Dan Gould

Kevin I hope you take me off Ignore long enough to read this: Number one, I reacted specifically to your comments - AIDS sufferer spitting on someone = assault, therefore, maskless person who could be contagious = guilty of assault. And, "In many states, someone threatening your life allows you to legally shoot them dead." So, shoot the maskless. The idea that I have purposefully ignored your point is beyond lunacy. You should really read and re-read Jim's posts in this exchange because he is exactly spot-on. But no, you think that everyone who is maskless must be berated and if it takes some hot coffee in a face, that's just fine. Except that after the altercation part shown at the top of the report, you DO see the start of the interaction beginning with 'y'all should be wearing your masks." Which is precisely where the other two say the interaction started. And if they had said or done anything before then to provoke, why would you hear a fairly innocuous (if obnoxious) reminder about mask wearing? If they said anything obnoxious or aggessive, you'd hear something like "Hey idiot Trumpers, even your President says to wear a mask!" The idea that something is missing from this video only shows your desperation to excuse the actions of the two Karens.

Words fail me Kevin. So in your first post you posit that this was a set up - paid for by the station broadcasting the report, just because its a Fox affiliate. And they provoked them? That's fucking unbelievably dumb. Truly moronic for you to say it. They have their bag of food. They tell the couple they are eating (and yes, they say they don't wear masks to begin with). The couple can walk away but instead berate them, get in their face, she flips him off and she throws coffee in his face, precipitating the altercation. But by your second post, they should have the right to just shoot non-mask wearers? Or police should file assault charges? WHAT THE FUCKING HELL IS THE MATTER WITH YOU? Above I said to avoid Karens and people who aren't wearing masks. Should you decide to not wear a mask because you are eating, AVOID KEVIN TOO.

https://www.foxla.com/news/bloody-brawl-breaks-out-after-woman-throws-coffee-in-mans-face-for-not-wearing-mask?fbclid=IwAR3faLrfOwznyzt1u8m20-_Yq-c3nOjdhcuAPvK_g7juJaJnqoygzSjqrRA One can somehow "blame" the Trump-supporting not-gonna-wear-a-mask pair but reality here is that once they said "we're eating our burritos" the conversation should have been over. Instead Ken and Karen get up in their faces (nice social distancing there) and then the bitch throws her coffee in his face. I think its hysterical that he went after the boyfriend and bloodied him, and the cops were ready to arrest the mask-police a-holes after the couple called them. Bottom line is Karens and non-mask wearers are assholes. Stay away from both. And maybe just maybe this particular Karen will think twice next time.

Been looking into Birmingham jazz this morning and found this: https://burginmathews.com/2020/05/22/sun-ra-in-birmingham-a-few-earthly-artifacts/

If its post-Coltrane chronologically only, then why? Why exclude, say, Hawk's first recording of "Body and Soul"? Isn't this just a "perfect performance" or "favorite track" thread? I think it would be more interesting to require that it be post-Coltrane in terms of musical evolution.

I saw this and said, "There is no way MG recommended a David Schnitter record" but a google search shows he did: He plays some extremely UN-Coltranish stuff on Groove Holmes' "Shippin' out" on Muse; the best of Grooves excellent Muse albums. MG Guess I will keep an eye out for this if you both like it and Schnitter isn't being his usual Schnitter self (guess I should be thankful he saved me from purchasing quite a few Blakey records from the 70s - can you tell I am not a fan?

And remarkably, with no scanning at all between Atlanta on August 1, it was scanned as 'delivered' this morning. But I still have something to gripe about, which is that a UK seller would use a paper envelope with one cardboard insert for shipping. Absolutely pathetic and the upper right corner is bent about three inches down and across.

Eight extra tunes nearly 30 minutes longer than the LP.

Huh? The domestic reissue with all the extra tunes had at least one CD pressing of something else entirely? I guess I am enormously lucky that I didn't get the wrong one. If you still have the CD inserts I'd suggest buying the MP3 album from Amazon and call it a day. It's a great record made even better by all the unissued tracks.

MF-ing assholes. They just sent email announcing that with a final Moody 70th birthday video they are done. How appalling is that after taking everybody's money for August? When I lived near NYC and went to the club I tolerated the ridiculous prices, minimum, and elbow-over-elbow seating, if the music was good. Now, I hope they never open again. Fucking rip-off artists in everything they do. (BTW, I was promised a Gene Harris concert which never appeared and now never will.)

I hope the screw up at Universal is getting something worse than "the comfy chair".

I will second that.

Credit where due: Baden PA to Plant City, shipped July 30 and arrived today; Durham NC to Plant City, shipped July 31 and arrived today. That gets a because it was a big box o' cheap records from Carolina Soul. Both Media Mail - as long as they go on the truck Monday morning I'll have a bit of restored faith in the good ol' PO.

I thought Ben Webster on that track but didn't hear enough breathiness to call it. Shame on me if I was wrong.

