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Quite literally from an airport recycling bin! Quite an interesting (if brief) tale with a happy ending. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/340000-surrealist-painting-was-found-recycling-bin-180976542/

The lockdown in Toronto and Peel is being extended and "tightened" in unspecified ways that we find out on Monday. I know that people are very weary and are longing for their old lives back. I've heard that office workers may be told unilaterally that they need to stay home, but I hope that doesn't happen. The city of Hamilton is entering lockdown on Monday as well. Very glad and still a bit amazed that the vaccines have arrived so early. This came at a truly ground-breaking pace, but it will still be a long winter, even with light at the end of the tunnel (late spring maybe when a reasonable number of people have been vaccinated and we can do a few outdoor social things again?). Please don't listen to this "expert": https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/brazil-s-bolsonaro-warns-virus-vaccine-can-turn-people-into-crocodiles-1.5237678 The vaccine will not turn you into a crocodile... As hard as it is, I think it is still best not to travel to see loved ones over the holidays and just celebrate twice as much next year. Hoping that everyone can stay safe and still enjoy the holidays (in moderation)...

Thinking I might catch the Sat. Kenny Barron show.

RIP - Such sad news. I didn't see him live often, but at least once with The Cookers and maybe at the Chicago Jazz Fest as well.

Will wonders never cease? Really exciting news, and I'll definitely be checking this one out.

Agreed. Likely will listen in both nights. Saw Dave Holland at the Chicago Jazz Showcase at the "family matinee" on Sunday. After the set, I was able to swing by the bar with my son and say hi and thank him for the music. A nice memory.

I was surprised how quickly the 2nd set arrived on iTunes, so you can sample it that way as well...

Acoustic Ladyland Living with a Tiger Much less familiar with this one compared to their earlier albums.

Greg Osby put out a lot of material, mostly on BN. In addition to Banned in New York, it may be worth checking out The Invisible Hand with Jim Hall and Andrew Hill! (This was released in 2000 though it was recorded in 1999.) It does look like a lot of the newer artists/groups l follow mostly were starting in the early 2000s.

Decided to try to catch the Sat. Christian McBride Jawn set, though had to watch it out of sync, i.e. this morning. After several weeks of no problems at VV site, I am having terrible buffering/streaming issues. Will try restarting computer a third time to see if it is on my end, but I think it's them... Well, perhaps it was just me. Still extremely annoying.

Yes, hoping for the best.

The first video with Laibach’s interpretation is suitably pretentious. https://www.youtube.com/embed/mM90X-9m_Zc

If you haven't read Stuart Dybek then you will want to take a look at his short story collections. I personally prefer The Coast of Chicago but I Sailed with Magellan also has some strong stories.

Haven't read this piece yet. I will say that the Toronto Symphony Orchestra has pivoted to very, very tiny on-line offerings - usually a 5-10 minute duet. I find it far too depressing to bother with. Of course, given the strict lockdown Toronto is under at the moment, it is not possible for larger ensembles to perform with or without an audience. Up until recently, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra was performing slightly shorter evenings (60-75 minute performances) with a slightly scaled back orchestra (in an empty hall) and then putting these on line. Given that BC is ramping up its restrictions, this may be coming to a halt as well. At any rate, I am subscribing to the VSO on-line season whereas the TSO just is not worth it at the moment.

Sorry I missed it. I listened to the Friday concert and it was good but didn't exactly blow me away (and I was fairly busy on Sat, so I didn't follow up with the rebroadcast of the 2nd set.). I've seen the Bandwagon in a concert hall (Chicago Symphony Center), which isn't really the ideal setting. I believe I also saw them at Jazz Showcase (wondering whether they would do something somewhat rap-inspired after Joe Segal's introduction ), but it has been an extremely long time and my memory is fuzzy.

This may just go down as an unfortunate historical accident, but it seems a bit late in the day to try to get people to mentally switch over if the labelling on the Changes CDs is incorrect (and no one is seriously talking about repressing these with new titles...). At any rate, I was just listening, and "Free Cell Block F" matches the first song on Changes Two, which is also titled (apparently incorrectly) "Free Cell Block F."

Maybe too much of a stretch but "All The Gin Is Gone" by Jimmy Forrest. Buddy Rich "Bloody Mary" on The Driver. And "Vodka" on Cattin' With Coltrane And Quinichette

I have had a few where there was clearly some problem with the mastering of the last track (crazy digital artifacts and skipping). Fairly common particularly with PD labels releasing CDs with 75+ minutes of music. Astonishingly enough, once in a while these problems persist even when streaming on iTunes, so did they actually just rip their own CDs to create the version stored on iTunes? Completely baffling.

Make sure you are one of first 200 in line. Price goes up after that...

About halfway through dusk sets in but you have a solid hour of music in the sun. Thanks for pointing us in the right direction in the first place.

Listened to most of the Turkish jazz set. Quite interesting and I was definitely jealous of the weather (the performances were all shot outdoors on the Istanbul waterfront).

I listened to the Tom Harrell Friday evening set at the Village Vanguard. I'm still debating whether I will listen on Sat. (tonight). It looks like it is Jason Moran and Bandwagon next weekend, and I'll probably tune in on one of those sets.

It might not have made much difference in the end, but certainly some people are arguing that Ontario really started spiralling back out of control a week or two after Canadian Thanksgiving (because so many people couldn't resist going off and meeting relatives and mingling with people outside their bubbles). I can only imagine what will happen in the States. At any rate, it looks like Toronto (and Peel and York) are heading towards a pretty strict lockdown this weekend. I'm glad I ran off to the hardware store and got some extra supplies, as we may be back to on-line shopping for a while. On a slightly cheerier note, I think it's pretty cool that Dolly Parton's donation helped kickstart one of the successful (so far) vaccines. I imagine at some level her involvement may sway at least some of the vaccine-shy to get the shot when available. At this point, anything will help...

Watched Life of Brian over the weekend. It holds up quite well. I was reading that there was a huge fuss at the time, which of course made the film profitably almost immediately. I think there was an interview a while back with one or more of the Pythons, indicating that it would be all but impossible to release the film in today's climate.

Aside from my very slow march through Don Quixote (and Nabokov's lectures on same), I'm mostly reading Canadian literature. I thought The Betrayers by David Bezmozgis had its moments, but I thought the situations were a bit too pat (like a play in many cases) and it certainly isn't as good as The Free World. I thought the claustrophobic rural community depicted in Fortier's The Unknown Huntsman was certainly creepy but it was a literary affectation that bore no resemblance to anything in real life (maybe drawing on his memories of watching The Wicker Man or the like). I'm glad it was fairly short as I was getting ready to bail. I'm starting in on Atwood's The Edible Woman (which I read many, many years ago), and I expect this will hold up better than these other two.