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Keith Jarrett: piano This recording of Keith Jarrett’s extraordinary 2006 solo performance at Gran Teatro La Fenice in Venice finds Jarrett entering one of Italy’s most famous classical venues and channeling the flow of inspiration to shape something new. In this case, a suite of eight spontaneously created pieces referencing everything from the blues to atonality to heart-rending ballads. From the first flurry of notes, it is a consistently captivating journey. Release of La Fenice is timely: The 62nd International Festival of Contemporary Music of the ‘Biennale di Venezia’ has honored Keith Jarrett with its Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. It’s the first time that a “jazz” musician has received this award. LISTEN / PRE-ORDER © *2018 ECM Records US, A Division of Verve Music Group. All rights reserved. LISTEN / PRE-ORDER For its third ECM release, the prize-winning Danish String Quartet – hailed by the Washington Post as “one of the best quartets before the public today” and as simply “terrific” by The Guardian – inaugurates a series of five albums with the overarching title of Prism, in which the group will present one of Beethoven’s late string quartets in the context of a related fugue by J.S. Bach as well as a linked masterwork from the modern quartet literature. With Prism 1, it’s the first of Beethoven’s late quartets, his grandly life-affirming Op. 127 in E-flat Major, alongside Bach’s luminous fugue in the same key (arranged by Mozart) and Dmitri Shostakovich’s final string quartet, the No. 15 in E-flat minor, a haunted and haunting sequence of six adagios. “A beam of music is split through Beethoven’s prism,” explains DSQ violist Asbjørn Nørgaard in the ensemble’s prefatory note to the Prism series. “Inevitably, we base our work on what we know, as individuals and as a group, but the important thing to us as musicians is that these connections be experienced widely on an intuitive level. We hope the listener will join us in the wonder of these beams of music that travel all the way from Bach through Beethoven as far as to our own times.” In Concert November 3 Kingston, ON (Queen's University) November 4 Toronto, ON (Royal Conservatory of Music) November 5 Quebec City, QC (Club Musical de Quebec) November 8 Richmond, VA (University of Richmond) November 9 Winston-Salem, NC (Wake Forest University) November 10 Durham, NC (Duke University) November 12 Washington, DC (Washington Performing Arts) November 13 Houston, TX (Da Camera Houston) November 14 Indianapolis, IN (Ensemble Music Society) November 15 Ann Arbor, MI (University Musical Society) November 17 New York, NY (92Y) November 18 Rockport, MA (Rockport Chamber Music Festival) © *2018 ECM Records US, A Division of Verve Music Group. All rights reserved.

Week 16 results Calgary 38....Toronto 16 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2523/toronto-argonauts-vs-calgary-stampeders/ https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/cfl-argos-stampeders-september-28-recap-1.4843644 The Stampeders become the first team to clinch a playoff spot. ***** Hamilton 40....BC 10 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2524/bc-lions-vs-hamilton-tiger-cats/ https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/bc-lions-hamilton-tiger-cats-recap-1.4844275 ***** Winnipeg 30....Edmonton 3 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2525/winnipeg-blue-bombers-vs-edmonton-eskimos/ https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/winnipeg-blue-bombers-edmonton-eskimos-recap-1.4844404 And this was in Edmonton! I can't figure the Eskimos out. Winnipeg, Edmonton and BC are now tied with 7 losses each. https://www.cfl.ca/standings/ ***** Sask 34....Montreal 29 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2526/saskatchewan-roughriders-vs-montreal-alouettes/ https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/saskatchewan-roughriders-montreal-alouettes-1.4844742 This was the Als' 11th loss. It has not been uncommon for an 8-10 team to make the playoffs, but I don't recall a 7-11 club doing so. Manziel finally threw his first touchdown pass. https://www.cbc.ca/sports/johnny-manziel-throws-1st-cfl-touchdown-on-reverse-flea-flicker-1.4844735

There has been an unusual number of serious injuries this month, particularly for receivers. I'll quickly go down the list, and let you judge how this affects the race. Jalen Saunders - out for the year http://3downnation.com/2018/09/05/ticats-jalen-saunders-likely-season/ http://3downnation.com/2018/09/06/ticats-jalen-saunders-done-season-torn-acl/ http://3downnation.com/2018/09/09/after-injuries-to-williams-and-saunders-ticats-sign-marquay-mcdaniel/ Derel Walker - 6 - 8 weeks http://3downnation.com/2018/09/06/eskimos-receiver-derel-walker-miss-6-8-weeks-knee-injury/ Kamar Jorden - out for the year http://3downnation.com/2018/09/06/calgarys-kamar-jorden-gone-season-torn-acl/ Travis Lulay http://3downnation.com/2018/09/08/b-c-lions-lose-qb-travis-lulay-injury/ http://3downnation.com/2018/09/08/um-hit-travis-lulay-not-penalty/ http://3downnation.com/2018/09/14/not-b-c-quarterback-travis-lulay-leaves-game-due-injury/ http://3downnation.com/2018/09/17/lions-qb-travis-lulay-has-bad-luck-versus-alouttes/ http://3downnation.com/2018/09/18/buono-expects-lions-qb-lulay-will-be-back-playing-in-2018/ Brandon Banks http://3downnation.com/2018/09/15/loss-brandon-banks-means-ticats/ http://3downnation.com/2018/09/18/buono-expects-lions-qb-lulay-will-be-back-playing-in-2018/ http://3downnation.com/2018/09/22/injuries-hinder-ticats-lions/ http://3downnation.com/2018/09/26/ticats-brandon-banks-to-return-against-lions/ Greg Ellingson http://3downnation.com/2018/09/19/redblacks-place-greg-ellingson-disabled-list/ Manny Arceneaux - out for the year http://3downnation.com/2018/09/26/no-manny-show-arceneaux-done-year-knee-surgery/ Jamaal Westerman http://3downnation.com/2018/09/27/ticats-place-canadian-dl-jamaal-westerman-six-game-injured-list/

Week 16 game notes https://www.cfl.ca/2018/09/27/cfl-ca-game-notes-look-week-16-3/ ***** Week 16 checking down https://www.cfl.ca/2018/09/26/checking-stamps-getting-healthier/ ***** Week 16 picks https://www.cfl.ca/2018/09/27/prediction-time-cfl-ca-writers-make-week-16-picks/ https://www.cfl.ca/2018/09/26/weekly-predictor-expectations-high-round-2-cat-fight/ http://3downnation.com/2018/09/28/slam-dunk-picks-heavy-hitters/ http://3downnation.com/2018/09/28/cfl-picks-stand-counted/ https://thegruelingtruth.net/football/cfl/cfl-week-16-previews-and-predictions/ https://thegruelingtruth.net/podcast/cfl-weekly-pickem-show-w-robert-drummond-week-16/ https://cflpowerrankings.wordpress.com/2018/09/25/cfl-week-16-picks/ https://www.thespec.com/sports-story/8931024-cfl-picks-week-16/

Jakob Bro guitar; Thomas Morgan double bass; Joey Baron drums This poetically attuned group follows its ECM studio album Streams (2016) – which The New York Times lauded as “ravishing”- with an album recorded live over two nights in New York City. Bay of Rainbows rolls on waves of contemplative emotion, with gradually enveloping lyricism the lodestar. Recast intimately and elastically for trio, the pieces are illustrative of Bro and company’s ability to push and pull the music into mesmerizing new shapes, onstage and in the moment. TRIO TOUR October 14 Winnipeg, Man (The Good Will Social Club) October 15 Minneapolis, MN (Icehouse) October 17 Chicago, IL (Constellation) October 18 Los Angeles, CA (Bluewhale) October 22 Baltimore, MD (An Die Musik Live!) October 23-24 New York, NY (Jazz Standard) October 25 Denver, CO (Dazzle) October 26 Tulsa, OK (Duet) October 27 Seattle, WA (Seattle Art Museum (Earshot Festival)) October 28 Portland, OR (The Old Church (Portland Jazz Festival)) © *2018 ECM Records US, A Division of Verve Music Group. All rights reserved ECM Keith Jarrett - La Fenice release date: October 19, 2018 Keith Jarrett: piano This double album, long anticipated, presents Keith Jarrett's concert at the Gran Teatro La Fenice in Venice, from July 2006. The setting - one of Italy's most famous classical venues - may evoke some parallels with La Scala, the pianist's much-loved 1995 recording, but each of Jarrett's solo performances is its own world, his protean creativity continually bringing new forms to light. La Fenice (the phoenix) finds him channelling the flow of inspiration into a suite of eight spontaneously created pieces referencing everything from the blues to atonality. From the first flurry of notes, it is a consistently captivating journey. Between Part VI and Part VII, Jarrett surprisingly but very touchingly segues into "The Sun Whose Rays", from Gilbert and Sullivan's opera The Mikado. Encores are the traditional tune "My Wild Irish Rose" (previously recorded by Jarrett on The Melody At Night With You), the timeless standard "Stella By Starlight", which the trio with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette often played (see for instance the albums Standards Live and Yesterdays). The concert ends with a tender version of Keith's tune "Blossom", first heard on the Belonging album with Jan Garbarek, Palle Danielsson and Jon Christensen back in 1974. La Fenice could be considered the culmination point of a series of solo concerts that began the previous September with the The Carnegie Hall Concert. Reviewing that performance, Fred Kaplan of The Absolute Sound wrote: "His concert pieces, all pure improvisations, are models of economy, themes stated, explored, varied on, departed from, returned to, done - and gripping from start to finish. The encores were similarly taut - and lyrical and gorgeous." Release of the Venice concert is timely. The 62nd International Festival of Contemporary Music of the Biennale di Venezia has honored Keith Jarrett with its Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. It's the first time that a "jazz" musician has received this award, which has previously been given to contemporary composers including, in recent decades, Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, György Kurtág, Helmut Lachenmann, Sofia Gubaidulina and Steve Reich. Of course, there is more than one way to be a contemporary composer, as Keith Jarrett eloquently illustrates on La Fenice, shaping his musical structures in real time. ECM Keith Jarrett La Fenice Keith Jarrett: piano Release date: October 19, 2018 ECM 2-CD: 2601/02 B0028949-02 UPC: 6025 676 5853 5 This double album, long anticipated, presents Keith Jarrett’s concert at the Gran Teatro La Fenice in Venice, from July 2006. The setting – one of Italy’s most famous classical venues – may evoke some parallels with La Scala, the pianist’s much-loved 1995 recording, but each of Jarrett’s solo performances is its own world, his protean creativity continually bringing new forms to light. La Fenice (the phoenix) finds him channelling the flow of inspiration into a suite of eight spontaneously created pieces referencing everything from the blues to atonality. From the first flurry of notes, it is a consistently captivating journey. Between Part VI and Part VII, Jarrett surprisingly but very touchingly segues into “The Sun Whose Rays”, from Gilbert and Sullivan’s opera The Mikado. Encores are the traditional tune “My Wild Irish Rose” (previously recorded by Jarrett on The Melody At Night With You), the timeless standard “Stella By Starlight”, which the trio with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette often played (see for instance the albums Standards Live and Yesterdays). The concert ends with a tender version of Keith’s tune “Blossom”, first heard on the Belonging album with Jan Garbarek, Palle Danielsson and Jon Christensen back in 1974. La Fenice could be considered the culmination point of a series of solo concerts that began the previous September with the The Carnegie Hall Concert. Reviewing that performance, Fred Kaplan of The Absolute Sound wrote: “His concert pieces, all pure improvisations, are models of economy, themes stated, explored, varied on, departed from, returned to, done – and gripping from start to finish. The encores were similarly taut – and lyrical and gorgeous.” Release of the Venice concert is timely. The 62nd International Festival of Contemporary Music of the Biennale di Venezia has honored Keith Jarrett with its Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. It’s the first time that a “jazz” musician has received this award, which has previously been given to contemporary composers including, in recent decades, Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, György Kurtág, Helmut Lachenmann, Sofia Gubaidulina and Steve Reich. Of course, there is more than one way to be a contemporary composer, as Keith Jarrett eloquently illustrates on La Fenice, shaping his musical structures in real time. Keith Jarrett: piano This recording of Keith Jarrett’s extraordinary 2006 solo performance at Gran Teatro La Fenice in Venice finds Jarrett entering one of Italy’s most famous classical venues and channeling the flow of inspiration to shape something new. In this case, a suite of eight spontaneously created pieces referencing everything from the blues to atonality to heart-rending ballads. From the first flurry of notes, it is a consistently captivating journey. Release of La Fenice is timely: The 62nd International Festival of Contemporary Music of the ‘Biennale di Venezia’ has honored Keith Jarrett with its Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. It’s the first time that a “jazz” musician has received this award. LISTEN / PRE-ORDER © *2018 ECM Records US, A Division of Verve Music Group. All rights reserved.

"Unreleased Art Pepper Vol. 10: Toronto," Latest in the Critically Acclaimed "Unreleased Art" Series, To Be Released by Laurie Pepper's Widow's Taste Label November 2 Art Pepper Seizes His Big Moment In Live Recordings Made at Toronto's Bourbon Street, June 16, 1977, At the Outset of His First Tour as a Leader, With Bernie Senensky, Gene Perla, David Piltch, Terry Clarke 3-Disc Set Also Contains 30-Minute Interview with Pepper & DJ Hal Hill: "Art on Music and Musicians" September 26, 2018 In 1977, Art Pepper's jazz comeback had been moving along pretty quietly, and he was still playing bar mitzvahs and weddings, when producer John Snyder helped engineer the alto saxophonist's first tour outside California. With soul ablaze, with his defiant wit, and with the musical mastery he'd honed throughout his reckless life, Pepper took his first step onto the world stage at Toronto's Bourbon Street nightclub on June 16, 1977. That night's triumphant performances are documented in the new Widow's Taste 3-CD set, Unreleased Art Pepper Vol. 10: Toronto, which will be released November 2. The absolute love with which Toronto jazz fans greeted him surprised Art and gave him the boost he needed from the very start. And the superb young musicians at this gig were supportive and challenging. He always felt that good musicians had something to teach him, and these fellows all went on to fine careers. During the 30-minute interview with Toronto disc jockey Hal Hill, which is included in the new package, Art praises them, sincerely, especially the pianist, Bernie Senensky. He enjoyed their youth; the prodigious David Piltch was only 17. Piltch alternates with the impressive Gene Perla on bass, and the drummer, Terry Clarke, seems to have played with every soloist on earth. They solo beautifully. They back him perfectly. The audio is quite good, thanks, once again, to Wayne Peet's mastering, which is precise, skilled, and artful. The 32-page booklet includes, along with Laurie Pepper's photos, gossip, opinions, and flights of musically inspired fancy, her chart of problems she heard in the original recordings and Wayne's notes describing all the additional problems Laurie didn't hear -- and his work correcting them. And there's more. In honor of this, the tenth release from her label Widow's Taste, Laurie (at left with Art) offers us a backstage pass, "How to Turn a 40-Year-Old Cassette Tape into a Valuable Collector's Item." She shows us why and how, "in this age of off-brand-indie-DIY,"she manages, with help, to keep finding and releasing this great music. She says, "My jewel boxes hold real jewels." Fifty-one at the time of these recordings, Art Pepper had been struggling, as an artist, to merge the solid swing and shuffle of the blues he'd made his own at age 15 on Central Avenue with the tender lyricism of his nature, with the fire and excitement of bebop, and with the adventurousness of John Coltrane and Miles Davis. John Snyder, producer and fan, underwrote and ran this East Coast tour -- which culminated in Pepper's Village Vanguard debut -- to help him do it. Snyder's encouragement can't be underrated. Neither can Pepper's courage. When young, as a starring soloist, Art had toured the country with Stan Kenton's big bands. But later, multiple incarcerations for drug use and subsequent paroles limited his movements. When he was working, he could only work at home in California. And part of Art, the part that was not self-destructive, was profoundly competitive and ambitious. Here was his first tour as a leader, and he knew this was his moment. This latest album joins the catalog of previous albums from the Unreleased Art Pepper series. All have received raves from well-known critics. They are: Volume I, Abashiri (2-CD set) Volume II, Last Concert: Kennedy Center Volume III, Croydon (2-CD set) Volume IV, The Art History Project (3-CD set) Volume V, Stuttgart (2-CD set) Volume VI, Blues for the Fisherman: Live at Ronnie Scott's (4-CD set) Volume VII, Sankei Hall, Osaka (2-CD set) Volume VIII, Live at the Winery Volume IX, Art Pepper & Warne Marsh All (except Volume IV, which is available for download only) are available at both Amazon (bit.ly/ArtPepperAll) and CD Baby (cdbaby.com/Artist/ArtPepper). Laurie says she'll keep releasing yearly miracles as long as she keeps finding them. She says there are still plenty in her closets. Maybe, in 2019, a ballad set? Yes, maybe. Unreleased Art Pepper Vol. 10 TORONTO Web Sites: lauriepepper.net / artpepper.bandcamp.com Blog (and giveaways): artpeppermusic.blogspot.com

Shirley Bassey - All the Best (40 songs) - $4.98 https://www.oldies.com/product-view/48148O.html

Week 15 results Winnipeg 31....Montreal 14 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2519/montreal-alouettes-vs-winnipeg-blue-bombers/ https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/montreal-alouettes-winnipeg-blue-bombers-1.4834474 Montreal's offensive line was terrible! Manziel never had a pocket. ***** Ottawa 28....Edmonton 15 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2520/edmonton-eskimos-vs-ottawa-redblacks/ https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/lewis-ward-edmonton-eskimos-ottawa-redblacks-1.4834926 Lewis Ward kicked seven field goals for the second time this season, and in so doing set the new record with 37 consecutive FG's. Paredes had the old record with 32. ***** Sask 30....Toronto 29 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2521/saskatchewan-roughriders-vs-toronto-argonauts/ https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/saskatchewan-roughriders-toronto-argonauts-1.4834933 Toronto has had the worst placekicking all season. ***** BC 35....Hamilton 32 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2522/hamilton-tiger-cats-vs-bc-lions/ https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/hamilton-tiger-cats-bc-lions-1.4834939 The Ticats let the game slip away. ***** Week 15 Plays of the Week https://www.cfl.ca/2018/09/24/bryan-burnham-toe-taps-his-way-to-top-spot-in-timber-mart-plays-of-the-week/ ***** Week 16 power rankings https://www.cfl.ca/2018/09/25/nissan-titan-power-rankings-taking-back-east/ http://3downnation.com/2018/09/25/cfl-power-rankings-back/ https://cflpowerrankings.wordpress.com/2018/09/25/power-rankings-after-week-15-2/ https://thegruelingtruth.net/football/cfl/cfl-weekly-power-rankings-week-16/

Thad Jones/Mel Lewis - Live on Tour in Switzerland - $4.98 https://www.oldies.com/product-view/93407M.html ***** Pepper Adams - Urban Dreams - $4.98 https://www.oldies.com/product-view/18530N.html

Joe Zawinul - 75th (2 CDs) - $4.98 https://www.oldies.com/product-view/58708N.html

This morning's Target flyer offered Brach's candy corn, 2/$5.

Last year Toronto set a record by hitting only five triples. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/02/sports/baseball/statistics-toronto-blue-jays.html This year they may set another record. Thus far, they have hit only five sacrifice bunts. https://www.mlb.com/bluejays/news/blue-jays-rarely-utilize-sacrifice-bunts/c-294600434

Week 15 game notes https://www.cfl.ca/2018/09/20/cfl-ca-game-notes-look-week-15-2/ ***** Week 15 checking down https://www.cfl.ca/2018/09/19/checking-latest-davaris-daniels-travis-lulay/ ***** Week 15 picks https://www.cfl.ca/2018/09/20/prediction-time-cfl-ca-writers-make-week-15-picks/ https://thegruelingtruth.net/football/cfl/cfl-week-15-preview-and-predictions/ https://news.sportsinteraction.com/cfl/predictions https://www.thespec.com/sports-story/8914878-cfl-picks-week-15/ https://cflpowerrankings.wordpress.com/2018/09/19/cfl-week-15-picks/ http://3downnation.com/2018/09/21/cfl-picks-must-win-time-pretty-much/ http://3downnation.com/2018/09/21/slam-dunk-picks-dont-trust-manziel-with-your-money/

ECM Andrew Cyrille - Lebroba release date; November 2, 2018 Wadada Leo Smith: trumpet; Bill Frisell: guitar; Andrew Cyrille: drums Andrew Cyrille's title Lebroba is a contraction of Leland, Brooklyn and Baltimore, birthplaces of the protagonists of an album bringing together three of creative music's independent thinkers. Each of them made his first ECM appearance long ago: drummer Andrew Cyrille on Marion Brown's Afternoon of a Georgia Faun (1970), trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith on his own classic Divine Love (1978), and guitarist Bill Frisell on Eberhard Weber's Fluid Rustle(1979); these are, of course, players of enduring influence. Frisell contributed to Cyrille's previous ECM disc The Declaration of Musical Independence, but Lebroba marks a first-time meeting for the guitarist and Wadada Leo Smith. A generous leader, Cyrille gives plenty of room to his cohorts, and all three musicians bring in compositions, with "Turiya", Wadada's elegant dedication to Alice Coltrane, unfurling slowly over its 17-minute duration. In his own pieces, including the title track and the closing "Pretty Beauty", Cyrille rarely puts the focus on the drums, preferring to play melodically and interactively, sensitive to pitch and to space. There are references to West African music and the blues as well as the history of jazz drumming, but Cyrille's priority today is an elliptical style in which meter is implied rather than stated. ECM Florian Weber - Lucent Waters release date; November 2, 2018 Ralph Alessi: trumpet; Florian Weber: piano Linda May Han Oh: double bass; Nasheet Waits: drums In his second ECM appearance (following a critically-acclaimed duo recording with Markus Stockhausen) pianist Florian Weber leads a strong cast through a program of his 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. "I wanted this project to be as open as possible", he says. "It's the idea of exploration that is important here, and the differences between the players." The strong, grounded bass of Linda May Han Oh contrasts strikingly with Nasheet Waits's fleet, fluid drumming, setting up new contexts for Ralph Alessi's elegantly inventive trumpet and the leader's highly creative piano playing. Lucent Waters was recorded at Studios La Buissonne in the South of France in September 2017, and produced by Manfred Eicher.

Baltimore set its team record (post-1953) for losses last night.

