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Here is a website I haven't seen before. Week 4 Preview PR: This Week In The CFL – Week 4 (cflnewshub.com)

Last night I typed up a very long post, and then accidentally closed the window. Tell me I'm not the first person to do that! I'll get to Week 3 over the weekend, but for now, let's look at Week 4. Thursday's Edmonton at Toronto game was postponed because 14 Elks tested positive for Covid-19. https://www.cfl.ca/2021/08/22/cfl-statement-elks-argonauts-game-thursday/ https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/cfl-edmonton-elks-two-more-positive-covid-19-tests-1.6150798 ***** Power Rankings https://13thmansports.ca/2021/08/23/cfl-power-rankings-week-3/ https://www.cfl.ca/2021/08/23/power-rankings-riders-win/ https://3downnation.com/2021/08/23/3downnation-power-rankings-riders-rise-to-the-top/ ***** Week 4 Picks https://doorfliesopen.com/2021/08/26/cfl-beat-131/ https://rodpedersen.com/cfl-week-4-preview/ https://rileysportsblog.wordpress.com/2021/08/26/2021-cfl-week-4-predictions/ https://www.cfl.ca/2021/08/26/editors-desk-open-door-week-4/ https://www.cfl.ca/2021/08/25/prediction-time-cfl-ca-writers-week-4-picks/ https://www.cfl.ca/2021/08/25/weekly-predictor-taking-tiger-cats/ https://3downnation.com/2021/08/27/3downnation-cfl-picks-can-rick-campbell-exact-revenge-against-redblacks/ http://17degreesports.com/index.php/2021/08/25/cfl-week-4-preview/ ***** Week 4 game notes https://www.cfl.ca/2021/08/26/cfl-ca-game-notes-look-week-4-4/ ***** QB Index https://www.cfl.ca/2021/08/24/qb-index-week-strong-debuts/ ***** Nick Volpe has died at 95. RIP. I had the pleasure of sitting next to Nick at the 1978 Grey Cup. https://www.cfl.ca/2021/08/23/argos-mourn-passing-alumni-nick-volpe/ https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/nick-volpe-dies-at-95-led-argos-to-1950-mud-bowl-wini-1.6150662 ***** Dave Naylor preview https://www.tsn.ca/naylor-s-kickoff-cfl-dealing-with-multiple-covid-concerns-1.1686544 ***** Gossip! https://3downnation.com/2021/08/25/insider-talk-player-vaccinations-covid-19-protocols-hamiltons-protection-problems/ ***** Today's view count is 173,132.

