Dan Gould

A search for "Hank Mobley" on newspapers.com last June found adverts or club listings in 1980, 1981,1983 and 1986, in the NY Daily News, Philly Daily News and Philly Enquirer.

Came across these on FB:

Paxlovid may have a much more permanent effect of taste alteration. And it's also now been reported that not long after treatment and seeming recovery, the virus comes back among Pax users, sometimes just testing positive, sometimes with worse symptoms. https://www.statnews.com/2022/05/24/paxlovid-rebound-has-covid-researchers-looking-for-theories/?utm_campaign=rss https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2022/05/pfizer-paxlovid-covid-pill-side-effects/629772/ So hopeflly she avoids that as well and gets better soon.

I thought he was very recognizable but the gray hair was offputting and as I recall I said something about seeing a certain "sadness" in Hank's eyes. I sold my copy of the CD during the Great Purge in 2008-9 and I can't find the photo online at all. BTW they did play Hank's Early Morning Stroll but the take of Autumn Leaves must have been the best of the bunch.

Now I remember the other people who were included on the 45. (I should dig out my CDRs, I always thought my transfers sounded pretty darn good for a cheap rig.)

In 1980 Hank was at the Steeplechase studios for a Tete Montoliu session, I Want to Talk About You. They recorded several takes of two tunes and when it appeared on CD one Hank tune was included ("Autumn Leaves") along with a photo of Hank. I posted that photo years ago but I think the thread was lost in one of the server mishaps - can't find it on a search. Edit to add: it's funny how we forget things, Gheorge was on the board and posted on some of the threads I found about the Montoliu recording.

Early on Organissimo - I still have a folder of emails labelled Mobley Box Set - mid-July 2005 to be exact. Gheorge has the details pretty much. It was a rather short speech.

There was a box set of LPs issued which included a 45 of Hank's speech. A group of us went in on a joint purchasing effort and I sent out burns to all members. Damn that was almost 20 years ago, I am thinking.

I posted this on FB and am getting pushback on what I hear, so maybe should put here too to get other's opinions. This is a truncated performance of "Honky Tonk" as I had to fade it out on Bob Neloms' solo. I hear a second tenor sax "answering" Percy France in the first 20 seconds. Others think it's someone "singing along". I have reason to believe that "Big Nick" Nicholas was in the audience, leading me to the conclusion that its Big Nick doing the playing but maybe its him doing the singing? I don't know what to say anymore.

Is everyone aware that South Carolina sports teams are the Gamecocks? (Or as we said at Florida State, the Lamecocks.)

Thought about the Musicians forum but no ...

Shades of Good Morning Vietnam. Congrats GoM, what an awesome "get"!

Hardly "recordings" in the sense you mean, but I have been posting many youtube uploads featuring Neloms in the Percy France thread in the artists forum.

I thought Country Joe West and Angel Hernandez were the worst of the worst but there's a new ump in the competition: MLB is f*cked up if they don't announce a suspension of this asshat. Or frankly, that he's been fired.

I had no idea that the tiny CD thing ever saw releases, I knew of it only as a marketing tool when I started in VOs, there was a company that offered a hybrid business card/demo tape via 3" CD. Instead of telling you all the reasons I didn't go for it I'll just reference a famous early SNL "commercial": It's a business card! No, it's a VO demo!

New Percys uploaded to youtube: And even though I found out on my last BFT that more than one person around here can't stand "Sweet Georgia Brown":

I looked at the first month's schedule and thought it was an awful lot of road games for the Red Sox but playing more at Fenway isn't going to solve this team's issues, and at 7.5 out of first place, its not far from the point where it is getting late early out there.

If anyone has the album only - the CD has extra track - Blue Lament, which I want to say was otherwise only recorded on an unissued BN session, and Ken Dryden's Allmusic review confirms that.

Your math is completely off to try to get to 250,000 "explained" deaths because the Y axis is cases not deaths. How come Germany peaks January 15, 2021 and stays above Sweden the whole period thru to this supposed Swedish holiday effect? And, somehow Sweden had a Christmas/New Years surge one year, and then had none the next year and only increased in January 2022 for this holiday? Let's keep in mind too that Sweden had vanishingly small mask usage per the cited survey and Germany had quite high mask usage.

I was especially motivated to post by your specific statement: I am convinced at least 150-200K in the U.S. lost their lives unnecessarily I believe we're approaching 1 million deaths so at minimum, you are asserting 15-20% due to mask usage or lack thereof. Had you said something closer to 50,000 I probably would not have posted. It's fine to appeal to authority as you do, but why can't anyone answer the question of evidence? We've been told and in some cases forced to mask for 2 plus years. And we have 2 + years of data about cases and deaths and different mask policies and usages. Why does the effect of masks not show up in the statistics? Why are Sweden and Germany's experiences so similar, while mask usage was so very different?

OK, set aside the US State results, where one might reasonably presume an undercount in the states where masks were not mandated ... how does one explain the death rates in Germany vs Sweden, where approach to mask wearing was so obviously different? Germany had a worse and more sustained top peak, while Sweden had a marginally higher peak for winter 21-22. What accounts for it, with both rich Western nations with I am assuming similar access to vaccines when they came available? If masks were so important why doesn't Sweden, which was like an entire country of Trumpers when it comes to mask usage, show any sort of measurable difference in deaths? Again, I wore one. I insisted on buying a better one (my wife bought her own for her truck, shitty "surgical" masks that were barely a step above a bandana). But I'm looking at the data and I am not at all feeling what Aggie is asserting.

Please review these graphs and advise why they are not evidence that mask usage did not have a lot of effect. I am prepared to be educated (and I myself wore a mask quite regularly, KN95, until I was vaccinated and boosted.) First one is US States with and without mask mandates, cumulatively; second is Germany (effective mask mandate per survey results regarding use) vs Sweden (minimal mask usage per surveys).

That's a country that foolishly persists in "zero covid" with minimal vaccine uptake (and a shitty vaccine at that). I don't know what "zero" covid will do for future variants but the fact is that here in the states, weeks after Omicron 2 became main source of Covid, we don't have spikes in hospital usage or death rates. Something is different this time and is probably due to Omicron 1's trip thru the population, and its measurable reduction in potency. I do think Fauci is right about the pandemic in the US.

Hey I didn't say it, Anthony Fauci said it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/04/27/pandemic-phase-over-fauci-covid/ So time to look back and ahead ... while I hope no new variant shows up to make this moot. Evergreen: