GA Russell

Kevin, my contact has replied to your question: "She did some West Coast duo dates with Steve Wilson about two years ago, and I seem to recall that she's performed in Connecticut in the last couple of years - but mostly NYC metro area."

Rock singer Steve Perry has a new cd out this week called Traces. 10 songs. Amazon has it for $11.49 prime. https://www.amazon.com/Traces-Steve-Perry/dp/B07G1YKQ57/ Target is offering the same cd for the same price. But it is also offering its own exclusive cd with FIVE addition songs for $13.99. https://www.target.com/p/steve-perry-traces-target-exclusive/-/A-53930983 Target has for quite some time offered exclusive CDs with two extra tracks, but I've never seen Target or anyone else corner the market on an additional 50% of the album. Maybe this will be a way to get people to buy the physical product.

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Week 17 results Winnipeg 40....Ottawa 32 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2527/winnipeg-blue-bombers-vs-ottawa-redblacks/ https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/winnipeg-blue-bombers-ottawa-redblacks-1.4853109 ***** BC 26....Toronto 23 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2528/toronto-argonauts-vs-bc-lions/ https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/toronto-argonauts-bc-lions-1.4853499 James Franklin played the fourth quarter, and looked great. This was the Argos' 11th loss, so we can count them out. ***** Calgary 12....Montreal 6 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2529/calgary-stampeders-vs-montreal-alouettes/ https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/cfl-calgary-stampeders-montreal-alouettes-recap-oct-8-1.4854490 The Stamps clinched first place. The Als were eliminated from playoff contention. ***** Sask 19....Edmonton 12 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2530/edmonton-eskimos-vs-saskatchewan-roughriders/ https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/cfl-edmonton-saskatchewan-recap-oct-8-1.4854495 ***** Week 17 Plays of the Week https://www.cfl.ca/2018/10/09/willie-jeffersons-winning-pick-6-makes-top-spot-in-timber-mart-plays-of-the-week/

Kevin, I'll ask and find out.

November 8th at Mezzrow in NYC | November 9th at Deer Head Inn in Poconos Roberta Piket Trio with Todd Coolman bass Billy Mintz drums Roberta Piket piano, some vocals Thursday, Nov. 22nd Mezzrow 163 W 10th Street New York, NY 8pm - 10:30pm $20 cover charge Friday, Nov. 23rd Deer Head Inn 5 Main Street Delaware Water Gap, PA 7pm - 11pm $12 cover charge Other upcoming dates: Monday, November 26th mph: Mintz Piket Heinz at Quinn's Beacon, NY Billy Mintz drums Roberta Piket organ special guest from Austria: Roland Heinz guitar Saturday, Dec. 15 Roberta Piket: Solo Piano New Music Horizons at Flushing Town Hall Flushing, NY One Set at 7pm followed by Mark Wade Trio “It is a masterful album, a poignant and engaging reminder of how compelling small group interplay can be… The kind of album that maintains its exhilarating vibe throughout… Close your eyes… and you will be transported back to Bradley’s…” –Thomas Staudter, The (Ossining, NY) Gazette West Coast Trio features drum great Joe La Barbera, the wonderful bassist Darek Oleszkiewicz, plus special guest Larry Koonse on two tracks. It's an eclectic mix of standards and originals, and the closest Roberta has come to a pure "blowing" album in a while. For Immediate Release 2018 Downbeat Rising Star Award winner Roberta Piket will play piano on music from her two most recent CDs, West Coast Trio and One for Marian: Celebrating Marian McPartland. Also featured will be several of drummer Billy Mintz's compositions and a number of vocal renditions by Roberta, who has recently been delighting audiences with her direct, unpretentious singing style. Joining Roberta and Billy is the Grammy award-winning bassist Todd Coolman. December Dates with the Billy Mintz Quintet: Bushwick Publick House (12/17) Balboa, Brooklyn (12/19) Smalls Jazz Club, NYC (12/29) Roberta won the 2018 Downbeat Critics Poll Rising Star Award in the Organ Category, and placed 16th in the Rising Star Piano category For pictures and more info, contact Thirteenth Note Records or visit www.robertajazz.com Find me on social media and share jazz with your friends: ‌ ‌ Thirteenth Note Records | 751 Palisades Ave. #62, Teaneck, NJ 07666

This one is very nice. I've been listening to it a lot in the past week.