Guitar Great Bobby Broom Introduces His New Group The Organi-Sation With Their Debut Recording "Soul Fingers," His 12th Recording as a Leader Set for October 12 Release by MRI Entertainment, CD Was Produced by Legendary Drummer Steve Jordan Organi-Sation Features Broom With Organist Ben Paterson & Drummer Kobie Watkins, Plus Special Guests in Varied Musical Settings September 19, 2018 Virtuoso Chicago-based guitarist Bobby Broom has always embraced the rhythm and blues core of jazz music. On Soul Fingers, his 12th album as a leader and first with his new trio Organi-Sation, Broom mines the rich repository of '60s and '70s pop music, offering inspired versions of hits by the Beatles, Procol Harum, Steely Dan, and Seals & Crofts, among others. Set for October 12 release by MRI Entertainment, the recording was produced by legendary drummer Steve Jordan. Broom, a contemporary link to the illustrious lineage of jazz guitarists like Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell, Grant Green, George Benson, and Pat Martino, is no stranger to covering standards and pop hits: On his 2001 release Stand! he delivered hard-bop versions of songs by artists such as the Turtles, the Mamas & the Papas, and Sly & The Family Stone. And the Deep Blue Organ Trio, which Broom co-led from 2000 to 2013, released Wonderful!, a collection of Stevie Wonder songs, in 2011. Three years later came Broom's My Shining Hour, a set of standards. While developing Soul Fingers, Broom realized the ideas he was coming up with required the help of an outside producer. "The process was so different than other records I've done," he says. "I got more involved in its preproduction. I was hearing horns and a bunch of different textures, so at some point I said, 'I need help with this one.' I immediately thought of Steve because of the soul music sound I was feeling." Broom and Jordan played together with Sonny Rollins once in the early '80s and again during 2005, when both were members of the saxophone colossus's band. "I thought he'd be perfect," says Broom, "although it was basically a daydream," referring to Jordan's busy schedule with the likes of John Mayer and Keith Richards. Nevertheless "I emailed him and it took him less than an hour to get back to me with, 'Let's go!'" In addition to producing and sharing arranging credits, Jordan plays drums on "Get Ready" and "Eyes of Faith," the sole Broom original whose gospel-tinged theme is embellished by a lush string arrangement. Organist Ben Paterson and drummer Kobie Watkins join Broom in Organi-Sation, the core unit on the album and Broom's current band. During the three months the trio spent in 2014 opening for Steely Dan, they developed a musical synchronicity Broom found "a wonderful surprise. We really solidified our chemistry on that tour, so it was like a hand-in-glove kind of thing going into this session." Soul Fingers opens with the Lennon/McCartney gem "Come Together" taken at a stepped-up tempo that Broom knew his trio-mates "would swing to death." Bobbie Gentry's "Ode to Billie Joe" features the guitarist's 7/4 funk arrangement and his horn charts for saxophonist Ron Blake and trumpeter Chris Rogers. Other highlights include a shuffle-swing version of Steely Dan's "Do It Again" and a bossa nova-infused version of the Beatles' "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" on which the leader is joined by Brazilian acoustic guitarists Sergio Pires and Luciano Antonio. The 1966 Temptations hit "Get Ready" has an Afro-pop feel, while Broom's version of Procol Harum's 1967 baroque pop hit "Whiter Shade of Pale" simmers with soul. Born in New York City in 1961, Bobby Broom cites hearing a Charles Earland album when he was 10 -- and later music by Herbie Hancock and Grover Washington, Jr. -- as inspiring his love of jazz. By 16, he had a regular gig with bebop pianist Al Haig and was invited by Sonny Rollins to go on tour. While he declined that offer, he did perform with Rollins at Carnegie Hall that same year. Within five years Broom had at last joined Rollins's touring band, ultimately spending two five-year stints with him. Prior to joining Rollins, Broom signed with GRP Records and made his crossover jazz debut, 1981's Clean Sweep rather than join Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. After his 1984 follow-up Livin' for the Beat he could have had a career playing "smooth jazz" but instead moved to Chicago and concentrated on straight-ahead jazz. He continued with Rollins, joined Kenny Burrell's Jazz Guitar Band, worked briefly with Miles Davis and then Stanley Turrentine and his early idol Earland. In the 1990s Broom formed the Bobby Broom Trio and the Deep Blue Organ Trio and recorded frequently with both units. He also made three quartet records (No Hype Blues, Waitin' and Waitin', and Modern Man) before deciding to focus on the guitar-bass-drums trio as his primary outlet, beginning in 2001 with Stand! "Whether original, the music of the classic jazz idiom, or nostalgic pop," critic Neil Tesser has observed, "Broom's thoughtful lyricism, urban spirit and jazz pedigree have earned him one of the few truly recognizable styles among modern jazz guitarists." Bobby Broom and his Organi-Sation will perform a CD release show at Space in Evanston, IL on Friday 10/5. Other dates will be announced in the coming months. Photography: Magnus Contzen Bobby Broom - "Summer Breeze," from the CD "Soul Fingers" Web Site: bobbybroom.com

Week 15 power rankings https://www.cfl.ca/2018/09/18/nissan-titan-power-rankings-guess-whos-back/ http://3downnation.com/2018/09/18/cfl-power-rankings-return-reality/ ***** Current playoff scenarios https://www.cfl.ca/2018/09/17/playoff-scenarios-despite-bye-stamps-can-clinch-spot-weekend/ ***** 5 FAMOUS CFL REFERENCES IN POPULAR CULTURE https://www.cfl.ca/2018/09/17/cauz-5-famous-cfl-references-popular-culture/

Jeff Garcia has been nominated for the Canton Hall of Fame. http://www.profootballhof.com/102-modern-era-nominees-for-the-hall-of-fames-class-of-2019/

