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Artist Title Time Gretje Angell Love Is Here To Stay 04:33 Gretje Angell I'm Old Fashioned 03:59 Gretje Angell Fever 04:28 Gretje Angell Deep In A Dream 05:28 Gretje Angell Berimbau 03:41 Gretje Angell Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me 04:21 Gretje Angell One Note Samba 02:32 Gretje Angell Tea For Two 05:01 Gretje Angell Them There Eyes 02:18 Gretje Angell "In Any Key" Impacting: September 2 2019 Format(s): Jazz Jazz vocalist Gretje Angell grew up in smoky, dimly-lit clubs as a little-girl roadie for her jazz-drummer father. Her grandfather was also a jazz drummer, so you could say Gretje was born to swing. “If it doesn’t groove then I don’t give it a sh*#,” the Los Angeles-based singer says with a good chuckle. (Gretje Angell: pronounce name GRETA ANGEL) Gretje ascended the bandstand on her own time. She worked through a heavy dose of stage fright, welcomed motherhood, and studied classical and opera prior launching her jazz career. Today, she announces her debut, "…in any key", a classic jazz vocal album—the kind of long player you put on while savoring wine and cooking and cleaning. "...in any key" simmers with the sensual sophistication of artists such as Anita O'Day, Chet Baker, Carmen McRae, and Ella Fitzgerald. Onstage and off, Gretje navigates lush balladry, snappy swing, and slinky Brazilian rhythms with sensitivity and dexterity. She’s a darling of the jazz underground who performs regionally, nationally, and internationally, wowing audiences in a broad array of settings. Gretje leads her own ensembles, ranging from intimate guitar and vocal duos to full-band configurations, and also appears with other acclaimed LA-based jazz combos, including Ladd McIntosh Swing Orchestra, Jack’s Cats, and Glen Garrett’s Big Band. Informing her dynamic emotionality and technical aptitude as a singer are her experiences as a soprano opera singer active with the Los Angeles Metropolitan Opera Company. Gretje was born in Akron, Ohio, and her earliest memories are the long, joyous nights spent in dark jazz clubs, falling asleep in booths while her father commanded the bandstand. Having two generations of jazz drummers ahead of her, it only makes sense that Gretje’s first instrument was bass. Despite the fact that her father passed away prematurely, she still cherishes a few early jam sessions the two shared as a rhythm section. Gretje pursued classical music in college, but battled stage fright which eroded her passion, and she eventually dropped out of college, moved to California, and didn’t sing a note for a decade. While at a house concert in LA five months pregnant with her son, Gretje heard a jazz vocal and guitar duo that sparked something of a seismic epiphany. “At that moment, it felt if I didn’t try music I was never going to do it,” she remembers. Inspired, but also immersed in a clearly in a time-sensitive life period, Gretje boldly set out to become a jazz vocalist, tirelessly working on her craft, and bravely confronting her stage fright. The years of woodshedding and self-growth shine through on Gretje’s debut, "…in any key". The album was recorded by gifted guitarist, producer, and arranger Dori Amarilio in his home studio, and its cheeky name is a salute to his virtuosic ability to play any jazz standard in any key, at any moment. "…in any key" manages to be lush but intimate, and vibey but pristinely produced. The album gracefully swings through balmy voyages into bossa nova and samba, and dips into snappy uptempo numbers and after-hours balladry. Select album highlights include “Love Is Here to Stay,” “Deep In a Dream,” and “Them There Eyes.” “Love Is Here to Stay” captures that elusive magic take where the ensemble work is effortless. The song boasts a breezy bossa groove, delicately nuanced band interplay, and smoldering vocals. “Deep in a Dream” oozes heartache. It is luxuriously textured with real strings courtesy of the Budapest symphony orchestra and bluesy muted trumpet, and it boasts achingly beautiful vocals. On the brisk “Them There Eyes,” Gretje flexes her scat chops, burning through the chord changes with assured ease. Though this is Gretje’s first album, she maintains the fluidly busy calendar of a consummate professional. Performing and recording as a jazz musician is something Gretje’s father would have been proud of, and, to the end, she dedicated her album to him. Reflecting on that, she shares: “Whenever I gig, I picture him in the back of the room and it always calms my nerves.” GRETJE ANGELL Our Love Is Here To Stay (Video): LINER NOTES "IN ANY KEY"----- Never, in my wildest dreams, did I imagine I'd be following in my father’s footsteps into my own madness, also known as: becoming a jazz musician. My early days were filled listening to the countless jazz records my parents owned (I loved to comb through them and stare at the covers, deeply inhale their musty odor, set them on the turntable and drop the needle), and nights were spent at smoky black clubs where my dad would play and I'd fall asleep in a booth covered by his jacket. Little did I know he was sowing the seeds of my future, which is as intertwined with him now (17-odd years after his death) as it was then, when he was sitting at his kit and I could crawl into his lap and throw my arms around him and kiss his cheek. MAN! I miss that crazy, old coot. I dedicate this album to him - my completely insane, and completely lovable, late father, Akron-renowned bebop drummer, Tommy "The Hat" Voorhees.

