Dan Gould

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

Were there really marketing efforts that said "saving jazz" or anything like that? I think the 'saving jazz' story came from Marsalis and Crouch and that there was amplification from people like Feather and a few other critics. But other than the turn to album covers with men in suits, where was the hardcore "saving jazz" marketing?

I agree Guy, I just knew that I had mentioned some young lions early on, though I didn't call them that. It's nice to be past that part of history. Nowadays the scene sucks for everybody, and jazz is way past the 'smells funny' phase too. Kidding. Sort of.

Back on the first page I listed Brian Lynch: Peer Pressure (Criss Cross) Ralph Moore: Round Trip (Reservoir) Mulgrew Miller: Work (Landmark) Scott Hamilton, Tenor Shoes (Concord) ******************************************************* I'd say each of those are early "young lions" and each are among their earliest leader dates, except for the Scott Hamilton recording - whether they had a lot of marketing behind them or not.

Thank you!

Posted an update - for those interested - possibly the best photo found to date, an unexpected grouping of the Oliver Jackson Trio featuring Percy France, but with a special tenor guest. https://gofund.me/96032520

Philadelphia may be a close second ... outside of the whole "we'll deliver your daily mail if and when we feel like it" thing. I sent a box to former member Joel Fass in Philadelphia. The package reached the Philly distribution center February 2nd. it was delivered to him this past Saturday, more than 2 1/2 weeks after.

Thank you Tom!

"one of the greatest" might be a bit much. I bought it when I was on a major Plas kick and its plenty enjoyable for what it is - warm tenor+strings, mood music for imbibing with adult beverages.

Thanks gents, and thanks also to others who have contributed.

I've posted more than a bit about my Percy France research over the past two years. I am sincerely hoping folks will consider helping me bring this thing fully to fruition: https://gofund.me/96032520 Thanks for your consideration.

There have been huge technological changes on radio, which had started not too long before I was shit-canned by mello 105 under new ownership. Everything was getting digitized back then, and with touch screens to run stop sets or an autoplay feature where you just stack up one element after another and it just goes and goes. No more CDs, no more spots or bumpers recorded onto carts and no pushing the button on the board to trigger the next element, or setting the trigger on one cart to auto-fire the next spot at the end of the first one. The switchover at mello 105 led directly to the firing of a very long-time board op who couldn't handle technology. One more quick story, related: Mello 105 was the radio partner of the Tallahassee Tiger Sharks, East Coast Hockey League (don't ask me why). One year they reached the playoffs and the game was getting televised locally. Meaning that the voice of the Tiger Sharks, Kyle somebody, had to record his radio pre-game ahead of time because he'd be busy doing the TV pre-game. I was board-op for the broadcast and it was all set to go on the new fangled computer in the studio. It's playing, I don't have to do anything, but I somehow hit the wrong part of the touch screen and .... no more pre-game. I'm kinda surprised I didn't have nightmares about this too. We're ten minutes into a 20 minute segment. If it were on reel, I could have started it up again, but now I can only restart a digital file from the beginning - not gonna work. And I am NOT the one to jump on the air and talk extemporaneously about the Tallahassee Tiger Sharks either! So I did the only thing I could think to do ... I rolled our Tiger Shark music bed - Theme from Jaws. Over and over and over and over and over and over again. Fortunately I think everyone was watching the TV broadcast. The phone didn't ring once, until after we were simulcasting the tv audio, when the boss called and said 'what the hell happened?"

OK I gotta keep talking about my radio days ... my psychological makeup requires being ready to go ahead of time ... I'd pull the CDs and the commercial breaks/bumpers for at least two hours at the start of a shift. Still made mistakes, in all honesty but in terms of my psychology - I sweated those failures and for years after my last radio gig had nightmares about dead air. Sometimes I would be on the air, and my carts and CDs would be just out of reach - couldn't get something, anything into the players. Or, I would dream that nothing worked on the board - hit the button, cart deck won't fire, CD player won't fire. I would wake up and discover I was pounding on my clock radio. That was my "board". Flip side to my worrying mind was the jock who worked the shift in front of mine. He would wait until a song was in the last 20 seconds to even look at the playlist let alone get the next CD into the other deck. And he kept that seamless flow and never made a mistake. One day the Program Director was hearing too many mistakes and came into the booth and watched at the end of the day. He's sitting there and watching this guy and was losing his shit. "Uh, Marilyn, the song is running out." "Yeah, I know." But he always made his transitions. Finally the PD barged out of the room, declaring "I can't watch this shit anymore." But he still issued a memo that all jocks must pull music and spots ahead of time. And that's when Christopher (Marilyn) Parker started making mistakes and having dead air. Finally the PD came in and said, "Marilyn, just do it your way. Sorry I hassled you, man."

You gotta have something to easily pad into the network feed ... reminds me of when I was at the country station, they ran Paul Harvey live off the satellite. And you didn't have an instrumental to fade out if necessary. I was weekend overnights but handled mid-days when that DJ was off and had to sweat that transition a few times. I think a couple of times I had it down perfect - last tune, Paul Harvey intro cart, pod up Paul Harvey. Yeah! And then another time or two I had that Paul Harvey bed playing for 20 seconds before his feed came over. Ugh. Paul Harvey followed me to Mello 105 but we didn't do any live feed, always taped it and ran it later.

Well, in line with my "who is third on the Men's Grand Slam list" approach, I have to be pleased that Rafa will stay tied with Roger for a little while longer. And there is more tennis to come, maybe the guy who vanquished Rafa can take care of Djokovic too. This match sounds absolutely epic by the write up in the Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/17/sports/tennis/rafael-nadal-loses-australian-open.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article (And while not germane to Rafa's dedicated thread, I am not exactly upset about Serena staying stuck behind Margaret Court. And not only because they won't have any more Serena matches to prioritize on ESPN. It was ridiculous this week, every time I tuned in at 9 pm, "up next, Serena Williams".)