Guy Berger

Those trio albums are enjoyable but this band was much much better after Dewey Redman joined. I know it is a minority opinion but the best Jarrett is combos with horns, followed by Jarrett in trio format, followed by piano solo Jarrett, followed by multi instrument solo Jarrett. The guy benefits from having his “heroic self expression” bounded by consideration for other musicians.

Yeah, that's unlikely. But a world in which the number of ongoing new cases is very small and we have the testing/tracing regime to quickly nip outbreaks in the bud is very different than what we're experiencing in the US. A lot of activities that are safe in the former regime will be risky in the latter. New Zealand is not the only country that has succeeded.

Let's start with one specific thing... there are countries out there that have licked this thing, where infections are at a very low level and monitoring is really good/vigilant. A lot of the economy can reopen. A lot of the economy can reopen safely in that situation. Unfortunately in the US we decided not to do that. So instead we're ending up with the worst of both worlds, a lot of deaths and an economy whose reopening capacity is more limited. Estimates of herd immunity range from 25% to 70% of the US population. We're still far short of that. Even if we magically optimize for the least risky and intentionally infect them, we'd still end up with a lot of additional deaths.

As an only-partly-recovered CD addict, worth mentioning most of the BS/SN stuff is on Spotify.

Yes, but far fewer in countries that have managed to suppress this epidemic... and economic activity has recovered closer to normal in those, too. Really sad for the USA.

And they'll lift the new lockdown once the latest outbreak ends, presumably quicker than the initial one in Wuhan. This is a highly contagious illness without a vaccine and very low immunity among the population - you'll periodically have flareups even in countries that are doing a good job. But in those countries, the flareups will typically be smaller/shorter.

A lot of places around here have gone cashless, which would avoid that problem... but I’m guessing a lot of lower-income folks don’t have cards or smartphones

Let me flip this, it's actually *relatively* good news - places that have managed to significantly reduce cases can now catch and end outbreaks early. More prone to both, I believe. Glad you are ok. Generally I am an optimist on the vaccine as in we will develop an effective one and the public will be able to get it sometime next year. (It will take a long time to manufacture doses.) Maybe in the interim we'll also get some useful therapeutics. Unfortunately, there will be a lot more deaths in the meantime.

Your troll was more successful than I would have anticipated

RIP. Hard to imagine today’s music sounding the same without his enormous influence.

Devastating.

If you do the math and assume that deaths average "just" 1K per day for the rest of 2020 (much below the current run rate), you end up with a really sobering number of deaths by year end. And given reopening happening in a really hasty and premature way, that seems like an optimistic estimate.

Bought both of these on BandCamp yesterday, have not listened to either yet. one is a series of duets with Nasheet awaits titled The Koanda Effect. On Relative Pitch records the other is an album of solo saxophone titled Sacred Vowels, Berne’s first one, on Berne’s new digital label 9Donkeys.

Because of BandCamp’s one day waiving of pay sharing, I went on a Pi binge. I bought 2 Liberty Ellmans, 2 Fieldworks, and 3 Steve Lehmans.

This is a great session. Really glad I picked it up way back when, especially since Spotify doesn’t have it.

I like Higgins but I don’t think his grooves were less funky than those of many of his peers

I‘m not sure that is a compliment to the BN boogaloo sound...

Charles Lloyd’s ACOUSTIC MASTERS is really great and makes me wish he’d record more with more conservative rhythm sections.

Looks like we’re headed for some US meat shortages due to the meat packing plants experiencing COVID outbreaks. I wish we protected our essential workers.

RIP Henry. Thanks for your amazing contributions.

I really love Lee’s music, especially the post-1965 music. I was enjoying the Birdland recording on ECM last night - with a killer rhythm section of Brad Mehldau, Charlie Haden and Paul Motian. I saw Lee only one - at the Blue Note in NYC, with Bill Frisell, Gary Peacock, and Joey Baron. Great gig. Btw JSngry once said about the cover picture on a LK Btw JSngry once said about the cover picture on a LK album: ”If I didn't know who they were and saw that photo, I'd still think it was a bunch of crazyass old men. And I do mean that as a compliment.”

My 2 1/4yr old was dancing to “Good Times” from YOU KNOW THE NUMBER and is calling him Henry Thread

I think it depends on how effectively you can practice/enforce social distancing in these events. You could probably seat at some people in any location (and clean thoroughly afterward), but at 6 feet apart it would be a fraction of normal capacity

Grim evidence that the official COVID death count is a significant undercount https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/10/nyregion/new-york-coronavirus-death-count.html

Re reinfection, this is worth reading.