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This year's draft begins in 35 minutes. You can follow it live here. https://www.cfl.ca/draft-tracker/2021/ Here are a ton of league-generated articles about the draft and the prospects. https://www.cfl.ca/everything-need-know-ahead-2021-cfl-draft/ ***** The videos of the remaining Grey Cup Finals (2000-2019) are now up. https://www.cfl.ca/grey-cup-on-demand-list/ ***** The league is very tentatively looking to start the season in August, and play the Grey Cup Final in mid-December, with the number of games reduced to 14. It all depend on what both the federal and provincial governments will allow. https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/cfl-2021-season-announcement-1.5996129 ***** The Hall of Fame has announced this year's inductees: Nik Lewis Will Johnson Orlondo Steinauer Mike Walker Don Wilson Marv Levy Doug Mitchell https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl ***** Today's view count is 159,622.

This is my kind of album. The group sounds like a performance with the tape rolling. All four of the quartet are competent. The music is low key, and can be enjoyed at a low volume.

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Episode Twelve https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/track/straight-life-episode-twelve ***** Episode Twelve bonus https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/track/bonus-to-episode-12-art-talks-about-central-avenue ***** Episode Thirteen https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/track/straight-life-episode-13 ***** Episode Fourteen https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/track/straight-life-episode-fourteen

I have noticed that Barber's albums always have good sidemen with him.

LOL! Joe, 25 years later, is your beard as white as mine?

Jim, it looks that way. ***** Episode Eleven https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/track/straight-life-episode-eleven-2

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I see two releases of The Big Combo, one part of a box set. Both are $5.95. At least one is widescreen. https://www.hamiltonbook.com/the-big-combo-dvd https://www.hamiltonbook.com/drama-pack-cinema-deluxe-dvd

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Congratulations Allen!

RIP. There aren't many of his generation left.

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?

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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!

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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. Global https://3downnation.com/2021/03/22/cfl-unveils-participants-in-2021-global-combine/ National https://www.cfl.ca/2021/03/22/combine-season-cfl-announces-combine-participants/ https://3downnation.com/2021/03/22/cfl-releases-invite-list-for-2021-national-combine/ https://www.cfl.ca/2021/03/22/ferguson-combine-stories-past/ https://www.cfl.ca/2021/03/23/lens-iconic-cfl-combine-images/ https://www.cfl.ca/2021/03/16/ferguson-look-back-time-great-combine-performances/ https://www.cfl.ca/2021/03/26/combine-interview-process-presents-unique-challenges/ https://www.cfl.ca/2021/03/25/oleary-combine-interviews-changed-goals/ ***** Here's a look at how attendance has changed over the past fifty years. https://3downnation.com/2021/03/25/how-cfl-attendance-has-changed-over-the-past-fifty-years-with-a-close-look-at-b-c-and-toronto/ ***** Former BC president Jack Farley has passed away. RIP. https://www.cfl.ca/2021/03/26/lions-mourn-loss-former-president-jack-farley/ https://3downnation.com/2021/03/26/b-c-lions-mourn-passing-of-former-president-jack-farley/ https://www.tsn.ca/bc-lions-announce-passing-of-former-president-jack-farley-1.1614020 ***** In the past year, the pay of executives and staff has been reduced C$6.5 million, with 215 jobs eliminated. https://3downnation.com/2021/03/26/cfl-execs-staff-have-accepted-6-5-million-in-pay-cuts-215-jobs-eliminated-since-pandemic-began/ ***** Ricky Williams recently said that he benefitted from his time with the Argos. https://3downnation.com/2021/03/27/running-back-ricky-williams-credits-pinball-clemons-time-with-argos-for-10000-yard-nfl-career/ ***** Joe Paopao will coach a Barcelona team this year. https://3downnation.com/2021/03/28/former-cfl-player-coach-joe-paopao-joins-european-league-of-footballs-barcelona-dragons/ ***** Winnipeg lost just short of C$7 million last year. https://www.tsn.ca/winnipeg-blue-bombers-announce-overall-loss-of-7-million-in-2020-1.1615129 https://3downnation.com/2021/03/29/blue-bombers-lose-nearly-7-million-in-2020/ ***** This year's draft will be May 4, at 7:00 pm eastern. https://www.cfl.ca/2021/03/30/cfl-announces-date-2021-cfl-national-draft/ https://www.tsn.ca/cfl-national-draft-to-be-held-may-4-1.1615881 ***** Today's view count is 157,332.

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 ‌ ‌ ‌

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