Week 14 results BC 32....Montreal 14 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2516/bc-lions-vs-montreal-alouettes/ https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/bc-lions-montreal-alouettes-1.4825098 http://3downnation.com/2018/09/15/lions-defence-shoulders-weight-lulay-loss/ ***** Calgary 43....Hamilton 28 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2517/calgary-stampeders-vs-hamilton-tiger-cats/ https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/cfl-stampeders-tiger-cats-recap-sept-15-1.4825575 http://3downnation.com/2018/09/16/ticats-no-match-for-stampeders-defence/ And read this! http://3downnation.com/2018/09/16/numbers-show-ticats-stamps-game-historically-bizarre/ ***** Ottawa 30....Sask 25 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2518/ottawa-redblacks-vs-saskatchewan-roughriders/ https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/cfl-redblacks-roughriders-recap-1.4825580 http://3downnation.com/2018/09/16/gasson-offensive-offence-ends-riders-winning-streak/ http://3downnation.com/2018/09/16/redblacks-shock-saskatchewan-nine-thoughts/ ***** Week 14 Plays of the Week https://www.cfl.ca/2018/09/17/kyran-moore-makes-an-amazing-adjustement-to-grab-spot-in-timber-mart-plays-of-the-week/

"That's Right!," The Recording Debut of Trumpeter Brad Goode's Quintet Featuring Tenor Titan Ernie Watts, Set for Oct. 19 Release by Origin Records Original Trumpet Stylist Backed by Longtime Collaborators Adrean Farrugia (Piano) & Kelly Sill (Bass) Plus Newest Member Adam Nussbaum (Drums) September 17, 2018 That's Right!, the recording debut of trumpeter Brad Goode's quintet featuring tenor titan Ernie Watts, documents the virtuosity and versatility of one of the tightest working bands on the contemporary jazz scene. Set for October 19 release by Origin Records, the album is a powerful showcase for Goode's ideal quintet as well as the soloing chops and writing skills of each of its members. Watts and Goode first shared the front line in a concert at the University of Colorado in Boulder, where the trumpeter is an associate professor of jazz studies, in the early 2010s. "It was just one of those things," Goode recalls. "We played together for a little while, and then we looked at each other and said, 'Hey, you know what? This is good!' There's something that happens when the two of us start playing, and we've been making efforts to do what we can together ever since." Also featured on the new CD are Canadian pianist Adrean Farrugia and Windy City veteran bassist Kelly Sill, both of whom have been playing with Goode since 2005. The unit's newest member, drummer Adam Nussbaum, joined in 2017. "I tell my students this: If you want to make the biggest change to the sound of your group, change the drummer," says Goode. That's Right! contains three originals by Goode, one by each of the quintet's other members, and the standards "Blues in the Night" and "I Want to Talk About You." The final track, "Jug Ain't Gone," is a tribute to Gene "Jug" Ammons by the late Chicago jazz giant Von Freeman, Jug's high school classmate and one of Goode's mentors. It's a hard-swinging blues that's become something of a theme song for Goode. "Von and I used to play it at every gig but he only recorded it once," he explains. "I run a jam session with students every Monday night, and I make that the closing tune. It's just my way of keeping Von's tradition of the jam session alive -- and keeping Von's memory alive." L. to r.: Ernie Watts, Adrean Farrugia, Brad Goode, Kelly Sill, Adam Nussbaum. Born in 1963 in Chicago, Brad Goode took up the violin at age four, switched to guitar at eight and trumpet at 10. At 15, having moved to East Lansing, Michigan, he began learning the bass. Even when he decided to pursue music as a career, he couldn't settle on one instrument: He earned his B.M. in classical trumpet at the University of Kentucky, and an M.M. in classical bass at Chicago's DePaul University. Goode's early career was a period of extended apprenticeship, as he performed with the bands of jazz legends Von Freeman, Eddie Harris, Ira Sullivan, Jack DeJohnette, and Curtis Fuller. He led the house band at the Green Mill in Chicago from 1986 until 1997, when he left Chicago to pursue college teaching. Since then, his musical career has been expansive. He works often in the areas of world music, experimental harmony, and fusion. He is in high demand as a lead trumpeter, traveling widely to perform and record with big bands and orchestras, and is recognized as a master teacher of brass technique. He currently tours as the featured soloist with West African drummer Paa Kow's Afro Fusion Orchestra. In 1997, Goode joined the faculty at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music. In 2004 he accepted a position in Boulder, Colorado, and the following year formed a new working band with Kelly Sill, whom he'd known since the mid-1980s. They were joined by pianist Adrean Farrugia, whom Goode had met at a jam session, and drummer Anthony Lee, one of his Cincinnati students who lived in New York. The quartet stayed together for a decade, becoming a quintet with the addition of Watts in 2015. Lee's 2017 departure brought in Nussbaum on drums. Goode flew the band in to perform at the Jazz Education Network (JEN) conference in Dallas in January 2018. "I had them all there, and I thought we should do a recording," he says. "After the concert we spent two days at a studio in Dallas." While That's Right! is his 18th album as a leader, Goode doesn't see it that way. "I think of this as a debut album by a new band," he says. "I feel this is a pretty special act. When Ernie and I do this together, people kind of freak out. So this album is a way to get that across to people who haven't seen it live yet -- that it's gonna be exciting." The quintet plans a series of dates in Spring and Summer 2019. Brad Goode in performance: 10/13 w/ Paa Kow's Afro Fusion Orchestra, Dazzle, Denver; 10/20 Brad Goode Quartet at Jazz Association of Macon, GA (where he is 2018-19 Artist in Residence); 11/3 Utah International Trumpet Guild Presents Brad Goode; 11/9 Jazz Institute of Chicago Tribute to Von Freeman; 11/14 Brigham Young University (Idaho), in concert with BYU faculty trio; Every Monday -- Brad Goode Jam Session at Muse Performance Space, Lafayette, CO; 4/19-20/2019, Brad Goode Quintet Featuring Ernie Watts, Green Mill, Chicago. Photography: Patricia Watts (quintet), Jim Bohm (Goode). BRAD GOODE QUINTET: Reverse the Charges Web Site: bradgoode.com Like:

Shai Maestro piano; Jorge Roeder double bass; Ofri Nehemya drums The first ECM leader date for Shai Maestro features the gifted pianist fronting his superlative trio in a program predominantly of characteristically thoughtful Maestro originals. Maestro’s differentiated touch is special; he can convey a range of fleeting emotions in a single phrase. In Concert November 6 New York, NY (Jazz Standard) © *2018 ECM Records US, A Division of Verve Music Group. All rights reserved.