Speaking of the Spiderman theme, I have a Woody Shaw Muse recording of it.

I still remember one Sunday ca. 1960 when Al Capp began Lil Abner with "Lasagna's ended, but the malady lingers on."

I forgot about the Earle Hagen I Spy soundtrack. That's a good one, though again more jazzy than jazz. I bought the TV Mission: Impossible soundtrack CD from BMG, but never opened it up.

David, I have a compilation cassette of Nelson Riddle playing "Route 66 and Other TV Themes," but I'm not sure how many you would consider jazz. I also have a CD which combines the soundtracks of Mike Hammer and M Squad. These are "jazzy" but you might not consider them jazz.

I visited Wirecutter yesterday for the first time in quite a while, and they seemed to have changed their premise. Looking at turntables in the past, their reviews expressed to me the attitude, "This is a great buy for the price. And here is a big step up for only an extra hundred dollars." Yesterday, what I saw said to me, "This is decent enough for people who don't really care." Has anyone else noticed this?

I wonder why Willie left the "s" off his signature on that Bowman card.

I don't remember the Boston Braves, but I do remember the Chicago Cardinals! Bob Greene had a column in this morning's WSJ about the 1936-41 Bees. My dad from time to time would talk about them. Speaking of which, my dad saw Babe Ruth's last hit! Ruth was playing for the Braves, and he hit a double down the left field line.