IMPULSE! RECORDS ADDS ANOTHER IMPORTANT CHAPTER TO JOHN COLTRANE STORY WITH NEWLY DISCOVERED LIVE RECORDING OF A LOVE SUPREME FROM 1965 Artist Title Time John Coltrane A Love Supreme, Pt. IV - Psalm (Live In Seattle) 06:40 A LOVE SUPREME: LIVE IN SEATTLE SET FOR RELEASE OCTOBER 8, 2021 August 26, 2021 (New York, NY) – After nearly six decades, a private recording of a rare, nightclub performance by John Coltrane of his magnum opus, A Love Supreme, is set for commercial release. Recorded in late 1965 on the culminating evening of a historic week-long run at The Penthouse in Seattle, A Love Supreme: Live In Seattle is a musical revelation of historic importance, capturing Coltrane as he began to expand his classic quartet—adding Pharoah Sanders on second saxophone and Donald Garrett on second bass—and catapulting him into the intense, spiritually focused final phase of his career. Today, you can listen to A Love Supreme, Part IV – Psalm, watch the visualizer here https://JohnColtrane.lnk.to/ALSPIV. The full album A Love Supreme Live in Seattle is for release October 8, on Impulse! Records/UMe. Pre-order now: https://JohnColtrane.lnk.to/LiveInSeattlePR. The significance of A Love Supreme: Live In Seattle is heightened by the fact that Coltrane seldom performed his four-part suite after originally recording it in the studio in 1964. Composed and created as a public declaration of his personal spiritual beliefs and universalist sentiment, it became a best-seller and received a GRAMMY nod the next year. For more than six decades, it seemed the only recorded public performance of A Love Supreme took place at a French festival at Juan-Les-Pains in July 1965 and was released almost twenty years ago. The tape reels containing this performance from October 1965 sat in the private collection of Seattle saxophonist and educator Joe Brazil, heard by a few fortunate musicians and friends—and largely unknown until now. A Love Supreme: Live In Seattle is a fascinating and rare performance of the full suite, marked by a looser and more improvisational approach, and a overriding sense of communal participation—much like a Sunday church service; the lineup featured John Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders on saxophones, McCoy Tyner on piano, Elvin Jones on drums, and Jimmy Garrison and Donald (Rafael) Garrett on basses. Carlos Ward, then a young saxophonist just getting started on the scene, sat in as well. As music historian Ashley Kahn puts it in the liner notes, A Love Supreme: Live In Seattle “offers the first evidence of the master of spiritual expression performing his signature work in the close confines of a jazz club…on October 2, 1965, a Saturday, in Seattle, the necessary elements were in alignment: music, players, venue, a spirit of connection, a certain political charge. Coltrane chose to perform it, and significantly, the moment was recorded.” Kahn’s extensive liner notes tell the story of A Love Supreme: Live In Seattle not only through the words of the musicians themselves, but also through a number of witnesses whose lives were changed by Coltrane’s visit to Seattle in 1965 (his sole visit to the city as a leader), including Brazil, Ward, and bassist David Friesen, who states: “I’ve always pursued the spiritual aspect of the music and I still do. I remember sitting with Coltrane during one break that week and…what touched me was the way he treated other people. He showed mercy and kindness to people from what I could see around me for the week that I was there.” The music on A Love Supreme: Live In Seattle was recorded with a two-microphone set-up onstage, connected to an Ampex reel-to-reel machine, and the only copies of the tapes were well cared for, yielding a remarkably clear and distortion-free recording. “What’s remarkable is that tapes from this era often suffer over the years from heat or moisture damage, or simply being stacked horizontally,” writes engineer Kevin Reeves who produced this release. “However, these tapes are in excellent condition… and the results are among the best amateur recordings of John Coltrane we’ve had the pleasure to work on.” The story of the A Love Supreme suite is the story of John Coltrane—his musical journey, and his spiritual path. It has become one of the most celebrated and influential recordings to come out of the jazz canon, revered and studied by musicians far beyond the jazz realm. Rolling Stone magazine consistently lists it among the top albums of all time. “Of his many musical creations, Coltrane looked upon A Love Supreme in a very special light,” Kahn notes in the liner notes to A Love Supreme: Live In Seattle. “He called A Love Supreme a ‘humble offering to the Divine; no other composition or recording was similarly offered nor did he append his signature to any other work. A Love Supreme was as much an individual testament as it was a public statement—a sermon of universalist belief.” A Love Supreme: Live In Seattle now expands the story of both a great musician and a timeless piece of music. A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle A Love Supreme, Pt. 1 – Acknowledgement (Live in Seattle/1965) Interlude 1 (Live in Seattle/1965) A Love Supreme, Pt. II – Resolution (Live in Seattle/1965) Interlude 2 (Live in Seattle/1965) A Love Supreme, Pt. III – Pursuance (Live in Seattle/1965) Interlude 3 (Live in Seattle/1965) Interlude 4 (Live in Seattle/1965) A Love Supreme, Pt. IV – Psalm (Live in Seattle/1965) Recorded by Joe Brazil at The Penthouse, Seattle WA Restored and Mastered by Kevin Reeves at East Iris Studios, Nashville, TN

Amen! Did you know that they did CFL (and NFL) cards as well? We were not a Post cereals family, but we were a Jello family, and Jello had one card on the back.

Does "4.XI.1966" mean that it was recorded Nov. 4? This is memorable to me because it was the day my first nephew was born. We spoke the other day of the Paul Bley album Copenhagen and Haarlem. One of those performances was recorded on that date as well.

