GA Russell

Niko, you are welcome to inform Kelley that he is wrong! To be more specific about Monk's hand, the part of the palm which extends from the pinky finger to the wrist (whatever it's called) was huge, very inflated. Extremely soft, and to use the cliche, smooth as a baby's bottom.

The Braves set a team record with 29 runs against the Marlins yesterday. https://www.ajc.com/sports/atlanta-braves/braves-score-franchise-record-29-runs-in-win-over-marlins/EFD4XJNVKFECZNV7B277MEZKOA/

SP, I was still new to jazz at the time. The four seemed well-rehearsed. Booker and Haynes are two of my favorites. I felt that of the four, Rouse was the weak link. I noticed that, contrary to Lester Young's advice, Monk silently tapped his right foot the whole time. Afterward, I went up to Monk, shook his hand and told him how much I enjoyed it. He gave me a big smile. Monk's hand was huge. Very fleshy, like shaking a catcher's mitt. I tell people that shaking Thelonious Monk's hand is my claim to fame!

I saw Monk at the Village Vanguard the Saturday of Thanksgiving Weekend (Nov. 30), 1968. Charlie Rouse was on tenor, Walter Booker on bass and Roy Haynes on drums. I have long wanted a Monk recording of near that time, just because. I have procrastinated all these years, and now a recording made a mere five weeks earlier is being released! I'm looking forward to hearing it.

RIP Mrs. Peele!

Dan, here in Raleigh, all grammar schools are online. Neither of the comments which followed state my views.

My hunch has been that the companies don't see much point in spending money on packaging for items sold by mail order.

Dan, I had difficulty choosing an answer for Question #1 because the comments were not appropriate for me.

Sure they did! It was called being given your "unconditional release."

In my last post, I mentioned that the players were given the right to terminate their contracts. This would make them available to sign with the NFL or any other league. The downside is that any player who terminated his contract forfeited his unemployment insurance. The window for the players to act extended from August 17 through September 3. Quite a number chose to exercise their right. https://www.cfl.ca/2020/08/26/tracking-cflers-exercised-opt-outs/ https://www.cfl.ca/transactions/ ***** The league has let go a number of its staff members. https://3downnation.com/2020/09/02/cfl-terminates-league-office-staff-furloughs-many-more-amid-covid-19-financial-crisis/ https://3downnation.com/2020/09/05/weve-had-to-say-goodbye-to-some-wonderful-people-cfl-commissioner-randy-ambrosie/ ***** The Chicago Bears hired Henry Burris to be an assistant coach this week. It looks like he will be doing more scouting than coaching. https://3downnation.com/2020/09/03/chicago-bears-officially-hire-cfl-legend-henry-burris-as-coach-for-the-2020-nfl-season/ https://www.cfl.ca/2020/09/04/burris-added-chicago-bears-coaching-staff/ https://www.tsn.ca/henry-burris-staying-on-with-bears-after-internship-1.1518806 ***** The NFL's cut-down day was Saturday. Here is how former CFL players and Canadians are faring. https://3downnation.com/2020/09/05/canadian-and-cfl-related-nfl-cutdown-tracker/ ***** The Riders have released a documentary series about the '89 Grey Cup. https://www.cfl.ca/2020/08/29/unfinished-business-riders-release-mini-doc-89-gc/ https://www.cfl.ca/2020/09/02/unfinished-business-part-iii-the-kick/ https://www.cfl.ca/2020/09/03/unfinished-business-riders-release-final-part-mini-doc-89-gc/ ***** Here the players discuss the league's best pass rusher. https://www.cfl.ca/2020/08/30/cfl-stars-weigh-leagues-best-pass-rusher/ ...and who has the best hands. https://www.cfl.ca/2020/09/01/best-in-the-league-s5-ep4-hands/ ***** Here are six recent memorable Labor Day Weekend moments. https://www.cfl.ca/2020/09/05/six-memorable-marks-ld-weekend-moments/ ***** The Grey Cup will have a new base next year, and the league for a surprisingly small amount is selling to the fans the opportunity to have their names engraved on it. https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/cfl-raising-money-grey-cup-fans-names-1.5697741

The thing of it is, Ernie Broglio was no bum. He was good for the Cardinals for a number of years. He hurt his arm not long after joining the Cubs, which ended his career. And the Cubs traded a young talent for an older guy who wouldn't have that many more years on top anyway. But I don't recall anyone suggesting when the trade was made that Broglio (and therefore the trade) stunk.

