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Artist Title Time Jeremy Pelt Love Is Simple 05:54 Jeremy Pelt Little Girl Blue 07:18 Jeremy Pelt Always on My Mind 06:02 Jeremy Pelt I've Just Seen Her 04:01 Jeremy Pelt Then I'll Be Tired of You 04:36 Jeremy Pelt Ebony Moonbeams 06:49 Jeremy Pelt While You Are Gone 05:53 Jeremy Pelt Ab-o-lutely 08:02 Jeremy Pelt I'll Never Stop Loving You 03:48 New from Jeremy Pelt Jeremy Pelt - The Art of Intimacy, Vol. 1 HighNote Records HCD 7334 #8 on the JazzWeek National Radio Chart Featured on NPR’s “Fresh Air” #5 on the Amazon Top 100 Jazz Albums Jeremy Pelt's unquenchable curiosity has made him one of the most multi-faceted of jazz artists. Whether it be as a leader, a sideman, an accompanist or a composer, Pelt has investigated nearly every aspect and genre in jazz – from electric to eclectic, from Be-Bop to Free-Bop. Here Pelt joins forces with the legendary George Cables on piano and Peter Washington laying down the bass lines. All but one tune on the setlist are slow numbers but this is not your father's ballad record. Each member of the trio is able to pour some old wine into new bottles, aware of and perhaps shaped by the past but operating very much in the moment. Together with Cables' lush voicings and solid tone and Washington's always-inspired bass lines and solos, Pelt's new recording sets a high bar for all trio recordings that follow in the remainder of 2020. Record Company Info: HighNote Records, Inc. • jazzdepo@ix.netcom.com • (212) 873-2020 • www.jazzdepot.com

New York – March 6, 2020 – Following the last lyric video release for “I Sing Just To Know That I’m Alive,” the autobiographical track “Liberian Calypso” is available now to stream and as an instant grat download with digital preorder. A lyric video is also available now: https://Verve/lnk.to/LiberianCalypso

Shabaka and the Ancestors We Are Sent Here By History out today on Impulse! Listen here “if jazz is looking to reinvent itself…Shabaka and the Ancestors might be a good place to start.” The New York Times “restlessly energetic communal expression” Downbeat “Hutchings’ most overt attempt to express the spiritual concerns of improvisational music of the African Diaspora” Afropunk March 13, 2020 – Shabaka & the Ancestors’ “haunting and brightly energetic” (Glide Magazine) sophomore album We Are Sent Here By History is out today on Impulse! Records. LISTEN HERE Watch video for “Go My Heart, Go To Heaven” directed by Akinola Davies, Jr. The group’s breakout 2016 album, Wisdom of Elders, established Shabaka & the Ancestors as a sudden force. But where that record warned of impending societal collapse, this one unfolds within it. Conceptualized as an album-long sonic poem, We Are Sent Here By History mixes African and Afro-Caribbean traditions, spiritual jazz, pacing drums and bass, weaving saxophone lines, and lyrical urgency. Shabaka & the Ancestors are the modern-day griot, urgently calling attention to a society in deep crisis and insisting upon a thoughtful reconstruction of our world. In a recent profile in The New York Times, saxophonist, bandleader and composer Shabaka Hutchings emphasized the importance of having to “start articulating our utopias, articulating what needs to be burned and what needs to be saved.” The album originated with the melodies and compositions of Hutchings, which naturally evolved in the studio with his South African bandmembers including Mthunzi Mvubu, Ariel Zamonsky, Gontse Makhene, Tumi Mogorosi, and vocalist Siyabonga Mthembu, who wrote lyrics based on the music. Shabaka then took the song titles from Siyabonga’s lyrics, and in turn created poems for each track. These texts are accessible here. Shabaka Hutchings: “We Are Sent Here by History is a meditation on the fact of our coming extinction as a species. It is a reflection from the ruins, from the burning. a questioning of the steps to be taken in preparation for our transition individually and societally if the end is to be seen as anything but a tragic defeat. For those lives lost and cultures dismantled by centuries of western expansionism, capitalist thought and white supremist structural hegemony the end days have long been heralded as present with this world experienced as an embodiment of a living purgatory.”

Thanks, Dave. I've added them to my camels list. I also added the $70 Edifiers. Anybody familiar with them? https://www.amazon.com/Edifier-R980T-Active-Bookshelf-Speakers/dp/B01LXDZ8WB/ What about bookshelf speakers? Would they hook up to a desktop computer?

These Foolish Things https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/track/free-these-foolish-things

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The Kentucky Derby has been rescheduled for Sept. 5. https://www.si.com/horse-racing/2020/03/17/kentucky-derby-postponed-coronavirus

Goldman Sachs had a conference call Sunday with 1,500 clients. They expect 50% of Americans to catch (if that's the right word) Covid-19. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/half-america-will-get-sick-here-what-goldman-told-1500-clients-its-sunday-conference-call ***** The NY Daily News reports that New York State's unemployment website shut down Monday because it was swamped with the newly out-of-work. https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-state-unemployment-website-crashes-20200316-ccc6fqalgrf3ree3o5zvi54ite-story.html ***** McDonald's is encouraging its franchisees to shut their dining rooms. https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2020/03/16/mcdonalds-closing-dining-seating-areas-coronavirus-covid-19/

1. Jean-Louis Matinier & Kevin Seddiki - Schumannsko 04:51 2. Jean-Louis Matinier & Kevin Seddiki - Après la Pluie 03:37 3. Jean-Louis Matinier & Kevin Seddiki - Les Berceaux 03:22 4. Jean-Louis Matinier & Kevin Seddiki - Rêverie 03:19 5. Jean-Louis Matinier & Kevin Seddiki - Miroirs 03:11 6. Jean-Louis Matinier & Kevin Seddiki - Greensleeves 03:57 7. Jean-Louis Matinier & Kevin Seddiki - Feux Follets 02:27 8. Jean-Louis Matinier & Kevin Seddiki - Chanson d’Hélène 03:46 9. Jean-Louis Matinier & Kevin Seddiki - In C 04:39 10. Jean-Louis Matinier & Kevin Seddiki - Derivando 02:10 11. Jean-Louis Matinier & Kevin Seddiki - Sous l’Horizon 04:13 ECM Jean-Louis Matiner, Kevin Seddiki Rivages Jean-Louis Matinier: accordion Kevin Seddiki: guitar Release date: April 17, 2020 ECM 2617 B0032002-02 UPC: 6025 086 4800 7 Accordionist Jean-Louis Matinier has long been a creative presence on ECM recordings, heard with the groups of Anouar Brahem (on Le pas du chat noir and Le voyage de Sahar), Louis Sclavis (Dans la nuit) and François Couturier (Nostalghia, Tarkovsky Quartet), as well as in duo with Marco Ambrosini (Inventio). Now comes the first documentation of a new endeavor, with guitarist Kevin Seddiki, whose far-reaching musical imagination matches Matinier’s own. Seddiki, who makes his ECM debut here, studied classical guitar with Pablo Márquez, and has also worked with many improvisers across the idioms - from jazz to transcultural projects. The range of music addressed on Rivages runs from Gabriel Fauré’s “Les Berceaux” to the traditional “Greensleeves” to compositions and improvisations by both of the protagonists. The accordionist and guitarist first met almost a decade ago at France’s Royaumont Abbey, long a center for intercultural exchange and study. Jean-Louis Matinier was subsequently part of a group Kevin Seddiki assembled with percussionist Bijan Chemirani, vocalist Maria Simoglou and viola da gamba player Paolo Pandolfo. Later, Matinier and Seddiki performed in trio with Chemirani. “The more we played together the clearer it became that we had to go into a deeper musical conversation in duo, exploring sounds and colours and orchestral possibilities of our instruments.” The concept they have since described as “chamber music open to the world” flowered naturally over the course of several years. Seddiki: “We would meet regularly to play, in France or in Germany. Taking time to work on the music. Bringing up ideas, and focussing on space, textures, balance.” In similar manner, the repertoire for Rivages came together gradually. “We might read through a piece for voice and piano, like ‘Les Berceaux’, or build up a composition around one rhythm and texture. ‘In C’ is an example of this.” Seddiki’s approach to rhythm - and the sometimes percussive nature of his guitar work - has been influenced by his studies of the Iranian hand drum the tombak, or zarb, which he also plays in concert. An affinity for the breathing quality of instruments of the accordion family, meanwhile, is evident in his biography; early in his performing life, he accompanied bandoneon master Dino Saluzzi, and his first album as leader (Il Sentiero, 2012) featured Daniele Di Bonaventura. With Matinier the rapport was instant: “We share really specific ideas about sound and rhythm.” The two musicians are able to exchange thoughts as they move through a very broad range of moods and idioms – the opening track on Rivages, for instance, draws upon both a Bulgarian traditional melody and a theme from Schumann - or take the plunge into total improvisation. On the present album, “Miroirs”, “Feux Follets” and the solo guitar piece “Derivando” are all improvisations, each with a strong feeling for form. Kevin Seddiki: “It’s very rare, to meet at this place in between written music, improvised, older and new music...but with a lot of common vocabulary.” Jean-Louis Matinier, who has worked in ensembles from small groups to orchestras, played as a member of France’s Orchestre National de Jazz, and accompanied Juliette Gréco on numerous tours, welcomes the challenges of the duo format, and his other duo partners have included Marco Ambrosini, Renaud Garcia-Fons and Michael Riessler. As he once said, the duo context “allows great freedom, an immediate reaction, a total dialogue, an appreciation of silence and of time.” Rivages was recorded in April 2018 in the acoustically responsive Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI in Lugano and produced by Manfred Eicher. The Matinier-Seddiki duo is on tour in the coming months. Dates include: March 14 Mirror Concert Hall Bratislava, Slovakia March 17 Sargfabrik Vienna, Austria April 23 Studio l’Ermitage Paris, France April 25 Théatre de l’Alliance Française Paris, France May 28 Green Hours Festival Bucharest, Romania May 29 Opus Jazz Club Bucharest, Romania May 30 TIFF Cluj-Napoca, Romania June 2-5 L’estive Scène Nationale Foix, France June 7 Jazz Club Le Taquin Toulouse, France June 18 Jazz Club Regensburg, Germany July 15-17 Festival Radio France Montpellier, France August 6-11 Festival de Saint-Céré Saint-Céré, France October 3 Rhino Jazz Festival St. Etienne, France

