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Paterno did all that he could. Fact is, he cannot hire and fire. He has no legal authority over anyone on or, in this case, off his staff. "Going public" as you say and effectively going over the heads of his superiors can be grounds for termination...his. So I really do not think you understand how the system works in cases such as these.
Are you kidding? It would be one thing to hold a big press conference and declare Sandusky a pederast, but I find it extremely hard to believe that there are no legal protections for those who bypass their institution's chain of command to report this kind of crime directly to the police. Paterno not only did nothing once it was clear the administration had decided to sweep the whole Sandusky thing under the rug, he appears to be saying Mike McQueary lied to the grand jury about what McQueary specifically told Paterno.
Tell you what...when it's your turn to report on something like this you can usurp the chain of command and see what happens to you, OK?
Oh and good luck with that law suit the accused will slap you with and the non-support from your boss, CPS and the police because YOU thought you didn't have to follow the legal procedure.
I will unilaterally accept your wishes of good luck.
Because if I ever see a child attacked or hear a first-hand account from a witness of a child being attacked like that, I will go to the police, not my "boss".
I find it reprehensible that you would express an opinion that people who are victims of assault or witnesses to it should have something to fear by speaking to the police.
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#27 is great. Available on cd via MPS.
That's one I don't have. I'm gonna have to track one down, now.
I know I shouldn't be, but I'm always amazed to discover what I don't own.
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The sad thing: a lot of people are refusing to believe that Sandusky, Paterno etc. did anything wrong. They're those nice guys who blend in with the rest of the community and even (in Paterno's case) have listed phone numbers with their street address included.
I was made particularly nauseous by Matt Millen's comments about Sandusky. Apparently Matt knows the guy, knows what he stands for, and wouldn't at all be surprised if all the charges amounted to nothing. That said, Matt continued, people do make mistakes...
Mistakes. That's how Matt categorizes molesting and ruining the lives of children. To him, apparently it's just an understandable character flaw that occasionally comes to light.
Shameful.
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Storms/Nocturnes - "VIA"
-Trio of Joe Locke (vibes), Geoffrey Keezer (piano), Tim Garland (sax). Beautiful moody jazz on the Origin label. Likely one of my top ten of the year.
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I think you're right. But we'll still need money.
Any thoughts on Kickstarter? Anybody here used it in any form?
Jim, please look into Kickstarter. My conversations with other musicians who have used it is very positive. Also, there is a group of us out there who are quite enthused about funding these types of projects. You should poke around the site and see the ingenuous offers that some musicians are using to tier the different funding levels, including some that include concert tickets to shows, allowing a funder to name a song on the album, names of other tier funders to appear in the album liner notes, personal concert for "gold member" funding. One musician I saw had a New-York-only funding tier of album download & album cd (autographed) & personal delivery of his own personal recipe banana bread. I'm not saying you have to cook for funders, just pointing out that your imagination is a valuable tool for crowd funding appeals.
Good luck.
Cheers.
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Just disgusting. Not just the act, but also the imagery of a bunch of suits sitting around a campus office deciding the best way to "handle" it. How can a person hear this type of allegations from a first-hand report and not be compelled to shout it from the rooftops? The sheer hubris that some campus suits think they should substitute their authority for that of law enforcement's makes me sick to my gut.
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Hi, from Destination: OUT. Fwiw, the FMP download store we are running (in full cooperation with Jost/FMP) will have this Bennink duo (FMP 0420) up for sale later in the fall. Realize downloads are not for everyone, but FLAC is one of the file options, so. And, it's been remastered.
Apologies for the sales pitch, but it seemed a propos. The store link is: http://destination-out.bandcamp.com. Thanks a lot.