Thanks, HF! I have this one.

Has this been released with a different cover?

RIP Tom Seaver https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/09/02/sports/hall-famer-tom-seaver-dies-age-75/

Yes! But with $40 off the Costco price, that should about pay for a year's membership, and you're still getting the Costco price.

Klipsch ProMedia 2.1 THX Computer Speakers - $99.99 ($40.00 off) https://www.costco.com/klipsch-promedia-2.1-thx-computer-speakers.product.100657992.html

Artist Title Time MARK EGAN and DANNY GOTTLIEB Back and Forth 04:24 MARK EGAN and DANNY GOTTLIEB Cabarete 04:56 MARK EGAN and DANNY GOTTLIEB Down the Road 04:10 MARK EGAN and DANNY GOTTLIEB Electric Blue 06:42 MARK EGAN and DANNY GOTTLIEB Come What May 07:54 MARK EGAN and DANNY GOTTLIEB Blue Sound Bath 07:02 MARK EGAN and DANNY GOTTLIEB Hookey 02:11 MARK EGAN and DANNY GOTTLIEB Offering 10:17 MARK EGAN and DANNY GOTTLIEB "Electric Blue" Impacting: September 7 2020 Format(s): Jazz, Non-Commercial, NPR Focus Tracks: Jazz-2,1&4, Jam/Rock/Fusion-7,2&4 Drawing from their 49 years of playing experience with such luminaries as Pat Metheny, Sting, Gil Evans, John McLaughlin, Pat Martino, Larry Coryell and many more, Mark Egan and Danny Gottlieb have created a Duo platform to explore and document their highly creative interplay and improvisational stylings within the sonic universe of drums and bass. Although Egan and Gottlileb are long time band mates and a highly acclaimed rhythm section team, Electric Blue is their first release as a duo. Fusion, Jazz, Jamband and Ambient music fans will find these eight new and original compositions to be fascinating and thoroughly enjoyable. www.MarkEgan.com

Mambo Koyama '81 https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/track/arts-birthday-freebie-mambo-koyama-81