The Babylon Bee had a headline today: Man Who Gets Coronavirus Relieved He Can Finally Touch His Face All He Wants ***** Analyses East https://www.cfl.ca/2020/03/15/oleary-radar-impact-players-east/ West https://www.cfl.ca/2020/03/16/oleary-radar-impact-players-west/ Cap-friendly deals https://3downnation.com/2020/03/15/the-six-most-cap-friendly-deals-from-cfl-free-agency/ Cap-unfriendly deals https://3downnation.com/2020/03/16/the-five-least-cap-friendly-deals-from-free-agency/ ***** Do you know the lowest scoring game in modern (post-1957) CFL history? (Hint: 1966) https://3downnation.com/2020/03/15/the-lowest-scoring-game-in-modern-cfl-history/

Thanks, guys! I've put the Bose on my camels list.

What do I need to do to ensure that only the intended recipient of my PM sees it?

Kory Jones signed with Edmonton in February. On March 9 he retired. The next day Denver hired him as an assistant coach. https://3downnation.com/2020/03/10/former-eskimos-bombers-linebacker-hired-as-denver-broncos-assistant-strength-and-conditioning-coach/ ***** This year's Touchdown Atlantic game will be in Halifax on July 25, with Toronto hosting Sask. The tickets went on sale Tuesday, and sold out in one day. https://www.tsn.ca/cfl-announces-its-2020-touchdown-atlantic-game-in-halifax-has-been-sold-out-1.1456028 https://3downnation.com/2020/03/11/2020-touchdown-atlantic-game-between-riders-argos-sells-out/ https://www.cfl.ca/2020/03/09/touchdown-atlantic-tickets-sale-tuesday/ https://www.cfl.ca/2020/03/11/2020-touchdown-atlantic-sold/ ***** Sask analysis https://www.cfl.ca/2020/03/10/upon-review-saskatchewan-roughriders/ ***** Due to Covid-19, the league cancelled the regional and national combines. https://www.tsn.ca/cfl-announces-the-cancellation-of-its-regional-national-combines-1.1456666 https://www.cfl.ca/2020/03/12/statement-cfl-coronavirus-situation/ https://3downnation.com/2020/03/12/cfl-cancels-combine-due-to-coronavirus-concerns-report/ https://3downnation.com/2020/03/12/cfl-commish-randy-ambrosie-cancels-national-combine-hopeful-season-can-start-as-planned/ ***** The XFL has cancelled the remainder of its regular season. No word yet on playoff games. All players will be paid through May 31 (the contract expiration date). Any player who receives a written contract offer from an NFL or CFL team may sign immediately. https://3downnation.com/2020/03/12/xfl-suspending-2020-season-due-to-coronavirus/ https://3downnation.com/2020/03/14/xfl-will-release-players-from-contracts-if-credible-contractual-offer-is-made-by-nfl-or-cfl-teams-report/ ***** Tennessee has let go Cam Wake. He was injured much of last year, and at his age, this might be the end of the line. https://3downnation.com/2020/03/12/titans-release-former-cfl-most-outstanding-player-cameron-wake/ ***** Naaman Roosevelt has released a rap album. If they send me a press release, I'll post it! https://3downnation.com/2020/03/13/former-riders-turned-alouettes-receiver-naaman-roosevelt-drops-rap-album/ ***** I did not know that for the past two years there has been an award for the best Canadian player in the NCAA, called the Jon Cornish Trophy. Nathan Rourke won it both years, and he is up for it again this year. https://3downnation.com/2020/03/13/jon-cornish-trophy-finalists-unveiled-awarded-to-the-top-canadian-in-ncaa-football/

Thanks! It looks like your recommendations are out of print, but I'll keep my eye out.

