GA Russell

I am very pleased to report that Broom's tone is much more rich and full here than on some past recordings. Definitely one of my favorites of his.

Highly recommended! My only nit to pick is that nearly every song is taken at the same (quite upbeat) tempo. One of my contenders for Album of the Year.

Brittany Anjou Introduces Sweeping, Original Vision On "Enamiĝo Reciprokataj," Set for Feb. 15 Release by Origin Records Pianist-Composer's Debut Features Epic Five-Part Suite, Five Other Originals In a Trio with Bassist Greg Chudzik & Nicholas Anderson, Special Guests Ari Folman-Cohen & Ben Perowsky CD Release Shows at Royal Room, Seattle, 12/29; Le Poisson Rouge, NYC, 2/25 November 29, 2018 Pianist-composer Brittany Anjou blends the influences of a wide range of jazz and classical piano, and a fascination with the Esperanto language, on her stunning debut Enamiĝo Reciprokataj, set for a February 15 release on Origin Records. A trio album featuring bassist Greg Chudzik and drummer Nicholas Anderson (as well as two tracks with special guests, bassist Ari Folman-Cohen and drummer Ben Perowsky), it also includes 10 original compositions, highlighted by an eponymous five-part suite that showcases both Anjou's ambition and her originality. Enamiĝo Reciprokataj (pronounced En-ah-mee-joh Reh-sih-pro-kah-tye) translates into English as Reciprocal Love -- or, alternately, as Mutual Breakdown. "[It's] a double entendre about improvisation and the push/pull of relationships," Anjou writes. She also refers to multiple levels of relationships: "It represents the enigma improvisers face to spontaneously fall in love with their instrument/the sound/the situation/each other," she says. "And additionally, to convince an audience to fall in love with their love." If the concept sounds somewhat esoteric, the music itself is anything but. The album's bookend tracks, "Starlight" and its reprise "Reciproka Elektra," alternate instantly compelling, electronically processed washes with warm and confidently swinging piano-trio melodies. Each of the suite's five parts comprises an expressive, hook-filled tune and improvisation set to a joyful dance of a rhythm, from the whirlwind "Reciprokataj I: Cyrene (Flight of the Butterfly)" to the 5/4 bounce of "Reciprokataj IV: Olive You." Even the grim determination Anjou presents on "Reciprokataj V: Flowery Distress" is offset by Folman-Cohen and Perowsky's irrepressibility. The album also honors Anjou's most important pianistic influences. Her phrasing and chord voicings channel the respective spirits of Oscar Peterson and Red Garland; in addition, she separates the parts of the suite with songs that directly pay tribute to favorites Ahmad Jamal ("Snuffaluffagas") and McCoy Tyner ("Hard Boiled Soup"). "All of the music celebrates my love affair with great jazz pianists," she says. Anjou's use of Esperanto is not incidental: With Enamiĝo Reciprokataj, she begins a planned trilogy of albums based on the concepts and structures of world languages. (The next two installments will center on Dagara and Arabic, respectively.) "To me, Esperanto is a romance," she says. "The language mirrors jazz improvisation . . . . Jazz and Esperanto are both contemporary languages of the last century, and both promote intercultural dialogue, democracy, and self-expression." Brittany Anjou was born in 1984 in Minot, North Dakota, moving to Seattle as a very young child. Her mother was a pianist, flutist, and music teacher, and Brittany began playing piano herself at age five. Her mother also played a lot of jazz recordings around the house, and at 12, hearing a solo by the Panamanian pianist Danilo Perez, Brittany was inspired to begin studying jazz. As a high school student, she joined and toured with Seattle's Roosevelt High School Jazz Band, meeting and performing with Wynton Marsalis in New York. Attending the Stanford Jazz Workshop at 16, she worked with Clark Terry, who became her idol. It was around that same time that Anjou began composing -- including much of the material that eventually became Enamiĝo Reciprokataj. Arriving in New York to study music at NYU, Anjou studied with Stefon Harris, Tony Moreno, and Sherrie Maricle, as well as with Jason Moran and Vijay Iyer at School for Improvised Music. She also studied classical music in Prague with composer Milan Slavický, and West African gyil music in Ghana with master player Bernard Woma and his protegees. She has since performed in 13 countries on three continents with a number of ensembles including the New York Arabic Orchestra, the Shaggs, Bi TYRANT, and the LARCENY Chamber Orchestra (founding and leading the latter two). Anjou began performing selections from Enamiĝo Reciprokataj while living in Prague in 2005 and continued honing it thereafter, including in a well-received performance with Bi TYRANT at New York's Zinc Bar during the 2018 Winter Jazz Festival. In the fall of 2018, she returned to Kuwait to teach piano and jazz ensembles as part of a nine-month residency at the Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Cultural Center opera house, in an experimental music program, the first of its kind in the country. Brittany Anjou will perform CD release concerts at the Royal Room, 5000 Rainier Ave S, Seattle, on Sat. 12/29, with Evan Flory-Barnes, b, and Matt Jorgensen, d, plus special guests Rose Rutledge, ss/fl, and Johnny Butler, ts, among others; at Threes Brewing, 333 Douglass Street, Brooklyn, on Mon. 1/7, with Greg Chudzik, b. and Shirazette Tinnin, d.; and at Le Poisson Rouge, 158 Bleecker Street, NYC, on Mon. 2/25, with Chudzik and Tinnin. Anjou will also be playing with the Women in Jazz Organization collective at Jazzahead (Schwankhalle), Bremen, Germany on Sat. 4/27. Photography: Jeff Chase Brittany Anjou - Enamiĝo Reciprokataj (Origin Records) - album video EPK Web Site: brittanyanjou.com

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Kevin, it's interesting that you say that. I think of the cue as protecting the needle, not the record!

