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No: https://www.aarp.org/money/taxes/info-2020/are-stimulus-checks-taxed.html Unemployment benefits are, but stimulus payment(s?), no.

The 1955 Newport stuff is...Baker sounds very high and/ or very nervous. The music gets better (or at least the crowd gets rowdier...) as they add more players, but he does not. And to think that the next day(?) was when Miles made his "comeback" appearance! The rest of the record is fine, though.

http://www.musiciansofthenashvillesymphony.org/2015/04/musician-profile-bill-wiggins-timpani-joined-in-1968-from-nashville-tennessee/ but it seems that Hammond Cheese had a different title at one time, and it says Wiggins there, too. Still, even if it is some drummer named Wiggins, it's not that Billy Wiggins. But...did Gerald Wiggins have any family that played drums?

I don't think he missed that at all, but the claim was "the internet's", not his, and his gentle but through evisceration of how foolish "the internet" was about all of it took precedence over calling out the obvious. I mean, his discussion could have been about how "this is not jazz at all, here's why", but then it becomes a very insular nerdy turf war thing. That would have been a very boring, quite possibly trite, discussion. Becuase of yeah, obvious, thanks, Professor Pedantski! Instead, it points out that there are claims being made that are intellectually lazy, musically unsound, and altogether harmful to the collective consciousness. a ginormous All You People Are Talking All This Shit And You Don't Know ANYTHING about What You Are Saying, NOTHING!!!! About ANY Of It!!!!! That discussion was pretty fun, imo!

I'd find him annoying but for the fact that he always gets it right. I mean, when I first started watching his stuff, I was like, ok, dude, first time yo get it wrong, I'm going off on I figured that would be forthcoming, but no...not forthcoming. The dude gets it right.you. Plus, the really delightful thing about this episode is that it's not a critique of the solo nearly as much as it is the smug, lazy-thinking behind all the internet buzzjockeys who are apparently delighting in calling out the "worst"-ness of this particular solo. I had missed all of that net noise, but that's hardly a surprise. What did surprise me was to find out that the guy who played this solo is the same guy who played on "In The Still Of The Night" - that solo has long fascinated me for many of the same reasons highlighted in this video here. For years, I've been wondering who THAT guy was, how did THAT get there? It's otherworldly, the pitch and the there-ut-not-there timing, very...."atmospheric". And, as pointed out - it's the say guy who played "the worst" solo of all time playing at the same session. And that record is considered a class of greatness. The video is not about bad playing -it's about understanding what you hear and having - or not having - a real sense of history and context with which to have a justifiable, meaningful opinion about it. I think it's excellent, and representative of the type of clear-headed 360 awareness that is needed now more than ever. Plus - the dude advocates for Illinoins Jacquet, Red Prysock, Big Jay McNeeley, and Elliot Carter, all under one roof. How can I not love that? Oh yeah, Leo P! Grace Kelley's frequent partner in crime. He gets a callout as well, for being a modern-day practitioner of one-note soloing.

A big strong Buddy Tate!

The IRS gives you plastic? No, wait, I spent it all on part of the total cost of the AC repair. For some reason I was thinking we got 4K, but of course we did not.

Delightful!

Got it and already spent most of it on an air-conditioning repair. Keeping Kool thanx to Kovid!

I can't help but think of Jack Webb. Or Cara Williams.

Gladys handled the money. All of it.

That band could swing like hell one set, and then not the next. I gotta think that some of the variables might have been what all was being consumed by band members at any given time (the so-called "collective buzz"), and even more importantly, what was going on in the room with the dancers at any given moment. If you get good dancers wanting a deep groove, you wnat to givve it to them. And sometimes, shit just happens all of a sudden, like check this out, pretty ok anyway, but then something happens on the way out, around the 2:50 mark, all of a sudden shit just loosens up to a whole other level. Why? Hell, you'd had to have been there when it happened to know for sure, and maybe even if you were, you wouldn't. sometimes stuff just happens and if you get aware of it, it stops, Sometimes.

Well, we're a "post-literate" society now, or at least rapidly becoming one. We don't really need to think and read and then execute an action based on that thinking and reading, we just need to know which buttons to push to get what we want. So yeah we know what numbers look like, but do we know what they mean, like, if you have to do analog work with them like matching a letter on a package or a letter to one on a mailbox? Sending a command is easy. Delivering an expected outcome, not so much.

Nistico & Lofsky are consistently high-interest on the very low-key club date. Recommended for those who might be curious.

I reckon that George Adams & Chet Baker had different types of "serious" in their psyches.

Let me put it this way - his singing was as much a part of his energy as Chet Baker's was of him. And perhaps not too different in "competency".

Can't say that I ever "mourned" it, but at the time it did seem like a bit of a bit of a questionable diversion. Like if you were going to go fix a sandwich or something, here's a good time to do it. But now that he's gone, and having seen it on video enough, it seems to me now that it's just his way of channeling that energy of his through a different medium. It's still, uh..."different", but I've come to appreciate it as "energy" instead of "singing". And I do miss him.

See, you are the type of person who should be buying this set. A lot of us are buying it, ultimately, just to be buying shit. But you are in for a rare treat (hopefully), and I remember what it feels like to get all that Hank for the first-ish times. Enjoy!

It's the kind of thing that if anybody else did it, you'd cuss 'em out, but since it's George Adams, and since the singing comes with the tenor playing, it's like the same picture changing focus all of a sudden and then popping right back in. A wildly different set of partials off the same fundamental. If it was anybody else....

Cat couldn't sing for shit, but all the more reason for him to do so, because, you know, sometimes you just gotta say fuck it and get it ALL out!

Well, not necessarily, they on more than one occasion did not rise above some of their more irritating accompaniment. But lord, give them somebody like Robert Farnon and it was sublime beyond description. And acapella...dismiss that at your own peril. Point just being, though, that somebody who id hateful about something that is meaningful to you can sour you on something that they find meaningful, and that's understandable in the short term, but...that's just not a way to live. Gotta evolve past that.

This is a damn good record!

See, this is what comes from just dragging an image into the posting box. I get nothing but a URL, no image.