Dan Gould

Mask wearing is about protecting others and while it's clear that the vaccines prevent serious cases, they don't prevent all infections. And its not known if such infections of the innoculated can spread to others. So mask wearing is the prudent thing to do for your fellow citizen. As a hearing aid user I sympathize Ken, especially after recently having to switch from a neck-secured mask to one secured behind the ears. Mine usually get tied up with the elastic string. But I am not about to lose one because I feel the ear mold coming out (and would immediately realize the loss of hearing acuity. The one thing I do worry about is having one fall out and be damaged on pavement but once I realize they are intertwined, I just stop taking it off until I am in the car and then it's safe.)

Visiting Mom in Naples, was glad to hear that her medicare mill doctor actually called recently to say they have shots and were scheduling patients if they hadn't gotten vaccinated yet. However she recently had her pain injection in her back, has been told not to get innoculated within two weeks of that shot. And the alternative date they offered was a day and time her weekday helper isn't available. But hopefully they will call back soon with another day/time and she'll get this thing started. She knows her daughter/my sister has refused to travel to see her until she is vaccinated. (Lisa's architecture career revolves around hospital/medical/school design so she got her shots in NYC way ahead of most people and without even asking if she could get one. They just said, hey you're coming here for meetings let's get you vaccinated.)

To me that's a case of projection/presumption by Palmer. "Intimidated" could also mean "not so sure of himself" or simply "not quite ready". It doesn't mean Morgan or Clark went out to make him look bad or treated him poorly (how does one do that?). Lee was on fire - and the album is better for it. I get why Alfred didn't put it out at the time. He wanted the right presentation for someone he probably hoped would move some records and make some noise. The record is still fine as it is and I am glad to have it. Lee teared it up. Doesn't mean he was hating on Tina Brooks.

When it came up in the Roy Brooks thread I pre-ordered on Amazon. Interesting that it is from The Penthouse but doesn't mention the radio engineer/host who was the source of other releases. So the Penthouse really had their own reel-to-reel recording off of the soundboard? And maybe that's why its not on Resonance? I have to say I am hoping that Carmell Jones is on most/all tracks and not just a couple.

I'd want to know the name of the artist on that last one. And there should be a toasty place in hell for anyone who wants to sell Michael Bolton/Duke Ellington Songbook. (Actually this one shouldn't have been written for fear it would become a reality, following in the steps of Rod Stewart.)

Had to follow thru on this ... I remember many, many years ago I took a disgusted, or at least, agitated reaction to shall we say Jim's "expanded" definition of what I thought was to be a jazz compilation. I'm a lot more mellow about that stuff since then. I still found little to enjoy here. Highs: Obviously, the Dizzy track and the Inez Andrews, both are terrific. Makes me look forward to 45 minutes of Big Nick on the flip of a Percy France club date that the Smithsonian will be transferring sometime this summer out of the Gaskin archive. I've disliked Kenton's groups because they lacked any Basie qualities. This one, I just found boring. Excuse me while I return to tilling my small plot of land inside the jazz universe.

WTH? Is this a guy who does trades, is looking for a payday from Zev/Cory or what? Does coughed up mean he digitized and sent a copy to you? (You can respond to that last question by PM if you prefer).

Nice ... though I would have chosen the Curtis Amy episode for sure. I exchanged email with his son, Lance, years ago. He had a website, Franklyjazz.com. Said he wanted to offer DVDs of the shows. Anyway neat program I will try to watch.

That's the thing for us ... it really won't change our lives. We never adopted to delivery services, so have visited Publix and Sam's with the same regularity, only the new precautions. And we've been doing take out rather than eat in about 99% of the time before Covid (since we moved, more or less). And we made it to once concert in five years. So the only celebration would be if our tenants, the aunt/uncle in-laws, joined us for dinner - but that will only be when my wife is vaccinated and she isn't as committed to soon-as-possible appointment. She's worried about allergic reactions, and given her history I can't really blame her. Otherwise its status quo ante, with just a greater feeling of personal protection when around the unmasked nimrods who are proliferating.

Jabbed yesterday about this time, only reaction a still-lingering injection-site dull ache. We'll see how I respond to second one at the end of the month.

Marcia Marcia Marcia Florence Henderson Hendu (Sox fans know who I am talking about)

Count Basie Danny Turner Dale Turner

What are you talking about, didn't you read carefully that page you had to click "agree" before entering the collection page?

The only thing better would have been if it came in 2020 to brighten up the Annus Horribilis.

Or as I noted, you can click on the extreme right of the audio player and choose "download" to get whatever file is playing.

Must be exciting for fans of that era ... doesn't really thrill me but I do see what looks like significant chunk of recordings from Left Bank concerts led by Elvin. I don't have the booklet handy for the George Coleman but was Vernon Welsh the dude running the cassette off the soundboard? Looking thru the other "Collections" its pretty sparse, this is the only guy with audio links for all, the other people hardly have any clips at all. Noticed a Teddy Edwards, one or two Eddie Higgins, a Scott Hamilton. By the way you don't have to stream it to record these clips live. Click on the play button, the player loads at the bottom of the page and then just click on the three dots at the far right. Brings up a download option.

Oh yeah, the Warren for sure, plus the Basie/Joe Williams and Joe feature. So was it your idea to get Junior Cook? Not who I would have been expecting, and very interested to hear when I get in the car to head to Naples this weekend.

If you helped book the Johnson/Serrano, then thank you.

Fantastic source of radio broadcasts, most jazz or blues: https://archive.org/details/fmradioarchive?sort=-addeddate Particularly check out the Jimmy Smith all-stars as the front line is LD and Bill Hardman plus Junior Cook. And I've been wanting to find the Eddie Johnson-Paul Serrano quintet show ever since I first heard about it about a year ago. You can stream or download MP3s and other things. Only been uploading since January and they were active this weekend, so a place to bookmark and check back, too. Edit to clarify: A lot of recordings uploaded actually, and the further back you go the fewer jazz items. But a lot of solid jazz up in the past few months and some interesting ones further back too.

This is where not investing in a "special" system pays off (for me). If you listen in the car or on high-end PC speakers only, you'll miss both subtle and unsubtle differences.

Did not know that they were like that - I haven't sought out JVC XRCDs, only encountered them once at a used CD shop, $8.99 for a Johnny Griffin OJC in that format/engineering. And OMG the sound! Other than that maybe I've found one here or there, and there was a Japan-only Hamp with the Ray Brown Trio recording that was only a JVC XRCD as far as I could tell anyway.

I wasn't looking at the specific, Publix sets you up for the proper second appointment which is April 28.

Every JVC XRCD release I have has the best sound of the recording in question I've heard. Not sure I want to spend for them, but still ...

What do you say now?

Well today I was reminded of a close high school friend's senior quote: The eternal optimist can only be disappointed while the eternal pessimist can only be pleasantly surprised. Today, this eternal pessimist got in the Publix booking system after just 10 minutes of page refreshes, and am booked for Moderna #1 on Wed with second shot three weeks later. Unfortunately while I could have set an appointment for Mom in Naples, I was blocked by the lack of knowing her last four of her Social.