Dan Gould

I am pretty sure these have always been muscular and not structural. A pull/muscle spasm. The doctors I've consulted have always prescribed the muscle relaxants/pain meds and neither seem to work. But they also don't say "this isn't muscular".

Barth plus Wilson suggests #6 is from one of Barth's early Enja recordings with Scott Wendholt on trumpet?

Well then I guess at some point I'll get sick. Fact is that I haven't been ill since just before Covid officially became a thing. And that includes one if not two bouts with it for my wife. My contribution of things that suck about getting old: Normal every day motions that cause pain, sometimes of the enduring kind. I stepped out of the car and walked into the grocery story feeling like something was "off". A quick stretch before walking inside confirmed some minor back spasm. A little bit of pain for a couple of days, ceased exercise for a week out of an abundance of caution. Three weeks later I was trying to get two large bags of frozen chicken into the same shelf in the freezer, sort of bent over, knees bent, shaking them and shoving them and the worst back spasm of my life. Obviously damaged three weeks before and not fully healed. Continued to spasm several times a day for two days after that. Muscle relaxants did nothing, same for the pain pills. The day after I could not get out of bed on the first try, barely rose to a standing position with the firmness of the corner of the bed and iron bed frame for support, and two hours after I tried muscle relaxants a friend had.

Sounds like Resonance is moving away from the Seattle tapes as a source. While the opening batch didn't make me open my wallet I do have hopes for future enticement.

Maybe it was Getz that he considered "namby pamby"? If you don't know John S Wilson (I am pretty sure this isn't news to you Steve) but he is not someone who would have paid the least attention to Hope, Sil Austin or other honkers/screamers. That music was gauche to a John S Wilson.

Nice!

Damn I read this as Mitch Miller and expected an ode to singalongs.

I see on his Facebook page that formerly active member Free For All aka Paul McKee, trombonist and teacher, has died. If you were friends with him on FB you followed his fight with cancer over many months/years, always in the company of his adorable cat, Norman, and supported by wife Angie. I feared this day was coming sooner than later after he announced that he was going into hospice care. RIP.

Hard to use "neo-colonial" in the context of a music that was expanding the boundaries of a prior revolutionary sound/approach.

Continuing shitstorm in Boston. Only answer is total house cleaning. A huge part of this horrid start is pitching - but pitching coach didn't get shit-canned because he is the GM's buddy. A crap roster is the GM's fault but firing him - immensely justified IMO - doesn't change the people on the field so Cora had to go. He'll be fine and probably much happier. The team, who the hell knows?

Everyone should hear Arno Marsh on the Woofy label.

I've enjoyed the Clifford Jordan recordings on the label; don't notice the sound because I am not about that, but they rank highly in my book for two fantastic documentations of under-recognized players, Norris Turney and CI (Charles) Williams. Especially the latter because of the era of his prior recordings on Mainstream, he is not heard to such advantage as he is on the Mapleshade CD.

Glad it's appreciated gents.

Being from the Netherlands, Niko, I think you can't appreciate the significance of cockroaches in the southern climes of the United States. If Texas cockroaches are anything like Florida ... watch out. <green smilie here if you can't tell>

I've often skipped ahead ... so thanks for letting me know I can probably just start with Chapter 3. FWIW didn't the universally lauded Monk biography start with a veritable crapton of information about his ancestry, to a level of detail few people got anything out of?

Nice to see you here. Enjoy the musical B-Day.

Turned 60 last September. There is no plan to retire because there is no money and I do mean that literally. We operate at a deficit. My wife can't find a job that pays more and I fear she is about to be passed over for the one position that seemed the best possibility only a week ago. Our retirement plan consists of: my wife outliving me (I've maintaiined a life insurance policy, she let hers lapse and hasn't replaced) OR winning the lottery OR, me outliving my mother and her not outliving her assets. Given the above I am not sure why I made such an effort to achieve a level of fitness and general "health" in the last 23 months (down 90 pounds, normal BP and cholesterol and A1C) but I was tired of seeing myself at 275 and I figure "live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse": I can now achieve the last, at least. Being over 60 all my friends seem to speak of is our weight and whatever medical issue or test result comes down the pike. It's pretty boring frankly.

Without a doubt, the greatest Jomboy breakdown of all time. Also, RIP Davey Lopes.

1-5 to start the season, Crochet can't even help them, reverse image of the mf-ing Yankees and it really SUCKS to say NO BASEBALL til further notice on fucking April 2nd.

Getting a nice response on Percy's collaborations with trumpeter Jabbo Smith so here's another one

ABS made a big difference in Bosox game ... inning ending strikeout turned into inning-extending walk, followed immediately by two RBI singles that turned 1-0 game into 3-0 game. I was actually surprised that Cincinnati had challenges left in their half of the 9th, as the strikezone box suggested at least two bad strike calls by the ump. Did they hold off because none of them were strike 3 or on a 3 ball count? Chapman got 3 flyouts and I don't think he got to 3 balls. New world.