GA Russell

One of my first jazz albums! I wrote for the Prestige catalogue, and received a simple list with the one artist's name, album title and price. "Herbie Mann - Just Wailin' - $1.99." I didn't know what I was getting.

I got their second album when it was new (1974?), and played the heck out of it! I got that box set for Christmas '22. I have listened to the first two discs, and was just thinking this week that it was time to open up the next one. I saw Frith with Skeleton Crew in Atlanta in '85. I loved it. My date hated it!

Lon, I can see that you are a comic book connoisseur! For many years (decades) I have wanted to read the stories of Black Mask and Dime Detective. A few years ago, an attorney obtained as payment for services rendered the rights to the Black Mask catalogue. He re-published many of the stories. Apparently the sales were good, because now we are seeing the Dime Detective stories re-published as well. Radio Archives is also re-releasing many pulp magazines as eBooks.

I picked up The Doors of Perception when it was brand new (because it was on the Vortex label!), and I've always liked it. I'm very surprised to see it featured for a RSD. I always considered it to be obscure, unknown and unappreciated.

Disc 3

This was a comic book I always saw on the rack, but was never tempted to pick up. Did anyone here like this one?

Was 1972 immediately after Baker got his new set of teeth?

Dazzling Live Sides by Sonny Rollins Receive First Authorized Release on Resonance's Record Store Day Offering "Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings" Potent Trio Sides Featuring the Tenor Sax Giant with Bassist Henry Grimes & Drummers Pete La Roca, Kenny Clarke, & Joe Harris Arrive as Limited Four-LP Set on April 20 & Three-CD Package & Digital Download Edition on April 26 Deluxe Package Includes Rare Photos, Detailed Notes by Bob Blumenthal, & Interviews with Rollins & Fellow Tenor Men Branford Marsalis, Joe Lovano, James Carter, James Brandon Lewis, & the Late Peter Brötzmann   February 15, 2024 Resonance Records, the award-winning home of archival jazz treasures, will proudly present a new, fully authorized live collection by tenor master Sonny Rollins, Freedom Weaver: The 1959 European Tour Recordings, as a limited edition four-LP set on Record Store Day, April 20. Never before issued as a legitimate release, these much-bootlegged sides—which feature Rollins, at the height of his early powers, with bassist Henry Grimes and drummers Pete La Roca, Kenny Clarke, and Joe Harris—will subsequently reach stores as a three-CD set and digital download edition on April 26. This stunning package captured at Rollins’s concerts and radio and TV appearances in Sweden, Switzerland, Holland, Germany, and France in March 1959 succeeds Resonance’s first fully authorized music drawn from the Dutch Jazz Archive (NJA), 2020’s Rollins in Holland, a widely praised collection of 1967 live dates. The LP edition of Freedom Weaver was mastered for 180-gram vinyl by Bernie Grundman. The deluxe booklet for both configurations will include detailed notes by the Grammy-winning writer Bob Blumenthal; a new interview with Rollins; thoughtful tributes from fellow tenorists Branford Marsalis, Joe Lovano, James Carter, James Brandon Lewis, and the late Peter Brötzmann; and rare photographs by Ed van der Elsken, Jean Pierre Leloir, Bob Parent, and others. Resonance co-president and producer Zev Feldman says of the forthcoming set, “In the spring of 2022, I spoke to Sonny about the possibility of releasing what I regard as very important recordings which have only been available until now as unauthorized releases: these masterpieces recorded during Sonny’s European tour in 1959. It’s a crime that Mr. Rollins has never been paid for bootleggers’ exploitations of his work. With this release, we at Resonance are taking another step to ameliorate the wrongs committed by those who would misappropriate the creative output of this magnificent artist.” The famously exacting Rollins told Feldman, “Listening to older recordings of myself years after they were made, I tend to be self-critical. I’m always trying to get better. But on these recordings, I was in a good mood, and some of the places we played I hadn’t been to before. I was uplifted because I was appreciated there. Everything seemed to be happy within the groups and in the performances. It was all very positive and I’m actually very happy that Resonance has gotten together with me to put them out. I think they add to who I am and what I’ve done.” In a 1961 letter quoted in Aidan Levy’s