GA Russell

I've probably already told this story. I spoke with Dick Morrisey twice back in the days of If. I told him that I liked Manfred Mann Chapter III, and he said that he didn't because their music was too "doomy."

Great! How can the rest of us see it?

Episode Nine https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/track/straight-life-episode-9

Niko, it has occurred to me that semester exams were in January that year. So maybe my trip to New York was during the break between first and second semesters, and you are right!

I opened up this one yesterday (a present from the Easter Bunny), and I like it a lot. Mainstream, and the melodies are not weird.

Happy Easter my friends!

Episode Eight https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/track/straight-life-episode-eight ***** Episode Eight bonus https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/track/bonus-to-episode-eight-art-talks-about-patti

The Grey Cup Finals of the '90s are up. https://www.cfl.ca/grey-cup-on-demand-list/ https://www.cfl.ca/2021/03/25/cauz-guide-biggest-moments-94-grey-cup/ ***** Guys are retiring, and moving on with their lives. They probably think it's time to get a real job. Calvin McCarty https://www.cfl.ca/2021/03/14/longtime-edmonton-fb-calvin-mccarty-announces-retirement/ https://3downnation.com/2021/03/14/calvin-mccarty-retires-following-13-seasons-with-edmonton/ https://www.cfl.ca/2021/03/26/landry-mccarty-channels-love-football-future/ Delvin Breaux https://www.cfl.ca/2021/03/24/delvin-breaux-sr-announces-retirement/ https://3downnation.com/2021/03/24/longtime-hamilton-tiger-cats-defensive-back-delvin-breaux-retires-from-the-cfl/ https://www.tsn.ca/two-time-cfl-all-star-hamilton-tiger-cats-star-delvin-breaux-sr-retires-1.1612780 Bryant Mitchell https://www.cfl.ca/2021/03/25/hanging-cleats-bryant-mitchell-announces-retirement/ https://3downnation.com/2021/03/25/bombers-receiver-bryant-mitchell-announces-his-retirement/ https://www.tsn.ca/winnipeg-blue-bombers-wr-bryant-mitchell-retiring-from-football-1.1613492 Adrian Tracy https://www.tsn.ca/longtime-hamilton-tiger-cats-de-adrian-tracy-announces-retirement-1.1615209 https://3downnation.com/2021/03/29/veteran-cfl-defensive-lineman-adrian-tracy-retires-from-pro-football/ Jonathan Newsome https://3downnation.com/2021/03/31/cfl-defensive-end-jonathan-newsome-retires-from-professional-football/ CJ Gable https://www.cfl.ca/2021/04/01/c-j-gable-retires-tiger-cat/ https://3downnation.com/2021/04/01/running-back-c-j-gable-signs-one-day-contract-to-retire-as-a-hamilton-tiger-cat/ https://www.tsn.ca/veteran-rb-c-j-gable-signs-one-day-contract-with-hamilton-tiger-cats-announces-retirement-1.1616722 Jean-Gabriel Poulin https://3downnation.com/2021/04/01/canadian-linebacker-jean-gabriel-poulin-retires-from-cfl/ ***** Henoc Muamba has signed with Toronto. https://www.cfl.ca/2021/03/16/henoc-muamba-ends-free-agency-signs-w-argos/ https://www.cfl.ca/2021/03/16/oleary-argos-pile-talent-intrigue-addition-muamba/ https://www.cfl.ca/2021/03/18/muamba-spoiler-alert-going-look-good/ https://3downnation.com/2021/03/16/toronto-argos-sign-star-canadian-linebacker-henoc-muamba/ https://3downnation.com/2021/03/18/henoc-muamba-drawn-back-home-to-play-for-the-team-that-sparked-his-love-of-football/ https://3downnation.com/2021/03/23/most-outstanding-canadian-lb-henoc-muamba-takes-over-100000-pay-cut-to-sign-with-argos/ ***** The latest gossip. https://3downnation.com/2021/03/17/insider-talk-potential-partnership-with-xfl-draws-love-hate-confusion/ https://3downnation.com/2021/03/24/insider-talk-betting-losing-money-the-cfls-business-model/ https://3downnation.com/2021/03/31/insider-talk-torontos-market-xfl-cfl-rules-chuba-hubbards-draft-stock/ ***** The great Stampeders GM Rogers Lehew has passed away at 92. RIP. https://www.cfl.ca/2021/03/18/stampeders-mourn-death-former-gm-rogers-lehew/ https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/cfl-calgary-stampeders-gm-rogers-lehew-obit-1.5955666 https://www.cfl.ca/2021/03/19/oleary-rogers-lehew-helped-shape-stamps-know/ https://3downnation.com/2021/03/18/stampeders-mourn-passing-of-wall-of-fame-gm-rogers-lehew/ ***** It's time for the combines. 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Aaron Germain Displays Monumental Compositional, Instrumental Achievement with "Bell Projections," Arriving May 14 on Aaron Germain Music Album Features 17 Original Compositions for Guitar Quartet, With Germain Playing Every Guitar Part Himself, Accompanied by 15 Musicians Who Work in Multiple Ensembles March 31, 2021 Aaron Germain’s aptitude for both string instruments and haunting compositions reaches stunning new heights with Bell Projections, set for a May 14 release on his own Aaron Germain Music imprint. The album’s 17 pieces were written and arranged for guitar quartet—but on the recording, it’s Germain who plays all four guitar parts. It was never intended as a solo showcase. Best known as a bassist, Germain’s ambition was to challenge himself as a composer. “I was downloading tons of classical guitar quartet music, sorting through all of it and listening to it like crazy, looking for holes in the repertoire,” he recalls. Yet the real difficulty turned out to be finding guitarists to learn and play the complex music in time for a recording session. That’s when Germain decided that recording all the parts himself was the easiest route (although woodshedding on acoustic, soprano and bass guitar, electric and upright bass, and guiro could hardly be called easy). To accompany his one-man quartet, he enlisted a collective of 15 musicians, who appear in various combinations across the album. Inevitably, however, Germain and his guitars are the heart and soul of Bell Projections. Whether he is alone in the spotlight, as on the delicate “Regarding Raistlin (for Elizabeth Germain),” duetting with oboist Paul McCandless (“Hush”) or drummer Deszon X. Claiborne (“Resident Eject”), or engaging with the flute trio of Robert Farrington, Chloe Jane Scott, and Nestor Torres on the luxuriant Peruvian-inspired piece “Breath Marks,” it is his beautiful touch and sly (self-) interaction that commands the listener’s attention. As if his resourcefulness wasn’t already beyond question, Germain crafted each of his compositions with distinct personalities. Whereas Brazilian music gives shape to “Toitoisho (for Hotoshi Oyasu),” it’s Latin funk that animates “Gutter Sass,” while jazz harmonies and phrasing enliven “Pin Untended” and classical articulation resounds through “SubEthos.” Bell Projections is thus a remarkable testament to Germain’s embodiment of that famous line of Walt Whitman’s: “I am large, I contain multitudes.” Aaron Germain was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1977, and began his musical journey at 15 when he picked up a guitar. However, it soon became apparent that learning to play bass would afford him wider and steadier work. He continued playing both, but gradually the bass became his primary ax. That focus only intensified when, as a 19-year-old student at Massachusetts’ Hampshire College, Germain studied with Yusef Lateef. The legendary jazz multi-instrumentalist was impressed enough to hire the young bassist for a gig, a major turning point in Germain’s creative life. He went all in on enhancing his own skills; in addition, he deepened his repertoire with excursions into Afro-Caribbean and Brazilian jazz, salsa, Indian, and Senegalese and other Western African musical traditions. By the time he relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area in 2000, Germain was highly skilled in numerous styles of music. He quickly became one of the most in-demand musicians on his new scene. In 2009, he made Before You Go, his first album as a leader, following it up in 2013 with Chance. The eight-year gap between Chance and Bell Projections reflects the herculean effort that went into the creation of the new album. Germain spent six of those years studying the guitar quartet repertoire, writing the intricate music in four parts, then learning and recording those parts on the various varieties of guitar and bass. The degree of his labor, he says, is audible. “Classical guitarists play with their fingernails,” he observes. “I recorded without nails, because they don’t work with bass, which is my everyday gigging instrument. I strike the strings with the skin of my fingertips, but I have bass player calluses. I’d be delighted to hear traditional guitar quartets interpret these pieces in the future.” Aaron Germain: "Toitoisho (for Hotoshi Oyasu)" (from Bell Projections) Aaron Germain Web Site ‌ ‌ ‌

Thanks, guys!

