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I have the ESP CD, playing now, most assuredly is not a needle-drop.

I've got it in the to-get-to pile, I'll let you know.

In my lifetime, I don't think I've ever walked into some kind of place and heard a Rusty Bryant record playing. One more reason to laugh at the foolishness of humanity!

https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/brattleboro/obituary.aspx?n=laurence-mazel&pid=17006717

Hooray!!!!!

Regrets, he's had a few. But then again, too few to mention. https://www.texastribune.org/2020/06/26/greg-abbott-texas-bars-regret/

Spirited and purposeful!

Somebody should make a chronological compilation of Jo Jones solos on "Caravan". That might be interesting...this one has one where I looked up and thought that Chico Hamilton come up and sat in.

It's good to have friends.

I also get how people who don't have patios and yards and shit might not enjoy staying in their apartment or other spaces all the time. That's not me, thankfully.

Good stuff all around, but those sextet sides really speak.

It's gonna go viral!!!!!!!!!! #areyoufuckingkiddingmedadjokegroannnnnn

My guess is that I'm ready to tell MLB to go fuck itself, but that wasn't an option on the poll. What's the closest correct answer?

Evolve or die, at some point. Harsh, but provably true. I'm doing great with it myself, my company is acting like they love it and are in no hurry to get everybody back into the pen, traffic is better, air quality is better, buying exponentially less gasoline/etc. If I was a fossil fuel industry or a commercial real estate broker, I would be ramping up all the old scare tactics and threats, but really, this is one of so many things that we just can't keep doing forever like we always have. It just doesn't make sense to not start evolving now. If ever there was a catalyst, this is it.

Some of this is really interesting, some of this is really not interesting. No matter, this Alan Sondheim guy has certainly gone forward with many different things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Sondheim I also don't see any bed or any cigarettes, just a trio of a harp, a chair, and a harpist (is that Eddie Higgins?). Total botch-job.

Working remotely if/when possible should continue to be aggressively encouraged and evolved.

I have zero problem with staying home as much as possible or wearing a fresh mask when I have to go out. Anything less would be uncivilized.

No, puke holds no surprises for me, nor does Benson's ego. Just sayin'...

Worth noting that not only did Jamal get entrepreneurial about owning a club so he could work for himself (ostensibly?), but that it was a club that did not serve alcohol. Self-Determination Music comes in many forms.

The last Sonny Simmons in the pile for today, and yeah, best saved for last, I do believe!

Now that's a quote I'm going to need to see in full, and in context, before actually puking. Puking takes a lot of energy, so I need to make sure I'm expending it sensibly!

I can but imagine how Frisell and Desmond would have worked together, who knows what accommodations/adaptations might have occurred. However, it never happened, and trying to process all the possible outcomes in my admittedly limited imagination, I'm glad it didn't! although, in theory, can you really be glad something did not happen without knowing what might have happened if it did? I'm going to worry about that for a little while... Ok, done!

Desmond w/no chordal instrument backing can he heard on both the records he made with Mulligan, as well as that one old Fantasy date he did with Don Elliot. It's always a fun thing!

Ok, Texas is certainly incredibly fertile ground for ALL kinds of Libertarian/Far-Right/Lunatic Fringe/Etc initiatives, but there is not a lack of nuance therein. Keep an eye on the trio of Abbot/Cruz/Cornyn vis-à-vis El Presidente, there is no lack of bad blood there, this being the latest: https://www.texastribune.org/2020/06/19/empower-texans-greg-abbott/ How do we live with this shit? By just living with it, and not letting it ruin our day. To this point, that's been do-able with all the other abundances of goodlife that the inalienable creator has given us, not just right, but 360s! But, at least not yet, at least not yet in a public hearing caught on tape for the whole world to hear,nobody here has been accused of masks being the devil's work. For that honor, you have to go to our good friends in the Great State Of... https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/06/24/mask-mandate-florida-anger-erupts-coronavirus-vpx.cnn I guess in Florida, they reject the Devil. In Texas, it's more like, get in line Satan, you'll get your turn soon enough.

I'm thinking I once read that the hiatus was basically stress-induced, a combination of his club (Alhambra, and no alcohol severed, iirc) folding and Crosby passing. The cat still had some money and wanted to take a break while he still had it. Can't vouch for that, though, but the chronology does support it. Interesting replacement for Crosby, Art Davis was, if only in the studio. Crosby left some big shoes to fill. Not at all a flashy or otherwise obvious player, but just listen to him, his tone, his time, just a monster of a bass player, of creating the literal bottom of that trio.