GA Russell

Scott, the camels says $19.99.

I have added more Week 9 picks and power rankings above. ***** Week 9 game notes https://www.cfl.ca/2018/08/08/cfl-ca-game-notes-look-week-9-3/ ***** Week 9 checking down https://www.cfl.ca/2018/08/08/checking-latest-neil-king-jeremiah-johnson/

I have added more Week 9 picks above.

I'm really liking this one. It's the only cd I've played since the 1st!

Week 8 Plays of the Week https://www.cfl.ca/2018/08/07/edwards-clutch-game-winner-tops-timber-mart-plays-of-the-week/ ***** Week 9 Power Rankings https://www.cfl.ca/2018/08/07/nissan-titan-power-rankings-prairie-dominance/ https://cflpowerrankings.wordpress.com/2018/08/07/power-rankings-after-week-8-2/ https://www.tsn.ca/stampeders-in-cruise-control-atop-cfl-power-rankings-1.1154868 http://3downnation.com/2018/08/09/power-rankings-around/#comments ***** Week 9 picks https://cflpowerrankings.wordpress.com/2018/08/07/cfl-week-9-picks/ https://www.cfl.ca/2018/08/08/weekly-predictor-redblacks-fuming-redemption/ https://freepicks.picksandparlays.net/more-free-picks/cfl-picks/ https://www.canadasportsbetting.ca/news/betting-picks/cfl-picks-week-9.html http://www.vegasinsider.com/cfl/story.cfm/story/1931029 http://dunkelindex.com/football_level/cfl-canadian/ https://www.docsports.com/free-picks/cfl/2018/Montreal-Alouettes-at-Ottawa-Redblacks-Week-9-CFL-Picks-Predictions-8-11-2018-105.html https://www.cfl.ca/2018/08/08/prediction-time-cfl-ca-writers-make-week-9-picks/ http://www.rodpedersen.com/2018/08/week-9-cfl-picks-2018.html http://3downnation.com/2018/08/09/week-9-picks-learn-lesson-pay-price/#comments http://3downnation.com/2018/08/09/slam-dunk-picks-underdogs-in-ideal-spots/#comments ***** Chris Jones worked out Terell Owens Sunday. https://www.cfl.ca/2018/08/05/riders-work-hall-fame-receiver-terrell-owens-bye-week/ http://3downnation.com/2018/08/05/riders-head-coach-chris-jones-works-terrell-owens/#comments

2 digital CDs for $7.00, from 1975 and 1977. https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/album/art-pepper-live-in-usa-2-discs-7

Tord Gustavsen piano Sigurd Hole double bass Jarle Vespestad drums When the Gustavsen Trio’s Being There was released in 2007, the Independent on Sunday wrote "this is the chill-out as a state of grace, and it can go as deep as you like. Sublime." Over the last decade Tord has experimented with other ensemble forms and formats, but on The Other Side - recorded at Oslo’s Rainbow Studio in January 2018 – he returns decisively to the piano trio, with faithful drummer Jarle Vespestad, and excellent new bassist Sigurd Hole. Hole’s approach to his instrument, drawing on folk influences as well as modern jazz, is ideally suited to Gustavsen’s slowly-developing, deeply melodic pieces. TRIO TOUR Sept 25 New York, NY (Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola) Sept 27 Santa Cruz, CA (Kuumbwa Jazz) Sept 28 Stanford, CA (Bing Concert Hall Studio) Sep 29 Vancouver, BC (BlueShore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts) Sept 30 Portland, OR (Classic Pianos) Oct 2 - Minneapolis, MN (Norwegian Lutheran Memorial Church) © *2018 ECM Records US, A Division of Verve Music Group. All rights reserved.

I see that over the weekend this thread passed the "110,000 views" mark. I put each of my posts on twitter and facebook, but I honestly don't know where the people are coming from. Maybe just from google. ***** Week 8, cont. Hamilton 50....Montreal 11 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2495/hamilton-tiger-cats-vs-montreal-alouettes/ http://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/hamilton-tiger-cats-montreal-alouettes-manziel-1.4774061 Manziel started and had a bad game, but it wasn't his fault that the Ticats scored 50 points. ***** Calgary 27....BC 18 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2496/bc-lions-vs-calgary-stampeders/ https://www.sportsnet.ca/football/cfl/stampeders-top-lions-improve-7-0-season/ The Stamps are 7-0 for the first time since 1995, Doug Flutie's last year with them.