Week 14 checking down https://www.cfl.ca/2018/09/12/checking-latest-chris-rainey-brandon-banks/ ***** Week 14 picks https://www.cfl.ca/2018/09/12/weekly-predictor-redblacks-dire-need-statement/ https://www.cfl.ca/2018/09/13/prediction-time-cfl-ca-writers-make-week-14-picks/ https://thegruelingtruth.net/podcast/cfl-weekly-pickem-show-week-14-w-robert-drummond/ https://www.therecord.com/sports-story/8899814-cfl-week-14-predictions/

Barre Phillips double bass Barre Phillips was the first musician to record an album of solo double bass, back in 1968, and he has always been an absolute master of the solo idiom. In March 2017, Barre recorded what he says will be his last solo album, the final chapter of this journey: it is a beautiful and moving musical statement. All the qualities we associate with his playing are here in abundance – questing adventurousness, melodic invention, textural richness, developmental logic, and deep soulfulness. LISTEN / BUY Mark Turner tenor saxophone; Ethan Iverson piano This album marks the recording debut of Turner and Iverson in duo. Years after their first meeting at NYC jam sessions, and following much individual success (Turner as a leader and in demand sideman, and Iverson in hit trio The Bad Plus) they re-connected as part of the exhilarating and widely-lauded Billy Hart Quartet. On Temporary Kings, they explore aesthetic common ground that embodies the heightened intimacy of modernist chamber music in a program of predominantly original compositions. LISTEN / BUY Tord Gustavsen piano; Sigurd Hole double bass; Jarle Vespestad drums “This is the chill-out as a state of grace, and it can go as deep as you like. Sublime,” wrote the Independent on Sunday of the Gustavsen Trio’s Being There (2007). Over the last decade Tord has experimented with other ensemble forms and formats, but on The Other Side he returns decisively to the piano trio, with faithful drummer Jarle Vespestad, and excellent new bassist Sigurd Hole whose approaches are ideally suited to the slowly-developing, deeply melodic pieces. LISTEN / BUY AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER: © 2018 ECM Records. All rights reserved.

Anne Sajdera Celebrates Creative Renewal, Cross-Cultural Inspiration with "New Year," Set for Release Nov. 2 on Bijuri Records Long-Awaited Follow-up to "Azul," Acclaimed 2012 Debut by San Francisco Bay Area Pianist/Composer CD Release Shows at Piedmont Piano, Oakland, 11/3; Cafe Pink House, Saratoga, 11/9; & Other Bay Area Venues September 12, 2018 Anne Sajdera's remarkable acumen as both a pianist and a composer finds rejuvenation on New Year, set for November 2 release on her own Bijuri Records. The album hits close to home for Sajdera -- her ancestral home, that is, of the Czech Republic and its storied capital, Prague. A 2014 trip to Europe's "Golden City" was the catalyst for the album's creation. Sajdera's journey wasn't planned as a musical one. While in Prague, however, she encountered trumpeter/flugelhornist Miroslav Hloucal and alto saxophonist Jan Fečo, who became her chief collaborators on New Year. In addition to supplementing her working San Francisco trio (bassist Gary Brown and drummer Deszon Claiborne) and other special guests with their sparkling instrumental work, Hloucal and Fečo brought in four of the album's nine tracks. "What electrified me was the tremendous skill level," explains Sajdera (pronounced sazh-dair-uh). "I don't think there are many Czech jazz musicians who want to say, 'This is Czech jazz' the way Brazilian musicians would refer to 'Brazilian jazz.' They're influenced by the same players as we are." Indeed, New Year's music is firmly in the vein of acoustic post-bop: sophisticated, straight- ahead, and thoroughly swinging. Even "It Depends on That," Fečo's stellar arrangement of a Roma folk song, feels perfectly at home in the 21st-century jazz repertoire with its deceptively jagged rhythms and sumptuous harmony. Likewise, Hloucal's trio of melodic delights -- "Pictures," "Butterfly Effect," and "Changeling" -- positively simmer in straight-ahead seasoning. In the case of the urgent, album-opening "Pictures," tenor sax luminary Bob Mintzer's vital, muscular work adds an extra ingredient to that seasoning. Sajdera's five original compositions naturally provide the backbone of the album, and rival Hloucal and Fečo's contributions in their freshness and craftsmanship. Her haunting romantic ballad "Treasure" also highlights Sajdera's ambition: It doesn't include the Czech musicians, but does expand her trio to include flugelhornist Erik Jekabson, alto saxophonist Lyle Link, flutist Rita Thies, and violinist/cellist Joyce Lee. Link and Jekabson also appear on "Bright Lights," a bare-bones platform for improvisation that's both taut and joyful. The album also includes a live rendition of "Azul," the dreamy samba reggae title track to Sajdera's 2012 debut album, here balancing sensitivity with astonishing rhythmic assurance. Born in Portsmouth, Virginia in 1965 to a military family, Anne Sajdera grew up in San Diego. Piano lessons as a child led her to form a tight circle of musical friends who often gathered to play together. She maintained a steady diet of Chopin waltzes, Bach inventions, and Beethoven sonatas in her piano studies, but at the age of 13 became intrigued by Chick Corea's My Spanish Heart. After relocating to the Bay Area in 1985, she auditioned at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and was accepted as a piano performance major, switching to a composition major at the end of her sophomore year. Sajdera's investigation of jazz took off when she began a relationship with an accomplished jazz guitarist, with whom she was soon playing casuals. A class at Berkeley's Jazzschool with the great Brazilian pianist/composer Marcos Silva sparked her enduring passion for Brazilian music. Before long she was gigging around the Bay Area with her own band Pelo Mar, and as an original member of Bat Makumba. Her debut album, 2012's Azul, also reflects this deep and abiding passion, mixing her ravishing original pieces with classic tunes by the Brazilian masters. It received a place on one of Jazzizmagazine's 2012 Critics Polls and was named one of Latin Jazz Corner's Great Latin Jazz Albums that same year. The six-year gap between Azul and New Year reflects Sajdera's ongoing evolution as an artist looking for new expressive avenues. "I was writing new music all along and I could see it was rapidly changing," she says. "By 2015, the Prague musicians' influence was coming in." Shortly thereafter, the musicians themselves came in, too, to join the music making. (Sajdera's next recording featuring this same ensemble has been awarded grant funding from Intermusic SF.) It was in 2015, in the spirit of International Jazz Day, the project launched by Herbie Hancock in his role as UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, that Sajdera began to connect the Czech jazz scene to the Bay Area scene. After she produced a pair of pilot concerts featuring sax virtuoso Karel Ruzička and organ maestro Ondre J, two Brooklyn-based musicians who originally hailed from the Czech Republic, the plan to collaborate in the studio with Jan and Miroslav began to take shape. Anne Sajdera will be performing a series of CD release shows, all featuring Miroslav Hloucal (above left) and Jan Fečo (at right), in November: Fri. 11/2 Savanna Jazz, San Carlos (8pm); Sat. 11/3 Piedmont Piano Company, Oakland (8pm); Mon. 11/5 Luna's Café, Sacramento (7:30pm); Fri. 11/9 Café Pink House, Saratoga (7:30pm); Sat. 11/10 Hotel Healdsburg, Healdsburg (6:30pm). Photography: Davis Digital Design (Anne), Phil Hawkins (Jan & Miroslav) NEW YEAR -- a new CD from Anne Sajdera (EPK)

