Dan Gould

Will anyone come along and engage on those last three tracks before the end of the month? (I feel comfortable in saying ain't no way y'all come close to 77% ID rate on mine. )

That's a really interesting and I suspect, very uncommon approach. I would say I am the opposite considering that I have an Amazon Prime membership and enjoy the quick delivery, if available, on whatever has suddenly struck my fancy.

So you basically get no new music thru the year except for birthday, Easter and Christmas?

+1.

If it weren't for some generous loan officers I wouldn't have had a haul at all (wife's decision, and I am not so sure how this fits into the "happy wife, happy life" paradigm, but there it is). So thanks to those unnamed LOs I have the following to enjoy: The new Blakey in Japan thing; The Mulgrew Miller/Roy Hargrove duets; Houston Person, Live in Paris; Buck Clayton's Jazz World (and it just dawned on me that he had assistance from Nancy Miller Elliott, whose photographs were donated to Rutgers and I had to work with her son to get permission to use two photos of Percy France at Paul Quinichette's memorial service for the website.) A DVD copy of Jazz USA, featuring Cannonball and Teddy Edwards. I tried to get this years ago and one of the few occasions when someone claimed to have shipped and it never arrived. Hopefully second time is the charm. $50 at Discogs to be invested oh, I don't know ... maybe today? How did you do?

I can vouch for the company too.

Tap she likes a lot but I gave her sister the Best in Show DVD as a gift (and Susan delivered it), practically the same movie and the entire family hated it so much they sent it back with Susan.

Inspired by my discovery that my wife really doesn't understand the appeal of A Christmas Story I am curious if anyone else has experienced something similar: a movie or TV show that you love and they don't. Extra points if: The entire civilized world loves it too; He/She looks at you like you're the idiot for enjoying. (I get double points because she is the same way with Seinfeld - hates it when everybody else thought it was great, and gives me nasty looks while I am laughing at it.)

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/little-known-recording-louis-armstrong-reciting-night-before-christmas-180979012/

Merry Kwanz-Festi-Mas!

Actually when you use the Washington/smallpox example, you are ignoring the context: A fledgling army, in a state of war. He didn't mandate variolation against smallpox across the community, or that community would have declared his orders liberty-destroying, just like King George, to try to force everybody to try this newfangled method of smallpox prevention. At that time, most people probably thought all you needed was a "good bleeding" to get over the pox.

Masking does nothing to prevent you from getting infection. That's been known for at least a year. It's to prevent you from infecting others. It's just like in a surgical suite: surgeons and nurses where masks and gloves to avoid infecting open wounds on people. Not because the patient has cooties and might give them something. The layers in the mask function in one direction only: outward. I will go out on a limb here and trust that Kevin is wearing KN95s or better masks but cloth masks are far more common than the actual useful kind, and cloth masks had what, like a 5% effective rate in studies?

Mr. Felser said that his goals included "enraging" listeners, did he know that he'd do it indirectly, by eliciting comments like this? Mileage, and all due respect, and blah blah fucking-blah, Billy Higgins "ruins a few otherwise fine Blue Note dates" for you? Now I have heard it all. Well, everything except a compelling argument for why Kenny G should be the subject of a documentary about his brilliance.

Nothing you have shared Kevin remotely contradicts what Steve R. stated. That's a death rate of .007. If you think that the only acceptable death toll for kids is zero, then try to figure out how to make it so. Rational people aren't that likely to agree with you, though, considering the social and educational costs for remote schooling, or rational hesitancy to not agree to vaccinations for children not that susceptible in any significant way to serious illness.

Moderna says booster increases anti-bodies for Omicron 37x. I'd provide a link but that was in my Boston Globe news email and I don't subscribe.

I found this because of Teddy, quite enjoyable but IIRC kinda short on the track timings. (And hey, more Ron Feuer, of the infamous Hammond Cheese LP with all those West Coast stars including Smilin' Billy.)

https://www.ebay.com/sch/carolinasoul/m.html?item=384587826307&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.m3561.l2562 Email from Carolina Soul below. I can certainly vouch for their standards, one of the best sellers on Discogs for sure. And some of these items look pretty cool even though I won't be bidding. Holiday gift idea: treat yourself to a piece of Jazz history! This week it is our pleasure to offer a very special collection, chock full of classic titles in wonderful condition, with more than half autographed by Jazz greats. All 700 albums ending on auction on Sunday and Monday once belonged to the late Lew Keck of Durham, NC. A lifelong jazz enthusiast and avid concertgoer, Lew met countless jazz performers after their shows and asked them to sign the jackets of albums that they played on. What's more, by carefully affixing ticket stubs to many of the jackets and saving the concert programs, Lew effectively created a document of the concerts and his encounters with the musicians. Don't miss this opportunity: all of these listings end on Sunday, December 19th, and Monday, December 20th.

I am told this is an unplanned outage and that it will be looked into. So I would expect the College of Jazz Knowledge to be back up pretty soon.

I am trying to contact one of his assistants who has been helpful in the past, if he sheds light I'll let everyone know.

I disagree ... people can be careful and they get infected and have a terrible or even catastrophic result. And its not true that everyone who isn't careful will inevitably get infected/sick/ER.

I am most curious to know the cause of this so-called collapse in record sales in 1979. Does anyone know the details of that? And it was apparently industry/genre wide? Oh - I guess I know why, this must have been the same time cassette tapes became prevalent and you didn't have to buy that record you could get a copy made by your buddy. And the industry answered by trying to convince the world that cassettes were evil. Do you think they had any clue what was coming in barely a decade's time?

I was defining immunity as from infection. The gist of what seems to be the case is that Omicron possibly infects nearly everyone exposed, and makes them capable of infecting others, vaccinated/not vaccinated. That's why its so rampant in most places. And perhaps, that is reflected in the study I linked, if it replicates easier in the bronchus, do sufferers expirate more virus, making it more infectious?

The thing is Guy, that "immunity" hardly seems to exist for Omicron, whether from vaccinations, being boosted, being sick before, being sick before + vaccinated and boosted. What I wonder is whether Omicron shows so many variants on the spike because it really did go from humans back to the non-human species and then back to humans. Who is to say that in that process, something also changed for virulence? That's the idea I am clinging to.

My thoughts are that you are not following the science. You are boosted. Moderna's results have been proven to be the most robust, in all studies (I believe). I suspect your doctor is going to tell you to take a chill pill. But if they say "fine" and it floats your boat, have at it. I read today that there is a new study showing that Omicron replicates in the lung much less efficiently than it does elsewhere, which might explain far fewer Omicron patients being on oxygen or respirators or having Covid pneumonia? I'll cop to worrying about what the coming weeks and months may bring in terms of spread but I am still hoping for a milder set of symptoms. But its true that a very small percent of a huge number could be a catastrophic # of deaths. Edit to add link to the study I mentioned https://www.med.hku.hk/en/news/press/20211215-omicron-sars-cov-2-infection

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