Dan Gould

I find the contrast of facial expressions remarkable. Also, he's a pig, and I am loving the slow-motion car-wreck end of his career. And that shouldn't be considered political since I don't know anyone who actually likes the guy, even if you think he's the greatest Governor in the history of the state.

My wife and I are fine waiting until supplies are plentiful in 6 or 10 weeks (hopefully) but I am concerned now about getting my Mom situated as I just read that Florida says 50% of seniors are vaccinated, but they are also opening up for police/firemen/teachers. It's not like they are going to keep going on the elderly until exhausted. So the same high demand is going to be pouring into sign-up sites just from different segments of the population and it will probably be just as hard to get her scheduled as before her fall/hospitalization/rehab visit. She may end up getting vaccinated about the same time we do - when most of the people who want it have gotten it and you're down to the hardcore of anti-vaccers.

This is an 80s release?

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I can't listen but 15 tapes under consideration for issuance? All Cory/Zev or BN or what? That would be my follow up, especially since if anything is under consideration for BN you have an idea of who was under contract in that era. But 15 tapes, that's something to give hope that there are some gems coming this decade.

Took me a sec to remember but that tiny little label put out the best non-BN, non-Concord Gene Harris record, Live at Otter Crest (it was eventually purchased or licensed or something by Concord which also put it out). Certainly belongs in this thread. (there are pieces of video from the full concert on youtube here. Great stuff.)

Not DG but I made low offers on eBay items (like, 50% less) and had all of them accepted. So now a big test for the 2-6 week time frame. I didn't realize seller is in Washington state. So, unless I was still in south Florida, this is the longest distance across the nation for a package that can get kicked into some dark corner at any point in the chain.

The existence of one pit of despair was not meant to imply there are not many more, especially the two you mention. Not sure if its all major metropolitan areas - Tampa, #11 media market, does not seem to be having trouble getting things out into the USPS system or bringing them to me once received.

My Dusty Groove order is now officially tracking as 'arriving late' and for all I know it is still stuck in that pit of despair known as the Chicago Regional processing center, as it never had a departure scan. If this Priority mail package gets Media mail service I am going to be f-ing pissed.

At 33 minutes nobody has an excuse for not at least listening thru.

without sacrificing the swing or the blues-derived expressive devices of the older jazz forms." There it is, and in the Paper of Record.

Here's another way: When we were both short of cash for Christmas, we'd verify that both had $20 in our respective pockets, exchange the money, and say Merry Christmas, no muss, no fuss, nothing out of pocket.

I'd ask Colin Mochrie for five improvised "here now the news" intros a la "Whose Line ..." And, frankly, I am already thinking about a custom script for Tia Carrere to deliver for my buddy, especially since, for four years before the pandemic, we had a monthly dinner. Hard to believe its a year since we've seen each other. Since the odds don't look good for either of us, let alone both, to be innoculated by April 6, I think a personalized birthday wish from his young-adult crush, Ms. Carrere would be just the ticket. And just about the same as I would have spent on a birthday dinner. (We had the perfect system, BTW, for our monthly get-togethers. We'd alternate checks all thru the year, and with his birthday in April and mine in September, we set it up so that the birthday boy got a regularly scheduled free meal for his birthday month anyway.)

Makes Tia Carrere downright cheap. In a good way. You know my closest friend has had a crush on her forever and a birthday April 6. Or how about a personalized "no soup for you" from the Soup Nazi? Only $80.

I was thinking it was kind of sad, $60 a pop, paid in installments and split in some manner with this company. Not sure I want to know who else is on this thing.

I felt I had to click on that link just out of curiosity of what she looks like nowadays - assuming that photo is relatively current. SCHWINGG!

Steve, Where did anyone in authority come up with the idea that a vaccine must be proven effective specifically for people over 65? I'll cop to not knowing as much about AZ and essentially nothing about vaccinations in the EU other than that it continues to be a shit-show for efficiency or effectiveness. But here in the US the approach is: It works? Get it out to the public. There are greater risks that you will end up hospitalized or dead as age increases, so the elderly and certain other favored groups are getting them first. Israel is jabbing every body they can, and now hospitalizations are more common among the YOUNG than among the OLD. A few days of tiredness or flu symptoms is hardly surprising, nor should it (IMHO) make people hesitate. Look at the comments among the members here who have recently had a second shot of whatever. That's actually proof that it works, it's priming the pump of the immune system to be a hard-ass bitch against this stuff. And last but not least, the goal of immunization is to reduce severe cases and death. And I believe every single one of these vaccines do that, in spades. 500,000 immunized and like, 20 hospitalizations, no deaths? Why would anyone not want those odds?

As Jim says, these younger people are less likely to get in line for something they don't feel is a threat. And given the death rates, the reality is that your age cohort are the ones most at risk for adverse to really really adverse results if you catch it. So I would say that your Group 3 should remain Group 1. And what's this about old people with serious pre-existing conditions? I know of no place where being 65+ or whatever didn't get you to the front of a still-too-long line, comorbidity or no.

I got a photo shoot with GQ in about an hour ...

Just arrived in my in-box from the Boston Globe: ‘Your estimated wait time is 50,475 minutes’: State vaccine appointment site hits more snags Users hoping to book appointments using the state’s vaccine finder website Thursday reported encountering excruciating estimated wait times amid a crush of eligible Massachusetts residents seeking newly available appointments for the COVID-19 vaccine. As of about 9:30 a.m. Thursday, the vaxfinder site was not experiencing the same crashes users saw last week when many logged onto the site hoping to score an appointment. But many users who were placed in a “digital waiting room” that was implemented to help manage the flow of traffic reported they were given astronomically long estimated wait times, with one reported by WCVB displaying 50,475 minutes. That translates to roughly 35 days.

First one in a while just now, wanted to note that their "Media Mail" option in the US now quotes 2-6 weeks. Don't recall that before. Anyway was listening to my transfer of that new Dexter "All Soul's" double LP and hadn't realized how noisy it was, so I sprung for both volumes of the CD reissue, I believe its three unissued tracks total so what the hey. Plus an 80s Ray Bryant Trio on Emarcy and what looks like an enjoyable early Clayton Brothers LP on Concord, Jeff & John, which doesn't even appear on their allmusic page. At $5 or less for the two LPs, what's the harm. And for Priority Mail at $3 more than Media, that's a no-brainer too.

Well I'm pretty much stalled, and FB mentions has netted one, pending donation. I can't speak publicly but if anyone needs a nudge to consider a donation, please send a PM. I will now clear out my PM in-box in anticipation of a flood of messages, and because there's no reason to be sitting at 80% capacity.

OTOH, players have been put into a lineage since originators were followed by those they inspired. The whole thing really was that few (or really none) got recording contracts for having Ornette, late-period Trane, or Miles post-1967 as direct role models.

"Saving Jazz One Audience at a Time"?

Not sure about this, if Burns just started out with the source of the "saving jazz" argument in leaning on Wynton and Stanley so much. BTW, out of curiosity I searched "young lion" mentions in the NYT Arts Section, and the earliest hit connected to jazz was this one - from 1983. No "saving jazz" here. https://www.nytimes.com/1983/05/22/arts/perils-confront-the-young-lions-of-jazz.html?searchResultPosition=2