LeDrew, thanks for hopping on board, especially for that bandcamp page. I think you may have been the one to turn me on to the bandcamp page a while back on a different forum. When my computer got its bookmarks cleaned out, I tried to remember all the spots I'd tagged to return, but that Destination: Out page was one I had forgotten about. Very glad to have been reintroduced to it. Putting that stuff up on bandcamp where we can stream it to decided before buying is just smart. I'm not a huge fan of the general sound many of those albums have, but I am always hopeful that if I give a certain musician/sound/album enough opportunities to meet my ear half way, that a connection will be made.
I'm very excited to listen through the albums on that bandcamp page and try to find a couple to give a permanent home in my itunes library.
Cheers.
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Their focus seems to be on the non-localization of radio programming. That is, IMO, a detriment to communities.
I know it makes dial-hopping on road trips big and small a lot less fun than it used to be. It's pretty much to the "why bother" point now, although very occasionally you'll go through some samll town that still has their own music programming...you can tell it right away too, by the song selection itself and/or the sequencing. But those finds are few and far between these days. Pity. Dial-hopping while driving used to be fun.
I hadn't really thought about that for some time. Back when I drove all kinds of road trips, I'd always skip the interstate, stick to hiways and backroads... the sheer joy of listening to local radio programming as I drove through some small town, that's something I'll always treasure. I've heard bluegrass bands I'll never be able to put name to, Sunday sermons that I never would've listened to at home and found quaint all the heated talk of sin and apocalypse, news reports on local municipal laws and fishing weather, and the occasional gem of blues or jazz. A tiny pastiche of life in towns I'd never live in.
Not concisely relevant to the matter at hand, but damn your post sent me off on a nostalgic road trip.
Cheers.
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Why is there this continued mantra of "cutting costs"? Clear Channel themselves say it's not a cost-cutting measure. Their focus seems to be on the non-localization of radio programming. That is, IMO, a detriment to communities.
The homogenization of the news industry as large national corporations eat up small localized news organizations has been to the detriment of those communities, as well as to the overall quality of news reporting. Having the news reported from just a small handful of "voices" on the national level has seen the quality of news go into the crapper overall. Radio programming doesn't rise to the level of importance as the news, but I can easily understand the worry and lamenting of those who don't like Clear Channel's move.
And besides, if the company is so badly in debt, why should we trust that their actions firing people are any wiser than the ones they made to get into debt in the first place. Why would anybody extend to them the benefit of the doubt?
Cheers.
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Huge Anzic drop on emusic two weeks ago. Which means you can now get a bunch of Anat Cohen, Yuval Cohen, Third World Love, Avishai Cohen, etc etc etc.
Some strong music on that label. Of course, they also have a Bandcamp page where you can stream the album in its entirety before deciding to purchase. In some cases, it's cheaper to buy it on Bandcamp, plus you get a choice of file formats there too.
Some albums released last Tuesday that I really like...
1982 - "Pintura"
ECM musicians make an album of chamber jazz folk music. A pretty album.
Listen to track from album on Soundcloud.
(Sorry, best image I could find)
Chelo Segui - "From Now On"
On his site, Chelo talks about composing an album of new tango with Argentinean rhythms. Cool album.
The Four Bags - "Forth"
Sort of like something you'd hear on the Clean Feed label, but odder and prettier. Maybe for fans of stuff on the Clean Feed label.
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Really been digging these lately:
Jeremy Udden's Plainville - If The Past Seems So Bright (Sunnyside) - it's the followup to his first one on Fresh Sound. Really unique sound sort of coming out of Frisell mixed with Lee Konitz but not swinging in the Tristano school at all. With Pete Rende on keyboards, Brandon Seabrook on tenor banjo and guitar, Eivind Opsvik on bass and RJ Miller on drums. Watch out for any records Pete Rende is involved with. He is a great mixing and mastering engineer in addition to being a great pianist.
Buy: http://www.amazon.com/If-Past-Seems-So-Bright/dp/B004UHF6B2
If the Past is taking longer to grow on me than his last album, Plainville (which I absolutely love). If the Past seems to have more of an edge to it, which works to the album's advantage and disadvantage both at times.
