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I don't know. When is the NFL coming to NYC?!? ***** The Riders have hired Dave Dickinson's brother Chris to be their new head coach. https://3downnation.com/2019/01/25/riders-officially-announce-craig-dickenson-head-coach/ https://3downnation.com/2019/01/25/riders-to-name-craig-dickenson-head-coach/ https://3downnation.com/2019/01/25/craig-dickenson-signed-through-2021-as-riders-head-coach/ https://www.cfl.ca/2019/01/25/oleary-riders-act-quick-strategic-head-coaching-hire/ https://www.cfl.ca/2019/01/25/riders-promote-craig-dickenson-head-coach/ https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/riders-head-coach-craig-dickenson-1.4993024 ***** John Hufnagel has been elected to the Pennsylvania Sports Hall o0f Fame. https://www.cfl.ca/2019/01/24/stamps-gm-hufnagel-headed-pennsylvania-h-o-f/

I attended a clinic with Buddy DeFranco in Atlanta about 1990. He said that he was a very big fan of the Sauter-Finnegan band. Of course, there is no disputing taste.

1/23 checking down https://www.cfl.ca/2019/01/23/checking-benevides-mix-riders/ ***** The league's website ranks the Top 30 free agents. https://www.cfl.ca/2019/01/22/cfl-cas-top-30-pending-free-agents-3/ ***** The Als have hired Bob Slowick as their new DC. Slowick worked with Mike Sherman at Green Bay. He has no experience with Canadian football, except that he was a guest coach for the Als during last year's training camp. https://www.cfl.ca/2019/01/22/als-name-bob-slowik-defensive-coordinator/ https://3downnation.com/2019/01/22/hiring-a-cfl-newbie-as-dc-yet-another-risky-gamble-by-the-alouettes/

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Thanks Brad!

Tracklisting and Personnel Jamie Saft - Hammond Organ, Whitehall Organ, Baldwin Electric Hapsichord Steve Swallow - Electric Bass Bobby Previte - Drums 1. Re: Person I Knew 2. Dark Squares 3. Water From Breath 4. You Don’t Know The Life 5. Ode To A Green Frisbee 6. The Cloak 7. Stable Manifold 8. The Break Of The Flat Land 9. Moonlight In Vermont 10. Alfie Recorded January 2018 at Sear Sound, NY Recorded by Christian Castagno Mixed and Mastered by Christian Castagno in Minca, Colombia Art and Design by Steven Erdman Additional Layout assistance by Graham Schreiner Cat.No.: RNR0101 (CD) RNR0101LP (Gatefold Vinyl - GREEN - heavyweight) During January 2019: Pre-Order the whole 2019 RareNoise Release Schedule in advance of release at very advantageous conditions. Take a Leap Of Faith Share Tweet +1 Share Forward to Friend Copyright © 2019 RareNoise Ltd, All rights reserved. unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences Share Tweet +1 Share Forward to Friend Copyright © 2019 RareNoise Ltd, All rights reserved.

