GA Russell

Audio-Technica AT-LP60BK-BT Fully Automatic Wireless Belt-Drive Stereo Turntable (Bluetooth & Analog), Black - $119.00 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01BE5CT8U ***** Sony UBP-X700 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Player (2018 Model) - $148.00 https://www.amazon.com/Sony-UBP-X700-Ultra-Blu-ray-Player/dp/B078HXF9H2

Finals Plays of the Week https://www.cfl.ca/2018/11/19/eric-rogers-comes-up-big-late-to-grab-spot-in-timber-mart-plays-of-the-week/

Vijay Iyer Sextet Nov 30 - Dec 1 New Orleans, LA Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans (Sextet)

An extraordinary 2006 solo performance recorded at the Gran Teatro La Fenice in Venice. From the first flurry of notes, it is a consistently captivating journey. OUT NOW. CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE THE DIGITAL ALBUM AND RECEIVE A LIMITED EDITION PRINT OF THE ALBUM ARTWORK. $11.99 Copyright © 2018 ECM Records, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: ECM Records 1755 Broadway 3rd Fl ECM Records New York, NY 10019-3743 Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet; Bill Frisell: guitar; Andrew Cyrille: drums Lebroba featuring Andrew Cyrille, Bill Frisell and Wadada Leo Smith brings together three of creative music’s independent thinkers, players of enduring influence. A generous leader, Cyrille gives plenty of room to his cohorts, and all three musicians bring in compositions. In his own pieces Cyrille rarely puts the focus on the drums, preferring to play melodically and interactively, sensitive to pitch and to space - his priority today is an elliptical style in which meter is implied rather than stated. FOR A CD WITH AUTOGRAPHED BOOKLET CLICK HERE Ralph Alessi: trumpet; Florian Weber: piano; Linda May Han Oh: double bass; Nasheet Waits: drums Weber leads a strong cast through a program of compositions and sketches.  Whether paying tribute to mentor Lee Konitz on “Honestlee”, impressionistically conveying the glittering “Melody of a Waterfall” or generating impactful drama out of fragments of sound on “Butterfly Effect”, Weber continually draws fresh responses from his players. The strong, grounded bass contrasts strikingly with fleet, fluid drumming, setting up new contexts for elegantly inventive trumpet and creative piano playing.  © *2018 ECM Records US, A Division of Verve Music Group. All rights reserved. ….The mood of her interpretation is searching, earthbound, human—she doesn’t treat solo Bach like divine math out of reach of mortal understanding. Her tone is sumptuous, moaning, throaty, with a catch of ache snagged in the instrument’s midrange. Her phrasing in the Préludes always seems to be worrying away at a nagging question—you can feel urgency in the way she presses up against her own tempo slightly in the Prelude to the D Minor suite. Her Bach is furrowed-brow Bach, crisis-of-faith Bach, toiling Bach. Her instrument has never sounded lovelier or humbler than it does here.” - Jayson Greene, Pitchfork The poetry and radiance of Bach’s cello suites are transfigured in these remarkable interpretations by Kim Kashkashian on viola, offering “a different kind of somberness, a different kind of dazzlement” as annotator Paul Griffiths observes. One of the most compelling performers of classical and new music, Grammy-winning Kashkashian is hailed as "an artist who combines a probing, restless musical intellect with enormous beauty of tone”, and she brings to Bach revelatory commitment and intensity. LISTEN / BUY © *2018 ECM Records US, A Division of Verve Music Group. All rights reserved. Jörg Widmann Arche Marlis Petersen: soprano; Thomas E. Bauer: baritone; Gabriel Böer: boy soprano; Jonna Plathe, Baris Özden: narrators; Iveta Apkalna: organ Chor der Hamburgischen Staatsoper / Audi Jugendchorakademie / Hamburger Alsterspatzen / Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg / Kent Nagano conductor Arche, an Oratorio for soloists, choirs, organ and orchestra, is a compendious work embracing the course of history in the west with a collaged libretto drawing upon a range of writers. Widmann looks at the tradition of the oratorio and transforms it, and Kent Nagano directs the massed musical forces with aplomb in this concert recording from the premiere performance. As the liner notes say, “Everything happens at once, everything interlocks. Every moment transports us into another world.” LISTEN / BUY Stefano Scodanibbio Alisei Daniele Roccato: double bass; Ludus Gravis Ensemble; Tonino Battista: conductor Stefano Scodanibbio (1956-2012) created extraordinary music for double bass. Alisei (Trade Winds) features his compositions for solo bass, for two basses, and for bass ensemble, two of which are world premiere recordings, including Otetto which can be seen as Scodannibbio’s great spiritual legacy. The pieces are an often breathtaking compendium of extended techniques that he invented or developed throughout his life and which challenge the musicians to push virtuosity to its limits. LISTEN / BUY Dénes Várjon De la nuit Schumann, Ravel, Bartók Dénes Várjon: piano “Negotiating dynamic shifts of emphasis,” The Independent has noted,”Dénes Várjon displays that most valuable of gifts: the ability to play in a way which makes you listen anew to the familiar.” This capacity is to the fore here in the Hungarian pianist’s sensitive exploration of Schumann, Ravel, Bartók, a journey through three worlds of poetic imagination which, as Jürg Stenzl writes in the liner notes, “ require pianists for whom transcendent virtuosity is second nature. ” LISTEN / BUY © *2018 ECM Records US, A Division of Verve Music Group. All rights reserved.