Do you guys have opinions of the quality of Fresh Sounds and Floating World UK discs? Thanks! ++

Episode Three bonus https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/track/bonus-to-episode-3-art-talks-about-the-bars

Samba Mom Mom https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/album/freebie-plus ***** Straight Life audiocast: Episode One https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/track/straight-life-episode-one ***** Episode Two https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/track/straight-life-episode-two ***** Episode Three https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/track/straight-life-episode-three ***** Episode Four https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/track/straight-life-episode-four ***** Episode Five https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/track/straight-life-episode-five ***** Episode Six https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/track/straight-life-episode-six ***** Episode Seven https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/track/straight-life-episode-seven

Here's an enlargement of my previous post.

Bill, my book is Jeru's Journey by Sanford Josephson https://www.amazon.com/Jerus-Journey-Music-Gerry-Mulligan/dp/1480360244/ What do you do to make your picture so large?

I remember Oscar Peterson on Prestige! very well. I also recollect Jean-Luc Ponty's Sunday Walk. allmusic.com says that Sunday Walk was issued on Pausa, but I think that Prestige put it out along with those of the OP.

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Kevin, I trust your judgment. But the premise of all of these third-party items is that the manufacturers *don't* include the special-quality extras. Isn't that right? ***** KabelDirekt – RCA Stereo Cable, Cord (3 feet Short, Dual 2 x RCA Male to 2 x RCA Male Audio Cable, Digital & Analogue, Double-Shielded, Pro Series) Supports (Amplifiers, AV Receivers, Hi-Fi) - $5.99 (45% off) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DI89I04/

