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I have remembered this year! This year's game will be this Friday night (Saturday morning) starting at 9:30 pm pacific time. The Richmond Tigers will meet the Greater Western Sydney Giants. I'm going to have to study up on the Giants, because I don't think I've heard of them before.

ECM Maciej Obara Quartet - Three Crowns release Date: October 25, 2019 Maciej Obara: alto saxophone; Dominik Wania: piano Ole Morten Vågan: double bass; Gard Nilssen: drums The half-Polish, half-Norwegian quartet led by fiery alto saxophonist Maciej Obara is gaining ground as one of the most exciting groups on the contemporary jazz scene. Both the band and its ECM debut Unloved were awarded the Fryderyk Prize in Poland in 2018, and early in 2019 the Obara Quartet also took first place at the BMW Jazz Awards in Munich. Now comes the quartet's second ECM album Three Crowns (named for the Trzy Korony mountains in Southern Poland). Its program is comprised of six new pieces by Maciej and two free arrangements of compositions by Henryk Górecki (1933-2010). The Obara Quartet launches the album with a major concert at the NOSPR Concert Hall in Górecki's hometown Katowice and follows up with a tour with dates in Poland, France, Austria and Germany. ECM Kit Downes - Dreamlife of Debris release Date: October 25, 2019 Kit Downes: piano, organ; Tom Challenger: tenor saxophone Stian Westerhus: guitar; Lucy Railton: cello; Sebastian Rochford: drums Dreamlife of Debris carries forward the story begun on Kit Downes's Obsidian, extending and developing its processes and core ideas. But where Obsidian was (almost exclusively) a solo church organ album, part of Kit's plan for Dreamlife was to put the organ in a broader context, and also to bring the piano into the larger compositional picture. Musicians in the project are primarily players with whom Downes has had long associations - saxophonist Tom Challenger, cellist Lucy Railton, drummer Seb Rochford - and there is also a first musical encounter with Norwegian guitarist Stian Westerhus. "I was interested to see how bringing in different people would change the direction of the recording." Dreamlife of Debris is issued in both CD and LP formats. Don't miss the excellent liner note by Steve Lake in the CD booklet.  1. Kit Downes - Sculptor 06:01 2. Kit Downes - Circinus 04:15 3. Kit Downes - Pinwheel 04:07 4. Kit Downes - Bodes 12:41 5. Kit Downes - Sunflower 02:31 6. Kit Downes - M7 05:25 7. Kit Downes - Twin 04:24 8. Kit Downes - Blackeye 05:16 ECM Kit Downes Dreamlife of Debris Kit Downes: organ, piano Tom Challenger: tenor saxophone Stian Westerhus: guitar Lucy Railton: cello Sebastian Rochford: drums Release date: October 25, 2019 ECM 2632 B0031304-02 CD UPC: 6025 7783755 5 LP UPC: 6025 0801588 5 Dreamlife of Debris carries forward the story begun on Kit Downes’s Obsidian, extending and developing its processes and core ideas. But where Obsidian was (almost exclusively) a solo church organ album, part of Kit’s plan for Dreamlife was to put the organ in a broader context, and also to bring the piano into the larger compositional picture. Musicians in the project are primarily players with whom the British keyboardist has had long associations – saxophonist Tom Challenger, cellist Lucy Railton, drummer Seb Rochford – and there is also a first musical encounter with Norwegian guitarist Stian Westerhus. The album is drawn from sessions recorded at two UK locations – the 13th century church of St John the Baptist in the village of Snape in the Suffolk countryside and St Paul’s Hall (a converted 19th century church) at Huddersfield University – where the musicians arrived to variously interact with Downes. The instrumentalists meet - as Downes puts it - “in a space with no singular character”, with a dream-like ambience being created through overdubs and collage. Although the players do not come together as an ensemble, their appearance as individuals in changing constellations influences the direction of the shape-shifting music triggered by Downes’s