Yelena Eckemoff Presents A Journey through the Human Life Span On "Colors," Set for February 22 Release By Her L&H Production Imprint Pianist-Composer Renders the Stages of Life As Various Impressionistic Hues, In an Imaginative Duet Recording With Drummer Manu Katché Solo Piano Performance at Bop Stop, Cleveland, 2/27 & in Bremen, Germany, 4/25 January 18, 2019 Pianist-composer Yelena Eckemoffcasts her eye on the visible spectrum with Colors, her third album in just over a year, set for a February 22 release on her own L&H Production label. Accompanied only by the brilliant French drummer Manu Katché, Eckemoff creates musical impressions of 14 distinct hues, organizing them into a symbolic progression through the stages of life -- using a panoply of styles as diverse as the spectrum itself. Colors is both a popular title and subject in the jazz world, placing Eckemoff into a tradition that extends from Ellington's magnum opus "Black, Brown and Beige" to Miles Davis's late-period suite Aura. The Russian-born pianist's conception is unique, however. There is striking originality in its stylistic breadth, its intimate duet setting, and its panoramic view of the human life span -- which Eckemoff also maps with a series of free-verse poems that correspond to each color and composition. "Ultimately, everything is filtered through my inner feelings and expressed through melody and harmony, but this isn't about me," says Eckemoff. "I deliberately avoided any autobiographical references. It's about the average course of anyone's life." That course runs from the "White" of birth's blank slate to the "Black" of death's unknowable void. The path within this framework, however, deviates from the basic light-to-dark progression that it suggests. "White" is followed by "Pink," representing an infant's discovery and perception of the world; "Orange" is the burst of youthful energy; "Violet" is the thrill of first love. As the life matures, a more sophisticated palette comes into play: "Bordeaux" portrays a bottle of wine as a nuanced metaphor for an aging mind and body, while "Aquamarine" evokes the ocean, along with an array of associated memories and sentiments. Eckemoff's playing style similarly zigzags from point to disparate point, according to the moods and ideas expressed in each piece. Where "Indigo" is grim jazz-rock, "Blue" evolves from an exquisite lyrical ballad into a violent emotional storm, to be followed by the sultry but playful passions of "Red" and "Brown"'s whimsical waltz of inspiration. The range of ideas in the music is informed by Eckemoff's work with drummer Katché (above), whose remarkable individuality made him a natural fit for the project. "He's always searching for grooves, while my music is a combination of structured and improvisational approaches," she says. "This was exactly what I wanted-the groovy, spicy drums which would be a world in themselves and not merely following the piano." Yelena Eckemoff was born in Moscow, where she started playing by ear and composing music when she was four and attended Gnessins School for musically gifted children. During her teens she became devoted to rock music, even as she studied classical piano at Moscow State Conservatory. In her early twenties, her eclectic musical interests extended into jazz. The standard repertoire was her primary teacher, though she applied those lessons to the writing of new tunes. Eckemoff's witnessing of Dave Brubeck's 1987 concert in Moscow, however, changed her life, leading directly to the formation of her first band that "tried to play jazz." Playing jazz proved to be a difficult proposition, due both to the complexity of her compositions and to the repressive nature of the Soviet regime. On the latter issue, she devoted herself (at great personal cost) to obtaining a U.S. visa, finally doing so in 1991 and settling in North Carolina. The former was a matter of finding high-caliber musicians to play with, which she would also eventually achieve. Cold Sun, her 2010 debut jazz recording, featured the great Danish bassist Mads Vinding and the legendary American drummer Peter Erskine. By the time of 2018's Better Than Gold and Silver, she was able to attract an all-star lineup that included the likes of trumpeter Ralph Alessi, guitarist Ben Monder, bassist Drew Gress, and drummer Joey Baron. Then came Colors, and the chance to work with Katché -- at which she jumped, knowing the strength of their musical connection. "I felt the closeness of our souls," she says, "and thought that it would be a pleasant and exciting challenge to make this record with him." Yelena Eckemoff will perform a solo piano concert at the Bop Stop, 2920 Detroit Avenue, Cleveland, on Wednesday 2/27, and at KITO Vegesack, Bremen, Germany, on Thursday 4/25. Yelena Eckemoff COLORS album trailer Web Site: yelenamusic.com Video from the Colors recording session: https://youtu.be/xN2zQalHEgM

A favorite of mine in ninth grade was The Ventures' Nokie Edwards, who passed away March 12 at 82. RIP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokie_Edwards