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ECM Florian Weber Lucent Waters Ralph Alessi: trumpet Florian Weber: piano Linda May Han Oh: double bass Nasheet Waits: drums Release date: November 2, 2018 ECM 2593 B0029236-02 UPC: 6025 675 1588 3 Florian Weber’s second ECM appearance, following a critically-acclaimed duo recording (Alba, 2016) with Markus Stockhausen, finds the gifted German pianist leading a newly formed quartet through a program of his compositions. Openness is key here: whether paying tribute to mentor Lee Konitz on “Honestlee”, impressionistically conveying the glittering “Melody of a Waterfall”, or generating impactful outcomes from fragments of material on a conceptual piece like “Butterfly Effect”, the intention is to encourage fresh responses from the participants. “I see this album as a meeting of very independently-minded musicians,” says Weber. “It’s the first time I’ve had a band where what particularly interests me is the difference between the players and their approaches to improvising.” He cites the contrast between the soulful, grounded quality of Linda May Han Oh’s bass playing and Nasheet Waits’s fleet, free-flowing drums. “Linda and Nasheet are very different characters, but they balance each other in their exchanging of energies.” The Lucent Waters line-up marks a first collaboration between Weber and Waits, the drummer being recommended by producer Manfred Eicher for the project. “I liked very much Nasheet’s playing on Ralph Alessi’s ECM albums [Baida and Quiver], those are great recordings, so the idea resonated with me.” Linda May Han Oh and Florian Weber first worked together in trio with Lee Konitz a decade ago. “That was the beginning of a vivid exchange of ideas that has continued in other contexts. For myself, working with Lee night after night taught me what it really means to be spontaneous in the music.” There’s a difference, Weber suggests, between the contemporary emphasis on “self-expression” and “exploring what is actually there, implied in the material and in the interaction of the players.” Weber and Ralph Alessi have been in and out of each other’s groups for more than 15 years. Latterly, Weber’s been playing in Alessi’s trio with Dan White. “If I look at my career to date, I’ve mostly tried to play with people that I feel close to, that I understand where they’re coming from, emotionally.” Friends, of course, can still challenge each other: “Ralph always says that my writing and playing pushes him to play differently.” This is strikingly evident on “Fragile Coccoon”, where an initially gentle piece bursts open to feature the trumpet in a blazing admixture of lyricism and intensity, framed by Waits’ dramatically powerful drums. There are, says Weber, several factors influencing the pieces gathered here. “Pieces emerge, a lot of times, as a feeling or a perspective on some aspect of my life – in this case the twilight atmosphere of the touring musician’s world, and all the ups and downs of that. Then there’s the compositional aspect: I’m always trying to create or shape something which hasn’t, to my knowledge, been there before.” The degree of freedom given to the players differs from piece to piece. “On ‘Brilliant Waters’, for instance, I didn’t give them much more than the title: that’s a free, open piece, although we end organically on one note, which does sound composed. I did tell the group that I wanted the album to have a sense of narrative, with interconnecting links, of some kind. A motif that appears in one piece might recur in another piece, perhaps reversed. Atmospheric ideas return, two pieces may have a similar instrumental emphasis at certain points, or a soundscape may be similar. As a bandleader I think there’s a fine line between giving musicians too much information and not giving them enough: I wanted the musicians to make their own thing, too.” Nasheet Waits has the freest role in “Melody of a Waterfall”, which takes its inspiration partly from traditional Japanese drum ensembles: “I like the clarity and focus of that music, its stillness as well as its passion and energy. I find Japanese culture and its ideas fascinating and have tried to understand it – insofar as one can, as a westerner.” “From Cousteau’s Point Of View” references some recent diving experiences: “The changed three- dimensional perspectives and transparency are central to this tune. Musically it’s 3 against 7, both times going on at the same time, and you’re not sure which one you should follow. I like transparency, but too much of it can make the mystery disappear. And I also like the mystery, just as I like the things that are not said, and the notes not played.” “Honestlee”, dedicated to Lee Konitz (“every time I meet Lee I learn something new” says Florian), incorporates “some Lennie Tristano School ideas, but not Tristano-style playing. It explores some ideas he had about lines and counterpoint.” The piece also takes impetus from drawings which Karlheinz Stockhausen made at Darmstadt. “The drawings illustrate some polyphonic concepts. I looked at them and immediately wanted to write a tune. Wanting to dedicate something to Lee, the ideas converged. So we start with lines and then go into open mode.” Weber’s playing, exemplary throughout, is particularly affecting here. (Konitz, on hearing this recording, has said “Florian is one of the most creative piano players I have ever played