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  4. ***** Week 10 results BC 41....Hamilton 38 Lots of fun. I counted nine lead changes. Both Whyte and Legghio missed their first field goals of the season. https://www.cfl.ca/2025/08/07/recap-bc-41-hamilton-38/ https://www.cfl.ca/2025/08/07/lions-take-down-ticats-in-overtime-after-back-and-forth-affair-on-thursday/ https://www.tsn.ca/cfl/sean-whyte-s-overtime-field-goal-earns-bc-lions-victory-over-hamilton-ticats-1.2343917 https://3downnation.com/2025/08/08/b-c-lions-redeemed-in-rematch-knock-off-ticats-in-overtime-thriller-12-other-thoughts/ https://www.cfl.ca/2025/08/07/3-stats-that-defined-bcs-week-10-win-over-hamilton/ ***** Week 10 preview https://cflnewshub.com/cfl-news/cfl-week-10-edmonton-elks-1-6-at-montreal-alouettes-5-3-game-preview-injury-report-and-predictions/ ***** CFL Awards defensive candidates https://cflnewshub.com/cfl-news/cfl-defensive-player-of-the-year-candidates/
  5. My first Eddie Daniels record was Dave Pike's The Doors of Perception.
  6. Just finished "Softly, With Feeling", a bio of Joe Wilder. He was really a great person, forced to feel the brunt of racism, like Clark Terry, without letting it get to him. No matter where he went, the Marines, the classical music world, Broadway, on the road in the South with big bands, he was treated like crap, but was able to transcend it, by virtue of his superiority as a person. It's not surprising he wound up with other great black musicians, like George Duvivier, Milt Hinton and Hank Jones. His hard work during his early classical training enabled him to sight read anything, and he was able to get lead trumpet work in both commercial work and jazz work, and eventually learned enough about improvisation on his own, to excel in that realm, also. Rather than relying on high note chops, he was noted for the beautiful sound he got out of the horn in the middle and lower ranges, and his creativity as a soloist. It's no wonder that he wound up playing for Tom Talbert, who able to discern other great players who played the same way, like Aaron Sachs. A great deal was made how unknown he was, which surprised me, because my father had bought albums like The Pretty Sound of Joe Wilder, and the Bix, Duke and Fats album of Talbert that he was featured on, so they were always lying around the house when I was a kid. I didn't realize that he never led his own small group in a club until he was in his 60s, even working with younger players who realized how great he was like Michael Weiss, besides his old buddies Hank Jones and Milt Hinton. He was even featured on a Steely Dan cut, so he was obviously big in the studios, so outside of his small group jazz playing, he was quite prominent in the studio orchestras, like Johnny Smith, another musician that he worked with on "Annotation of the Muses" by Johnny Richards, during his 'Third Stream" phase. The author Edward Berger, seemed to be unaware of the tremendous difficulty of making a living in the jazz field, and that musicians had to play other types of music (Wilder even wound up playing 'club dates' for a while) to get by. The worst culprit in Wilder's case seemed to be the classical field, which refused to allow any Black musicians to play in their orchestras, until quotas had to be imposed. If you were someone like Joe Wilder you didn't stand a chance of getting an orchestral job. Much of the book deals with legislation that enabled Black musicians to find work in Broadway orchestras and Symphony orchestras, Finally Ben Steinberg started The New World Symphony Orchestra, which allowed minorities to play in it, and Wilder was a charter member. However,Wilder left after he was disgusted at the political in-fighting that forced Steinberg out of his position as conductor. He eventually found work in the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra. He also went into teaching at Julliard and Hamilton College in his 80s. He was still alive and active after surviving cancer when the book was written, in 2014, the year of his death at 92.
  7. That stuff with Sam Rivers…. He’s so damn good on it. RIP
  8. Yeah, he was a pisser!
  9. He made a good record with Don Patterson,and another good/crazy one with Freddie Hubbard. I mean, he's almost totally Joe Henderson, but with the integrity of his own sound. Plus he was in Bob Rosengarten Dick Cavett band and he was often seen wailing away - on camera - fairly often But the...whatever happened happened.
  10. Yeah, it's nice, not 7 c's nice.
  11. granted, copies with obis don't turn up that often, but I never thought of it as a $700 (or more) LP. Cool record, but.......
  12. yes, the Prestige and Takt/Columbia LPs are both excellent. I kinda stop after those early entries.
  13. 2007 Connoisseur CD Excellent album. I'm looking forward to the upcoming Tone Poet version and his new album which is due out in September.
  14. I have listened to the jazzier side of Eddie, and I did see him once in concert (Tri-C JazzFest)--very positive reactions to both. A talented and fun man...RIP.
  15. Ok, I'm not about to claim that the Carter set is anything even remotely like "the only Carter Quartets set you'll ever need" or anything like that. But it's still a good rewarding listen if you can get past the horrid (imo) early-digital sound. The group had a history with Carter, and they worked with him directly on these recordings. So...attention should be paid, imo. Summer With The Juilliard String Quartet will be concluding with the Ergo collection of the Hindemith Quartets. Totally uncharted territory for me, should be fun!
  16. I kinda really liked him when he was a rowdyass tenor player. Since then, not so much. Oh well. No disputing the virtuosity.
  17. Yesterday
  18. I'm not surprised that he's not touring. He's 81 and at this point has likely made a bunch of money during his "smooth jazz" days.
  19. Highly recommended. Interviews with ballplayers whose cards I had in 1959.
  20. Does Tina Brooks' estate get a cut of the sale price?
  21. Oh MY!!!!
  22. Wow. That one has not seen individual CD reissue that I'm aware of, but it is part of the Hutcherson Mosaic Select, which rounds up his best later BN albums. Glad I grabbed that when it came out.
  23. https://www.ebay.com/itm/236240302061
  24. RIP to a great master.
  25. 👍 - this vinyl is on my shelf ...
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