases that always seem to be a response to the time instead of showing it where to go, and a nice Gene Ammons-ish exhortiveness to his tone while he's doing it; Bobby Miller, ok...lets go from Sonny to Ayler, no need for Coltrane in between, WOW; and Mario Escalera, not a great player, but apparently a good organizer who always got good players to play his not-uninteresting original, I believe the term "vanity projects" works here in a non-perjorative way. Dan's impetus to go for "local heroes" to find substances that are not to be found within the "traditional narrative" was a sound one, imo, and I'm glad I got these! In between the penthouse and the basement, there's a lot of stories to be heard.

Truck stops used to be goldmines, not for LPs, but for cassettes of all kinds of music & spoken word...the rack jobbers who serviced those accounts had access to a whole 'nother type of inventory...

No, another musician said something about his breath! Trying to remember the context, and if it was Harris himself recounting it...but it was hilarious either way! Besides, bad breath DOES matter! Not once in a while, I mean, hey, that shit happens, sorry, but if it's ongoing and controllable...respect yourself. I have, and I recall them as leaving pleasant, but not really memorable/lasting, impressions.

A Salvation Army Band On LSD Lucy in The Sky With Diamonds Judy In Disguise With Glasses

Black Bone left me wanting juuuusssstttt a wee-bit more, for whatever reason. With that lineup.... speaking of the 80s, though, who was it did an interview where they blasted Craig Harris for his bad breath? Or did he talk about somebody doing that to him? Details are fuzzy at this point, but the Craig Harris/Bad Breah meme is not!