RIP. I think it was Brad who posted that on their first US tour, it was Charlie who did most of the talking to the interviewers. ***** SYMPATHY FOR THE DRUMMER: Why Charlie Watts Matters by Mike Edison - $16.95 https://www.hamiltonbook.com/sympathy-for-the-drummer-why-charlie-watts-matters-hardbound $12.95 https://www.hamiltonbook.com/sympathy-for-the-drummer-why-charlie-watts-matters-paperbound

Georgie Fame is a favorite of mine, and I am slowly working my way through that box. Love it! I learned recently that Mitch Mitchell was Fame's drummer for the Sweet Things album. He is listed as John Mitchell.

No, I did most of my drinking before I was 30. Enough for a lifetime! But look what I have found today - a free Kindle eBook! Vintage Cocktails and Drinks: Forgotten Cocktails and Retro Spirits Recipes for Home Mixologists (Lost Recipes Vintage Cookbooks) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B082G7J742

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Week 2 Recaps For the first time since 1966, both Edmonton and Calgary have started the year 0-2, as has Hamilton. https://www.cfl.ca/2021/08/16/steinbergs-mmqb-19-breakout-stars-continuing-shine/ https://www.cfl.ca/2021/08/16/landrys-5-takeaways-week-2-4/ https://rodpedersen.com/out-of-the-tunnel-a-dead-heat/ https://www.cfl.ca/2021/08/17/start-vs-sit-offensive-turning-point/ https://www.tsn.ca/cfl-inside-the-numbers-scoring-down-across-the-cfl-entering-week-3-1.1683283 https://www.tsn.ca/lions-reilly-roughriders-woodward-and-fajardo-capture-cfl-s-top-performer-honours-1.1682710 https://13thmansports.ca/2021/08/16/upsets-and-surprises-in-cfl-week-2/ ***** BC 15....Calgary 9 https://www.cfl.ca/games/6138/bc-lions-vs-calgary-stampeders/ https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/calgary-bc-cfl-recap-august-12-1.6139337 https://3downnation.com/2021/08/13/bo-levi-mitchell-throws-career-worst-four-interceptions-in-loss-to-b-c-lions/ https://3downnation.com/2021/08/13/reilly-dont-care-10-other-thoughts-on-the-lions-qb-switch-victory-overy-calgary/ This is Mitchell's first 0-2 start in his career. And he broke his leg (fibula), so he will be out for a while. https://3downnation.com/2021/08/17/bo-levi-mitchell-diagnosed-with-broken-leg-placed-on-six-game-injured-list/ https://www.cfl.ca/2021/08/17/report-bo-levi-mitchell-broken-fibula-six-game-injured-list/ https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl ***** Winnipeg 20...Toronto 7 https://www.cfl.ca/games/6139/toronto-argonauts-vs-winnipeg-blue-bombers/ https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl https://3downnation.com/2021/08/14/bombers-sail-over-boatmen-improve-to-2-0-16-other-thoughts/ https://3downnation.com/2021/08/14/four-reasons-why-the-toronto-argonauts-lost-in-winnipeg/ ***** Montreal 30....Edmonton 13 https://www.cfl.ca/games/6140/montreal-alouettes-vs-edmonton-elks/ https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl https://3downnation.com/2021/08/15/trevor-harris-came-pre-folded-nine-other-thoughts-on-edmontons-loss-to-montreal/ ***** Sask 30....Hamilton 8 https://www.cfl.ca/games/6141/hamilton-tiger-cats-vs-saskatchewan-roughriders/ https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl https://3downnation.com/2021/08/15/the-good-the-bad-and-the-dumb-from-the-riders-30-8-win-over-the-ticats/ https://3downnation.com/2021/08/15/no-excuse-football-team-after-being-tabbed-2021-grey-cup-favourites-ticats-suffer-nightmare-0-2-start/ ***** Week 2 Plays of the Week https://www.cfl.ca/2021/08/16/picks-aplenty-in-the-week-2-timber-mart-plays-of-the-week/ ***** Power Rankings https://3downnation.com/2021/08/16/3downnation-power-rankings-calgary-is-bad-now/ https://www.cfl.ca/2021/08/16/power-rankings-bombers-settling/ https://pifflespodcast.com/blog/safimods-2021-power-rankings-week-3 ***** QB Index https://www.cfl.ca/2021/08/17/qb-index-winning-pivots-rising/ ***** Gossip! https://3downnation.com/2021/08/18/insider-talk-michael-oconnor-replaces-bo-montreals-debut-roosevelt-to-ottawa/ ***** Week 3 Picks https://www.cfl.ca/2021/08/18/weekly-predictor-alouettes/ https://www.cfl.ca/2021/08/18/prediction-time-cfl-ca-writers-week-3-picks/ http://17degreesports.com/index.php/2021/08/18/cfl-week-3-preview/ ***** BC businessman Amar Doman has purchased the Lions. https://www.cfl.ca/2021/08/18/new-era-lions-introduce-amar-doman-new-owner/ https://3downnation.com/2021/08/18/the-new-owner-of-the-b-c-lions-is-amar-doman/ https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl https://www.tsn.ca/dave-naylor-doman-s-introduction-a-big-win-for-the-cfl-1.1683236 ***** Lirim Hajrullahu has signed with Dallas. https://3downnation.com/2021/08/18/lirim-hajrullahu-agrees-to-terms-with-dallas-cowboys-following-successful-workout/ ***** Today's view count is 172,052.