THE GURDJIEFF ENSEMBLE, LEADING GROUP SPECIALIZING IN ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL MUSIC, SET TO MAKE DEBUT AMERICAN TOUR GURDJIEFF ENSEMBLE TO PERFORM IN NEW YORK, CHICAGO AND LOS ANGELES, PRESENTED BY AGBU The Gurdjieff Ensemble, one of the leading groups in the world specializing in ancient and medieval music from the East, will be making their first American Tour to three major cities this September sponsored by the Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) The internationally acclaimed Gurdjieff Ensemble was founded by Armenian musician Levon Eskenian in 2008 with the intention of bringing the music of the Armenian philosopher, author and composer Georges I. Gurdjieff back to its ethnic inspirational sources. The Ensemble consists of Armenia’s leading musicians playing traditional instruments. Their debut album on ECM Records, “Music of Georges I. Gurdjieff,” was widely acclaimed, and won prestigious awards including the Edison Award in the Netherlands. They have been touring the world with sold out appearances at major festivals and concert halls in Europe, Australia, the Middle East, Russia and South America, and will bring their music to American audiences for the first time in September with concerts in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. G.I. Gurdjieff, born in Armenia, is known to many in the West as one of the major spiritual figures of the 20th century. He was a musician, philosopher, choreographer, and writer, and his extensive musical repertoire was based on the music he heard while traveling in Armenia, the Caucasus, the Middle East, and many parts of Central Asia, India and North Africa, where he witnessed a myriad of folk and spiritual music, rituals and dance traditions. With their second album, “Komitas,” also on ECM Records, the Ensemble turned their attention to the music of Komitas Vardapet (1869-1935). Composer, ethnomusicologist, arranger, singer and priest, Komitas is popularly held to be the founder of contemporary music in Armenia, and in his work as a collector he explored the connections that uniquely bind together Armenian sacred and secular music. "This year we mark the 150th anniversary of Komitas and the AGBU Performing Arts is presenting the Gurdjieff Ensemble from Armenia for a debut tour in the biggest cities of America. We are extremely excited for the chance to share this special music with the US audiences," said Eskenian. Eskenian collected piano and vocal works and arranged them for traditional instruments, thereby enhancing and preserving their authenticity. The resulting music allows the Gurdjieff Ensemble, performing on more than 16 traditional Armenian and Eastern instruments, to illuminate the deep roots of Komitas’s and Gurdjieff’s works. Featured throughout the performances will be pianist and fellow ECM recording artist Lusine Grigoryan, performing pieces from her ECM Records debut album Komitas: Seven Songs. Tickets can be purchased at these links: Wednesday September 25 in Chicago, IL at Old Town School of Folk Music Friday September 27 in New York, NY at Symphony Space Sunday September 29 in Pasadena, CA at AGBU Vatche & Tamar Manoukian Performing Arts Center The Armenian General Benevolent Union (AGBU) is the world’s largest non-profit organization devoted to upholding the Armenian heritage through educational, cultural and humanitarian programs. Each year, AGBU is committed to making a difference in the lives of 500,000 people across Armenia, Artsakh and the Armenian diaspora. Since 1906, AGBU has remained true to one overarching goal: to create a foundation for the prosperity of all Armenians. To learn more visit www.agbu.org.