Finals results Ottawa 46....Hamilton 27 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2549/hamilton-tiger-cats-vs-ottawa-redblacks/ https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/cfl-east-final-hamilton-ottawa-recap-nov-18-1.4910832 http://3downnation.com/2018/11/19/harris-mop-performance-punches-ottawas-grey-cup-ticket-13-thoughts-beating-ticats/ http://3downnation.com/2018/11/19/milton-ticats-not-even-close-east-final-loss-redblacks/ http://3downnation.com/2018/11/19/ticats-come-well-short-eastern-final-loss-redblacks/ Trevor Harris set a playoff record with 6 touchdown passes. ***** Calgary 22....Winnipeg 14 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2550/winnipeg-blue-bombers-vs-calgary-stampeders/ https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/cfl-west-final-calgary-winnipeg-recap-nov-18-1.4910840 http://3downnation.com/2018/11/18/bombers-grey-cup-drought-reaches-28-years-11-thoughts/ Calgary's D-line was consistently better than Winnipeg's O-line. Eric Rogers caught 3 touchdown passes.

Today is the birthday of both Warren Moon (1956) and JC Watts (1957)! ***** last Finals picks http://3downnation.com/2018/11/17/cfl-picks-wants-go-big-dance/ http://3downnation.com/2018/11/18/slam-dunk-picks-division-final-road-dogs-are-due/ https://thegruelingtruth.net/football/cfl/cfldivisionalfinalspreviewsandpredictions/ ***** Finals previews http://3downnation.com/2018/11/17/what-the-redblacks-have-to-do-to-beat-the-ticats/ https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/cfl-east-west-final-previews-1.4910148 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2549/hamilton-tiger-cats-vs-ottawa-redblacks/#/preview https://www.cfl.ca/games/2550/winnipeg-blue-bombers-vs-calgary-stampeders/#/preview ***** The league is adding an additional official on the field merely to look for blows to the head ("headshots"). http://138.197.137.206/2018/11/15/cfl-adding-official-just-watch-headshots-division-finals-grey-cup/

Jim, the reviews say that the thing is fantastic.

Let's start a thread for when something good goes on sale. Tivoli Audio Model One M1CLA AM / FM Table Radio, Classic / Walnut - $83.32 https://www.amazon.com/Tivoli-Audio-M1CLA-Classic-Walnut/dp/B00006I5WK ***** Sony SSCS5 3-Way 3-Driver Bookshelf Speaker System (Black) (a pair, apparently) - $73.00 https://www.amazon.com/Sony-SSCS5-3-Driver-Bookshelf-Speaker/dp/B00O8YLMVA

Argos season recap https://lastwordonsports.com/2018/11/10/toronto-argonauts-2018-season-recap/ ***** Awards picks https://lastwordonsports.com/2018/11/15/lwos-cfl-award-winners/ ***** Redblacks season recap http://3downnation.com/2018/11/16/seven-takeaways-redblacks-regular-season/

more Finals picks https://www.cfl.ca/2018/11/16/prediction-time-cfl-ca-writers-make-divisional-final-picks/

I remember ca. 1970 when Nils Lofgren and his group Grin were based in DC.

Kenny Ladler has signed with the New York Giants. http://3downnation.com/2018/11/14/new-york-giants-sign-former-eskimos-defender-kenny-ladler/ ***** Josh Smith ranks the likeability of the six playoff teams. http://3downnation.com/2018/11/10/likability-rankings-six-2018-cfl-playoff-teams/ ***** Simeon Rottier came out of retirement to sign with the Riders. http://3downnation.com/2018/11/05/riders-sign-canadian-ol-simeon-rottier/ ***** John Hodge suggests six awards that don't exist. http://3downnation.com/2018/11/02/six-cfl-awards-thing-win-year/ ***** The current collective bargaining agreement expires May 15. Players will not receive any signing bonuses prior to then. http://3downnation.com/2018/11/01/ambrosie-confirms-players-wont-be-getting-off-season-bonuses/ ***** more Finals picks https://cflpowerrankings.wordpress.com/2018/11/15/preview-east-final-ham-ott/ https://cflpowerrankings.wordpress.com/2018/11/15/preview-west-final-wpg-cgy/ ***** Finals checking down https://www.cfl.ca/2018/11/15/checking-bighill-ready-go-western-final/

early Finals picks https://www.cfl.ca/2018/11/14/weekly-predictor-another-ground-win-making/

Dan, you (of all people) I would expect to know that the Globe is now owned by the owner of the Red Sox!