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Art Ensemble of Chicago: Nice Guys (1978), Full Force, (1980), Urban Bushmen (2 CD, 1980), The Third Decade (1984) Leo Smith: Divine Love (1978) Lester Bowie: The Great Pretender (1981), All The Magic (2 CD, 1982), I Only Have Eyes for You (1985), Avant Pop (1986), Tribute to Lester (2001), Roscoe Mitchell & The Note Factory: Nine To Get Ready (1997), Transatlantic Art Ensemble/Mitchell: Composition/Improvisation 1, 2 and 3 (2004), Transatlantic Art Ensemble/Parker: Boustrophedon (2004), Roscoe Mitchell & The Note Factory: Far Side (2007), Roscoe Mitchell: Bells for the South Side (2 CD, 2015) Jack DeJohnette’s New Directions (w Lester Bowie) (1978), Jack DeJohnette’s New Directions: In Europe (w Lester Bowie) (1979), Jack DeJohnette: Made In Chicago (w Mitchell, Abrams, Threadgill) (2013) LISTEN / BUY © *2018 ECM Records US, A Division of Verve Music Group. All rights reserved.

I think I saw that that Browns losing streak was the second longest in league history.

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Calgary 27....Ottawa 16 So the winner is the person who picked the closest to Calgary - 43, and that is BClugston with Calgary - 45!!! Congratulations Brendan! Please PM me your address, and I'll order your gift card immediately. Brendan, if you prefer, I will purchase for you an Amazon Canada gift card for the amount equivalent to $17 plus international postage. Let me know!

Last call! The deadline to play is 6:00 pm eastern. I'm going across the street now to a sports bar where I have a table and TV screen reserved. Everyone is welcome to post comments during the game. Good luck everyone!

Joe, would you therefore recommend against buying a new Cambridge CD player?

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ECM Preview for early 2019 titles Joe Lovano - Trio Tapestry - January 25th Joe Lovano: tenor saxophone, tarogato, gongs; Marilyn Crispell: piano Carmen Castaldi: drums, percussion The great saxophonist Joe Lovano makes his leader debut here, 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. 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.” Save the date: Trio Tapestry to play January 27th at the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo NY subsequent touring will be announced soon. Ralph Alessi - Imaginary Friends - February 1st 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 the highest praise of his career thus far. 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 a career 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. Save the date : Ralph Alessi will bring this music to the ECM Winter Jazzfest stage at le poisson rouge on January 11th. Yonathan Avishai – Joys and Solitudes - January 25th 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. Mats Eilertsen Trio - And Then Comes The Night – February 1st 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.

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lipi, I read that many years ago when I lived in Atlanta, very likely in the Atlanta Journal & Constitution.

Jim, the author only hints at the end of her piece of a major issue. Southern wheat spoils relatively quickly. Or to look at it from the other direction, northern wheat has a longer shelf life. Today that means nothing. But 200 years ago it meant everything. It was pointless to ship the southern wheat up north because it would go bad before it could be used. Today we are capable of transporting and enjoying southern wheat throughout the country, but the Yankees don't know better! By the way, how's the poutine in Texas?

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I had Paul Secor down at Ottawa with 45, but now I don't see it. Paul, did you delete your pick? Mods, is something up?

More from the CFL Awards... https://www.cfl.ca/2018/11/22/lewis-ward-takes-home-outstanding-rookie-honours/ https://www.cfl.ca/2018/11/22/adam-bighill-named-outstanding-defensive-player/ https://www.cfl.ca/2018/11/22/chris-jones-named-cfl-coach-year/ http://3downnation.com/2018/11/22/riders-chris-jones-captures-cfls-coach-of-the-year-honour/ https://www.cfl.ca/2018/11/22/brad-sinopoli-earns-outstanding-canadian-honours/ ***** Randy Ambrosie gave his State of the League address today. https://www.cfl.ca/live/2018/11/20/106gc-live-state-league-media/ https://www.cfl.ca/2018/11/23/oleary-ambrosie-speaks-present-maps-future-annual-address/ http://138.197.137.206/2018/11/23/eight-things-need-know-randy-ambrosies-state-league-address/ http://3downnation.com/2018/11/23/learned-fan-state-league/ https://www.tsn.ca/talent/looming-wave-of-challenges-opportunities-will-test-ambrosie-s-leadership-1.1214576

And the winners are... Bo Levi Mitchell Adam Bighill Brad Sinopoli Stanley Bryant Lewis Ward Lewis Ward Chris Jones https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/cfl-awards-recap-1.4917486 https://www.cfl.ca/2018/11/22/analysis-recapping-the-cfl-awards-presented-by-shaw/