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ECM Yonathan Avishai Joys and Solitudes Yonathan Avishai: piano Yoni Zelnik: double bass Donald Kontomanou: drums Release date: January 25, 2019 ECM 2611 B0029591-02 UPC: 6025 675 1624 8 Israeli-French pianist Yonathan Avishai has made important contributions to the music of Avishai Cohen, as documented on the ECM albums Into The Silence and Cross My Palm With Silver. In parallel, over the last five years, he has been developing his own project with the trio heard here, with Paris-based Israeli bassist Yoni Zelnik and Donald Kontomanou, French drummer of Guinean and Greek heritage. Sometimes known as the Modern Times Trio, the group re-examines shifting meanings of modernity in the course of its work. The new album opens with Duke Ellington’s “Mood Indigo”, a composition written in 1930, and for Yonathan still very much up-to-the-minute. “Ellington is a thoroughly modern pianist and composer,” he muses. “His way of telling a story with his playing influenced me, and ‘Mood Indigo’ is a song I’ve loved for a long time.” In the original pieces that follow, Avishai makes reference to a broad range of musics. Uniting the different inspirational sources is a feeling that Yonathan is digging deep for the essential in his playing and writing. Ornamentation is rigorously trimmed; not a note is wasted here. Old values like swing and blues feeling still apply in Avishai’s forward-looking concept. The music keeps dancing in the spaces between phrases. “I do feel very much rooted in the tradition. First of all I love history and the perspectives that study of it brings. And I’m interested in all of jazz history, from Louis Armstrong to Cecil Taylor and beyond.” Asked to define the moment when he recognized the characteristics of his own style he replies, “I think it has to do with recognizing the things that you can’t do. I’m not only talking about skills but understanding the contexts in which your own voice is most expressive. I saw at some point that I become more expressive with less notes. And when you listen to Lester Young or Louis Armstrong and you see how they can make you cry in eight bars….” It’s an economy to aspire to, he implies. Born in Tel Aviv, Yonathan Avishai spent his early years in Japan, where his father was studying. “My parents were people concerned with art and culture and exposed me to a great deal of it in Japan. I saw a lot of kabuki plays, for instance, and became a real fan. I feel the influence of this period stayed with me somehow, a sensitivity to a certain kind of aesthetics and energy – and although I don’t particularly like the word, a taste of ‘minimalism’ is part of my work, and perhaps that could be traced that back to kabuki.” Returning to Israel, Yonathan, as he puts it, “basically grew up alongside Avishai Cohen.” The pianist and trumpeter starting playing together at thirteen and have collaborated almost continuously ever since. “We went to the same school, lived in the same neighbourhood and went through very similar experiences in discovering jazz.” In Yonathan’s case, the process was a kind of backwards journey – reversing through hiphop, funk and fusion to the core of the tradition. His growing interest in jazz was supported by relatives in France, who would send cassette tapes to Israel: “Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington Trio, Count Basie, Bill Evans…Those were the first ones I heard and loved.” There was encouragement also from the Israeli jazz community. “The jazz scene in Israel is great. It’s a tiny country, so very far from the United States, but there is something going on in the music. We had great teachers, passionate and knowledgeable people.” In 2000, Yonathan relocated to France. Based for more than a decade in the Dordogne region of the south west, he moved closer to Paris a few years back, and promptly met up with Yoni Zelnik and Donald Kontomanou. “It was very quickly clear to me that I had the people I needed to go further with the music and this project.” Both players share Avishai’s open-minded creative approach. Drummer Kontomanou has latterly been playing in Laurent de Wilde’s New Monk Trio. Bassist Zelnik’s credits include work with the groups of pianist Florian Pellissier and drummer Fred Pasqua. He has also toured as a member of the Triveni trio with Avishai Cohen and Nasheet Waits. Pieces on Joys and Solitudes take their genesis from many different places. “Les pianos de Brazzaville”, for instance, recalls two journeys made by Yonathan Avishai to the Republic of the Congo in Central Africa. “Tango” is a creative response to hearing Dino Saluzzi and Anja Lechner’s album Ojos Negros. “I listened to that recording non-stop for a month. My piece wasn’t an attempt to write a tango, but to capture some of the colour and flavour of the playing.” “When Things Fall Apart”, borrowing its title from the book by American Buddhist writer Pema Chödrön, is inspired by the music of Avishai Cohen. “It’s actually a direct response to Avishai’s composition ‘Into The Silence’. Even though I’m part of Avishai’s band, and have participated in the shaping of the music, the way in which that piece develops is a little mysterious, and I like the emotional result. Many of the things I write are melodically simple, and often in 4/4, but with ‘When Things Fall Apart’ I wanted to experiment with a longer form, with spaces for improvising, as Avishai often does.” Joys and Solitudes was recorded at Lugano’s Auditiorio Stelio Molo RSI, in February 2018, and produced by Manfred Eicher. Further ECM recordings with Yonathan Avishai, including a duo album with Avishai Cohen, are in preparation. ECM Joe Lovano Trio Tapestry Joe Lovano: tenor