The Grey Cup Finals of the 1980s are now up. https://www.cfl.ca/grey-cup-on-demand-list/ https://www.cfl.ca/2021/03/12/oleary-hugh-campbell-81-grey-cup-comeback/ https://www.cfl.ca/2021/03/11/nye-89-grey-cup-changed-life/ ***** The league has posted what it calls its "annual way too early power rankings. Hamilton is #1, and Ottawa is #9. https://www.cfl.ca/2021/03/09/way-early-power-rankings-2/ https://www.cfl.ca/2021/03/09/oleary-inside-way-early-power-rankings/ ***** The league announced that it will enter into discussions with the XFL. Just what about, they didn't say. Naturally, every defeatist and pessimist in Canada went onto Twitter to say that four-down football is soon to come. https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/cfl-xfl-in-discussions-potential-partnership-1.5943958 https://3downnation.com/2021/03/13/xfl-announcements-unleash-new-wave-of-canadian-inferiority-complex/ https://www.cfl.ca/2021/03/10/cfl-exploring-opportunities-alignment-xfl-ownership/ https://www.cfl.ca/2021/03/10/commissioner-ambrosie-speaks-about-xfl-collaboration/ https://www.cfl.ca/2021/03/10/oleary-randy-ambrosie-cfl-xfl-alignment-dwayne-johnson/ https://www.cfl.ca/2021/03/11/dwayne-johnson-reflects-cfls-impact-life/ https://3downnation.com/2021/03/10/former-ticats-head-coach-june-jones-the-xfl-is-preferable-for-american-players-versus-cfl/ https://3downnation.com/2021/03/10/xfl-president-and-ceo-jeffrey-pollack-has-tremendous-respect-for-the-cfl/ https://3downnation.com/2021/03/10/cflpa-was-caught-off-guard-by-cfl-xfl-announcement/ https://3downnation.com/2021/03/10/cfl-to-explore-alignment-opportunities-with-xfl-owners/ https://3downnation.com/2021/03/10/wade-miller-says-potential-xfl-partnership-is-not-due-to-cfls-financial-struggles/ https://3downnation.com/2021/03/10/cfl-players-association-president-solomon-elimimian-supports-discussions-for-future-collaborations-with-the-xfl/ https://3downnation.com/2021/03/10/qa-commissioner-randy-ambrosie-expects-better-financial-outcomes-if-cfl-partnered-with-xfl/ https://3downnation.com/2021/03/10/the-rock-excited-for-unique-opportunity-cfl-xfl-can-potentially-create-together/ https://3downnation.com/2021/03/11/theyre-going-to-go-save-a-whole-god-damned-league-pat-mcafee-thanks-former-saskatoon-player-dwayne-johnson-for-saving-cfl/ https://3downnation.com/2021/03/11/ticats-caretaker-bob-young-has-strong-opinions-loosely-held-on-xfl-talks-intrigued-by-prospect-of-international-championship/ https://3downnation.com/2021/03/11/stand-proud-invite-them-to-play-our-game-football-canada-president-jim-mullin-issues-statement-on-cfl-xfl-talks/ https://3downnation.com/2021/03/12/its-going-to-be-four-down-football-june-jones-believes-the-rock-can-pull-off-a-cfl-xfl-merger/ https://3downnation.com/2021/03/12/im-not-going-to-apologize-for-it-i-refuse-to-suitor-defends-canadian-talent-in-face-of-merger-speculation/ https://3downnation.com/2021/03/12/long-time-cfl-play-by-play-man-chris-cuthbert-worries-xfl-talks-are-a-deal-with-the-devil/ https://www.tsn.ca/dwayne-johnson-on-cfl-xfl-talks-can-feel-the-unique-opportunity-we-can-potentially-create-together-1.1605673 https://www.tsn.ca/cfl-fans-should-brace-themselves-for-a-wave-of-change-1.1605580 ***** Tyrell Sutton has retired. https://www.cfl.ca/2021/03/11/hanging-cleats-tyrell-sutton-retires-cfl/ ***** Brett Lauther has signed with Sask. https://www.cfl.ca/2021/03/12/roughriders-bring-back-kicker-brett-lauther/ https://3downnation.com/2021/03/12/riders-bring-back-fan-favourite-kicker-brett-lauther/ https://www.tsn.ca/saskatchewan-roughriders-bring-back-kicker-brett-lauther-1.1606589 ***** Zeke O'Conner has died at 94. He was the oldest living Argo. RIP. https://3downnation.com/2021/03/08/toronto-argonauts-1952-grey-cup-hero-zeke-oconnor-passes-away-at-age-94/ ***** Chris Jones posted that he has applied for the head coach job at his high school alma mater. https://3downnation.com/2021/03/08/former-riders-head-coach-chris-jones-applies-for-south-pittsburg-high-school-head-coach-job/ ***** Edmonton has trademarked two more words for its new name: Energy and Elks. https://3downnation.com/2021/03/09/edmonton-quietly-trademarks-two-more-potential-team-names/ ***** Here is the latest Insider Talk column. https://3downnation.com/2021/03/10/insider-talk-saving-cash-betting-2021-cfl-season-timeline/ ***** Here is a book that came out a year ago. The Baltimore Stallions: The Brief, Brilliant History of the CFL Champion Franchise - $34.30 prime https://www.amazon.com/dp/1476678413 ***** Here is a book that came out in August about Birmingham's various pro teams, including the Barracudas. The Home Team: My Bromance with off Brand Football - $13.46 prime https://www.amazon.com/Home-Team-Bromance-Brand-Football/dp/0979698898/ ***** Today's view count is 156,883.