Complete Them 1964-1967 (3 CDs) - $17.99 prime https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Them-1964-1967/dp/B015K0NA0Q

Week 8 results Toronto 42....Ottawa 41 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2493/ottawa-redblacks-vs-toronto-argonauts/ http://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/ottawa-redblacks-toronto-argonauts-1.4772417 What a great game! Best one of the season so far. ***** Edmonton 26....Sask 19 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2494/saskatchewan-roughriders-vs-edmonton-eskimos/ http://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/saskatchewan-roughriders-edmonton-eskimos-1.4772423 Another good game.

Apropos, today is Tony Bennett's birthday (b. 1926). It was also the birthday of my favorite wrestler, the late Haystacks Calhoun.

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Saxophonist/Composer Dave Anderson Provides Joyous Musical Response To Current Immigration Climate With New CD by His World-Jazz Band Melting Pot, Set for Release on 9/14 Ensemble Formed in 2017 Celebrates Diversity of NYC's Creative Music Scene CD Release Show at Zinc Bar, NYC, Thursday, September 6 July 31, 2018 Melting Pot, the new CD by saxophonist Dave Anderson's like-named world-jazz ensemble, provides a joyous musical antidote to the wave of xenophobia washing over the West today. Formed in 2017, the multicultural band reflects the vitality and diversity of New York City's international creative music community. Melting Pot will be released on September 14 by LABEL 1 Records. "American culture has started to resist something that's always been one of its strengths: bringing in people and their influences, seeing what they have to say, and blending these voices and ideas with our own," says Anderson, a veteran of Gary Morgan's PanAmericana big band and Memo Acevedo's Manhattan Bridges Orchestra. "I wanted to make a project reflecting people and music I've been exposed to." In addition to Anderson, who plays alto and soprano saxophones on the album, Melting Potincludes Colombian-American drummer Memo Acevedo; Venezuelan-American percussionist Roberto Quintero; tabla artist Ehren Hanson; sitarist and vocalist Neel Murgai; Austrian-American bassist Hans Glawischnig; Canadian pianist David Restivo; British trumpeter Bryan Davis; and Israeli flutist Itai Kriss. The unit revels in the creative opportunities to find common ground through musical expression made possible by bringing together musicians who would not ordinarily collaborate. Melting Pot at Systems Two Recording Studios, Brooklyn. L. to r.: Ehren Hanson, Hans Glawischnig, Bryan Davis, Dave Anderson, Neel Murgai, Dave Restivo, Roberto Quintero, Memo Acevedo. Not pictured from album: Itai Kriss, Deep Singh. (Photo: Shea Glover) "I wanted to celebrate specific musical styles brought from abroad to the U.S. by showcasing these styles in a new small jazz ensemble, while demonstrating jazz's unique ability to fuse musical influences into a new and vital whole," Anderson explains. The new CD's five originals, which intermix straight-ahead and Afro-Latin jazz with Indian ragas and traditional Jewish and Mongolian influences, demonstrate how musicians from different lands can weave disparate styles and experiences into a rich and seamless sonic tapestry. The centerpiece of Melting Pot, Anderson's fourth album as a leader, is the three-part "Immigrant Suite," with each section inspired by a real-life person embodying an aspect of the North American immigrant experience. It opens with "Juror Number 1," written for a Cuban immigrant Anderson met during that most multicultural of New York City experiences: jury duty. "Querida," with its samba rhythm first played on pandeiro, is Brazilian Portuguese for "Sweetheart." Its inspiration was a Brazilian immigrant Anderson knew who referred to her closest friends in America using this term. The suite's finale, "A Candle for Isaac," pays tribute to a man Anderson never met -- his girlfriend's father, who passed away in 2013. "He was an Indian Jew who came from Bombay and settled in Montreal," Anderson explains. "Talk about a melting pot!" Born (in 1966) and raised in Cloquet, Minnesota, Dave Anderson started playing saxophone in his school band at age 11 and eventually won awards as an outstanding high school soloist at area jazz festivals. While attending the University of Minnesota, where he earned a psychology degree, he spent much of his time in the music department and played in the university's jazz bands and symphonic wind ensemble. Anderson won a full scholarship to the Aspen Music Festival, performing in a student ensemble that also included Clarence Penn, Ryan Kisor, Scott Whitfield, and Laurence Hobgood. After a brief stay in Toronto, Anderson moved to New York, working as a jack-of-all-trades for Creed Taylor at CTI Records. In 2005, he relocated to Seattle and was active on the music scene there. He released his debut album, the quartet session Clarity, in 2010, and Trio Real in 2011. That same year he moved back to New York to reestablish himself and initiate new projects. His 2016 release Blue Innuendo, an organ-jazz session featuring Pat Bianchi, guitarist Tom Guarna, and drummer Matt Wilson earned a rare 4½-star review from Down Beatfrom Bill Milkowski, who praised its "great chemistry, great playing and good vibes." Anderson's work with Morgan and Acevedo has influenced his decision to explore world music more deeply, something reinforced by living in a true melting pot. "Here in New York I ride the subway every day; I see the Statue of Liberty from the Q train," Anderson says. "I think about my ancestors coming to this place from Finland and Scandinavia. I see the great mix of cultures. I wanted to celebrate these different styles, collaborate with these different people I met, and say 'Hey, let's take what we've all got, bring it together, and maybe we'll even create something new. But we know we'll create something musical and something we can share for people to enjoy.'" Dave Anderson & Melting Pot will perform a CD release show at the Zinc Bar, 82 W. 3rd Street, NYC, on Thursday, 9/6 at 7pm; $20 cover. Photo of Dave Anderson: Evan Shay Dave Anderson Melting Pot Web Site: daveandersonjazz.com ***Blog Post by Dave Anderson: "My Ancestors and the Melting Pot"