New Orleans Jazz Orchestra Highlights Its Musical Heritage With "Petite Fleur," Set for Digital Release Sept 24, Physical Release Oct 15, By Storyville Records 18-Piece Orchestra Explores New Orleans' French Connection On 10-Song Collaboration With French Vocalist Cyrille Aimee CD Release Show at Jazz Market, New Orleans, Oct 15 August 18, 2021 The celebrated New Orleans Jazz Orchestra examines and the profound relationship of its hometown to the nation of France with its fall release of Petite Fleur on Storyville Records (digital release September 24, physical release October 15). The second album under the artistic directorship of drummer Adonis Rose features ten songs, nine of them standards associated with French and New Orleans musicians. The tenth tune is an original by Cyrille Aimée, the acclaimed jazz vocalist who was born and raised in France but now lives and works in The Big Easy itself. Aimée is the NOJO’s collaborator and vocalist on the album. It was the singer who initiated the collaboration, telling Rose that she would like to work with the 18-piece big band and asking if he had any ideas for a project. “I said, ‘Well, okay, musically, how can I tell a story here?’” Rose recalls. “I thought about the long, shared history of those two places, and that became the concept. A narrative about the musical relationship between New Orleans and France.” The title tune, a standard by early jazz clarinet legend Sidney Bechet, epitomizes the concept: A composition by a New Orleans artist living in France, performed by a New Orleans band with a French vocalist. Composers from both sides of the Atlantic, from Michel Legrand to Jelly Roll Morton, get similar treatment. So do various New Orleanian styles, from a stomp (“Get the Bucket”) to a second line (“Down”) to Fats Domino-style rock ’n’ roll (“I Don’t Hurt Anymore”). In addition to being its spotlight vocalist, Aimée is also Petite Fleur’s featured soloist, applying her razor-sharp scat singing to “In the Land of Beginning Again,” “On a Clear Day,” and “Undecided.” She is in good company, with superlative instrumental improvisations from soprano saxophonist Ricardo Pascal (“Petite Fleur”), tenor saxophonist Ed Peterson (“Get the Bucket”), and, on Aimée’s “Down,” a fierce trumpet duel between Ashlin Parker and John Michael Bradford. However, it’s really the orchestra itself—as well as the parallel lands of New Orleans and France—that earns top billing alongside Aimée. Adonis Rose was born January 11, 1975, in New Orleans, the scion of a musical family. He began playing drums at 3 years old, following in his father and grandfather’s footsteps, and as a teenager became enamored with the music of fellow New Orleanians Wynton and Branford Marsalis—whose father, Ellis, eventually hired Adonis as a member of his working quintet. Rose won a prestigious presidential scholarship to Berklee College of Music in Boston; just afterward, however, Terence Blanchard called and invited him to tour. “So, two days after my high school graduation I went out on the road with Terence. That was my first gig,” he recalls. He continued to get work with Betty Carter, Marlon Jordan, and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, ultimately dropping out of Berklee to go on the road and make a home in New Orleans. In 2002, Rose became the founding drummer for the nonprofit, Grammy-winning New Orleans Jazz Orchestra (NOJO), the first institution in jazz’s birthplace to build a performing arts center committed solely to the music’s development. He maintained that position even after moving to Fort Worth, Texas, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, where he taught at the University of Texas at Arlington and established the Fort Worth Jazz Orchestra. Rose moved back to the Crescent City in 2015, by which time NOJO was his steadiest gig—soon to be his full-time one. The following year, Rose took the reins of the 18-piece band, inaugurating his leadership with the 2019 release of Songs—a tribute to New Orleans musical legend Allen Toussaint. Petite Fleur, Rose’s second project as artistic director, was delayed by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, as both NOJO and the city of New Orleans itself have done so often over the years, it persevered. In this, says Rose, Aimée played an important part. Growing up in the town of Samois-sur-Seine in France, Cyrille Aimée would sneak out of her bedroom window to join the gypsy caravans gathered for the annual Django Reinhardt Festival. She would carry the joyful spirit of gypsy jazz to the Montreux Jazz Festival, where she won the 2007 vocal competition—the first of many such accolades—and recorded her debut album with the prize money. In 2014 Aimée made her major label debut with It’s a Good Day (Mack Avenue), featuring an innovative two-guitar band that returned for 2016’s highly acclaimed Let’s Get Lost. Move On: A Sondheim Adventure (2019) is her most recent release. “Cyrille’s a phenomenal performer,” says Rose. “Working with her was effortless, and she has great chemistry with the orchestra. I was struck by her level of professionalism and her ears. She can hear anything. She came in and nailed it in first and second takes. It was a thrill to work with her.” Adonis Rose and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra featuring Cyrille Aimée will perform a CD release concert at the Jazz Market, 1436 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd, New Orleans, on Friday 10/15. Additional dates are planned for January 2022: 1/14 La Mirada (CA) Theatre for the Performing Arts; 1/15 Scottsdale (AZ) Center for the Performing Arts; 1/16 Tucson (AZ) Jazz Festival. Midwest and East Coast appearances for the spring are in the works, as well as possible dates in Europe surrounding Jazz Ascona in Switzerland (6/24-7/3). Photography: Noé Cugny New Orleans Jazz Orchestra Web Site ‌ ‌ ‌