monumental 2022 biography Saxophone Colossus, Rollins said of his European experience, “This tour proved to be most educational in several ways. For not only did I realize for the first time (and firsthand) the genuine respect and admiration with which jazz is received, but I also learned an important biological lesson: That…there is a true brotherhood of all people!” In his notes, jazz scholar Blumenthal views the ’59 shows as a culminating event for the artist: “It was not until the spring of 1957…that he attempted an entire session with just bass and drums in support. The resulting Contemporary Records album Way Out West, promoted as an all-star conclave of Rollins and perennial poll winners Ray Brown and Shelly Manne, became an instant classic, but it was no fluke. Rollins reveled in the harmonic freedom afforded by the absence of a comping piano or guitar, and in the months that followed produced two additional trio masterpieces, A Night at the Village Vanguard on Blue Note (primarily with Wilbur Ware and Elvin Jones) and Freedom Suite on Riverside (with Oscar Pettiford and Max Roach). This unintended triptych…defined what came to be Rollins’s preferred working format, the one he chose to employ when he made his first European tour in February and March of 1959.” Rollins’s deep impact on succeeding generations of saxophonists is delineated in the interviews conducted by Feldman expressly for Freedom Weaver. Marsalis says, “I was about 24 the first time I actually HEARD Sonny; HEARD what he was playing. At that time, I was figuring out who I wanted to model my playing after, and Sonny led me to thinking more in sonic terms, rather than harmonic terms. I tried to sound like Sonny, as much as I could. I listened to Sonny religiously for eight or nine months.” “For me, Sonny was his own style,” says Lovano. “It was like the Sonny Rollins School of playing. And he played with so much love of the music that he was exploring and, in a way, channeling. He was channeling ideas that were fueled by the music that he loved and that he listened to. And also, by players he absorbed in his young life coming up—Coleman Hawkins and Charlie Parker and singers and the blues. He developed a way of playing that combined of a lot of elements. Carter says of the master’s all-encompassing style, “I could hear Trane. I could hear Hawkins and Bird in his playing simultaneously. It was like an apparition that would just shift around and morph at certain times. There were rapid passages. You could hear Bird and Hawk, and then sometimes when he’s getting jagged or whatever, you could hear an exaggerated version of Hawk and Bird. It would just come out and then all of a sudden go back, then come back out as a Bird apparition and then a Hawk apparition, and they would come together. It was just continuous. Just listening to him head-on was a revelation in and of itself: here’s somebody who really coalesces, has all the tradition together and was still building upon it and had inexhaustible ideas.” The new millennium star Lewis notes, “Sonny Rollins is a motivic genius. He’s a jazz equivalent of Bach, really. He can develop anything. For me, you could take any little fragment of Sonny’s and turn it into your own composition.” In an interview held just eight months before his death, the German free jazz giant Brötzmann offered deep gratitude to his masterful forebear: “I always said to my colleagues here, ‘Man, Rollins is my man.’As an artist, you have to find your own way, your own language, your own way of moving through the world. Sonny Rollins’s example served as a great inspiration, a teacher for me to propel me to develop my own stuff, my own language. I looked to Sonny for that inspiration.” Photography: © Ed van der Elsken, Nederlands Fotomuseum STREAM THE SINGLE NOW: "A Weaver of Dreams" PREORDER CD on RESONANCE & BANDCAMP Resonance Records is a multi-GRAMMY® Award-winning label (most recently for John Coltrane’s Offering: Live at Temple University for “Best Album Notes”) that prides itself in creating beautifully designed, informative packaging to accompany previously unreleased recordings by the jazz icons who grace Resonance’s catalog. Headquartered in Beverly Hills, CA, Resonance Records is a division of Rising Jazz Stars, Inc. a California 501(c) (3) nonprofit corporation created to discover the next jazz stars and advance the cause of jazz. Current Resonance Artists include Tawanda, Eddie Daniels, Tamir Hendelman, Christian Howes, and Donald Vega.    Sonny Rollins Web Site  

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Thanks, Brad!