improvising, arranging and composing. Saxophonist Tom Challenger, who had a cameo role on Obsidian, has more to contribute here, not only featured as one of the primary instrumental voices but also co-composing the concluding track, “Blackeye”. Downes and Challenger had maintained an organ/sax duo for eight years prior to Dreamlife. With the present project, Downes brings the piano also into the picture. The bright opening section of “Sculptor”, the first track here, rings the changes, with alert sparkling piano gradually dissolving into organ drones. Lucy Railton, previously heard with Kit on the ECM debut of Thomas Strønen’s ensemble Time Is A Blind Guide (2015), has also played Downes’s compositions for piano and cello in their duo Tricko. As a lapsed cellist– he’d played the instrument himself as a child – Kit says he takes a vicarious pleasure in writing for Railton, as can be deduced from the elegant “Pinwheel”. The association between Seb Rochford and Downes – revived here on “Blackeye” - goes back a decade to a period when Kit occasionally played with the rock-influenced jazz group Acoustic Ladyland. Rochford drummed for that ensemble; the bassist was Ruth Goller, who contributes the haunting composition “M7” to Dreamlife, which Kit plays on solo organ, underlining the connections to Obsidian. Guitarist Stian Westerhus was integrated into the project for a final session of improvising in Huddersfield. A mysterious presence, his sounds bubble to the fore in the middle of the track called “Bodes.” *** Kit Downes was an organ scholar at St Peter Mancroft in Norwich before going on to study piano, organ and composition at the Purcell School and the Royal Academy of Music. He recorded and toured widely with the band Empirical while also working with – among others Django Bates and Lee Konitz. He has led and co-led a number of groups in the last decade, including the trios Troyka and Quiet Tiger, the Neon Quartet (with Stan Sulzmann), and the quintet Light From Old Stars. Current projects include, in addition to solo piano and pipe organ performances, collaborations with saxophonist Tom Challenger, cellist Lucy Railton, composer Shiva Feshareki and with the band Enemy with Petter Eldh and James Maddren. More details at his web site: www.kitdownes.com The recipient of a number of prizes, including the BBC Jazz award and the British Jazz Award, Kit Downes was a made a Fellow of the Royal Academy in their Honours List of 2019. In the DownBeat International Critics Poll of 2019, he was voted # 1 Rising Star in both Piano and Keyboard categories. Downes presents music from Dream Life of Debris at concerts including the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (November 21), MAC Theatre, Birmingham (December 5), Anteros Arts, Norwich (December 6), and King’s Place, London (December 7).  1. Maciej Obara Quartet - Three Pieces in Old Style (Pt. 1) 05:40 2. Maciej Obara Quartet - Blue Skies For Andy 09:21 3. Maciej Obara Quartet - Smoggy People 06:55 4. Maciej Obara Quartet - Little requiem for a Polish Girl "Tranquillo" 09:17 5. Maciej Obara Quartet - Vang Church 06:26 6. Maciej Obara Quartet - Three Crowns 07:13 7. Maciej Obara Quartet - Glow 07:34 8. Maciej Obara Quartet - Mr.S 09:57 ECM Maciej Obara Quartet Three Crowns Maciej Obara: alto saxophone Dominik Wania: piano Ole Morten Vågan: double bass Gard Nilssen: drums Release date: October 25, 2019 ECM 2662 B0031306-02 UPC: 6025 080 6970 3 Named for the Trzy Korony summit of the Pieniny mountain range in the south of Poland, Three Crowns could be described as a peak performance from the Maciej Obara Quartet, and one that builds upon the achievements of their ECM debut, Unloved. Recorded at Studios La Buissonne in March 2019, the album features six new pieces by bandleader Obara and, in an intriguing development, two versions of works by Polish composer Henryk Mikołaj Górecki (1933-2010). This is the first occasion on which the Górecki family – whom Maciej came to know while living in Katowice, the composer’s hometown - has encouraged interpretations of the music by