1. Armenian Traditional / Komitas - Ov zarmanali 06:00 2. Anonymous - Procurans odium 03:23 3. Jan Garbarek - Allting finns 04:00 4. Nikolai N. Kedrov - Litany 09:00 5. Anonymous - Dostoino est 03:16 6. Anonymous - Sanctus 07:50 7. Arvo Pärt - Most Holy Mother Of God 04:11 8. Anonymous - Procedentum sponsum 04:17 9. Guillaume le Rouge - Se je fayz deuil 06:17 10. Pérotin - Alleluia nativitas 05:09 11. Hildegard von Bingen - O ignis spiritus 07:29 12. Jan Garbarek - We are the stars 05:19 13. Antoine Brumel - Agnus dei 06:10 14. Anonymous - Remember me, my dear 05:13 Garbarek blends with the vocal lines – sung captivatingly by the Hilliards – like a fifth voice. With restraint and the greatest of control he wanders and floats through the spaces created by the singers…The early music is not just given a modern sheen. Garbarek explores a space from the inside, but with a sound whose hymnic character and pathos cannot be denied. The music raises the question of what is old and what is new. Peter Rüedi, Die Weltwoche 25 years on from the release of Officium, the groundbreaking alliance of Jan Garbarek and The Hilliard Ensemble, comes a live album from their unforgettable final tour. Remember me, my dear, named for the Scottish ballad which concludes the concert, was recorded in October 2014 at Chiesa della Collegiata dei Santi Pietro e Stefano in Bellinzona, in the Ticino canton of Switzerland. The album embodies all the special attributes of this unique alliance between the Norwegian saxophonist and the British vocal ensemble. The musicians were first brought together by producer Manfred Eicher and “something came into existence that was not there before”, in the words of Jan Garbarek. Officium, the debut album, was released in 1994 and the music touched a large international audience. A million copies of Officium were sold swiftly, and a thousand concerts - many in churches, abbeys and other sacred spaces - followed over a 20-year period. And there were further recordings, the double album Mnemosyne (1998) and Officium Novum (2009). The repertoire of Remember Me is drawn from all three albums and adds a new piece, “Procurans odium”, a medieval song preserved at the Bavarian monastery of Benediktbeuern. All of the music is transformed by the live context, by the subtlety of the singers, and the improvisational daring of Jan Garbarek. “He can pick up on anything, and his ears are phenomenal,” David James has said. “The slightest nuance, he’ll play into it and feed something back – it’s just so thrilling to perform with him.” Jan Garbarek, near the beginning of the association: “I’ve loved medieval music for years. The old music is very familiar to me, for it uses modes which you find in folk music and jazz. I find it completely natural to join in with it, and it has since broadened my whole perspective of playing.” The range of music addressed expanded as the Officium project developed. Remember Me, My Dear begins with an Armenian traditional piece in an arrangement by Komitas. There is also contemporary music, including Arvo Pärt’s “Most Holy Mother of God”, and two Garbarek compositions: “We are the stars”, based upon Native American poetry, and “Allting finns”, a particularly beautiful setting of a poem by Swedish author Pär Lagerkvist. On the present recording it segues into the Litany of Russian composer Nikolai Kedrov, whose music spanned the 19th and 20th centuries, integrated here alongside 12th century music of Hildegard von Bingen, 13th century music of Pérotin, and more. In the playing of Garbarek and the singing of the Hilliards, time is dissolved in the resonant performance space. “Hard, smooth stone surfaces and an abundance of air were the properties we sought,” wrote Jan Garbarek in a program note. When these were available, “the concerts were bliss. Flowing so easily, the sonority of the voices hovering harmoniously under every arch and vault, filling every corner of splendent space. Sax roaming freely above, below inside the vocal texture, a soaring sum of parts…” The Bellinzona concert, two months from the final show, bears out this description. The retirement of the Hilliard Ensemble, after a forty-year career, also brought the Officium collaboration to an end. The last Officium performance was at King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, in December 2014. The outstanding recordings remain, the Officium-Mnemosyne-Officium Novum cycle now augmented by Remember Me, My Dear. The Hilliards can also be heard on a further 40 ECM titles, singing everything from Tallis and Gesualdo to Arvo Pärt and Gavin Bryars. Jan Garbarek is of course one of ECM’s primary artists, first recording for the label in 1970 with Afric Pepperbird and subsequently appearing on dozens of albums as leader, co-leader, and featured soloist with composers including Eleni Karaindrou and Giya Kancheli. CD booklet, in English and German, includes a performer’s note by Gordon Jones, and liner notes by Paul Griffiths and Steve Lake.