This came out a few months ago, but I'm just now getting around to listening to it in full:
Jacob Karlzon 3 - "The Big Picture"
-For fans of E.S.T. There have been some strong modern piano trio albums released this year, and this is no exception.
Henry Franklin - "The Soul of the World"
-Straight-ahead jazz goodness.
I've really been enjoying this new release from the Paul Fox Collective...
Paul Fox Collective - "Submerging & Emerging"
Very much in the vein of Brian Blade's style of nu-jazz. Really bright piano, a warm sound, but much of the eerie melodies associated with this style.
Here's his myspace, which has some music on it...
http://www.myspace.com/foxpaulmusic
Andy Sugg - The John Coltrane Project: Andy Sugg Plays Trane
Sugg achieves a multifaceted sound here, sorta like Andy Sugg covering Alice Coltrane covering John Coltrane. It's really pretty damn cool. Whereas I often tire of "cover albums", I'm very glad I looked into this one. Not typical at all.
And this one I haven't yet purchased, but I really like the sample tracks Jeff has on his site.
Jeff Gauthier's Goatette - Open Source
You can listen to some full tracks on Jeff's site...
It sounds great. I kind've liked his previous stuff, but Open Source is totally floating my boat right now. Just brilliant. I love hearing a musician develop into fantastic and grand sounds. Fans of the Clean Feed label sound should definitely give this a listen.
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A quality control question:
I'm listening to the Golson/Farmer on Spotify right now and there is some kind of digital artifact that has ruined some of the tracks. Specifically, the sound I'm talking about starts at around 3:00 of "Little Karin" and continues all the way through the end of the set. (Anyone else with Spotify hear this, or do just I need to restart something?)
Does anyone with the eMusic versions hear what I'm talking about, as well?
This has come up on the emusic forum. Apparently this is a label problem, because the same problem is being reported on downloads of the same album from itunes and amazon. As others here can probably attest, people who own the physical album don't encounter the sound issue. Don't know if there's any headway being made on refunds or fixing it. I recommend emailing emusic customer service and requesting a refund due to sound problems. They're usually pretty good about that.
Cheers.
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The Bears' problem is not so much their offensive line as it is that minus Earl Bennett (who isn't great but knows what he's doing) and Roy Williams (eh) they have only three-quarters of a receiver left in the lineup (that being Johnny Knox, who can get open but makes mistakes -- fails to run out some routes, shies away from contact at crucial times). Hester downfield is virtually a zero (and how often does he line up wrong and need to be waved to the correct side of the formation?); he's good only for certain underneath routes and is far from sure-handed on those. And while on such or similar routes Forte is better of course, you aren't going anywhere dumping the ball off to Forte, especially when only one receiver deserves any respect. Also, the whole run/pass balance thing is almost beside the point and/or backwards if you have just three-quarters of a receiver in the lineup. Balance is a great, but in order to get that balance at least one aspect of the offense needs to be able to distort the defense some. As for Cutler, give him all day to throw (which of course he's not getting), and throwing to these guys he'd still have big problems.
The problem is that the Bears two glaring weaknesses last season were on the O-line and the receiving corps, and basically did nothing substantive in the offseason to address those issues.
It's nice they drafted Carimi, and I support that decision, but that's the kind of thing you do when you're rebuilding or want to bribe your all-pro quarterback into re-signing with a new contract, but a weak o-line needs to add some decent veterans to improve; the Bears got rid of their best vet... Kreutz.
And then the receiving corp... well, adding Roy Williams as your #1 receiver is pretty damning indictment of the current Bears receivers. I don't mind the risk taking him, but the risk shouldn't be contingent on Roy being the best answer for last season's problems. Basically, the Bears have a bunch of decent slot receivers (small and quick), and now they've added an underachieving Williams as the solution to their size problem. That's a huge risk, which Cutler is paying the price for.