with. His music is totally free. He has got the texture, the feeling, just beautiful. I am very touched by this music. It feels divine to me.”) * Born into a musical family in Detmold, Germany, in 1977, Florian Weber began playing piano at the age of four, and by the time he graduated high school was appearing with both jazz and classical ensembles. In Cologne he studied with Hans Ludemann and John Taylor, before heading to the USA and further studies with teachers including Paul Bley, JoAnne Brackeen, Danilo Pérez and Richie Beirach. In 2002 Weber founded Trio Mensarah with bassist Jeff Denson and drummer Ziv Ravitz. By 2006, Lee Konitz was playing with the group which subsequently formed the basis of his New Quartet, touring widely and recording a prizewinning album at New York’s Village Vanguard. In 2011 Weber founded the group Biosphere with guitarist Lionel Loueke, bassist Thomas Morgan and drummer Dan Weiss. Florian Weber also continues to play with trumpeter Markus Stockhausen. The intuitive music of their ECM album Alba was praised for its “natural warmth and character” by The Times of London. For further details, including upcoming dates, visit www.florianweber.net and www.ecmrecords.com * Lucent Waters was recorded at Studios La Buissonne in the South of France in September 2017 and produced by Manfred Eicher. ECM Andrew Cyrille Lebroba Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet Bill Frisell: guitar Andrew Cyrille: drums Release date: November 2, 2018 ECM 2589 B0029217-02 CD: 6025 677 5528 9 LP: 6025 770 5563 8 Andrew Cyrille’s 2016 release The Declaration of Musical Independence gave notice that one of the drumming innovators of new jazz had taken his conception of group playing to another level of development, and the space-conscious Lebroba, with Wadada Leo Smith and Bill Frisell, applies further fine-tuning. The album’s title is a contraction of Leland, Brooklyn and Baltimore, birthplaces of the protagonists of a recording which brings together three of creative music’s independent thinkers. Each of them made his first ECM appearance long ago. Drummer Andrew Cyrille appeared on Marion Brown’s Afternoon of a Georgia Faun in 1970, trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith on his own Divine Love in 1978, and guitarist Bill Frisell in 1979 on Eberhard Weber’s Fluid Rustle, with his leader debut In Line following in 1982; these are, of course, players of enduring influence. In recent seasons, Cyrille has been heard on Ben Monder’s Amorphae, Wadada has recorded with Vijay Iyer on A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke and Frisell has introduced a duo with Thomas Morgan on Small Town. Andrew Cyrille and Wadada Leo Smith first played together in the early 1970s in a period when some of the trailblazers of Chicago’s AACM were relocating to the New York region. In the late 1990s they came together again in the quartet of bassist John Lindberg. Their reunion in the Lebroba trio with this recording - made at New York’s Reservoir Studio - was suggested by the album’s producer, Sun Chung. Always a generous leader, Cyrille gives plenty of room to his cohorts, who also bring in compositions, with Wadada’s elegant four-part suite dedicated to Alice Coltrane unfurling slowly over its 17-minute duration. Written and open sections are interlaced, with a free role for the drums in the closing moments. “I didn’t want to play all the time,” Andrew explains. “I wanted to play rhythms with spaces between them, and to play melodically, in relation to what Wadada and Bill were doing…” Creative energies are pooled also on the spontaneously created “TGD”, credited to all three players, Reviews of Cyrille have often emphasised the elemental strength of his playing (“his energy is unflagging, his power absolute”, the All Music Guide notes). Yet even in contexts calling for unconditional drive – such as Cecil Taylor’s celebrated trio with Jimmy Lyons (of which Andrew was a member for more than a decade) – there always was a differentiated methodology at work in the drumming. Still, as Kevin Whitehead writes in the CD booklet, the release of The Declaration of Musical Independence in 2016 “took some listeners by surprise. There Andrew’s new elliptical style unfolded – a style, he says ‘where the meter is implied but not inferred’.” Bill Frisell contributed to the Declaration album, but Lebroba marks a first-time meeting for the guitarist and Wadada Leo Smith. “If there is a continuity of concept between the Declaration quartet and this trio,” says Cyrille in the liner notes, “the linchpin is Frisell. The music is different, but the concept is about the same. And then Wadada brings in his voice and his philosophy.” With no bass and no keyboards this time, the ensemble texture is more transparent than on Declaration and with Cyrille sometimes reducing his sound to a discontinuous groundswell, there are plenty of the charged silences and open spaces that Wadada Leo Smith loves to play into. Bill Frisell’s history includes extensive work with another bassless trio, Paul Motian’s trio with Joe Lovano. “Andrew does remind me of Paul in a way,” says Frisell. “People describe their playing as free or abstract and overlook the feel: the deep, deep beat coming from a deep, deep place.” Even unstated, its presence is felt on Lebroba, not least on Andrew’s tunes, the bluesy title piece, and the graceful ballad “Pretty Beauty”.

