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I saw Benny in spring 2019. Don’t know bout now but would understand he does not perform these days with COVID and stuff…

Thanks Now waiting for the postman to show up

Well it's Christmas and that means not only a little extra salary but also my birthday which I share with our good Lord. Anyway, I got a very generous family in law who always give me money for my birthday. It always gives me the opportunity to close the year in style with some great new records... 75th birthday vinyl edition Also 75th anniversary edition. Regreted this one a little when I found out this one is to be released as a Tone Poet coming year... Soul Jazz vinyl 2009 Japanese vinyl, Pacific Jazz 1991 Blue Note Heavenly Sweetness, 2013 1985 French vinyl Barclay 2LP, 1975 MPS vinyl 1975, With Billy Harper en Cecil Bridgewater Blue Note 1968. My first original pressing. Capricorn, 1973 Japan vinyl India Navigation, 1980 vinyl Atlantic, 2002 vinyl 2021 CD on Dark Tree

Monty Python…. She puts on her critical face and I almost feel embarrassed laughing…. How do they do that?

Best wishes to all. Hope you all be able to celebrate these days in a safe and healthy way.

I prefer the other Mulligan/Desmond album. I love this one: https://www.discogs.com/master/373333-The-Paul-Desmond-Quartet-Live and I think you will too it’s exactly that space you are probably meaning that makes it so good. The Take Five on this album is better than the original imho…

This made me think about 'the end' of the virus. If it keeps mutating but getting less dangerous but only more contageous..... Could it create it's own downfall that way? It made me also think about the possibility of scientists deliberately spreading a more contageous but less dangerous variant. But of course genetical manipulation is not without risk.... Anyway: I am hoping with you

So you're not talking about his classic records with Jim Hall on RCA are you? Less harmonic support than that?

Something to spin when you’re parents in law are visiting? not the most original choice I know but I never get tired of this record. Ella had a voice… nothing compares to that

Ah it’s that easy! Thanks guys. I’ll now shut my mouth, take the booster and wait till it’s gone. You are very right: the current vaccination program prooves to be very much effective. Really good comparible with the polio vaccin. It’s out of the question that scientists may not have a solution (yet). You have to think you’re way. If you’re a little critical you must be stupid or insane. And you are the reason of all misery in the world right now I knew my opinion would not be a popular one here. I was prepared for everybody jumping on me. But what I was hoping for was for people to respond to my arguments which I based on scientific reports from our own government. I do that because I believe in science too. And in our government. Reading some of the responses here, you’ve clearly didn’t even read my posts. It’s more like: sounds like he’s not one of us let’s just respond with vaccination is the only way and people who doubt are stupid. It’s exactly what I meant with the missing middle ground. People refuse to even listen to what others are saying and try to discuss with them. It’s all about just repeating your own vision and opinion. People even think it’s a bad case that all these others could have a different opinion than themselves and could speak out for we are in a democracy. It’s not what I teach my students. I teach them to always be critical of what you here and listen to others. If you disagree with someone you have to listen closer. You might have a blind spot. Fortunately there were some guys who might disagree with me but responded in a polite and mature way: Larry Kart, mjazzg and OliverM. Thanks for sharing thoughts. Some comforting news: Nobody has to doubt the fact I will get my booster. I’ll be forced anyway. now I’ll retreat quietly and shut up. Oh and of course listening some jazz music for its almost Christmas holidays here

I fully agree with that OliverM. I think nobody could have foreseen how hard it would be to overcome this terrible virus

Thanks!

Yeah instead of responding with reasonable arguments in a mature way, let’s just take the others arguments out of context and make a personal attack. if you had bothered to read any of my posts you would have read that I based my opinion also on scientific facts as provided by the Dutch government.