Welcome and thank you for compiling this month's BFT. I am not sure if it has ever happened before but you went the longest (tracks 1-6) among recent BFTs without forcing me to say "NEXT" and hit the forward button, so that is appreciated. I can also say that there are at least two tunes I recognize but can't name, and felt like a couple of others played around the melody but wouldn't come out and state it, so I look forward to having other participants relieve me of that curiosity. I don't guess very often on these but will go with Roy Hargrove on Track 5. A word on programming that you should definitely take or ignore as you wish: I'd have programmed the solo piano last, as a final slow tune to end on. Better to start with some swinging, and I'd have shifted everything up one, or led off with track 5. But that's just me - who tends to obsessively program his own BFTs. Thanks again and I hope you continue to participate both here and elsewhere on the board.

Now apparently at 7 total Cards players/staffers. Maybe I should start a new poll or I should ask here, what's your over/under for when the season goes bye-bye? I say Tuesday.

Just this week came across the riverwalkjazz page Lipi posted ... they run all 360 shows but not on demand. Two channels run simultaneously, 24/7. So I've spent the last few days trying to monitor (new shows about :30 past the hour, I think) and catch a stream via goldwave, when they get to the Joe Williams show and the Sweets Edison show. Ought to be enjoyable but not great odds at any individual hour. Anyway now listening to the first one I actually wanted to grab - a Boogie Woogie theme with Dick Hyman, McShann and Joe as guests. Highly enjoyable. Here's the list of programs they did: https://riverwalkjazz.stanford.edu/programs

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6931e1.htm CDC study of a camp for kids in Georgia. Of Georgia residents, staff and attendees, 76% attack rate after one teen-age staff member was sent home and subsequently tested positive. N of 344. Highest attack rate among staff members, who were last to leave the camp. Does not bode well for full opening of schools in the Fall. Caveats include the fact that this happened in an environment of community spread, so some cases could be correlation and not causality.

There's an update on Facebook about Phil's health. *********************************************************** I've developed a second cancer, a lymphoma, and the aggressive chemotherapy has worn me down. The prognosis is still cure and recent scans demonstrate that the treatment is doing some good. Still, good days are few; however I'm staying with the Jazz. ********************************************************** And I feel compelled to mention that Phil references Jabbo Smith broadcasts in his post and it suddenly occurred me, I've learned that Percy France appeared with Jabbo Smith at the West End on a Friday night, which would coincide with the WKCR simulcasts from that club. So I figured, what the heck look in the radio archives and maybe there is a tiny chance that they rebroadcast that concert in one of those Jabbo broadcasts? I mean, its gotta be somewhat possible if not necessarily likely. So I found four broadcasts in the archives and I am scanning thru them to see if any don't have the pops and clicks of old records ... I am on the December 2018 broadcast and it takes over 40 minutes at the start before Phil manages to broadcast a song. That set goes for about 25 minutes so we are about 65 minutes into a 3 hour broadcast, and Phil plays music again ... at the 1 hour 44 minute mark. Now I truly understand why some people have commented that they turned on Schaap on their way out of Manhattan and heard their first song somewhere north of Greenwich.

Yes that is the company - Cadence North Country was the old name right?

No they have a good idea to play games - earn revenue/get paid salaries - in the time available. Obviously any "champion" crowned, if they manage to reach that point, will forever have an asterisk attached. They'll still get the expensive trophy and a new flag to fly in the future too.

Well its kind of strange that the USPS still doesn't have it but they are at least now indicating that they are waiting for it in Atlanta, where Pitney Bowes says they've had it for 11 days, so there's that! In the meantime, CD from upstate NY (Cadence successor company) took two days to delivery in Florida. And Cadence system sent like three emails about the status including a delivery notice when it was in the mailbox. So good on them, and in this case, good on the USPS.

She's purty and has a lovely voice. That's how I got thru it.

But its not even reached Florida. To all indications its in a netherworld between Pitney Bowes and the USPS and possibly not even in the right city. Right now my hope is that its not getting scanned but coming this way anyway.

Got my monthly Ace Records email and was intrigued by this one: https://acerecords.co.uk/dirty-work-going-on-kent-modern-records-blues-into-the-60s-vol-1 Based off a limited edition P-Vine issue from the late 1990s, and apparently 15 of 26 tracks either new or saw very limited release. Samples sounded good, there's new Larry Davis (I think) so I jumped on the Amazon pre-order. A 26-track CD compiled and annotated by noted blues authority Dick Shurman. This features nine artists who recorded for the Kent-Modern labels and contains material from the early to mid-60s. The songs are heavily influenced by the pacesetting presence of B.B. King, rhythm and blues, funk and social consciousness in the lyrics as the civil rights movement brought change and turbulence. There's some pretty rare stuff here, as most tracks are new to UK CD. Eight have only been released on limited editions of 300 by P-Vine in 1999, while seven are completely unreleased. Look out for a second volume later in the year.