Cutler is pretty much screwed. He has a receiving corp who can't consistently run solid routes and get open and help him out in a tight pinch, and he doesn't have an O-line which can buy him time to wait for his receivers to get open, and he works in an offensive system that doesn't allow him to audible. Cutler is basically powerless to change the plays at the line to counteract the defensive strategy aimed at taking advantage of the Bears weak O-line and receivers.
Man, it would be a shame to waste the first legit QB we've had since, I dunno, Erik Kramer? Guh. Hurts just thinking on past Bears QBs.
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Hm, down here in the south, we actually spell it with a 'y', but it's pronounced the same way. We usually sprinkle cheese over it, maybe a handful of salt. At some of our finer dining establishments, they'll sprinkle some white gravy over the brown, but you gotta order that special like.
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My favorite Anonymous quote:
The important take away here is: bands, please wear your safety goggles at all times; before, during and after performances.
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I think my favorite REM song is "World Leader Pretend." Maybe coming in second is "Half a World Away". Third place would be a tie between about a hundred different songs.
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I think several of their post-Document albums were excellent. Green and Out of Time are still fantastic albums, and New Adventures in Hi-Fi is very underrated. There is a brilliance to New Adventures that never got recognized.
Reveal and Up were both pretty mediocre. Other bands were doing that sound way better than they were.
About a week ago, I started thinking that I might take a foray into the albums that followed Reveal and Up. Kinda strange that I had that outta the blue thought in the waning moments of the band's existence.
I think they've got a very impressive discography and I still find much of it enjoyable twenty years after first hearing it.
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Lark, this is a great idea for a thread!
On trumpet, I would say Taylor Haskins, to my ears, has a very distinctive sound. Almost reminiscent to something that might fit in with some of the Paul Motian outfits that recorded on Winter&Winter, but much much more than that, because he also sounds great in a jazz-rock setting like you might hear on a Ben Allison album. I'm not very good at blindfold tests, but I feel confident I'd recognize Taylor's playing.
Another trumpet player with a signature sound is Ron Miles. Whether he's playing a composition with a whimsical theme or a ballad full of heartbreak, the gentle tone he gets on his instrument is both brilliant and recognizable.
On bass, I would go with Omer Avital. Whether it's a solo or in the flow of the composition, I think he has a very distinctive sound. Especially when the tension of the music is rising to a breaking point (sorry, sloppy music description)... that's when Omer's sound really shines through.
I'd also mention Eivind Opsvik on bass, who is really coming into his own.
On guitar, I'd go with Rafal Sarnecki, though with a couple of serious caveats... one, he only has two albums, and while a musician's sound is more than the whole of their discography, I'm a little hesitant to say that his sound on guitar is immediately recognizable to me... except that it is.
Not one of the younger guys on the scene, but hard not to mention Bill Frisell when we're talking about signature sounds on guitar.
I'm gonna stop there for now and come back to this later after the Bears game.
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The new Charles Lloyd, called Athens Concert, came out yesterday in the US. Jason Moran is on it. I'm looking forward to hearing it.
It's well worth a listen. I've had a couple of spins and CD2, a suite comprised of Greek traditional tunes works beautifully. The arrangement by Farazis does a great job of facilitating a coming-together of the two disparate music traditions.
CD1 is less immediately successful, to my ears, although there's a great Dream Weaver. Lloyd's sax and Farantouri's vocals blend beautifully a lot of the time. Maybe less successfully when Farantouri is more foregrounded with the band 'backing'
As you'd anticipate the playing is top drawer from everyone but Lloyd just gets better and better as far as I can hear - the tone is luxurious
I am a little jealous of people who are into Lloyd. He cranks out albums at a decent pace, and yet each album seems to have its own identity through changing line-ups or themes. It seems like an exciting time to be a Lloyd fan. Unfortunately, his sound clashes with my ears. I keep hoping that the next Lloyd album I hear will be the one to get me over, so to speak.
Cheers.
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"Free Forever" by Omer Avital from the album of the same name.
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I was poking around on Nowlin's site a couple weeks back, listening to music from The Good News and stuff from his side-projects and that of his friends. I thought Good News wasn't bad, will likely revisit it later to see if it connects with me a bit more.