Thanks for sharing that article Larry. Interesting stuff. This is mostly what I mean. Vaccinated people are contagious but with the vaccinated only policy they give vaccinated people the feeling they are safe. And governments weird way of communicating attributes to that feeling: with a vaccination you could do and visit whatever or whoever you like because hey: you are vaccinated. Part for some moral objections to the policy this is mostly why I feel it’s just not right to do. As I said: if the vaccination was very effective and the way out of this crisis I might have been pro mandatory in the interest of public health. But it doesn’t work that way (yet). Of course I do agree, this is scientifically proven, that it does help against hospilizations especially on the ICU. As I said I am glad my 70+ parents took the booster last week. Although I have to say I was still shocked by how many vaccinated people got hospitalized anyway. What I tried to explain with arguments is why I, as a 30 year old healthy guy, have doubts about getting a booster. And I feel really anxious bout people who want to force me to vaccinate my two boys. I have fAith in science and it’s probably going to be okay but things are still unsure yet and we have just began. I think I have the right to doubt as it’s my health and my sons health we are talking about. This is exactly what I mean with the other extreme side opposite from the conspiracy loonies. ‘Just shut up and do as you’ve been told, if you don’t you’re crazy and a hazard to society’. Why shouldn’t people think critical of policies, ask questions, discuss and exchange ideas? That is what makes democracy such a great system.

@Larry Kart I try it this way for the quoting function does not work on my phone. Interesting statistics that indeed might indicate it helps against conteminations. I think it has been scientifically proven it does: at least a little. I think it’s a little too little anyhow and my countries situation is a perfect example of that. what I said about the museums, restaurants, bars etc. It’s pretty sure that contaminations there were from vaccinated people as unvaccinated people had to get tested before which is always the safest option and most sure way to know if someone has COVID or not. What I was trying to say, and I know this happens: once you’re vaccinated all control is gone. Because I am vaccinated twice I could easily go into a restaurant or theater with a fever and a sore throat. And I know people do this. This makes the vaccinated only policy not only unfair but also very questionable in the sense of effectiveness.

I am talking about telling people that the vaccinated people only policy is there because it's safe or that it works because vaccinated people can't hardly contaminate others. That is not true and it's the reason were in trouble again. If you want to make a safe policy you should create a test only policy: you only get acces when you're tested wherever you're vaccinated or not. The only intent of the vaccinated only people policy is to force them to get the booster. If that's you're kind of policy that's fine but you should be transparent about your real motivations. The fact so many people are in the hospitals proof it does not safe live. Well, the enormous ammount of information doesn't make it easier to get well informed. The fact that boosters efficence fade out so fast was spoken of today by our own Fauci: Jaap van Dissel. He says the original vaccin was created for the alpha variant and it's getting less effective with every new variant. According to him it does give your system a small boost bud it fades out again fast.