improvisers. To Górecki’s Three Pieces In Old Style (Part One) and Little Requiem for a Polish Girl, composed respectively in 1963 and 1993, Maciej Obara and bandmates Dominik Wania, Ole Morten Vågan and Gard Nilssen bring the intensity and focus that distinguishes their work in the vanguard of contemporary jazz. Theirs is a special quartet with a layered and detailed sound, an alliance of highly individual players dedicated to the group work and able to find space for self-expression inside it. Maciej Obara, whose concentrated alto sax sound balances lyricism and eruptive emotion, is ideally partnered by Dominik Wania, pianist of formidable technique and classical background: “both are improvisers of mercurial energies”, as The Guardian has noted. Wania who found his own path to jazz after emerging from the Krakow Academy with an honors degree in classical performance, first met Obara inside a Tomasz Stanko ensemble. It was at once clear that the impulsive, outgoing saxophonist and the introverted, analytical pianist shared a profound musical understanding. Their debt to Stanko is expressed in the elegiac “Mr. S” which closes Three Crowns, a free-floating piece atmospherically close to the spirit of Balladyna. Norwegian musicians Ole Morten Vågan and Gard Nilssen, who joined the two Poles in 2012, have since played together in many other contexts, but it was in the Obara group that they first honed their synergetic rapport. In this ensemble, old notions of front line and rhythm section responsibilities are frequently overturned. Gard Nilssen’s unrestrained approach to drums and cymbals takes further the waves-of-sound, waves-of-energy approach of Jon Christensen and Audun Kleive, as his dramatic playing on the title track here makes plain. And Ole Morten Vågan roves freely inside the group sound, as likely to add ideas of his own as to adhere strictly to harmonic and rhythmic roles. Obara has described the strongly melodic themes he gives to his group as outlines, “from which our sound is set free,” each of the players giving shape, color and impetus to the music. Ole Morten Vågan’s is the first instrumental voice heard on “Blue Skies for Andy”. Maciej Obara’s heartfelt tribute to his late father, who spent much of his life playing within the Roma community, is a key piece in the new repertoire and an absorbing journey in itself, covering a lot of ground in its nine-and-a-half minutes’ duration, as the band members rally behind the leader’s dynamic alto solo and then expand upon its implications. Dominik Wania has plenty of powerful moments on Three Crowns, with “Glow”, emerging from the latticework of the pianist’s unaccompanied introduction, especially compelling as it zigzags exhilaratingly through successive plateaus of intensity. The Obara/Wania sound combination is deployed very dramatically here, at times conveying the impression that the musicians are completing each other’s thoughts in the pressurized, speeding world of improvisation. The Obara Quartet’s star has been steadily on the rise in recent seasons. In May the group took First Prize in the BMW Jazz-Welt Competition in Munich. The Award Jury’s citation spoke of the “enormous amplitude of emotion, the dynamics and the possibility of expression with which Obara and his quartet were able to fascinate the audience…His lyrical saxophone playing, the strength of his compositions and the unchained power of this outstanding ensemble’s improvisations turned the quartet into this year’s winner.” Individually, too, the players have been making headway, with Gard Nilssen featured as artist-in-residence at this year’s Molde Festival, Ole Morten Vågan continuing to direct the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra (most recently in a collaboration with Cory Smythe), and Dominik Wania preparing material for a forthcoming ECM solo album. The Maciej Obara Quartet presents the music from Three Crowns on tour in Europe this season with concerts including the ECM50 festival at Oslo’s Nasjonal Jazz Scene. For more information: www.maciejobara.com, www.ecmrecords.com