I do like that he did vinyl option, too. I think he did that through a Kickstarter project, but I could be misremembering that.
I'm glad to see a thread for this. I think people will be interested.
Cheers.
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I agree with Chicago Expat, but will give you the benefit of the doubt...
Vibes/guitar has always been Burton's format of choice for his basic quartet. Think of guys like Larry Coryell, Mick Goodrick, Pat Metheny, and my favourite, the under-recognized Jerry Hahn. (I loved his funky country/bluesy sound).
Now, without raising C-E's ire (I'm not pumping them), if you like that format, investigate a fine vibes/guitar/bass/drums group in Toronto, the Canadian Jazz Quartet.
It's a solid modern-mainstream group, with the guitarist/leader Gary Benson owing a lot to Jim Hall; the veteran vibist Frank Wright is a very creative melodist evoking Bags but swings like Hamp. The bass/drums combo of Duncan Hopkins and Don Vickery are solid, and while they're fine solo players, in this group are happy to be the solid underpinning.
I hear the CJQ often, and always enjoy their work. A regular gig brings in guest horn players, and to quote your kindergarten teacher, "they play well with others".
http://www.canadianjazzquartet.com/cjq_main.htm can get you to their CD releases.
Are you kidding? About the only reason I come to jazz forums is to share recs with other people. I'm all over that CJQ. Thanks for that link.
And also thanks for the reminder to start revisiting Hahn's discography. My primary familiarity with him is through John Handy's various ensembles.
But, yeah, as a general rule, it's wise not to raise my ire.
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Oh, man, you've gotta be new to jazz forums. I'm going to explain where you went wrong. It will probably come off as condescending, but really I'm trying to be helpful.
1. It happens so often, it's practically cliche, the approach of making a first post on a forum as some sort of fan of a musician/ensemble, completely unaffiliated with them, and saying something like "you should check these guys out, they're great." This approach screams PR and it doesn't engender much goodwill from the locals.
2. Don't hypothesize anything that might make you come off as not very knowledgeable about jazz. To say that you never hear guitar-vibe combos is one thing, but to follow it up with wondering if Gary Burton has ever played with a guitarist before (answer: he has, like a kajillion). It's okay not to know something. God knows there's plenty about jazz I'm clueless on. But to include it as part of a PR post, I don't know, it comes off as, well, I can't think of the right word, but it's not a flattering one, that's for sure.
3. Most jazz forums are gonna be populated with members who are very sympathetic to the struggling jazz musician. Hell, even the more successful jazz musicians struggule, so someone new on the scene like yourself, it's too be expected. If you want to promote your (or your friend's) album, just pop on the forum, say hi, introduce yourself, talk about your music, and provide a link to a place where you can hear it (and you did that last part for sure; it's nice to be able to stream an album on bandcamp).
4. Overall, if you're going to come onto a forum, any forum, and you're expecting for people to take the time to read and/or listen to your post, be open with why you're there and try to show the same care with your post as you would like listeners/readers to take with it.
Ironically, I have heard your album and I like it very much. I'm currently in a very bad place financially, but I do have your bandcamp page bookmarked and intend to scoop Goodbye Daylight up one day. Let your music be your business card. It's pretty good, and despite your clumsy first post on the forum, I do recommend that people give it a listen. It's good stuff.
Like I said, I meant well, though if our positions were switched, I can't deny that I'd be tempted to tell me to fuck off and mind my own business, lol.
P.S. Speaking of Gary Burton guitar players, Julian Lage has an album out called Gladwell that I haven't been able to listen to in full yet, but what I've heard so far is amazing.
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I believe I was.
If a grad assistant came to me and told me that he had witnessed a boy being attacked in the campus showers, my first call isn't to an athletic director, it's to the police. I drive that grad assistant over to the police station myself and have him tell investigators what he saw. I get the justice system involved before I concern myself with anything else. Period.