'Debuted #10 on the Billboard Traditional Jazz Albums Chart'

Artist Title Time Van Morrison Dark Night Of The Soul (Radio Edit) 03:51 Van Morrison "Dark Night Of The Soul" Impacting Monday, Sept. 30th Van Morrison Three Chords And The Truth Exile/Caroline International, released October 25th 2019 First track – Dark Night of the Soul - online everywhere now UK & US tour dates including five London Palladium shows Van Morrison has announced details of a new album -Three Chords And The Truth. It will be released on Exile/Caroline International available on CD/vinyl and digital download on October 25th 2019. Three Chords And The Truth is truly something wonderful — fourteen new original compositions effortlessly encapsulate the Van Morrison sound and showcase his talents as one of our generation’s most celebrated songwriters. His sixth album in just four years, Three Chords And The Truth is further proof that Van Morrison is one of the greatest recording artists of all time and a creative force to be reckoned with. Three Chords And The Truth was produced and written by Van Morrison (except for If We Wait for Mountains which was co-written with Don Black). The album features contributions from legendary guitarist Jay Berliner and a duet with The Righteous Brothers’ Bill Medley (Fame Will Eat the Soul). Explaining what it was like to record the album, Van Morrison said: “You’re just plugging into the feeling of it, more the feeling of it...when they’re playing...It’s like reading me. So, I think there’s more of that connection.” The first track from the album – Dark Night of The Soul - is released online everywhere today (Wednesday 18th September). Three Chords And The Truth features the tracks: 1. March Winds In February 2. Fame Will Eat The Soul 3. Dark Night Of The Soul 4. In Search Of Grace 5. Nobody In Charge 6. You Don’t Understand 7. Read Between The Lines 8. Does Love Conquer All? 9. Early Days 10. If We Wait For Mountains 11. Up On Broadway 12. Three Chords And The Truth 13. Bags Under My Eyes 14. Days Gone By Van Morrison is performing a series of shows around the album release date and has also announced a residency at the London Palladium in March 2020. Van Morrison plays; Oct 2nd Reno, Grand Sierra Resort (SOLD OUT) Oct 4th Los Angeles, The Greek Theatre Oct 5th Santa Barbara Bowl (SOLD OUT) Oct 6th Los Angeles, Hollywood Bowl Oct 8th Churla Vista CA, North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre Oct 21st Bournemouth, International Centre Oct 23rd Cardiff, St David's Hall Oct 27th Oxford, New Theatre Oct 28th Nottingham, Royal Concert Hall Dec 2nd Brighton, Dome Dec 3rd Brighton, Dome Dec 31st Belfast, Stormont Hotel (SOLD OUT) Jan 1st Belfast, Stormont Hotel (SOLD OUT) Jan 2nd Belfast, Stormont Hotel (SOLD OUT) Jan 31st Las Vegas, The Colosseum at Caesars Palace Feb 1st Las Vegas, The Colosseum at Caesars Palace Feb 5th Las Vegas, The Colosseum at Caesars Palace Feb 7th Las Vegas, The Colosseum at Caesars Palace Feb 8th Las Vegas, The Colosseum at Caesars Palace Mar 20th London, The Palladium Mar 21st London, The Palladium Mar 22nd London, The Palladium Mar 24th London, The Palladium Mar 25th London, The Palladium For tickets and information visit www.vanmorrison.com/live

Artist Title Time Kelley Suttenfield Harvest Moon 05:29 Kelley Suttenfield Heart Of Gold 03:51 Kelley Suttenfield Only Love Can Break Your Heart 04:49 Kelley Suttenfield The Losing End (When You're On) 04:02 Kelley Suttenfield Flying on the Ground 04:57 Kelley Suttenfield The Needle and the Damage Done 05:23 Kelley Suttenfield Love Is a Rose 02:50 Kelley Suttenfield Down By the River 06:13 Kelley Suttenfield Fool For Your Love 03:20 Kelley Suttenfield Barefoot Floors 04:32 Kelley Suttenfield Old Man 04:32 Kelley Suttenfield "When We Were Young: Kelley Suttenfield Sings Neil Young" Impacting: September 13 2019 Format(s): Jazz EPK : www.kelleysuttenfield.com/epk/ VIDEO EPK HERE

Artist Title Time Terri Lyne Carrington Bells (Ring Loudly) (Radio Edit) 05:05 Terri Lyne Carrington Bells (Ring Loudly) (Album Version) 06:27 Terri Lyne Carrington and Social Science BELLS (RING LOUDLY) FT. MALCOLM-JAMAL WARNER New Single Out Now Impacting 9/17 "This anthem's poignant spoken word, snaking chords and haunting melodic lines rebuke the police brutality every black mother fears." - NPR MUSIC (Top 16 Songs of August) Galvanized by seismic changes in the ever-evolving social and political landscape, Terri Lyne Carrington and Social Science confront a wide spectrum of social justice issues. As thought-provoking and artistically evocative as it is musically exhilarating, 'Waiting Game' immediately takes its place in the stirring lineage of politically conscious and activist music, expressing an unflinching, inclusive and compassionate view of humanity’s breaks and bonds through an eclectic program melding jazz, R&B, indie rock, contemporary improvisation, and hip-hop. Social Science is: TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON (drums, percussion, vocals), AARON PARKS (piano, keyboards), MATTHEW STEVENS (guitars), MORGAN GUERIN (saxophone, bass, EWI), DEBO RAY (vocals), KASSA OVERALL (MC, DJ) ON TOUR 9/19 Fort Worth Central Library, Fort Worth, TX 9/25 Gallagher Student Center Theater, Cincinnati, OH 10/10 Sesc Pompeia, Sao Paulo, Brazil 11/16 London Jazz Festival 11/30 LPR (Album Release Event), NYC

