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Sounds like an excellent run 😇

in spite of this, it is an interesting and fascinating document.

hmmm... are we supposed to be so excited this exists to not mention a seeming excess of marginal euro (collector / crap) entries? and no Paul "Hucklebuck" Williams, no Illinois Jacquet, no Willis "Gator Tail" Jackson, Sam Rivers only as a Jeanne Lee sideman, no John Carter (check that I do see John with Tapscott) no Henry Threadgill, no Leroy Jenkins (or Revolutionary Ensemble: ironic because there's no greater "Revolutionary" in contemporary music or literature than Thurston Moore), no Billy Bang though it could be argued Billy's key dates fall on other side of 1980. maybe Rivers, Carter, Threadgill, Jenkins et al are too much composers to be "free"? credit whoever picked Kenton - Graettinger, however, that's shocking to see, almost as much as if someone picked Bix "In A Mist." and yeah yeah, everyone has their own list but when it's a bunch of old white guys who weren't there speaking of / for an American born culture i aver there's a greater responsibility to not play preening collector sword fight. Love Jeanne Lee but she gets TWO entries and Betty Carter none? Again, one could argue her freest performances were later but she was always "out there." ** oooh, "free improv", oooh Borbetomagus! **

I am maybe the last one who would buy an Oscar Peterson album or listen to him, but I think I heard that jam, it is very good horn players, and Eddie Lockjaw is outa sight. Diz is in top form as is Clark Terry. Only that it seems that Diz made some compromis to not scare Peterson cause Diz was much more ahead of the time than. He didn´t play the straight ahead bop clichés anymore, had a young modern quartet with Rodney Jones, Benjamin Franklin Brown and Mikey Roker. The sound good but I don´t really like Nils Hennig, he has a too even tone and his solos sound like exercises, and I like if you hear more plucking the strings and musical thrill from a bass player. Nils he got a helluva chops, but somehow goes into a too plain manner like his longtime boss Peterson. Imagine those horn players with someone like Buster Williams and you´d hear the difference. I heard that album but OWN only one Peterson album: Singers Unlimited, maybe because you don´t hear to much of Oscar Peterson 😀 Diz, Jaws, Clark all were hip guys with style, and musical taste and an attitude you have to listen to it and love to listen to it.

I like it much more than let´s say "Page One". Especially Andrew Hill brings it to live. I love Joe Henderson, but especially interesting is that "rhythm section" (I hate that word !) with such tough players, who always have thrilled me.

I have never heard him or seen him but often read his name. Wasn/t he one of the guys who recorded for ESP. Like Guiseppe Logan, I have never seen or heard him, and he was ESP. Anyway, those war interesting musicians on an interesting label. The only thing is, that a still living ESP artist with whom I have performed very often said that they didn´t get paid and it seems that he did not like tha Lawyer who was the boss of it. Okay keep away from Lawyers, there want your money but dont give you money...thats a fact.

Because they have signed Darnell Sankey, a favorite of mine, the Lions have let go another favorite of mine, Micah Awe. https://www.cfl.ca/2026/01/23/lions-release-linebacker-micah-awe/ https://3downnation.com/2026/01/23/b-c-lions-release-cfl-tackle-leader-micah-awe/ ***** ***** Nathan Rourke highlight reel https://www.cfl.ca/2026/01/23/nathan-rourkes-mop-season/ ***** The Collective Bargaining Agreement calls for sharing increases in revenue with the players. The league announced today that its revenue increased $10 million this year. This will increase the salary cap. https://www.cfl.ca/2026/01/23/2025-season-yields-10m-in-league-wide-revenue-growth/ https://www.tsn.ca/cfl/article/cfl-salary-cap-increases-to-628-million/ https://3downnation.com/2026/01/23/cfl-records-10-million-in-revenue-growth-for-2025-increases-salary-cap-over-200k/ ***** Calgary analysis https://www.tsn.ca/cfl/article/free-agency-preview-stampeders-look-to-reload-after-losing-crop-to-nfl/ ***** The Argos plan to use U Guelph as their home base until they can start playing their home games at BMO Field in August. https://3downnation.com/2026/01/23/toronto-argos-plan-to-use-university-of-guelph-as-team-base-until-bmo-field-home-games-in-august/ ***** Chris Jones will be an assistant at Louisiana-Monroe this year. https://3downnation.com/2026/01/23/former-cfl-head-coach-chris-jones-hired-as-assistant-at-louisiana-monroe-sources/ ***** Today's Sask analysis is about Andy Robustelli's grandson Joe. https://pifflespodcast.com/blog/roughriders-free-agents-joe-robustelli/

Oh well ... sorry about that!

Colbeck, not Colbert.

Good musicians of course, but can't say I love the CD. Wish there were a bass player present, and Crispell often leaves me antsy...

Kudos!

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Ken- Thanks of thinking of me. Email address is: hershia@cfl.rr.com

R.I.P.

Just saw that the Bad Plus is doing a farewell tour where they are exploring the music of Keith Jarrett. They have one Toronto date in early March up in North York. I don't think there any other Canadian dates, though there is a Montreal gig with their current line-up (not the special guests). I'm not sure I would have gone but then I heard they were adding Chris Potter and Craig Taborn to the mix, and I thought that would be worth checking out. This super group is playing Oakland, Los Angeles and a lot of European dates, but not as many US dates as I would have expected.

Really good.

Nice, next Tetragon and another Waldron-Lacy on Elemental.