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I gather from what I've read that no other label wanted to have anything to do with Ornette when Contemporary signed him. True?

Later in Prestige's life, how about Groove Holmes with the Misty single, and the Soul Message and Misty albums? My guess for Riverside would be Monk in the later '50s, and Cannonball during the Kennedy administration.

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Good luck Michael! I read that Houston is expecting 40 inches of rain.

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Jim, oldies.com often has Skeeter Davis on sale. https://www.oldies.com/search/results.cfm?q=skeeter+davis&results= "Essential" is currently $6.97. https://www.oldies.com/product-view/08269G.html

This deal is still on.

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1. Louis Sclavis - L’heure Pasolini 09:43 2. Benjamin Moussay - Shadows And Lines 07:24 3. Louis Sclavis - La dame de Martigues 06:21 4. Louis Sclavis - Extases 03:57 5. Sclavis / Moussay / Murcia / Lavergne - Esquisse 1 02:04 6. Louis Sclavis - Prison 05:07 7. Sclavis / Moussay / Murcia / Lavergne - Esquisse 2 02:06 8. Louis Sclavis - Darwich dans la ville 07:10 ECM Louis Sclavis Characters On A Wall Louis Sclavis: clarinets Benjamin Moussay: piano Sarah Murcia: double bass Christophe Lavergne: drums Release date: September 20, 2019 ECM 2645 B0030958-02 CD UPC: 6025 778 3223 9 LP UPC: 6025 080 4585 1 French clarinettist Louis Sclavis’s thirteenth album as a leader on ECM finds him drawing inspiration from two primary sources: the interventionist street art of Ernest Pignon-Ernest and the interpretive brilliance of his reconfigured quartet. Characters On A Wall marks, surprisingly, the first time that Sclavis has deployed the classic jazz line-up of reeds, piano, bass and drums on an ECM record. “This instrumental formation is one I hadn’t used for a long time,” says Louis. “It still feels new to me, and the band feels like a real jazz group – in its make-up, sonorities and sense of interplay.” The canonical format seems a good fit with the subject matter, given Pignon-Ernest’s position as a classicist among the street artists, balancing technical control and compositional elegance with a flair for subtle coloration and emotional drama. Five Sclavis compositions, “L’heure Pasolini”, “La dame de Martigues”, “Extases”, “Prison” and “Darwich dans la ville” are musical responses to Pignon-Ernest’s in situ paintings from Paris to Palestine. The album also includes “Shadows and Lines”, written by pianist Benjamin Moussay. A frequent Sclavis associate over the last two decades, Moussay previously appeared on the albums Sources (recorded 2011) and Silk and Salt Melodies (2014). Repertoire on Characters on a Wall is completed by two collective pieces – “Esquisse 1” and “Esquisse 2” – which bring the improvisational resourcefulness of new group members Sarah Murcia and Christophe Lavergne to the fore. Characters on a Wall marks the second time that Louis Sclavis has devoted an album to music inspired by the art of Ernest Pignon-Ernest. Napoli’s Walls (recorded in 2002) was an evocation of Pignon-Ernest’s work in the city of Naples. Characters, in contrast, is inspired by the artist’s work in all its periods. Sclavis: “Ernest’s work speaks to me very directly. When I look at his images, I don’t have to search for long – ideas come to me very quickly. But there’s no rule, no method. Each work generates its own form and compositional processes.” The Village Voice once called Louis Sclavis “the most consistently impressive bass clarinettist since Eric Dolphy” but, as he has proven many times, his real instrument is the ensemble. He knows how to make his groups sing. Each of his bands has had a very distinct character, utilised by Sclavis to address a wide range of subject matter. “Sclavis keeps renewing and reinventing himself,” Stéphane Ollivier remarks in the liner notes. “The clarinettist expands his universe ever further at the limits of established genres and styles, into hybrid shifting territory where the learned and the popular, the ultra-contemporary and the traditional meet.” Benjamin Moussay started out studying classical piano at the Strasbourg Conservatory, before turning to jazz. In 1998 he was laureate of the Martial Solal International Jazz Piano Competition. Playing experiences with Louis Sclavis, Archie Shepp, Jerry Bergonzi, Glenn Ferris, Daniel Humair and Tony Malaby have contributed to the development of his language and technique, but his scope is wide and he cites also the influence of contemporary composition, electronic music and rock and pop on his musical development. In the liner notes, Stéphane Ollivier describes Moussay as “a sophisticated, lyrical pianist, who brings an intensity of phrasing and a deep harmonic understanding to a vision of his instrument that is orchestral and scenographic.” New bassist Sarah Murcia, a former student of the late J.F. Jenny-Clark (a contributor to important early ECM recordings including Paul Motian’s Le Voyage and Kenny Wheeler’s Around Six), moves adroitly between background and foreground responsibilities, both a powerful soloist and a driving presence. She has worked across several idioms in the course of her artistic journey, beginning with classical piano, and an early period as a cellist. On bass, she has recorded with Steve Coleman’s Five Elements Group and worked with numerous French improvisers. Her own project Never Mind The Future (line-up including Benoit Delbecq and Sclavis associate Gilles Coronado) has proposed improvised approaches to punk rock. Murcia also composes music for film and dance. Drummer Christophe Lavergne has worked a similarly broad field. He studied at the Nantes Conservatory before finding his path as a jazz improviser, travelling often to New York where he studied with Billy Hart, Marvin “Smitty” Smith, Charlie Persip, Adam Nussbaum, and Mike Clark among others. He has played or recorded with Thôt, Le Gros Cube, Caroline (with Sarah Murcia), Emmanuel Bex, Stéphane Belmondo, Benoît Delbecq and more. Louis Sclavis’s ECM recordings include Rouge (recorded 1991), Acoustic Quartet (1993), Les violences de Rameau (1995/6), L’affrontement des prétendants (1999), Dans La nuit (2000), Napoli’s Walls (2002), L’imparfait des langues (2005), Lost on the Way (2008), Sources (2011), Silk and Salt Melodies (2014), and Asian Fields Variations (2016). He can be also be heard on Ida Lupino (2015) with Giovanni Guidi, Gianluca Petrella and Gerald Cleaver. Characters on a Wall was recorded in Studios La Buissonne in the South of France in October 2018, produced by Manfred Eicher. The album is issued in both CD and LP formats. Liner notes by Louis Sclavis and Stéphane Ollivier are included, in French and English, plus photos of Ernest Pignon-Ernest’s artwork, The Sclavis Quartet takes the music on the road in Europe this season:

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This one is very good. Definitely recommended. However, it is just what you expect. There are no surprises.