Open Land - Meeting John Abercrombie A film by Arno Oehri and Oliver Primus Release date August 3rd An intimate portrait of a great guitarist, filmed near the end of his musical journey. Here we see John Abercrombie gigging with Gary Versace and Adam Nussbaum in Lichtenstein, jamming with Rob Sheps, Eliot Zigmund and David Kingsnorth in New York, teaching music students at Purchase College, talking guitars with NYC luthier Ric McCurdy, and hanging out at home with wife Lisa and Al the cat. Along the way John reflects, with characteristic good humor, on a creative life lived outside the mainstream and traces his story from his first encounter with an electric guitar onwards. Subtly combining and contrasting images and sound, director Arno Oehri achieves a fine balance between music passages and interviews. The film’s soundtrack includes, in addition to the live performances, selections from many of John Abercrombie’s ECM recordings. Watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U3UQFY9_II

Week 8 power rankings https://cflpowerrankings.wordpress.com/2018/07/31/power-rankings-after-week-7-2/ https://www.cfl.ca/2018/07/31/nissan-titan-power-rankings-emerging-eastern-powerhouse/ http://3downnation.com/2018/07/31/power-rankings-not-quite-status-quo/#comments ***** Week 8 checking down https://www.cfl.ca/2018/08/01/checking-latest-brandon-banks-duron-carter/ ***** Week 8 picks https://www.cfl.ca/2018/08/01/weekly-predictor-shortened-offence-key-upset-versus-eskimos/ https://cflpowerrankings.wordpress.com/2018/07/31/cfl-week-8-picks/ https://www.cfl.ca/2018/08/01/prediction-time-cfl-ca-writers-make-week-8-picks/ **** Here's the current situation for former CFL players now in NFL camps. http://3downnation.com/2018/07/30/comprehensive-guide-canadians-former-cflers-nfl-training-camps-3/#comments ***** First pick overall Mark Chapman has signed with Denver. http://3downnation.com/2018/07/25/first-overall-cfl-pick-receiver-mark-chapman-going-to-denver-broncos/#comments ***** Trent Richardson wants to sign with the new AAF. http://3downnation.com/2018/07/27/trent-richardson-wants-to-sign-in-the-aaf-but-the-riders-still-own-his-rights/#comments ***** Brandon Rutley has an ACL tear, and has been put on the six-game list. http://3downnation.com/2018/07/28/lions-rb-brandon-rutley-sidelined-acl-tear/#comments ***** Ronnie Pfeffer has been struggling big time, so the Argos have signed former Redblack Zackary Madeiiros. http://3downnation.com/2018/07/30/argos-sign-national-kp-zackary-medeiros/#comments ****** Zach Collaros will start tomorrow against the Eskimos. https://www.cfl.ca/2018/08/01/collaros-start-vs-esks-carter-back-offence/ http://3downnation.com/2018/08/01/riders-take-50000-cap-hit-for-pulling-collaros-off-the-injured-list/#comments ***** Bryant Turner has retired as a Bomber. https://www.cfl.ca/2018/07/31/bryant-turner-jr-signs-one-day-contract-retires-blue-bombers/ ***** Connor Williams has retired. https://www.cfl.ca/2018/07/31/original-redblack-connor-williams-retires-football/ ***** For August the Als will wear their 1974-1981 helmets. My recollection is that one year during that period, they wore a single decal on their forehead rather than one on each side; but I don't remember which year. Anyone remember? 1977? https://www.cfl.ca/2018/07/31/alouettes-launch-august-helmet-logo/