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Ches Smith / Craig Taborn / Mat Maneri Oct 3 Austin, TX (The North Door) Oct 4 Denver, CO (Dazzle) Oct 5 Vancouver, BC (The Western Front) Oct 6 San Diego, CA (Bread and Salt) Oct 7 Los Angeles, CA (Bluewhale) Mark Turner / Ethan Iverson Oct 10 Brooklyn, NY (Dazzle) Oct 11 Santa Cruz, CA (Kuumbwa) Oct 12 Los Angeles, CA (Bluewhale) Oct 14 Portland, OR (Old Church) Oct 15 Seattle, WA (Earshot Jazz Festival) Oct 18 New Orleans, LA (Snug Harbor) Timeless: John Abercrombie Tribute Concert Oct 10 Boston, MA (Berklee College of Music) Jakob Bro / Thomas Morgan / Joey Baron Oct 14 Winnipeg, MB (The Good Will Social Club) Oct 15 Minneapolis, MN (Icehouse) Oct 17 Chicago, IL (Constellation) Oct 18 Los Angeles, CA (Bluewhale) Oct 22 Baltimore, MD (An Die Musik Live!) Oct 23-24 New York, NY (Jazz Standard) Oct 25 Denver, CO (Dazzle) Oct 26 Tulsa, OK (Duet) Oct 27 Seattle, WA (Earshot Festival) Oct 28 Portland, OR (The Old Church) Vijay Iyer Sextet Oct 14 Kansas City, MO (Starlight Theatre) Oct 20 New York, NY (Miller Theater) Meredith Monk & Cellular Songs Ensemble Oct 4-6 Minneapolis, MN (McGuire Theater, The Walker) Oct 14-16 New York, NY (Le Poisson Rouge) Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin Oct 17 Los Angeles, CA (Bluewhale) ***Solo Piano Oct 19 Phoenix, AZ (Stillwell Pianos) Oct 20 Portland, OR (Jack London Revue) Oct 21 Winters, CA (The Palms Playhouse) Oct 24 Denver , CO (Dazzle) Oct 27 Chicago, IL (Constellation) Oct 28 Cleveland, OH (Bop Stop) Oct 29 Minneapolis, MN (Dakota Jazz) Oct 30 Boston, MA (Regattabar) Nov 1 New York, NY (Iridium) Art Ensemble of Chicago Oct 20 Ann Arbor, MI (Edgefest) Kim Kashkashian Oct 21 Boston, MA (Music for Food) © *2018 ECM Records US, A Division of Verve Music Group. All rights reserved.