Lon, I gather from the Amazon reviews that the Cool & Lam Hard Case books aren't very good. Can you recommend one?

Duane, this too is a favorite of mine. Have you thought of nominating it for an Album of the Week thread?

I might be in the market soon for new computer speakers. Mine are Creative, and I'd like to move up a notch or two. Any recommendations for a good value?

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BRAND NEW MUSIC FROM WILLIE NELSON “OUR SONG” WRITTEN BY CHRIS STAPLETON FROM THE UPCOMING ALBUM FIRST ROSE OF SPRING DUE OUT APRIL 24 VIA LEGACY RECORDINGS One of the key tracks on First Rose of Spring is Willie's heartfelt interpretation of "Our Song," a never-before-recorded composition by contemporary country music hitmaker Chris Stapleton. Willie Nelson & Family will appear as special guests on Chris Stapleton's "All-American Roadshow" on two big dates this year: Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas on March 14 and "A Concert for Kentucky" at Kroger Field in Lexington, Kentucky on April 25.

1. Wolfgang Muthspiel - Wondering 07:20 2. Wolfgang Muthspiel - Angular Blues 05:55 3. Wolfgang Muthspiel - Hüttengriffe 05:15 4. Wolfgang Muthspiel - Camino 07:42 5. Wolfgang Muthspiel - Ride 03:50 6. Cole Porter - Everything I Love 06:52 7. Wolfgang Muthspiel - Kanon in 6/8 07:41 8. Wolfgang Muthspiel - Solo Kanon in 5/4 03:34 9. Gene de Paul, Don Ray, Patricia Johnston - I'll Remember April 05:40 ECM Wolfgang Muthspiel Angular Blues Wolfgang Muthspiel: guitar Scott Colley: double bass Brian Blade: drums Release date: March 20, 2020 ECM 1655 B0031787-02 UPC:  6025 081 4506 3 Wolfgang Muthspiel Scott Colley and Brian Blade on tour: April 14-15 New York, NY Jazz Standard April 16 Cambridge, MA Regattabar April 17-18 Los Angeles, CA Blue Whale April 19 Berkeley, CA Freight and Salvage April 20 Santa Cruz, CA Kuumbwa Jazz Wolfgang Muthspiel, whom The New Yorker has called “a shining light” among today’s jazz guitarists, returns to the trio format with Angular Blues, his fourth ECM album as a leader, following two acclaimed quintet releases and his trio debut. Like Driftwood – the 2014 trio disc that JazzTimes dubbed “cinematic” and “haunting” – Angular Blues finds the Austrian guitarist paired with long-time collaborator Brian Blade on drums; but instead of Larry Grenadier on bass, this time it’s Scott Colley, whose especially earthy sound helps imbue this trio with its own dynamic. Muthspiel plays acoustic guitar on three of the album’s tracks and electric on six more. Along with his characteristically melodic originals – including such highlights as the bucolic “Hüttengriffe” and pensive “Camino” – he essays the first standards of his ECM tenure (“Everything I Love” and “I’ll Remember April”), as well as his first-ever bebop rhythm-changes tune on record (“Ride”). Angular Blues also features a single guitar-only track, “Solo Kanon in 5/4,” with Muthspiel’s electronic delay imbuing the baroque-like rounds with a hypnotic glow. Muthspiel, Colley and Blade recorded Angular Blues in Tokyo’s Studio Dede after a three-night run at the city’s Cotton Club. The album was mixed with Manfred Eicher in the South of France at Studios La Buissonne, where Muthspiel had recorded his two previous ECM albums, Rising Grace and Where the River Goes (both of which featured pianist Brad Mehldau and trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire). Each of the groups that Muthspiel has put together for his ECM recordings has had a special rapport. About his new trio, the guitarist says: “Scott and Brian share my love of song, while at the same time there is constant musical conversation about these songs.” The Louisiana-born Blade has been a member of the Wayne Shorter Quartet since 2000, along with recording with artists from Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Daniel Lanois and Norah Jones to Charlie Haden, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea and Joshua Redman. Since the mid-’90s, Blade has also co-led the gospel-infused Fellowship Band. Regarding the subtly virtuoso drummer, Muthspiel says: “Brian is famous for his sound and touch, that floating way of playing, how he creates intensity with relatively low volume. It’s also a great pleasure for me to witness how sensitively Brian reacts in his playing to whether I play acoustic or electric guitar. I've done a lot of concerts and productions with him over the years, including in our guitar-drums duo, Friendly Travelers, as well as on Driftwood and Rising Grace. He always offers complete interaction and initiative, as well as his individual sound. To play uptempo swing on something like ‘Ride’ with Brian was really luxurious, a gift.” After being mentored by Charlie Haden, Colley was the bassist of choice for such jazz legends as Jim Hall, Andrew Hill, Michael Brecker, Carmen McRae and Bobby Hutcherson, along with appearing on albums by Herbie Hancock, Gary Burton, Pat Metheny, John Scofield, Chris Potter and Julian Lage. Colley, a native of Los Angeles, has released eight albums as a leader. “Scott and Brian have also played a lot together over the past few years, so they know each other well,” Muthspiel notes. “I performed with Scott in New York in the ’90s, and I’ve always felt that he was an extremely giving musician, who – with his warm tone and his flexible, dancing rhythm – simultaneously animated and supported the music. I wrote the bass melody of the new album’s first tune, ‘Wondering,’ especially for him. His sound develops a flow and harmonic movement that is inviting to play on.” After “Wondering” – which includes extended soloing by Colley that embroiders on Muthspiel’s melody beautifully – comes the album’s title song, the highly trio-interactive “Angular Blues,” so titled for its “rhythmic modulations and strange breaks,” the guitarist explains. “Somehow Chick Corea's album Three Quartets was an association, but so was Thelonious Monk.” Those first two tracks, as well as the album’s third, “Hüttengriffe,” feature Muthspiel on acoustic guitar, his sound on the instrument both warm and extraordinarily fluent. After that – on “Camino,” “Ride,” “Everything I Love,” “Kanon in 6/8,” “Solo Kanon in 5/4” and “I’ll Remember April” – he plays electric. Muthspiel’s ever-liquid electric phrasing buoys both an emotionally rich original such as “Camino” and the two different turns on his kaleidoscopic “Kanon,” the trio version in 6/8 and the solo, mostly improvised rendition in 5/4. About his first-time inclusion of jazz standards on one of his ECM albums, Muthspiel says: “I was inspired to record standards with this trio because everything about the way the group plays feels so free, open and far from preconceived ideas, but at the crucial moment a jazz language is spoken, what we do does justice to these tunes. I learned ‘Everything I Love,’ the Cole Porter song, from an early Keith Jarrett album, and I first came to know ‘I’ll Remember April’ from a Frank Sinatra recording. In that latter song, I hardly play solo. It’s more about the head and the vamp-like atmosphere that prevails from the start and is savored again in the end. As in many moments with this trio, it’s about playing with space: leaving it, creating it, filling it.”