Resonance Records To Issue Set of Sonny Rollins Discoveries From the Dutch Jazz Archive, "Rollins in Holland," As a Limited 3-LP Record Store Day Exclusive On November 27 Collection of Unheard "Take-No-Prisoners" Live & Studio Recordings From the Tenor Sax Master's 1967 Netherlands Tour Will Arrive as a 2-CD Set On December 4 Packages Will Include New Interviews with Rollins & Dutch Sidemen Han Bennink & Ruud Jacobs, Comprehensive Notes by Rollins's Biographer Aidan Levy, An Essay by Journalist-Researcher Frank Jochemsen, & Rare, Previously Unseen Photographs  August 27, 2020 Los Angeles – On Nov. 27, “Black Friday,” independent jazz label Resonance Records will continue its ongoing tradition of releasing previously unissued archival recordings as limited-edition Record Store Day exclusives with a stellar new three-LP collection of historic Sonny Rollins performances, Rollins in Holland: The 1967 Studio & Live Recordings. Featuring more than two hours of music, this stunning collection, drawn from tenor saxophone master Rollins’s Netherlands tour of May 1967, will also be presented as a two-CD set, due Dec. 4. The Rollins set succeeds Resonance’s critically acclaimed RSD archival finds from such jazz giants as Bill Evans, Eric Dolphy, and Wes Montgomery. Last November saw the release of the label’s poll-topping 10-LP/seven-CD Nat King Cole box Hittin’ the Ramp: The Early Years (1936-1943). Resonance co-president Zev Feldman, known within the industry as “the Jazz Detective,” says of the forthcoming release, “The music on Rollins in Holland is extraordinary. Rollins fans will rejoice when they hear the news of this discovery. These performances follow an important time in his life, and he brought those experiences along with him to make this incredible music.” In a new interview with Feldman included in the set, the 89-year-old Rollins says, “I’m so happy that Resonance is putting it out because it really represents a take-no-prisoners type of music. That’s sort of what I was doing around that period of time; that was sort of Sonny Rollins then—a wham-bam-thank-you-ma’am approach. It was very much me. And I loved it and I loved playing with those guys.” The music heard on the Resonance album is drawn from a little-documented period in Rollins’s career. The musician’s 1966 Impulse! album East Broadway Run Down was his final record date before a studio hiatus that lasted until 1972. In 1969, mirroring a celebrated public exit of a decade earlier, he began a two-year sabbatical from live performing. Rollins in Holland captures the then 36-year-old jazz titan in full flight, in total command of his horn at the height of his great improvisational powers. He is heard fronting a trio, the same demanding instrumental format that produced some of the early triumphs of his long career: the live A Night at the Village Vanguard (Blue Note, 1957) and the studio dates Way Out West (Contemporary, 1957) and Freedom Suite (Riverside, 1958). During his brief but busy 1967 stay in the Netherlands, the saxophonist was supported by two of the nation’s top young players, bassist Ruud Jacobs and drummer Han Bennink. The pair had together supported such visiting American jazzmen as Johnny Griffin, Ben Webster, Wes Montgomery, and Clark Terry, among others. Jacobs was a celebrated straight-ahead accompanist, while Bennink had developed a reputation as an avant-garde lion, having backed Eric Dolphy on 1964’s Last Date. The pair jelled magnificently behind their celebrated leader. Rollins in Holland brings together material drawn from three separate appearances by the trio: a freewheeling May 3 concert at the Arnhem Academy of Visual Arts, at which Rollins stretched out in expansive performances that sometimes topped the 20-minute mark; a four-song May 5 morning studio session at the VARA Studio in Hilversum, where Dolphy and Albert Ayler had also cut unforgettable dates; and two live shots captured during the band’s stand that evening on “Jazz met Jacobs,” a half-hour national NCRV TV show presented from the Go-Go Club in Loosdrecht and hosted by bassist Jacobs’s pianist brother Pim and his wife, singer Rita Reys. In his essay for the collection, Dutch jazz journalist, producer, and researcher Frank Jochemsen notes that while recordings of the Arnhem show (presented here with carefully restored sound) had been passed hand-to-hand by Dutch jazz buffs over the years, the rest of the music was only recently unearthed. In 2017, the four stereo tracks from VARA Studio were discovered by Jochemsen, and they were authenticated by Ruud Jacobs and Han Bennink as they were being digitized for the Dutch Jazz Archive (NJA). In 2019, Jochemsen also discovered the audio from the “Jazz met Jacobs” appearance in the Dutch Jazz Archive, along with a unique set of photos shot at the sound check and live broadcast of this lost TV show. Jochemsen says, “I find it an exciting idea that so much has been recovered and documented from this modest tour and that the music is indeed of such high quality. Even more sensational is the fact that the whole world can listen to it now. The great Sonny Rollins at his best, accompanied by a great rhythm tandem, which makes me, as a Dutchman, extra proud.” An extensive overview of Rollins’s Holland trek is supplied by jazz journalist Aidan Levy, whose biography of the saxophonist will be published by Da Capo Books. Levy says, “Rollins in Holland is a resounding, still-urgent argument for jazz as a universal art form, transcending time, place and race. This is jazz at its most international and interdependent, with no boundaries or borders.” Rollins in Holland also includes an in-depth interview by Levy with Han Bennink and Ruud Jacobs, conducted a year before Jacobs’s death from cancer in July 2019. In it, the late bass virtuoso recalled the experience of playing with the American legend as “something spiritual. [There was] a very special atmosphere on the stage where I felt I could do anything.” The opportunity to bring Rollins’s exceptional Netherlands performances to the public for the first time has proven a special moment for Resonance, Feldman says: “Working with Mr. Rollins has been the experience of a lifetime, and I’m so grateful that he has put his trust in Resonance and our team to bring forth this newly unearthed, previously undocumented chapter in his career.” Photography: Toon Fey (at Academie voor Beeldende Kunst, Arnhem, Netherlands; May 3, 1967)  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌

Last week's 40-minute game was the great '76 Grey Cup - Rough Riders vs. Roughriders. https://www.cfl.ca/2020/08/21/oleary-retro-blogging-64th-grey-cup/ ***** Tommy Joe Coffey has died at 83. RIP. I had his bubble gum card in 1959. That was an unusual card because that was his rookie year. A rookie having a card was unheard of then. https://www.cfl.ca/2020/08/26/cfl-ticats-mourn-loss-legendary-wr-k-tommy-joe-coffey/ https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/tommy-joe-coffey-cfl-obit-1.5701131 https://3downnation.com/2020/08/26/cfl-legend-tommy-joe-coffey-passes-away-at-age-84/ https://3downnation.com/2020/08/26/ticats-mourn-the-passing-of-wall-of-honour-member-tommy-joe-coffey/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Joe_Coffey ***** Wade Miller discusses the federal government's refusal to lend the league money. https://3downnation.com/2020/08/17/bombers-president-wade-miller-vents-about-canadian-federal-government/ ***** The Riders will lose C$10 million due to the cancellation of the season. https://3downnation.com/2020/08/18/president-craig-reynolds-states-riders-will-lose-10-million-due-to-cancelled-cfl-season/ ***** With no games being played, the teams will not be paying the players this year. However, the federal govt will pay the players a form of emergency unemployment insurance. https://3downnation.com/2020/08/19/cfl-players-association-secures-cews-package-opt-out-provision-for-players-seeking-nfl-deals/ https://www.tsn.ca/cfl-players-association-says-it-has-secured-financial-assistance-for-members-1.1511542 ***** Due to the unexpected provincial govt's COVID-19-related spending, the plans for a Halifax stadium are out the window. https://3downnation.com/2020/08/21/cfl-stadium-in-halifax-another-likely-covid-casualty-report/ https://3downnation.com/2020/08/24/cfl-team-in-atlantic-canada-very-unlikely-states-halifax-mayor-mike-savage/ ***** The league has granted players whose contracts expire in February or the following February the opportunity to terminate their contracts. This will give them the opportunity to try to make an NFL roster. More on this later. https://3downnation.com/2020/08/22/cfl-players-association-details-opt-out-procedures-for-contracts-which-expire-in-february-2021-and-2022/ ***** Vernon Adams, Jr., has now posted his list of the best defensive tackles. https://3downnation.com/2020/08/26/alouettes-qb-vernon-adams-jr-ranks-his-list-of-the-top-cfl-dts/ ***** This week, the players discuss the best pass rushers. https://www.cfl.ca/2020/08/24/best-in-the-league-s5-ep3-pass-rusher/ ***** Now we can vote on the best quarterback of the past ten years. https://www.cfl.ca/cfl-decade-team-quarterbacks/ https://www.cfl.ca/2020/08/25/oleary-eyes-shift-quarterbacks-decade-voting/ https://www.cfl.ca/2020/08/26/kevin-glenn-weighs-decade-qbs/