Free Agency begins tomorrow at noon. Here's a good look at how each of the teams stands. https://3downnation.com/2024/02/12/2024-cfl-free-agency-tracker-every-move-around-the-league/

Sounds plausible.

I listened to the fourth quarter on the radio. The announcer (Kevin Harland?) was behaving as if the Chiefs were running out of time. Is that correct? Would the game have ended even if the Chiefs were still moving the ball downfield? I see that now a team starts its drive on the 25 following a touchback. How long ago was that changed? I saw the third quarter on television. It looked to me that the 49ers' defense was better than the Chiefs' offense. But I guess not! PS - Kurt Warner on the radio was surprised that the 49ers won the overtime toss and elected to receive. He thought that the smart play would be to get the ball last, so that you knew what you had to do.

With the Super Bowl being played tomorrow, I am reminded that during last year's broadcast Crown Royal aired a spot featuring Dave Grohl which acknowledged that Canada (the McGill students in 1874) created North American football.

BC has let go Quincy Mauger. https://3downnation.com/2024/02/09/b-c-lions-release-starting-safety-quincy-mauger/ ***** BC has let go Woody Baron. https://3downnation.com/2024/02/09/b-c-lions-release-veteran-dl-woody-baron-prior-to-offseason-roster-bonus/ ***** Jackson Jeffcoat has retired. https://3downnation.com/2024/02/09/veteran-winnipeg-blue-bombers-de-jackson-jeffcoat-retires-from-cfl/ ***** This thread's view count stands at 236,300; an increase of 700 in a little less than six days.

Malik Carney will sign with the Roughriders. https://3downnation.com/2024/02/08/sources-american-de-malik-carney-agrees-to-terms-with-saskatchewan-roughriders/ ***** Trevon Tate will sign with the Stampeders. https://3downnation.com/2024/02/08/sources-american-ol-trevon-tate-agrees-to-terms-with-calgary-stampeders/ ***** The Alouettes have let go Almondo Sewell. https://www.cfl.ca/2024/02/08/als-part-ways-with-dt-almondo-sewell/ https://3downnation.com/2024/02/08/montreal-alouettes-release-veteran-dt-almondo-sewell/ ***** Derek Wiggan will sign with the Alouettes. https://3downnation.com/2024/02/08/sources-veteran-canadian-dt-derek-wiggan-agrees-to-terms-with-montreal-alouettes/

Good luck Kevin!

Out Feb. 12, this Tuesday.

Disc 1 Much better than I expected! The Europe '72 recordings are very much like the studio recordings; but these are different arrangements.

This is a good explanation of what is going on.

Savon Scarver has signed with the Argos. https://www.cfl.ca/2024/02/07/argos-sign-receiver-returner-savon-scarver/ https://3downnation.com/2024/02/07/toronto-argonauts-sign-former-redblacks-receiver-savon-scarver/ ***** Isaac Adeyemi-Berglund will sign with the Alouettes. https://3downnation.com/2024/02/07/sources-montreal-alouettes-agree-to-terms-with-canadian-dl-isaac-adeyemi-berglund/ ***** Dewayne Hendrix will sign with the Ticats. https://3downnation.com/2024/02/07/sources-hamilton-tiger-cats-agree-to-terms-with-dl-dewayne-hendrix/ ***** Ante Milanovic-Litre has signed with the Ticats. https://www.cfl.ca/2024/02/07/ticats-extend-bennett-ternowski-sign-milanovic-litre/ https://3downnation.com/2024/02/07/hamilton-tiger-cats-sign-canadian-rb-ante-milanovic-litre-re-sign-one-other/ ***** Adam Auclair will sign with the Riders. https://3downnation.com/2024/02/07/sources-saskatchewan-roughriders-agree-to-terms-with-canadian-lb-adam-auclair/ ***** Matthew Shiltz (a favorite of mine) will sign with the Stampeders. I can see him helping the team if Maier struggles. https://www.cfl.ca/2024/02/07/report-matthew-shiltz-to-sign-with-stampeders/ https://3downnation.com/2024/02/07/sources-calgary-stampeders-agree-to-terms-with-qb-matthew-shiltz/ https://www.tsn.ca/cfl/report-veteran-quarterback-matthew-shiltz-agrees-in-principle-to-deal-with-calgary-stampeders-1.2072728 ***** Ricky Walker will sign with the Stampeders. https://3downnation.com/2024/02/07/sources-calgary-stampeders-agree-to-terms-with-dl-ricky-walker/ ***** Tevin Jones will sign with the Alouettes. https://3downnation.com/2024/02/07/sources-montreal-alouettes-agree-to-terms-with-receiver-tevin-jones/ ***** Brady Oliveira turned down two big offers from the Ticats and BC to remain with the Bombers. https://3downnation.com/2024/02/07/bombers-rb-brady-oliveira-turned-down-770000-and-550000-financial-packages-to-stay-in-winnipeg/