saxophone, tarogato, gongs Marilyn Crispell: piano Carmen Castaldi: drums, percussion Release date: January 25, 2019 ECM 2615 B0029590-02 CD UPC: 6025 6796426 1 LP UPC: 6025 7736190 6 Joe Lovano on tour 2019 Jan. 27th Buffalo, NY **Albright-Knox Gallery Feb. 16th St. Catharines, ON Oscar Peterson Jazz Festival Feb. 19th – 23rd New York, NY Birdland (saxophone summit) Mar. 1st Tucson, AZ Crowder Hall, U of Arizona Mar. 8th Aliso Viejo, CA Soka University Mar. 10th Albuquerque, NM ** Outpost Performance Space Mar. 11th Santa Cruz, CA Kuumbwa Jazz Center Mar. 12th – 13th Seattle, WA ** Dimitriou’s Jazz Alley Mar. 14th – 17th San Francisco, CA ** SFJAZZ Miner Auditorium Apr. 13th Austin, TX Bates Recital Hall ** indicate Trio Tapestry performances Joe Lovano, widely acknowledged as one of the great tenor saxophonists of our time, has been a presence on ECM since 1981, appearing on key recordings with Paul Motian, Steve Kuhn, John Abercrombie and Marc Johnson. Trio Tapestry, introducing a new group with pianist Marilyn Crispell and drummer Carmen Castaldi is his first as a leader for the label. An album of focused intensity and expressive beauty, it features a program of eleven new compositions that Joe calls “some of the most intimate and personal music I’ve recorded so far.” The album, produced by Manfred Eicher at New York’s Sear Sound studio, draws upon Lovano’s history and development as a player who has addressed both jazz tradition and exploratory improvisation. “For me this recording is a statement of where I am, where I’ve been and where I may be headed.” In a performer’s note in the CD booklet he says of the recording, “The divine timing of interplay and interaction is magical. Trio Tapestry is a melodic, harmonic, rhythmic musical tapestry throughout, sustaining moods and atmospheres.” Each of the pieces here flowers from a melodic core informed by twelve-tone processes, a methodology Lovano came to appreciate through his long association with composer Gunter Schuller. “And working with Marilyn Crispell who also had lived in that world, having played a lot of contemporary composition and played extensively with Anthony Braxton and so on, we had a beautiful communication in that sound.” If the colors and textures of the music invoke a chamber music ambience, the players themselves “are deeply rooted in jazz, sounding out each other’s feelings in the improvising, and making music within the music. I brought in the material and had an idea of what I wanted to happen, but in terms of how we play together, there is a very equal weight of contribution. We harmonise in this music in a really special way.” Crispell and Lovano first crossed paths in the mid-1980s when the pianist was a member of Anthony Braxton’s quartet, with Gerry Hemingway and John Lindberg. “They happened to be recording in a studio next door to my loft in New York. We met then and stayed in touch.” Around 2006 Joe sat in with Marilyn’s trio with Mark Helias and Paul Motian for a night at the Village Vanguard, which led to a concert as a quartet at New York’s Miller Theater, playing compositions by all four musicians. “That was the first time I’d played a full concert with Marilyn.” The potential for further musical exploration was evident, fulfilled now by Trio Tapestry. Carmen Castaldi and Joe Lovano have played together since their teenage years in Cleveland, and moved to Boston together to attend Berklee in 1971. In the mid-70s when Joe relocated to New York, Carmen headed to the West Coast where he was based for the next couple of decades. Since his return to Ohio, cooperation between the two friends has intensified. Castaldi played on Joe’s Viva Caruso album on Blue Note and toured widely with Lovano’s Street Band, “playing a more ‘folk’ kind of music, with a different energy”, in a line-up including Judy Silvano, Gil Goldstein, Ed Schuller and Erik Friedlander. “Carmen is a wonderful free spirit on the drums, a total improviser, inspired by Paul Motian his whole life. I was really happy to have him on this recording, which is more than ‘a session’ for me. It incorporates a way of playing and interacting that Carmen and I have developed together over very many years.” Castaldi’s subtle drumming engages with the dialogues between saxophone and piano, detailing and adding commentary. A further textural element, augmenting the music’s sense of mystery, comes from Lovano’s use of gongs. “I started to develop that concept back in the 1980s, playing tenor saxophone and accompanying myself on gongs, having a mallet in my right hand to create different tonalities and different key centers from which to improvise.” Over the last fifteen years, the soulful cry of the Hungarian tarogato has also found a place in Lovano’s music. It seems to lend itself to solemn or yearning meditations. Joe played tarogato on “The Spiritual” on Steve Kuhn’s Mostly Coltrane, for example. On Trio Tapestry it is featured on “Mystic”, declaiming over rumbling percussion. Cecil Taylor once praised Marilyn Crispell for “spearheading a new lyricism” in creative music, and Lovano who hails the pianist for her “amazing sound, touch and vocabulary” is pleased to provide a context for her expressive voice here. Crispell, of course, has recorded for ECM for more than twenty years to date, with a discography that includes trio albums with Paul Motian and Gary Peacock (Nothing Ever Was, Anyway and Amaryllis), a duo album with Peacock (Azure), the solo piano album Vignettes, and more. Lovano’s ECM leader debut with Trio Tapestry follows more than two decades as a Blue Note recording artist, with numerous releases in formats from duo (with Hank Jones, for instance) to large ensemble (the Grammy-winning 52nd Street Themes).