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Bebop Alto Saxophonist Richie Cole Pays Tribute to a Lifelong Hero on "Cannonball," Set for Oct. 26 Release On Richie Cole Presents Recording Features 12 Adderley Staples, One Cole Original Performed by the Pittsburgh Alto Madness Orchestra Featuring Trombonist Reggie Watkins October 2, 2018 The alto madness of Richie Cole celebrates one of its chief inspirations with the October 26 release of Cannonball (Richie Cole Presents). An inveterate bebop stalwart, Cole leads the Pittsburgh Alto Madness Orchestra and several special guests in paying tribute to his hero, the legendary alto saxophonist Julian "Cannonball" Adderley. The album comprises a dozen tunes closely associated with Adderley (including his own "Sack o' Woe"), as well as a brand-new Cole original ("Bell of the Ball"). While Cole often uses ideas from Adderley's arrangements to formulate his own, no one could mistake either of the altoists for the other -- nor would the stubbornly individual Cole want them to. "I didn't try to play like Cannonball, I focused on how he tells a story," says Cole. "You have to tell stories if you're going to connect with an audience and there was no one better at that than him." The eight-piece ensemble, too, drawn from Cole's home base of Pittsburgh, is very different from Adderley's famous quintets. Cole's frontline partner on Cannonball is trombonist Reggie Watkins (pictured at left with Cole) -- a surrogate for cornetist Nat Adderley, his brother's longtime brass foil. Two more horns, tenor saxophonist Rick Mattand trumpeter J.D. Chaisson, join in for four of the album's 13 tracks. Guitarist Eric Susoeff, keyboardist Kevin Moore, bassist/producer Mark Perna, and drummer Vince Taglieri fill out the rhythm section. In taking on Adderley's repertoire, Cole finds ways to evoke his hero, though often with a twist. Where Nancy Wilson traditionally joined Adderley on "Save Your Love for Me," Cole brings in the vocalist Kenia, who sings his bossa nova arrangement in Portuguese. The altoist recreates Adderley's 1961 solo on "Toy," but not before letting Watkins have his uproarious way with the song. Meanwhile, a rendition of "Dat Dere" closely resembling the version on Adderley's 1960 album Them Dirty Blues is subverted with a newly devised arrangement for all four horns. "It's like where did this big band come from?" Cole says with a laugh. Cole keeps it tight on Cannonball; most of the tunes stay close to the five-minute mark. "I could stretch out and play my ass off," Cole says. "But then you lose the thread of the story, and the audience. . . . I want to play melodies that regular people, working people, can enjoy." L. to r.: Mark Perna, Richie Cole, Reggie Watkins. Richie Cole was born in 1948 in Trenton, New Jersey. His father, a big band enthusiast, ran a local jazz joint called the Harlem Club. Young Richie met any number of great jazz performers there, including Dizzy Gillespie, Art Blakey, and Freddie Hubbard, and at 10 took up alto saxophone on a horn someone had left at the club. He played in various school bands and, at 16, attended a music camp directed by alto legend Phil Woods (with whom he would record the 1980 fan favorite, Side by Side). He went on to study at Boston's Berklee School of Music, then continued his jazz education in the big bands of Buddy Rich, Lionel Hampton, and Doc Severinsen before forming his own bebop quintet. Unswayed by jazz-rock trends, Cole in the early '70s began a long association with the great vocalist Eddie Jefferson, with whom he worked until the vocalese innovator's 1979 death, recording among others the popular album Alto Madness. Cole thrived on '80s encounters with Sonny Stitt and Art Pepper and spread his alto madness with pianist Bobby Enriquez and saxophonist Boots Randolph. He turned out a flurry of albums through the '90s with his seven-man Alto Madness Orchestra. For years, Cole lived the life of a wanderer. Following a romantic breakup, he was talked into moving to Pittsburgh by his daughter Annie. "She had to drag me there kicking and screaming," he says. But as his song "I Have a Home in Pittsburgh" tells you, things have worked out well for him in the Iron City. "Pittsburgh is like an oasis, an island," Cole says. "There are fantastic musicians here." One of them -- bassist Mark Perna -- helped him create his own label, Richie Cole Presents, on which Cannonball is the sixth release. Cole and his musical partners will be celebrating the release of the new CD at Wallace's Whiskey Room and Kitchen in Pittsburgh, 7-9 pm on Friday 10/26. Photography: Aaron Jackendoff Richie Cole "Cannonball" - Album Trailer Web Site: markpernamusic.com/richie-cole

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On Tour Oct 17 Los Angeles, CA (Blue Whale) Oct 20 Portland, OR (Jack London Revue) Oct 21 Winters, CA (The Palms Playhouse) Oct 24 Denver, CO (Dazzle) Oct 27 Chicago, IL (Constellation) Oct 28 Cleveland, OH (Bop Stop) Oct 29 Minneapolis, MN (Dakota Jazz Club & Restaurant) Oct 30 Boston, MA (Regattabar) Nov 1 New York, NY (Iridium) New CD “Awase”, a term from martial arts, means “moving together” in the sense of matching energies, a fitting metaphor for the dynamic precision, tessellated grooves and balletic minimalism of Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin. Over the past years Ronin has become a subtly different band and Bärtsch speaks of a new-found freedom and flexibility in the approach to the material, with “greater transparency, more interaction, more joy in every performance”. CD / LP / DOWNLOAD / STREAMING © *2018 ECM Records US, A Division of Verve Music Group. All rights reserved.

RIP. Like Paul, I too think of Shoot the Piano Player. https://www.amazon.com/Shoot-Piano-Player-Criterion-Collection/dp/B000BC8SWO/ Years ago I picked up a CD called Jazznavour. I'll look for it tonight.