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Think I'll shop Office Depot: https://www.axios.com/staples-refuse-pay-landlords-rent-april-coronavirus-11dd7832-4ba6-4afa-9331-3885cae7ce23.html?stream=future&utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alerts_business

Not disputing the validity of the worry, but I don't see any indication that it is "the doctors" talking about this. It's one link to one source (the South China Morning Post) and it's preliminary findings that may or may not be worrying. Since any news or data coming out of China including Hong Kong) is best never met with a blind acceptance, here's a look at the SCMP: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/south-china-morning-post/ Doesn't seem to be fringe-y or anything. But still, I'd use caution when attributing things about this situation to "the doctors", ok? In that spirit, here's a direct link ti the SCMP article: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3078840/coronavirus-low-antibody-levels-raise-questions-about

But you know, look who was doing what, when, and how. Attention to the details is not unrewarded. Nat got it out there, in real time.

And/but oh by the way, look at who the arranger was here:

Indeed! They go hand in hand. Sellers sell, buyers buy, the businesses of seductions and allowances continues until the score is made, the deal sealed, the essential bodily fluids extracted, up to and including the blood. In the end, preservation devolves into preservation into...embalming. Dance With Death indeed...

Well....take your time, if you know what I mean. But at least get aware of it.

Just that a lot of things happened that some people didn't like, and rather than look at the bigger picture, they shrunk it all down into what they liked, and then created an esthetic/sociology to reflect that. I repeat myself (hard not to do at this point), but Cannonball, the one time I saw him, 1974, had about as diverse an audience as any gig I've ever seen. Pimps & hos, doctors and ladies, hippies and old folks, EVERYBODY. The notion of the jazz economy having that sort of nexus, where damn near anybody from some point on the spectrum come and get something out of it...we don't have that any more. And part of the reason is that "jazz" got all serious and shit (which of course it is, but...) and people started talking about "Oh Babe" and "Walk Tall" like it was degrading, and OMG, RHODES and shit....ok, good. you fill up Lincoln Center once in a while. What about the rest of the world for the rest of the nights? Concert halls? Clubs where people are shot looks if they dear shout encouragement? Motherfuckers all suited up and sober? WTF kind of jazz is THAT????? The kind that a certain segment of the "jazz fan" base decided was what was needed, apparently. No smoking, no drinking, no thinking of some man in a restaurant, is that what you REALLY want? I'm sure it seemed like a good idea at the time, but, you know, people getting wigged out about Robert Glasper and shit like that...long overdue, musically and historically. Open that shit back up from ALL sides.

So, like, almost 30 years ago? That's been it? They're completely inconsistent, but not completely irrelevant!

Victims of the Commerciala Virus, imo. Cannonball, Gene Ammons, the list goes on, not indefinitely, but far enough. If not for the Acid Jazz thing, even more would be lost to the landscape. Bot, not all of it was "great music", but that is not the point. There is a form of cultural genocide at play here, b/c other forms of music can and do pimp their "relevancy to the culture of the times", whereas African-American jazz of both popular and populist bents keeps getting relegated as irrelevant or worse. EVIL, even. So sure, every sorry ass Woodstock band has "iconic" status, whereas who the fuck outside of a few cratediggers (real or honorary) know about Cannonball Adderley having a band that TORE UP clubs for a decade or so playing for audiences of ALL persuasions, not just with Bobby Timmons, but waaaaay past that? A band that Joe Zawinul immodestly but not entirely inaccurately said was hipper than Miles' band of the same time, why are we even having to "discover" that shit like this was not only happening, but happening STRONG? This is a cultural issue, not a musical one. "Jazz fans" are their own worst enemies sometimes.

What about Experience in E, has that ever been on CD at all? That's another one...uneven as a whole, but an essential part of the overall picture.

What about the Nast A&M/CTI records? Have their been at least Japanese issues of those two? Very much "niche" items in every way (especially musically), but I'd love to have them in good digital form in some form or fashion, along with the gorgeous album covers (even if in reduced size)

What I had once hoped for was a set of complete, unedited, real-time set after set collection of all the Capitol live dates. I realize now that those tapes might not still exist, and that if they did, they would just as likely be structured as a "recording session" as they were a "club date", such was David Axlerod's grasp of what those records "needed" to be. Still, if there's a repository of non-filtered Cannonball club dates - not concerts, not broadcasts, just show up for the night club dates - from the late-60/early-70s...I know they had their routines, but...might be something to hear, that.

Might well be the same guy, but even if it was, "magical brownies" pretty much means only one thing...or did...

Yeah, that guy was a player! RIP to a perennial perennial.

Rubina Flake.

For the brownies? Sure!

God, I wish...

Just me, but I love working from home (and was approved to do it for about 5 years, before the office space opened up due to a downward staffing adjustment), don't at all like going into the office, but I can deal with it. either way, it's work. It is what it is, which is a gig. I will say this, though - there appears to be a somewhat, uh....diverse perception of how important having people all together actually is as a concept. not about what makes sense as far as specific task-execution goes. It seems like the higher up the ladder you go, the more anxiety there is about it (maybe projecting their own anxiety about maybe "losing control"?), but that might just be my perception.

Middle-aged Crowd Break COVID-19 Stay-at-Home Order to Watch Pink Floyd Cover Band, Chant 'F*** the Police' as Officers Arrive https://www.newsweek.com/coronavirus-new-jersey-concert-rumson-1496282 Is there a Venn diagram that can hold enough circles to show all the intersections in this?

I've never heard anybody mention how it's too bad that Duke Person never arranged a Hank Crawford date.

Here's a link to the actual National Veterinary Services Laboratory statement (unless this is a phony site): https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/newsroom/news/sa_by_date/sa-2020/ny-zoo-covid-19 Also included are some basic, logical, common sense Q&As.

I'm not sure if there are any subtleties...it's not well enough done to figure that out one way or another.. that's the bigger offense, imo. What's always given me the heebie-jeebies is that suit, period. Just because it was the 70s, that's no excuse.