“This is a straight-ahead trio for the ages, fed by a tension between Mr. Jarrett’s resolute, lapidary touch and the collective’s shape-shifting, onward drive.” - Giovanni Russonello, The New York Times LISTEN / BUY “Returnings unwinds at a pace as leisurely as a daydream, soaking in the slow journey enough that any destination seems like an afterthought.” – Geno Thakara, All About Jazz LISTEN / BUY “an austere and often abstract beauty with fiery passion…, a distinctive and compelling listen.” – Mike Collins, London Jazz News LISTEN / BUY “…a voice like liquid smoke…. Haunting.” – Arsenio Orteza, World Magazine LISTEN / BUY “ near-telepathic discipline and unique triangulation of chamber minimalism, jazz improvisation, and crown-chakra funk.” – Richard Gehr, Village Voice LISTEN / BUY “exquisite…the most elegant of his career.” – Chris Richards, Washington Post LISTEN / BUY “an unassuming masterpiece” – John Garratt, Pop Matters LISTEN / BUY “ spacious, occasionally knotty musical textures in their symbiotic emotional expressions. The result is a bountiful creative freedom.” – Filipe Freitas, Jazz Trail LISTEN / BUY © 2018 ECM Records, a Division of Verve Group. | 1755 Broadway, New York, NY 10019, All rights reserved. The New York Times has praised violinist Miranda Cuckson’s “undeniable musicality,” while Gramophone has declared her “an artist to be reckoned with.” Born in Australia and educated in America, she makes her ECM New Series debut – alongside pianist Blair McMillen – with three 20th-century milestones: the Hungarian Béla Bartók’s Violin Sonata No. 2 (1922), the Russian Alfred Schnittke’s Violin Sonata No. 2 “Quasi una Sonata” (1968) and the Pole Witold Lutoslawski’s Partita for Violin and Piano (1984). “Bringing these great Slavic composers together enables us to hear each dealing with the dichotomies of form and spontaneity, playfulness and seriousness, folk expression and abstraction,” Cuckson explains. ©2016 ECM | 1755 Broadway, Floor 3, New York, NY 10019 ECM RECEIVES SEVEN GRAMMY NOMINATIONS! ECM and its artists are nominated for seven Grammy Awards as announce this morning by The Recording Academy. The nominations span the label’s unique work in recording both contemporary composition and jazz. Nominations go to Armenian composer Tigran Mansurian, Hungarian composer György Kurtág, British composer Gavin Bryars, and producer Manfred Eicher in the classical categories, and to US jazz reedman/composer Chris Potter in jazz. Chris Potter’s The Dreamer Is The Dream, introducing his fiery new quartet with David Virelles, Joe Martin and Marcus Gilmore, is nominated as Jazz Album of the Year. Potter also has a nomination for Best Improvised Jazz Solo for his tenor sax playing on “Ilimba” on the same album. ECM has long-championed the work of Tigran Mansurian whose moving Requiem, dedicated to the memory of victims of the Armenian Genocide, and performed by the Munich Chamber Orchestra and the RIAS Choir Berlin, receives two nominations as Best Contemporary Classical Composition and Best Choral Performance. The Academy acknowledges Gavin Bryars for the first time with a nomination for The Fifth Century, with his settings of Thomas Traherne for the choir The Crossing, in the category Best Choral Performance. György Kurtág’s 3 CD set Complete Works for Ensemble and Choir, definitively performed by the Asko/Schoenberg Ensemble and the Netherlands Radio Choir under the direction of Reinbert de Leeuw, is nominated as Best Classical Compendium. And Manfred Eicher receives his 12th nomination as Classical Producer of the Year, winning the award in 2002. This year’s citation references his productions of Tigran Mansurian’s Requiem, Valentin Silvestrov’s Hieroglyphen der Nacht (with Anja Lechner and Agnès Vesterman), Momo Kodama’s Point and Line – Debussy and Hosokawa, Meredith Monk’s On Behalf of Nature, and Rímur by the Trio Mediaeval with Arve Henriksen. Winners will be announced at the 60th Grammy Awards ceremony in New York City on January 28, 2018.