Sorry Larry but I disagree on that. The real danger and problem that caused our rising numbers of contaminations were vaccinated people visiting the restaurants, museums and parties with the false idea that they would be safe. They didn't have to hold distance to each other: they were free to do whatever they liked to do. That is exactly the problem with the vaccinated people only police: they are still able to spread the virus and contaminate people and therefore bring others in a dangerous situation. In fact: at least the unvaccinated people had to test themselves before entering such locations and their presence was of less danger. Hello! I am vaccinated but everybody could understand this system is unjust and not right. The vaccinated only people policy is meant to force people to take the vaccin. If that's what you want to accomplish, you should be transparent about it. It seems not unfortunately and I do not see why it is so hard to admit. Today the head figure of our National Health Service announced that the Pfizer and Moderna vaccins are 5x less resistant to the new Omrikon variant. A booster vaccin would get it up to maybe 60% but only for a short while. This would mean you have to booster again after 2 months. The same sounds are coming from Israel now where they are planning for a 4th injection which is probably going to be even less resistant. Half november, half of the people on our intensive care units were vaccinated. This is data from our National Health Service. They stopped publishing that data ever since.... I know a lot of people who were double vaccinated and still got very, very ill including two of my co workers. 2 of those people were even hospitalized. Almost 90 percent (again data from our government) of the adult population are fully vaccinated here in the Netherlands. Yet contaminations are sky high and so are the hospitalizations. They are so high we need to go in lockdown again. All these statistical facts are enough to seriously doubt the effectivity of the vaccins or the boosters. I fully agree that it still is the best way to prevent from serious ilness: I am glad my 70+ mom and dad both got their boosters and hope everyone with a vulnerable health does. But the arguments for a 30 year old healthy guy like myself are getting smaller and smaller. I mostly took my vaccinations to be less contaminatious and to end this crisis. It prooved to not work for both of these arguments. The mandatory vaccins you are refering to (polio, tetanus etc.) have prooved to be 1. effective, 2. safe 3. give livelong protection and beneftis. If the COVID vaccins were like this, I'd might be pro-mandatory. But they are not. They are actually far from that. And in such a case it's not always wrong to be a little critical. I have a healthy trust that the vaccines are probably not harmful and results up to now fortunately show nothing serious. But lots of things are also uncertain and we are still in the experimental phase. It's my body and more important my health: so may I please have the right to worry about what I am putting in it? Or better: in my childrens bodies? Again: if vaccins were the definite way out of this crisis I took the shot right away. But the harsh message people do not want to hear is: they are not... They are making those nazi-Germany comparisons here too. It's digusting. They have no idea what they are talking about. What I hope everyone could see here is that I am not a conspiracy loony or something. I am not using data from Breitbart or weird conspiricary blogs. I am using the same data as the Dutch government does. In that way I try to explain why I am doubting the current vaccination program and oppose mandatory vaccines under current circumstances. But you can't say one critical thing on government policy these days without being placed in the loonatic camp. That is what I mean with the missing middle ground: the people I work with, my family and friends are taking the crisis very serious. They are all double vaccinated and so am I. We have all followed government instructions about what to do and what not to do. But they are also skeptical about the current vaccination policies. I miss that moderate critical sound in the media very, very much. It's either you are with us or against us but its not that easy.

We’re back in a full lockdown here in the Netherlands. Still waiting for someone to admit that the vaccinations do not work as they had supposed to do… I took both shots for I was thinking it was the right thing to do. It probably was anyway but I am very disappointed about the whole situation right now. What worries me more are the rising tensions and polarization here. On one side we got a government that tries to make a vaccin mandatory… really guys mandatory? I’m all for vaccinations but making it mandatory violates the most basic human rights. there isn’t any logic in coming policy too. Plan is to give vaccinated people access to everything and to ban the unvaccinated from everything. That means that I as a vaccinated, could visit a restaurant with a fever, cough and running nose. A colleague of mine is unvaccinated: she needs to get tested first every time she wants to do something. So in this time, her visit gives the smallest risk. I could easily contaminate some people there because vaccinated people could still easily contaminate others. So who’s in the critical camp then? It’s the people that believe Bill Gates tries to get a chip in our system to meltdown our brains during the reset. And let’s not forget the network of pedophiles that are drinking baby blood…. Where is the moderate sound? It like you’re either pro vaccination or against it. Like you’re always have to be pro migration or against it. Pro environmental policy or against it. Mostly the truth is somewhere in the middle. I miss that sound from the middle very much. really guys, it’s like the worlds gone crazy. I am really worried about the future of my two boys

Not sure it’s what you mean exactly but when I think about broodiness: it’s a word that I used a lot on my Mal Waldron blog. Mal’s music is serious stuff and he could set an atmosphere that is hard to describe. But dark or brooding comes close to it. Some examples:

Speaking off Contemporary…. This one arrived in the mail yesterday. Fantastic session and again I’m hugely impressed by Barbara Donald’s playing. Incredible music, incredible playing. Soul Brother….

Rip mr Harris

Yeah I fully agree. Excellent sound.

I’ve got a 1985 US vinyl copy that sounds great. It is indeed a great session.

Go for it. It sounds fantastic

Yeah the sound is incredible!