Stompin at the Savoy

I like that Berliner Jazztage record too and often play it. Hello to the Wind!

There is a relationship between heart rate and blood pressure. When cannabis lowers blood pressure - which it does - the heart speeds up. If you use it a lot the effect - lower pressure and faster pulse - diminishes.

The problem is organs are capable of putting out a lot of harmonic overtone series. So it can sound busy in the way a 12 string sounds busier than a 6 string guitar - twice as many notes. Depending on the organ settings one key depressed can cause several notes to come out. For some this doesn't matter but for me it sounds terrible. Overkill, confused and busy. And of course if you ever spent any time at a roller skating rink, and I did, the associations make this sort of organ setting sound really tacky. The organ on the 45 sessions is not as bad as some from the period, IMO.

I have absolutely no quarrel with that. Weed is not for everybody. On the other hand I have an 85 year old friend who has truly terrible arthritis. All over the place. Scary looking. Doctors asked him how he manages with this and he used to tell them he smokes weed every day. Keep doing it, they told him. Recently he had shingles and gout. The poor fellow is a mess and can't use cannabis as much but he told me how much he liked some blue dream I gave him.

I got a tracking number today!

The problem with that study is it did not separate out the risk of tobacco (and other drugs) and cannabis. So they combined all the data and found greater risks but it's unclear whether those risks are associated with cannabis or with tobacco or other drugs. In other words this study is deeply flawed. We know from other studies that tobacco is strongly correlated with heart attack risk.

When I started college in 1970 there was a sign in my dormitory which explained that marijuana had now become much more powerful than before and warning that the new super weed was causing 'bad trips'. 55 years and the supposed authorities are still trotting out the same canards and tropes! For some people, using cannabis is a problem and they get into all the same gyrations as people stuck in food addictions, etc. For most it's not that big a deal. My advice: stay away from those vape cartridges. You have no way of knowing what's in there and people adulterate them with things like vitamin E which is toxic to inhale like that. Dry herb vaporizers are good.

I love this and the Mosaic. Too many candidates.

It's a Blue Note album of his?

John, I like what you are saying and I just wish that were a true summation of what just happened. It is true except for one participant. Thinking of an old friend who is not in fact a 'bullshit person', just ignorant about jazz.

Really? OK you explain what he means. He says he refuses to talk to anyone about music unless they are up to his standards of music understanding. When it was pointed out that we talk about music here he shifts to oh I meant in the real world. So what does that mean? He's ok with us because he can always turn us off? In what world does it make sense to say I won't talk about music with you unless you are up to my level of understanding but nothing personal against you, I only do that when the person is in front of me? WTF? We are qualitatively different because we are not in close proximity? Please make it make sense. It's nonsense and I am done with it because the conversation keeps getting pulled into Jim's hangups and emotional responses to the word noodling instead of the Plugged Nickel sessions.

I discovered that I really like French TV. Just now I am streaming a series called "The Wagner Method" on PBS Passport. My French language knowledge comes from a brief class I attended in college decades ago in order to pass a test but I find it challenging to follow along in French and puzzle out the dialogue. I find myself admiring the way French women dress and their relative lack of makeup! The Wagner Method is a fairly ordinary police drama but the scripts are quite witty, full of comic relief, and constantly tease with sexual goings-on.

What you don't regard us as real people? Last I checked I actually am a real person who lives in the real world. And in that real world I communicate with other jazz fans on this board (whom I strongly suspect are real people too!). When we sell each other cd's they come in the mail in the real world and are real objects. Regarding us as internet phantoms who don't exist in the real world seems odd and very possibly disrespectful to me. As far as your feud with everybody in the in person 'real world' whose jazz expertise is inferior to yours - maybe it's time to take that chip off your shoulder.

OK I get it, you are just gonna keep flogging that horse because this is a pet peeve and hobby-horse for you. I don't like it because it condemns people for ignorance, which is curable, and it divides people into your categories of reality-based vs bullshit people. This is a defensive, blame-dealing approach which is almost always doomed to failure because people like being condemned even less than being educated.

Haha. Well, I can see that the word 'noodling' presses a button for you. I get what you mean but this isn't really the issue here. My friend listened and heard something to him very abstract and hard to get into for him at that point in time. How he described his difficulty and how people who don't listen to jazz interpret what they hear is perhaps a subject for another day and tangential to the argument that this music may not have been reissued for 30 years because it is difficult for the average person to connect to. And I would contend that it is demanding listening even for somebody in awe of it; it is not background music.