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On Tour April 14-15 New York, NY (Jazz Standard) April 16 Cambridge, MA (Regattabar) April 17-18 Los Angeles, CA (Blue Whale) April 19 Berkeley, CA (Freight and Salvage) April 20 Santa Cruz, CA (Kuumbwa Jazz)

On Tour April 14-15 New York, NY (Jazz Standard) April 16 Cambridge, MA (Regattabar) April 17-18 Los Angeles, CA (Blue Whale) April 19 Berkeley, CA (Freight and Salvage) April 20 Santa Cruz, CA (Kuumbwa Jazz) Wolfgang Muthspiel, whom The New Yorker has called “a shining light” among today’s jazz guitarists, returns to the trio format with Angular Blues, the Austrian’s fourth ECM album as a leader, following two acclaimed quintet releases and his trio debut. Like Driftwood – the 2014 trio disc that JazzTimes dubbed “cinematic” and “haunting” – Angular Blues finds Muthspiel paired with longtime collaborator Brian Blade on drums; but instead of Larry Grenadier on bass, it’s Scott Colley, whose especially earthy sound helps give this trio its own dynamic. Muthspiel alternates between acoustic and electric guitar and, along with his characteristically melodic originals – including such highlights as the bucolic “Hüttengriffe” and pensive “Camino” – he essays the first standards of his ECM tenure (“Everything I Love” and “I’ll Remember April”), as well as his first-ever bebop rhythm-changes tune on record (“Ride”). Angular Blues also features a single guitar-only track, “Solo Kanon in 5/4,” with Muthspiel’s electronic delay imbuing the baroque-like rounds with a hypnotic glow.

Best wishes, porcy! And now the North Carolina governor has declared a state of emergency. I cannot guess whether this is medically necessary or mere politics. He is up for re-election this year.

Maybe it has double the secret sauce!