Rahsaan Barber Presents Expansive Musical Vision on "Mosaic," Set for Release April 9 On Jazz Music City Records 2-Disc Album Features Multi-Saxophonist's Original Compositions, Played with Quintets Featuring Trombonist Roland Barber, Trumpeter Nathan Warner, Pianist Matt Endahl, Bassist Jack Aylor, & Derrek Phillips on Drums March 12, 2021 As gifted a composer as he is an instrumentalist, tenor/alto/baritone saxophonist Rahsaan Barber offers a panoply of his scintillating originals on Jazz Music City’s April 9 release Mosaic. The double album features Barber working with two separate frontline partners—his twin brother Roland Barber on trombone, Nathan Warner on trumpet, and the rhythm section of pianist Matt Endahl, bassist Jack Aylor, and drummer Derrek Phillips—as he explores 15 of his straightahead jazz compositions. Double-disc recordings are often associated with sprawl and overweening ambition. Yet what’s remarkable about Mosaic is its consistent tightness and discipline. For starters, Barber wrote the bulk of the material in two weeks, and recorded all of it in two days. Yet quick output has not resulted in underdeveloped output: Each of Barber’s tunes is both rigorously structured and richly melodic, full of both alluring hooks and deep humanity. “People sometimes forget that music functions for musicians in the same way it does for listeners,” says Barber. “It helps relieve all the negativity we’re surrounded by, helps us escape and relax.” Which is to say that, although his music has the classic, timeless quality of an album by Ray Brown or Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, it does not shy away from addressing contemporary dilemmas. Indeed, Mosaic is bookended with timely observations—it opens with the gripping, surprisingly poignant “Quarantine Queens” and closes with the haunting elegy “Breonna Taylor (How Many More?).” Much of what comes between those endpieces, however, is joyful, life-affirming stuff. From the down-home “Pink Piranha” (a feature for Barber’s baritone sax) and the welcoming “Jambo Rafiki” (with Roland Barber playing conch shell) to the self-explanatory “Swang That Thang” and the sanctified church evocation “Sunrise Service,” Barber does indeed offer a glorious respite from the darkness that he pushes to either edge. Yet for the clarity of vision Mosaic puts on display, Barber gives as much credit to his ace sidemen as to himself. “I put less on the page than I used to,” he says. “I rely more on their intuitiveness, knowing they’re going to do something good with the music…. The tunes still have a strong identity, but that’s less defined in the writing.” Rahsaan Barber, who entered the world on April 2, 1980, was born and raised in Nashville. Fitting for America’s “Music City,” he grew up in a musical family, with his grandmother, both parents, and two brothers all singing or playing instruments. Barber’s mother introduced him to soul music; his father, a Memphis native, to blues and R&B; and his grandmother to classic jazz. It was the last of these that Barber would channel into his saxophone (an instrument on which he followed his older brother, Robert). Accompanied by his trombone-playing twin brother, Roland, Barber matriculated at Indiana University, where both brothers studied under pioneering jazz educator David Baker. After completing their undergraduate work at IU, the Barber twins earned master’s degrees at Manhattan School of Music; Rahsaan is now a doctoral student in classical saxophone at the University of Memphis. His musical education was profound in its effect: Barber himself has pursued a career as an educator. Shortly after finishing his master’s, he was hired as a saxophone instructor at Belmont University in Nashville, moving from there to Tennessee State University and then to the University of North Carolina, where he is currently an assistant professor of music. He has also presented master classes at numerous other universities. In the meantime, he has continued to develop a performing career. The brothers made an album as co-leaders, Twinnovation, in 2000; his first album as a leader, Trio Soul, arrived in 2005. Barber then spent many years freelancing on the Nashville scene, leading to tours with Kelly Clarkson, Lauren Daigle, the Wooten Brothers, and Delfeayo Marsalis. Between those gigs and the university ones, he issued Everyday Magic, his first collection of all original tunes, in 2010, with the standards-intensive Music in the Night following in 2016. Off the road with his doctoral studies and teaching duties at UNC, Barber adds another jewel to his treasury with Mosaic. Photo: Giovanni Rodriguez Rahsaan Barber: "Panic Point" (from Mosaic) Rahsaan Barber Web Site ‌ ‌

Jim, a great many of their books go for less than six dollars. I buy a few every month or two for my nieces and nephews for Christmas, and just let them stack up in my closet. On Christmas Day, the kids love Uncle Russ!

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