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Katerina Brown Places Songs of Her Native Russia Alongside Pieces from the Jazz Repertoire On "Mirror," Set for October 18 Release By Mellowtone Music Vocalist's Debut Album Features a Band with Bassist/Producer Gary Brown, Pianist Adam Shulman, Drummers Akira Tana & Timothy Angulo, & Guests Including Vocalist Kenny Washington, Percussionist Airto Moreira CD Release Show at the Sound Room, Oakland, Saturday, November 2 September 19, 2019 Vocalist Katerina Brown explores her recently minted identity as a Russian immigrant to the United States with the October 18 release of Mirror, her remarkable debut album, on Mellowtone Music. Accompanied by a band of San Francisco Bay Area musicians that includes her husband, bassist Gary Brown (who also produced the album), pianist Adam Shulman, and drummers Akira Tana and Timothy Angulo along with a number of special guests, Brown offers interpretations of three classic Russian songs (first in her native language, then in English translations) as well as five favorites from the American repertoire. The tunes on Mirror not only span nations, but also styles. They range from delicate ballads to lilting bossa nova to brash, bluesy swingers. "It's a jazz CD, but it has different styles," says Brown. "I want to show people that I'm still searching. Standards helped me find myself but that's not what defines me. ... I want to explore more." The stylistic range itself is one of the album's star attractions, opening with a fragile take on the romantic Russian song "The Gate" (featuring violinist Mads Tolling), followed by a saucy treatment of the Gershwins' standard "They Can't Take That Away from Me" (a duet with singer Kenny Washington) and a tremendously swaggering "Moanin'" on which Brown sings Jon Hendricks's vocalese lyrics (with organist Brian Ho, trumpeter Miles Olmos, and saxophonist Robert Roth augmenting the core band). Elsewhere, the Brazilian guitarist Ricardo Peixoto and percussionists Celso Alberti and Airto Moreira lend subtle bossa nova flavors to "Like a Lover" and "I Feel You." At the same time, however, the three Russian songs, strategically positioned as the opening, closing, and central pieces ("The Gate," "The Mirror," and "It's Snowing," respectively), have undeniable significance for this document of Brown's artistic arrival. "When I came here, I thought, 'To be a Russian jazz singer singing all American songs, that's a bit strange," she says. "I need to bring something from my culture so that American audiences can listen and get familiar with them." This cultural cross-pollination includes the arrangements as well as the songs themselves. Both Shulman and St. Petersburg pianist Dina Sineglazova provided charts for Mirror, even collaborating in the case of one tune. It further evidences Brown's determination to be as unconstrained by geography as she is by style. Katerina Brown was born July 16, 1982 in a small town outside St. Petersburg, in what was then the Soviet Union. She was drawn to music as an infant and devoured the few jazz albums in her father's collection (especially those by Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington). She studied classical vocals as a teenager, but performed by night in local jazz and blues clubs before moving to St. Petersburg at 19 and forming her own blues band at 21. Soon afterward, Brown joined the Old Fashioned Blues Project, which took her from the local scene to a national one, touring all around Russia and into Ukraine for the next six years. In 2010, however, she quit the band to matriculate at the Saint-Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts, where she formally studied music theory and on her own dug deeper into jazz vocals. Soon she was performing as featured vocalist for a big band sponsored by Russia's Ministry of Internal Affairs. In 2013, Brown met her future husband Gary Brown when the American bassist was touring Russia with pianist Rebeca Mauleón. They struck up an acquaintance that ultimately led to the singer applying for a visa to study jazz in the United States. She first spent time in New York City before moving to the Bay Area in 2015 and establishing herself within its thriving jazz scene. She has worked as the featured vocalist with SFJAZZ's Monday Night Big Band and is a frequent performer at the region's top jazz venues. She also teaches the vocal technique developed by the Complete Vocal Institute in Denmark, which is based on the anatomy and physiology of the human body. Katerina Brown will be performing a CD release concert at the Sound Room in Oakland on Saturday 11/2 with a quintet composed of saxophonist Gary Meek, guitarist Ricardo Peixoto, pianist Dan Zemelman, bassist Gary Brown, and drummer Jason Lewis. Photography: Tanya Magnani Katerina Brown | The Making of "The Mirror" Katerina Brown | The Gate Web Site: katerinabrownmusic.com

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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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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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!