Sorry I missed it! Are you thinking about putting up a bamboo hut for next year?

Born August 15, 1951

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I found a new (to me) website. Power Rankings CFL Power Rankings – Week 1 – 13th Man Sports

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I see two of my most favorite albums here. Paul Bley - Copenhagen and Haarlem Attila Zoller - Gypsy Cry And if you are in the mood for pre-fusion jazz-rock, I can recommend the first Dreams album too.

Week 1 recaps Nobody had played in over 600 days, and there were no pre-season games, so the quality of play was somewhat sloppy as you might expect. A number of passes were dropped that should have been caught. The defenses looked better than the offenses. The pundits last week wondered if the Ticats could go undefeated, and if the Redblacks would go winless. Surprise! The Ticats lost, and the Redblacks won. History was made. BC's backup QB is a Canadian rookie named Nathan Rourke. Michael Reilly's elbow or shoulder is sore, so Rourke started. The CFL corporation was founded in 1958, and for the first time since then a Canadian rookie quarterback started his first game as a pro. https://www.cfl.ca/2021/08/09/steinbergs-mmqb-observations-week-1/ https://www.cfl.ca/2021/08/09/landrys-5-takeaways-week-1-3/ https://www.cfl.ca/2021/08/10/start-vs-sit-feeling-rosters-week-1/ https://www.cfl.ca/2021/08/10/cauz-went-0-4-picks-soul-isnt-crushed/ https://3downnation.com/2021/08/07/six-players-who-can-make-the-ottawa-redblacks-a-playoff-team/ https://rodpedersen.com/50379-2/ ***** Winnipeg 19....Hamilton 6 https://www.cfl.ca/games/6134/hamilton-tiger-cats-vs-winnipeg-blue-bombers/ https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/cfl-hamilton-tiger-cats-winnipeg-blue-bombers-recap-1.6131631 https://3downnation.com/2021/08/06/ticats-offence-tantalizes-to-start-terrible-to-finish-in-2021-season-opening-loss-to-bombers/ https://3downnation.com/2021/08/06/bombers-bash-ticats-on-banner-night-at-ig-field-17-other-thoughts/ ***** Sask 33....BC 29 Sask took a quick 31-0 lead, and then held on to win. https://www.cfl.ca/games/6135/bc-lions-vs-saskatchewan-roughriders/ https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl https://3downnation.com/2021/08/06/canadian-qb-nathan-rourke-starts-in-place-of-injured-michael-reilly-against-riders/ https://3downnation.com/2021/08/07/the-good-the-bad-and-the-dumb-from-the-riders-33-29-win-over-the-b-c-lions/ https://3downnation.com/2021/08/07/quarterback-chaos-and-eight-other-thoughts-on-the-lions-loss-in-regina/ ***** Toronto 23....Calgary 20 Calgary is now the league's youngest team. https://www.cfl.ca/games/6136/toronto-argonauts-vs-calgary-stampeders/ https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl https://3downnation.com/2021/08/07/mcleod-bethel-thompson-outduels-bo-levi-mitchell-as-argos-sink-stamps/ https://3downnation.com/2021/08/08/bo-levi-mitchell-felt-stampeders-gift-wrapped-win-to-argos/ ***** Ottawa 16....Edmonton 12 https://www.cfl.ca/games/6137/ottawa-redblacks-vs-edmonton-elks/ https://www.tsn.ca/ottawa-redblacks-defensive-plays-edmonton-elks-week-1-1.1679345 https://3downnation.com/2021/08/08/ottawas-defence-dominates-as-redblacks-upset-elks/ https://3downnation.com/2021/08/08/redblacks-put-the-l-in-elks-and-11-other-thoughts-on-ottawas-upset-win-in-edmonton/ https://3downnation.com/2021/08/08/elks-suffer-failure-to-launch-10-other-thoughts-on-edmontons-spoiled-season-opener/ https://3downnation.com/2021/08/08/elks-self-combust-in-opener-and-10-thoughts-on-the-biggest-miracle-in-a-long-time/ ***** Week 1 Plays of the Week https://www.cfl.ca/2021/08/09/defence-dominates-in-the-timber-mart-plays-of-the-week/ ***** Week 1 QB Index https://www.cfl.ca/2021/08/10/qb-index-showing-week-1/ ***** Power Rankings https://3downnation.com/2021/08/09/3downnation-power-rankings-shuffling-the-deck-after-just-one-week/ https://pifflespodcast.com/blog/safimods-2021-power-rankings-week-2 https://www.cfl.ca/2021/08/09/power-rankings-come-winnipeg/ ***** The staff at 3DownNation will track this year's MOP candidates. https://3downnation.com/2021/08/10/mop-watch-mcbeth-leads-week-1-most-outstanding-player-rankings/ ***** Gossip! https://3downnation.com/2021/08/11/insider-talk-player-vaccinations-global-kickers-potential-gm-hires/ ***** Week 2 picks http://17degreesports.com/index.php/2021/08/11/cfl-week-2-preview/ https://www.cfl.ca/2021/08/11/prediction-time-cfl-ca-writers-week-2-picks/ https://www.cfl.ca/2021/08/11/weekly-predictor-betting-argonauts/ https://www.cfl.ca/2021/08/11/editors-desk-week-2-horizon/ ***** Today's view count is 171,351.

I'll have to study up on my Herb Alpert history!

I'm pretty sure that the back cover of Going Places had a photo of the band. It's been 55 years! Also, the sound is much different from that of the Whipped Cream album.

I had forgotten about that one! I remember it had The Third Man Theme, and was the first to have band members rather than studio musicians.