Lots of catching up to do: the scores of the past two weeks, some major injuries Labor Day Weekend, and news about the NFL rosters. Labor Day Weekend results Montreal 21....Ottawa 11 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2508/montreal-alouettes-vs-ottawa-redblacks/ http://3downnation.com/2018/08/31/johnny-pipkin-leads-alouettes-second-straight-win/ ***** Sask 31....Winnipeg 23 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2509/winnipeg-blue-bombers-vs-saskatchewan-roughriders/ http://3downnation.com/2018/09/02/joy-riderville-saskatchewan-finds-way-labour-day/ http://3downnation.com/2018/09/02/gasson-riders-earning-victories-hard-way/ http://3downnation.com/2018/09/03/nichols-feeds-critics-labour-day-classic-loss-nine-thoughts/ ***** Calgary 23....Edmonton 20 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2510/edmonton-eskimos-vs-calgary-stampeders/ https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/edmonton-eskimos-calgary-stampeders-recap-1.4809051 ***** Hamilton 42....Toronto 28 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2511/toronto-argonauts-vs-hamilton-tiger-cats/ https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/toronto-argonauts-hamilton-tiger-cats-week-12-1.4809058 http://3downnation.com/2018/09/04/milton-ticats-overcome-self-inflicted-adversity-win-fifth-straight-labour-day/ http://3downnation.com/2018/09/04/arthur-argos-trouble-labour-day-loss/ ***** Week 12 Plays of the Week https://www.cfl.ca/2018/09/04/kyran-moore-jukes-his-way-to-the-top-of-week-12s-timber-mart-plays-of-the-week/ ***** Week 13 power rankings https://www.cfl.ca/2018/09/05/riders-continue-climb-nissan-titan-power-rankings/ http://3downnation.com/2018/09/05/power-rankings-labour-day-shakes-things/ ***** Now let's look at last weekend's scores. BC 26....Ottawa 14 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2512/ottawa-redblacks-vs-bc-lions/ https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/ottawa-redblacks-bc-lions-1.4815359 http://3downnation.com/2018/09/08/defence-gets-done-lions/ http://3downnation.com/2018/09/09/filoso-another-loss-leaves-redblacks-questions-answers/ ***** Hamilton 36....Toronto 25 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2513/hamilton-tiger-cats-vs-toronto-argonauts/ https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/cfl-argos-tiger-cats-recap-sept-8-1.4815955 ***** Sask 32....Winnipeg 27 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2514/saskatchewan-roughriders-vs-winnipeg-blue-bombers/ https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/sasakatchewan-roughriders-winnipeg-blue-bombers-1.4816134 http://3downnation.com/2018/09/08/bombers-receiver-carted-off-field-returns-stadium-via-cab/ http://3downnation.com/2018/09/09/nichols-throws-away-banjo-bowl-nine-thoughts/ http://159.203.52.247/2018/09/09/riders-intercept-their-way-to-fourth-straight-win/ http://3downnation.com/2018/09/09/blue-bomber-talk-podcast-nichols-throws-picks-two-six-team-needs-fix/ http://3downnation.com/2018/09/12/green-cast-local-beer-local-quarterbacks-local-mob-ties/ ***** Edmonton 48....Calgary 42 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2515/calgary-stampeders-vs-edmonton-eskimos/ https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/calgary-stampeders-edmonton-eskimos-1.4816143 ***** Week 13 Plays of the Week https://www.cfl.ca/2018/09/10/willie-jefferson-snags-top-spot-with-his-pick-6-in-timber-mart-plays-of-the-week/ ***** Week 14 power rankings https://www.cfl.ca/2018/09/11/nissan-titan-power-rankings-dome-sweet-dome/ https://www.oddsshark.com/cfl/power-rankings