This is odd. The Redblacks denied the Riders permission to interview Jaime Elizondo for the head coach position. And the Bombers denied the Riders permission to interview Paul LaPolice for the head coach position. https://3downnation.com/2019/01/19/riders-denied-permission-to-interverview-redblacks-elizondo-for-head-coach-job/ https://3downnation.com/2019/01/19/redblacks-act-selfishly-in-denying-riders-chance-to-interview-elizondo/ https://3downnation.com/2019/01/20/redblacks-did-nothing-wrong-by-preventing-riders-from-interviewing-elizondo/ https://3downnation.com/2019/01/20/riders-denied-permission-to-interview-bombers-paul-lapolice-for-head-coach-job/ https://3downnation.com/2019/01/20/what-denying-paul-lapolices-interview-with-the-riders-means-for-the-bombers/ ***** You may have noticed discussion of the refs' failure to call pass interference late in Sunday's NFC Championship Game. In the CFL, that play would have been reviewable. https://3downnation.com/2019/01/20/blown-call-in-the-nfc-championship-game-would-have-been-reviewable-in-the-cfl/

Whoa! Currently $26.92 prime. https://www.amazon.com/Monks-Dreams-Complete-Compositions-Thelonious/dp/B07HSLSQ7L

The Riders have replaced Chris Jones as VP of Football Operations and GM with Jeremy O'Day. https://www.cfl.ca/2019/01/18/riders-name-oday-gm-vp-football-ops/ https://3downnation.com/2019/01/18/riders-make-odays-hiring-official/ https://3downnation.com/2019/01/18/jeremy-oday-has-what-it-takes-to-be-successful-in-riderville/ https://3downnation.com/2019/01/18/jeremy-oday-is-the-right-choice-for-the-riders-but-it-wont-be-easy/