Week 14 results BC 29....Ottawa 5 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2611/ottawa-redblacks-vs-bc-lions/ https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/cfl-week-14-ottawa-redblacks-bc-lions-1.5283774 https://stats.cbc.ca/football/cfl/recap/76120 https://3downnation.com/2019/09/14/lions-cruise-to-victory-over-redblacks-in-battle-of-the-cfls-wort-teams/ https://3downnation.com/2019/09/14/redblacks-hit-rock-bottom-eight-other-thoughts-on-losing-to-the-lions/ https://3downnation.com/2019/09/16/the-two-sides-of-mike-reilly-and-six-other-thoughts-on-the-lions-dominance-over-ottawa/ The Redblacks were never in it. This end the Lions' losing streak at 7. ***** Calgary 19....Hamilton 18 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2612/hamilton-tiger-cats-vs-calgary-stampeders/ https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/cfl-week-14-hamilton-tiger-cats-calgary-stamperders-1.5284196 https://stats.cbc.ca/football/cfl/recap/76121 https://3downnation.com/2019/09/14/stampeders-second-half-stand-hands-first-place-ticats-third-loss/ https://3downnation.com/2019/09/16/stamps-comeback-on-ticats-tre-robersons-freakish-leap-saves-victory/ https://3downnation.com/2019/09/15/classic-calgary-collapse-costs-cats-and-six-other-thoughts/ With 56 seconds to go, Liram Hajrullahu attempted a 42-yard field goal to put the Ticats in front. Tre Roberson leapt before the ball was kicked, and the ball hit his arm! https://www.cfl.ca/2019/09/14/roberson-makes-game-saving-field-goal-block/ ***** Sask 27....Montreal 25 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2613/montreal-alouettes-vs-saskatchewan-roughriders/ https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/saskatchewan-roughriders-montreal-alouetes-cfl-week-14-1.5284288 https://stats.cbc.ca/football/cfl/recap/76122 https://3downnation.com/2019/09/14/cody-fajardo-engineers-more-late-game-heroics-leads-riders-to-entertaining-win-over-alouettes/ https://3downnation.com/2019/09/15/riders-beat-the-als-in-fitting-fashion-on-80s-night-and-eight-other-thoughts/ Brett Lauther kicked a 39-yard field goal with 25 seconds left to give the Riders the win. The Riders held a reunion of the '89 Grey Cup champs. In celebration of the '80s, the Riders made a video to Never Going to Give You Up. https://3downnation.com/2019/09/15/cody-fajardo-and-the-riders-rickroll-into-the-bye-week/ ***** Week 14 Plays of the Week https://www.cfl.ca/2019/09/16/robersons-leap-denies-the-ticats-in-the-timber-mart-plays-of-the-week/ ***** Week 14 recaps https://www.cfl.ca/2019/09/16/totalpickem-recap-week-14/ https://www.cfl.ca/2019/09/16/landrys-5-takeaways-week-14-2/ https://www.cfl.ca/2019/09/16/steinbergs-mmqb-no-clear-grey-cup-favourite/ ***** USports Week 4 recap https://www.cfl.ca/2019/09/16/u-sports-carabins-edge-laval-bishops-returns-500/ ***** power rankings https://firstdownsportspodcast.com/category/fds-cfl/ https://thegruelingtruth.com/football/cfl/cfl-power-rankings-week-15-3/ ***** Teams will make the playoffs with an 8-10 record, but not with 7-11. So let's look at the standings and "the all-important loss column." https://www.cfl.ca/standings/ BC has 10 losses. Toronto and Ottawa have 9 losses each. The next worst is Edmonton at .500, 6-6. So the Lions, Argos and Redblacks need to win every game from now on. The Lions and Argos are playing their best football of the season now, but it's too much to hope for six game winning streaks!

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Is Montreal still in the cards, or was that a hoax? Or was the Montreal story about Tampa?

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I suppose "what it is worth" is the cost of a replacement book. I can imagine people never returning the book if there is no late fee. Perhaps there will be a new policy of terminating the scofflaws' borrowing privileges.