Unless there are two economists with that name, our Guy Berger was mentioned and indirectly quoted in a New York Times article which was printed in Sunday's News & Observer! http://digital.olivesoftware.com/Olive/ODN/NewsAndObserver/?olv-cache-ver=20181018023310

Semi-Finals Plays of the Week https://www.cfl.ca/2018/11/12/luke-tasker-spins-his-way-to-the-top-of-timber-mart-plays-of-the-week/

I got lucky! Today the price is $73.55.

Thanks, guys! I placed the order. These will not be for me, but for my nephew's family for Christmas.

last picks http://3downnation.com/2018/11/11/cfl-playoff-picks-definition-must-win/ ***** Semi-Finals game notes https://www.cfl.ca/2018/11/10/cfl-ca-game-notes-look-division-semi-finals-2/ ***** Semi-Finals results Hamilton 48....BC 8 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2547/bc-lions-vs-hamilton-tiger-cats/ https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/tiger-cats-lions-cfl-east-semifinal-recap-1.4901353 http://3downnation.com/2018/11/11/edwards-ticats-smash-b-c-off-turnbuckle-east-semi-win/ I thought that the Lions had a good chance to reach the Grey Cup game! Instead, the Ticats started the game with three quick touchdowns, and never looked back. ***** Winnipeg 23....Saskatchewan 18 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2548/winnipeg-blue-bombers-vs-saskatchewan-roughriders/ https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/winnipeg-blue-bombers-saskatchewan-roughriders-west-semifinal-1.4901146 http://3downnation.com/2018/11/11/karma-bitch-eleven-thoughts-bombers-semi-final-win-riders/ http://3downnation.com/2018/11/11/gasson-bombers-beat-riders-game-west-semifinal/ Zach Collaros didn't play. Apparently he continues to suffer from the head shot he took last week. The final score flatters the Riders. https://www.cfl.ca/2018/11/10/report-collaros-ruled-western-semi/

Amazon is having a sale on small Polk bookshelf speakers, two for $49. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002RJLHB8/ Any thoughts? Are the one-star reviews more credible than the five-star reviews?

more picks https://www.cfl.ca/2018/11/09/prediction-time-cfl-ca-writers-make-semi-final-picks-2/ https://cflpowerrankings.wordpress.com/2018/11/08/preview-west-semi-final-wpg-ssk/ https://cflpowerrankings.wordpress.com/2018/11/08/preview-east-semi-final-bc-ham/ ***** more power rankings https://thegruelingtruth.net/football/cfl-power-rankings-headed-into-the-playoffs/

His re-election signs merely said "Nookie."

The league has announced the finalists for the CFL Awards. https://www.cfl.ca/2018/11/08/simply-best-shaw-cfl-award-nominees-announced-2/ http://3downnation.com/2018/11/08/masoli-mitchell-go-head-head-cfls-top-player-award/ My picks are... Player - Bo Levi Mitchell Defensive Player - Adam Bighill Canadian - Andrew Harris OL - Stanley Bryant Special Teams - Lewis Ward Rookie - Lewis Ward Coach - Chris Jones ***** Semi-Finals checking down https://www.cfl.ca/2018/11/08/checking-systems-go-breaux-show/ ***** Edmonton will bring back Jason Maas. Montreal will bring back both Kavis Reed and Phil Sherman. https://www.cfl.ca/2018/11/08/esks-officially-retain-maas-announce-staff-changes/ https://www.cfl.ca/2018/11/08/maas-going-go-forward-coach-team/ http://3downnation.com/2018/11/08/35039/ https://www.cfl.ca/2018/11/08/sherman-reed-part-alouettes-2019-plans/ http://3downnation.com/2018/11/08/gm-kavis-reed-coach-mike-sherman-return-alouettes-next-season/

Neal, do you remember a sheriff from fifty years ago named Nookie Diaz?

The Halifax people announced that they are commencing their season ticket drive. http://3downnation.com/2018/11/06/season-ticket-drive-halifax-premature-economist/ https://www.cfl.ca/2018/11/07/maritime-football-ltd-announces-season-ticket-drive-potential-team/ http://3downnation.com/2018/11/07/halifax-group-launches-season-ticket-drive-potential-cfl-franchise/ ***** The league announced the 2018 divisional all-star teams. https://www.cfl.ca/2018/11/07/star-power-2018-cfl-divisional-stars-announced/ http://3downnation.com/2018/11/07/jeremiah-masoli-beats-trevor-harris-division-stars-named/ ***** Semi-Finals picks https://www.cfl.ca/2018/11/07/weekly-predictor-riders-edge-heated-rivalry/ ***** BC's David Foucault has something to say to sophisticated fans like Jim Sangrey and Joe Medjuk. https://www.cfl.ca/2018/11/06/10-questions-david-foucault-des-lions-de-la-colombie-britannique/ ***** Josh Smith looks at potential Grey Cup pairings. http://3downnation.com/2018/11/07/ian-busby-memorial-grey-cup-matchup-rankings/ ***** And here's a discussion regarding who at this point should be the favorite to win the Grey Cup. https://www.cfl.ca/2018/11/07/weekly-say-grey-cup-favourite/