Ralph Alessi Imaginary Friends Ralph Alessi trumpet; Ravi Coltrane tenor and sopranino saxophones; Andy Milne piano; Drew Gress double bass; Mark Ferber drums Trumpeter Ralph Alessi’s first two ECM albums as a leader justly earned him high praise. Here the trumpeter fronts a longtime working quintet in its first recording since 2010 featuring kindred spirits Ravi Coltrane and Andy Milne and a stellar rhythm section. The nine Alessi compositions include an irresistible highlight in “Iram Issela,” with its rich seam of bittersweet melody and exceptional soloing by Coltrane setting the scene for an album of quicksilver beauty. LISTEN / BUY Mats Eilertsen And Then Comes The Night Harmen Fraanje piano; Mats Eilertsen double bass; Thomas Strønen drums Bassist Mats Eilertsen has been a distinctive presence on many ECM recordings and has long maintained several projects of his own, including this trio, now in its 10th year of existence. For this session “We came in with a number of compositional sketches and the intention to see what could be shaped from them”, says Mats. The result is an album of subtle group music, sidestepping many of the conventions of trio playing, in a recording that demands and rewards concentrated listening. LISTEN / BUY Yonathan Avishai Joys and Solitudes Yonathan Avishai piano; Yoni Zelnik double bass; Donald Kontomanou drums Over the last few years pianist Yonathan Avishai has played on the ECM recordings of trumpeter Avishai Cohen while developing his own project with the trio heard here. Opening with Duke Ellington, the album continues with a series of original pieces that reference a broad range of musics and experiences. Diverse influences are filtered through Yonathan’s tradition-conscious piano playing, alert to old values of blues feeling and swing yet also strikingly original in its decisiveness and concision. LISTEN / BUY Joe Lovano Trio Tapestry Joe Lovano tenor saxophone, tarogato, gongs; Marilyn Crispell piano; Carmen Castaldi drums, percussion The great saxophonist Joe Lovano has appeared on a number of ECM recordings over the last four decades, including much-loved albums with Paul Motian, Steve Kuhn and John Abercrombie. Trio Tapestry is his first as a leader for the label, introducing a wonderful new group and music of flowing lyricism, delicate texture, and inspired interplay. Lovano and pianist Marilyn Crispell are in accord at an advanced level inside its structures. “Marilyn has such a beautiful sound and touch and vocabulary,” Joe enthuses. Drummer Carmen Castaldi, a Lovano associate of long-standing, also responds to the trio environment with sensitivity, subtly embellishing and detailing the pieces. Lovano: “We play together like an orchestra, creating an amazing tapestry. I brought in the material, but there’s an equal weight of contribution, creating music within the music, and harmonizing it in a really special way.” Trio Tapestry was recorded at New York’s Sear Sound studio in March 2018, and produced by Manfred Eicher. LISTEN / BUY Joe Lovano 'Trio Tapestry’ - One Time In © *2018 ECM Records US, A Division of Verve Music Group. All rights reserved.

Jim, it looks like Canadians bet online. http://www.sportsbookbonus.ca/online-gambling-legal/ In 2001 I went to a sports bar in British Columbia, and they had the provincial government's keno game running non-stop.

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JC Sherritt has retired. https://3downnation.com/2019/01/16/longtime-eskimos-lb-j-c-sherritt-retires/ https://www.cfl.ca/2019/01/16/esks-linebacker-sherritt-retires-eight-seasons/ ***** Rod Pedersen is stepping down as the Riders' radio announcer. https://3downnation.com/2019/01/16/rod-pedersen-stepping-down-as-riders-play-by-play-man/ ***** Here is more on Chris Jones. https://3downnation.com/2019/01/16/seven-takeaways-from-the-chris-jones-exit-interview/ https://3downnation.com/2019/01/16/some-of-the-most-entertaining-social-media-reactions-to-chris-jones-departure/ ***** 1/16 checking down https://www.cfl.ca/2019/01/16/checking-rumours-swirl-riders-kick-off-coaching-search/

That's great, Dave!

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I learned something over the weekend regarding the Lambert, Hendricks & Ross 1961 recording, "Deck Us All with Boston Charlie, Walla Walla, Wash., and Kalamazoo." That line comes from Walt Kelly's Pogo strips of Dec. 22, 1948, and Dec. 22, 1949. Kelly is given co-author credit on the CD. https://www.amazon.com/Hipsters-Holiday-Vocal-Jazz-Classics/dp/B0000032QP/ https://www.amazon.com/Pogo-Complete-Sunday-Strips-Through/dp/1560978694/

Chris Jones is leaving the Riders to become an assistant coach with Cleveland. https://3downnation.com/2019/01/15/chris-jones-coaching-connections-leads-to-nfl-job/ https://3downnation.com/2019/01/15/riders-chris-jones-to-take-job-with-cleveland-browns-report/ https://www.cfl.ca/2019/01/15/report-chris-jones-leaving-cfl-take-nfl-job/ ***** PS - https://3downnation.com/2019/01/15/in-riderville-chaos-reigns-supreme-again/ https://3downnation.com/2019/01/15/president-craig-reynolds-and-the-riders-just-got-played-by-chris-jones/

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Wirecutter today has an update for its "best turntable for the casual listener." It likes the Audio Technica AT-LP120-USB and the Rega Planar 1. https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-turntable/

Every one of this year's games will again be carried by ESPN. At least 20 games are slated for ESPN/ESPN2, and at least 65 for ESPN+. https://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Journal/Issues/2019/01/14/Media/CFL-ESPN.aspx