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The Lobero records are so incredibly good. This one was mastered by Kevin Gray and sounds sublime. Looking forward to that new Tapscott record.

ain’t a lot of things making a Sunday afternoon better than Stitt playing Easy Living or Autumn In New York.

https://www.dustygroove.com/item/141987/Art-Ensemble-Of-Chicago:Les-Stances-A-Sophie?cat=jazz&incl_cs=1&no_incl_in=1&sort_order=release_date&format=vinyl Is this a bootleg or an official release?

Now this is what I'd call a bargain: https://www.dustygroove.com/item/808351/Julius-Hemphill-Mbari-:Dogon-AD-2LP-200-gram-pressing-with-bonus-track?cat=jazz I guess I don't have to say anything about the music which is of course essential but just like cd version this 2 lp set sounds incredible. 25 bucks! If I lived in the U.S. i'd probably buy a second set just in case

Finally my favorite Hutch on vinyl. Just couldn’t resist the temptation.

I can’t believe they released the ‘Sings and Plays with Bud Shank and Strings’ as a Tone Poet and left the quartet stuff with Russ Freeman on the shelve.

Got this excellent French pressing in the mail yesterday. How I love this session. Most of the musicians are pretty obscure but they know how to swing. Original and playful compositions. Pity that Parker was such a troubled person. His tone on the baritone is very powerful! I like Bill Swindell too by the way.

Rest in peace. He made some fine records!

Rest in peace Kidd Jordan. You were a great voice that will be missed. I remember running half marathons in the woods I always played Unity Call on my iPhone Shuffle and almost got in a trance like state.

Me neither. He was great. He was an original voice with a deep emotional kind of playing I liked very much. Rest in peace Mr Jordan

Oh yes that one was more than half a year too late if I remember correctly. Hope this one is faster. Really looking forward to it.

Anyone with a shipping notice yet?

👍👍👍👍 I have one complaint about that record: it’s too short!

BRESNA - first of all I never stated anywhere that the amount of infections are low. It’s quite the contrary. When people were still testing, the amount of infections per day was sometimes 20 times higher during Omikron than during the other variants. But it didn’t show a significant rise in hospilizations: quite the contrary, they went down very fast. The whole fact that there are so many infections but not that many hospilizations proves the whole point that this current mutation isn’t as dangerous as those other were. And I see it everyday at my workplace where say 2 months ago when people were still testing sometimes half of a class that I was teaching had COVID. Or seven colleagues. The numbers were dazzling. It’s a pity you only use my statistics so selective and don’t say anything about the hospilizations. They are a very good indicator on how serious we should take the current COVID variant and if measures should be taken. But they are very, very low. When there are 35 people on an intensive care unit on a population of 18 million, you can’t state this is a serious health hazard and it would be ridiculous to take strict measures. And let’s not forget this measures, though they were very necessary at some points, also had a very negative impact on society as a whole. I still see that everyday at the high school where I work. And last but not least: there’s nothing regular bout a flu. A flu could be very dangerous to quite some people as well. Like I stated: 7000 died in the Netherlands last year from it. And that’s the official number so there must be more than that. Just like that flu, COVID will remain danger to certain groups for ever unfortunately.

Well sorry Bresna you’ve lost me there. Your statement here sounds like just another conspiracy theory but now from the other camp… If what you are saying is true there should be two statistics that would prove your statement even if COVID deaths aren’t counted anymore. The first one is the excess mortality and the second are hospilizations and the intensive care occupation. There was no excess mortality in January and February compared to the average. This would not be possible if so many people were dying from COVID like you claim. The second are the hospilizations: https://coronadashboard.government.nl/landelijk/ziekenhuizen-en-zorg 609 COVIDon regular care department and 36 on the intensive care units have COVID. To compare: during the worst days of COVID it was more than 2000 beds alone for COVID on regulate care units and almost a 1000 on the intensive care. And then at last there is my own experience: I don’t know anyone who has died or even been hospitalized since June last year. I know people working at hospitals that confirm that there are hardly any COVID victims anymore for months. These very low numbers are also without any restrictions. All in all these statistics prove that the current dominant COVID mutation is comparable to a regular flu which also could be very dangerous to vulnerable people. Also these statistics aren’t a base for taking strict measures or setting restrictions. Now if you’re now gonna tell me now that all statistics above are made up by our government to satisfy businesses and they take economy above national health care then I am really worried about you.

So the conspiracy thinking has now been passed on to the other camp? Weird. I have trust that our government did the right thing when the pandemic was at its worst (sometimes thinking they might overreacted even) and I do trust them now. The same scientists who were very serious about COVID back then now do confirm that the newest mutation is pretty much comparable to the flu and that’s what statistics confirm here. That doesn’t mean it’s not dangerous anymore. Hell, every year 8 thousand people in the Netherlands die of the flu! So yes it’s still dangerous, especially to certain groups, but I don’t see recent numbers as a justification to make strict policies and I am glad most governments including the Dutch don’t.

Ah sorry didn’t realize it was boxed only. Those Selects were a fine introduction to the label anyway thanks for noticing. It’s been a while I’ve been to Amsterdam. The set isn’t very rare fortunately so I am in no hurry obtaining it.

It's interesting to see how everybody's dealing with COVID around the world nowadays. Here in the Netherlands COVID now has a regular flu status I would say. I am not at all familiar with any medication to be honest. Nobody does that here and I know plenty people who have had COVID in the last couple of months. Almost everyone in my direct environment has got it now at least once, sometimes twice or even more. But nowadays you could hardly tell as no one tests anymore. We got a pretty bad regular flu wave here in december that got quite some people sick (also at my work). I'm pretty sure that flu wave made more victims than COVID last winter... My collegue who hasn't called in sick in the past 13 years felt awful when he got it. He stayed at home for two weeks which is for him exceptional. My wife got COVID once, I still haven't got it, at least that I know of. But I am pretty sure I got it at the very beginning of the pandemic when testing was unavaible (I came back from a skiing holiday near the Italian border in march 2020 and both my wife and I got a severe cough, fever, headaches and I remember I was extremely tired). We visited my parents, not aware of the disease (it was only just in the news back then) and my parents had the same symptons. I stopped taking the vaccin after the second booster. I don't know any people that did. I've got the impression that most of the American board members here are more serious with the vaccins? There aren't any testing area's as well here anymore (that I know of) and no one I know tests any more. There aren't regulations and you never see anyone with a facial mask here anymore. Anyway: all best wishes to Rooster Ties and his wife. Hope you already had the worst and up to a steady recover.

I am 32 years old now. I bought my first Mosaics when I was in my late 20's probably. The Hill and Tolliver Selects.... Great stuff of course. I hate the fact I missed all of their vinyl releases with which they started. I bought the Mulligan/Baker and Getz Roost vinyl sets last year. There is still one set on my wishlist: the Art Pepper Small Group set. I pity the fact that they only do cd's (like other pity some labels that only do vinyl). And in these times it just might be not a very smart thing to do from a commercial point of view.

some excellent pacific jazz stuff!

thé new Acoustic Sounds issue. Sounds incredible….