Jacam Manricks Reveals New Musical Dimensions On "Samadhi," Set for Sept. 4 Release by Manricks Music Records Multi-Reedist/Composer's 6th Album Showcases Manricks as Composer, Arranger, Primary Soloist, Engineer, Producer, Mixer On 8 Tracks That Also Feature Pianist Joe Gilman, Bassist Matt Penman, Drummer Clarence Penn August 25, 2020 Saxophonist/composer Jacám Manricks marks his arrival as a full-fledged auteur on the splendid Samadhi, set for a September 4 release on his own Manricks Music Records. Already an accomplished composer, arranger, multi-instrumentalist, and improviser, Manricks’s sixth album adds recording, engineering, producing, and mixing to his overflowing skill set. Thus it stands as a vision entirely of the leader’s own making—albeit with input from his high-caliber colleagues, pianist Joe Gilman, bassist Matt Penman, and drummer Clarence Penn. Samadhi is a Sanskrit term that refers to a state of heightened, holistic focus that allows for communion with the divine. Manricks uses that title not to announce his achieving it, but his goal of reaching it: “Getting to that state of intense concentration where everything else disappears around you and only the music exists,” as he explains in the liner notes. The wide spectrum of creative mastery he deploys on the album reflects that goal. So does the music on display. Samadhi’s eight tracks (seven Manricks originals, with one improvised collaboration between the saxophonist and Gilman) feature a remarkable range of ideas and emotions, from the paradoxically bright yet tense opener “Formula One,” to the ruminative title track, to the playful “Common Tone” and the mysterious “Ethereal.” The range of textures and timbres is also formidable; Manricks plays alto, tenor, and soprano saxophones as well as clarinet and bass clarinet, flute and alto flute, and MIDI strings (for which he wrote the orchestrations). Of course, part of Samadhi’s purpose, Manricks says, is to allow him to flex these polymathic muscles. “It’s not just the horn anymore. It’s about me as a composer and orchestrator. It’s about what sort of environments I’m putting myself in and how I’m orchestrating colors within that. … ultimately trying to make something beautiful with rhythms and pitches”. “I’m wearing so many hats,” he adds. “This is the culmination of a lot of things for me, and I’m extremely proud of Samadhi.” Jacám Manricks was born in 1976 in Brisbane, Australia, the child of two classical musicians in the Queensland Symphony Orchestra—and the grandson of a celebrated Portuguese jazz saxophonist and clarinetist, and a Sri Lankan concert pianist. As a boy, Jacám quickly began finding a niche in this musical family, immersing himself in his father’s jazz records and in his parents’ concert performances. He began learning to play the piano at age five and the saxophone at age nine. After receiving a degree in music performance (classical and jazz saxophone) from the Queensland Conservatorium, Manricks began making his way in the Sydney music scene before moving to New York in 2001 to study at William Paterson University. He earned a master’s degree in composition there, then a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the Manhattan School of Music in 2007. While at the Manhattan School, he composed and premiered a large-scale work, “Chromatic Suite for Jazz Philharmonic Orchestra,” for the school’s 90th birthday celebration. Its combination of classical and jazz traditions presaged Manricks’s 2009 debut album, Labyrinth, which blended a chamber orchestra with a venturesome jazz quintet. Trigonometry followed in 2010, then Cloud Nine in 2012, Chamber Jazz in 2016, and GilManricks in 2017. Each received international acclaim. One could say that Manricks, with 16 international tours as a leader and countless credits as a sideman, has also graduated from the “real school,” particularly during his 13 years in New York working for luminaries such as Jeff “Tain” Watts, Tyshawn Sorey, and Elio Villafranca, to name a few. Relocating to Sacramento, California, in 2014, Manricks spent five years teaching at the nearby University of California, Davis, working as a member of Sacramento’s Capital Jazz Project, running his own super sax style ensemble (Super Saxto) and leading his own 19-piece big band (Jacám Manricks Orchestra). Meanwhile, Manricks also learned the ins and outs of sound engineering, using that knowledge to build his own home studio where Samadhi was recorded and mixed. “2020 has been rough,” says Manricks. “The pandemic is hitting the performing arts hard with prospects for safe public gatherings more than ever remote. The loss of artistically enriching events, which typically uplift and create our communities, imposes a cultural deficiency impacting the quality of life for all, including those working outside the arts industry. Therefore, it has never before been more important that artists create and where necessary find new ways to share our work. For me, this means producing new music and providing access to it through any means I can. “In late June,” he adds, “I was bedridden for two weeks with COVID, quarantined in my son’s bedroom while my family remained safely at bay. During the entire shutdown and especially while quarantined, I’ve had more time to reflect on life, my personal goals, music and how it enriches our lives. One thing that became abundantly clear was that focused listening to music—the kind you do with your eyes shut—is an incredibly healing experience. Using your ears and mind to escape, meditating to music in search of beauty, we can find solace, inspiration, and a refreshed state of mind. Samadhi is being released during the shutdown for this purpose primarily. Go forth and find solace in this music.” Manricks and his Quartet (with Joe Gilman, p; Michael Gilbert, b; Tim Metz, d) will be performing a CD release concert to be live-streamed on Saturday 10/10 at 5:30 pm Pacific time (see poster above right). Concert link here. Photography: Lauren Jenkins  Jacám Manricks: Samadhi EPK Web Site: jacammanricks.com  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌

RIP Peter King! I have a couple of albums he made with Georgie Fame. He appeared to me to be a musician who was highly respected by his peers.

Engineered May 12, 2008.

Fleetwood Mac: 1969-1974 (8CD) $46.99 https://www.amazon.com/Fleetwood-Mac-1969-1974-8CD/dp/B08DBHCYXJ/ 37.99 GBP https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08DBHCYXJ/

Won't this guy's actions ruin his reputation in the industry? https://www.amazon.com/s?k=nessa+records&i=popular&crid=37BR7NYO2V7QL&sprefix=Nessa%2Caps%2C186&ref=nb_sb_ss_ts-a-p_1_5