Episode Seventeen https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/track/straight-life-episode-seventeen

Q'd Up Closes a Chapter of Its Own History with "Going Places," Set for Release October 8 on Tantara Records Album Features 11 Exploratory Originals For the BYU Faculty Band's Last Outing with Two Longtime Members, Multi-Instrumentalist Ray Smith & Keyboardist Steve Lindeman August 9, 2021 Q’d Up celebrates its enduring creative bounty on Tantara Records’ October 8 release Going Places. The venturesome quintet, formed in 1983 out of the jazz faculty at Brigham Young University, packs their seventh recording with eleven original compositions of hard-charging, straight-ahead jazz with bold progressive touches. Going Places also marks a sunset of sorts for the band. Its founding saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist, Ray Smith, and veteran keyboardist Steve Lindeman have both put in their retirement papers from the BYU School of Music after decades of service. Other longtime faculty members and Q’d Up players Eric Hansen (bass), Jay Lawrence (drums/vibraphone), and Ron Saltmarsh (guitar) will carry the torch, but the band’s chemistry and sound will inevitably take a new shape with two of its key members saying farewell. “With Steve’s departure and Ray’s retirement in a year, this is the end of an era,” says Lawrence. “We’ve worked together for so long, recording and performing together for nearly three decades. It’s been a lot of fun.” One might imagine that sentiment would color such a changing of the guard. Instead, Going Places finds Q’d Up as exuberant and inquisitive as ever. Even the album’s lone ballad, Lawrence’s beautiful “Timpanogos Snowfall,” is shot through with joy and energy that snap the listener to attention. If that’s the band at its most mellow, pieces like the fusion-injected “The Twilight Train,” the lively Afro-Caribbean “Arumana,” and the soulful groover “Perfect Pizza” are nothing short of electrifying. Front row: Ron Saltmarsh, g; Hayley Kirkland, voc. Second row: Ray Smith, saxophones; Steve Lindeman, keyboards. Third row: Eric Hansen, bass; Jay Lawrence, drums. As has been their habit, the band also brings in some friends to help out on a few tracks. Two former members, drummer Ron Brough and bassist Matt Larson, add memorable contributions to “Timpanogos Snowfall” and “Escarlatta,” respectively. The latter tune, along with Lindeman’s irresistible second line “Tchoupitoulas,” also feature the zesty vocals of Hayley Kirkland, a BYU alum who recently joined the jazz faculty in her own right. With colleagues like these on hand, Going Places suggests that in its next chapter, the band will remain as fruitful and accomplished as it ever has. Lawrence, who with Smith’s retirement becomes the senior member, says, “We’ve always been flexible. I’m optimistic about the future.” Q’d Up is the brainchild of Ray Smith, a native Utahn and graduate of Indiana University’s prestigious Jacobs School of Music. He arrived at Brigham Young as the professor of saxophone—one of more than thirty instruments he plays—in 1982; a year later, he and a group of his colleagues came together to form what was then called the Faculty Jazz Quartet or Quintet (FJQ—the Q was versatile). The band’s next longest-tenured members, drummer/vibraphonist Jay Lawrence and keyboardist Steve Lindeman (a classmate of Smith’s at IU), both came to BYU and the band in the mid-1990s. Shortly after their arrival, in 1998, the FJQ dropped its first two initials and reconfigured the last into the more playful moniker Q’d Up. This new incarnation established itself in 1999 with its self-titled debut recording, featuring bassist Lars Yorgason (a founding member in 1983) and drummer/percussionist Ron Brough (who was with the band since 1984) alongside Smith, Lawrence, and Lindeman. After a few more albums and personnel changes, Eric Hansen took the bass chair for Q’d Up’s fifth album, 2018’s Never Better; guitarist Ron Saltmarsh arrived for 2019’s Zagranitsa: Mystical Wonderland. (This configuration of Q’d Up has recorded one additional album, Dawn Fire Mist, the group’s eighth, which releases in tandem with Going Places.) Q’d Up—and its members, all of whom are prolific and in-demand musicians in Provo (BYU’s home base), Salt Lake City, and throughout Utah—remains one of the state’s hidden treasures. As Smith, who also produces the album, remarks in its liner notes, “If you don’t know the group, you are in for a very happy and exciting discovery.” Photo: Jared Wilkey Q'd Up Web Site ‌ ‌

Thanks, jc!