That's great, Mark!

Brandon Barlow will sign with the Ticats. https://3downnation.com/2024/02/06/sources-hamilton-tiger-cats-agree-to-terms-with-dl-brandon-barlow/ ***** Jameer Thurman will sign with the Roughriders. https://3downnation.com/2024/02/06/sources-saskatchewan-roughriders-agree-to-terms-with-american-lb-jameer-thurman/ ***** Boris Bede has signed with the Elks. https://www.cfl.ca/2024/02/06/elks-boris-bede-agree-to-two-year-deal/ https://3downnation.com/2024/02/06/edmonton-elks-sign-all-star-kicker-boris-bede-through-2025/ https://www.tsn.ca/cfl/edmonton-elks-sign-veteran-kicker-boris-bede-1.2072370 ***** Drew Richmond has retired. https://3downnation.com/2024/02/06/drew-richmond-retires-at-28-leaves-hole-in-winnipegs-offensive-line/ ***** Javon Leake will sign with the Elks. https://www.cfl.ca/2024/02/06/report-mostp-javon-leake-to-sign-with-elks/ https://3downnation.com/2024/02/06/edmonton-elks-agree-to-terms-with-cfl-all-star-return-man-javon-leake/ ***** Jalon Edwards-Cooper will sign with the Riders. https://3downnation.com/2024/02/06/sources-saskatchewan-roughriders-agree-to-terms-with-db-jalon-edwards-cooper/ ***** Jamal Peters will sign with the Ticats. https://www.cfl.ca/2024/02/06/report-jamal-peters-to-sign-with-ticats/ https://3downnation.com/2024/02/06/sources-hamilton-tiger-cats-agree-to-terms-with-db-jamal-peters/ https://www.tsn.ca/cfl/hamilton-tiger-cats-to-sign-defensive-back-jamal-peters-to-record-deal-1.2072352 ***** William Stanback has signed with BC. https://www.cfl.ca/2024/02/06/lions-sign-stanback-to-beef-up-run-game/ https://3downnation.com/2024/02/06/sources-rb-william-stanback-signs-with-b-c-lions/ ***** Demerio Houston will sign with the Stampeders. https://www.cfl.ca/2024/02/06/report-demerio-houston-headed-to-calgary/ https://3downnation.com/2024/02/06/calgary-stampeders-agree-to-terms-with-all-star-db-demerio-houston/ ***** AJ Ouellette will sign with the Riders. https://www.cfl.ca/2024/02/06/report-riders-to-sign-aj-ouellette/ https://3downnation.com/2024/02/06/sources-saskatchewan-roughriders-agree-to-terms-with-two-time-east-all-star-rb-a-j-ouellette/ ***** The Elks and the Riders have added a number of good players, and the Argos have lost many of the stars. Apparently the Argos have been so good because these guys were playing on their rookie contracts. Now that these old contracts have expired, their market value has shot up, and the Argos don't have the salary cap space to keep all the people they would like. https://www.tsn.ca/cfl/four-toronto-argonauts-players-reach-agreements-in-principle-with-other-cfl-clubs-1.2072391 https://www.cfl.ca/2024/02/06/oleary-argos-hit-hard-with-player-departures/