Week 7 results Edmonton 44....Montreal 23 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2489/edmonton-eskimos-vs-montreal-alouettes/ http://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/edmonton-eskimos-montreal-alouettes-1.4763761 ***** Winnipeg 40....Toronto 14 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2490/toronto-argonauts-vs-winnipeg-blue-bombers/ http://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/toronto-argonauts-winnipeg-blue-bombers-1.4765135 ***** Ottawa 21....Hamilton 15 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2491/ottawa-redblacks-vs-hamilton-tiger-cats/ http://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/ottawa-redblacks-hamilton-tiger-cats-recap-1.4765824 Lewis Ward hit seven field goals. ***** Calgary 34....Saskatchewan 22 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2492/calgary-stampeders-vs-saskatchewan-roughriders/ http://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/calgary-stampeders-saskatchewan-roughriders-recap-1.4765831 The Stamps remain undefeated. ***** Week 7 Plays of the Week https://www.cfl.ca/2018/07/30/gable-makes-the-climb-to-top-spot-in-the-wk-7-timber-mart-plays-of-the-week/ ***** The Riders have cut Jerome Messam. https://www.cfl.ca/2018/07/30/jerome-messam-released-riders-following-criminal-charge/ http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/roughriders-release-jerome-messam-after-voyeurism-charge-relating-to-alleged-video-taping-1.4766989 http://3downnation.com/2018/07/30/riders-release-canadian-rb-jerome-messam-after-criminal-charge/#comments ***** It looks like... Johnny Manziel will start for the Als this week. https://www.cfl.ca/2018/07/30/manziel-practices-alouettes-starting-offence/ http://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/johnny-manziel-alouettes-tiger-cats-1.4767850 http://3downnation.com/2018/07/30/johnny-manziel-takes-first-team-qb-reps-alouettes-practice/#comments and The Argos have benched James Franklin in favor of McLeod Bethel-Thompson. http://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/toronto-argonauts-qb-change-james-franklin-1.4766298 https://www.cfl.ca/2018/07/30/bethel-thompson-to-start-in-week-8/ and Duron Carter will play offense this week https://www.cfl.ca/2018/07/30/report-duron-carter-moved-back-offence/ ***** Zach Collaros has come off the six-game list. https://www.cfl.ca/2018/07/30/collaros-taken-off-six-game-injured-list/ http://3downnation.com/2018/07/30/riders-activate-qb-zach-collaros-six-game-injured-list/#comments http://3downnation.com/2018/07/29/jones-riders-qb-collaros-should-be-fine-after-the-bye-week/#comments http://3downnation.com/2018/07/30/zach-collaros-keeps-secret-riders-injury/#comments ***** Marcus Ball has a new tattoo to celebrate the Argos' Grey Cup win last year! https://www.cfl.ca/2018/07/30/pull-together-inked/ https://www.cfl.ca/2018/07/30/marcus-ball-gets-grey-cup-ink/ ***** The Riders have signed Marcell Young. http://3downnation.com/2018/07/30/riders-bringing-db-marcell-young/#comments ***** The Argos have traded TJ Heath to the Als for Ryan Bomben. http://3downnation.com/2018/07/29/alouettes-trade-canadian-ol-ryan-bomben-to-argos-for-db-t-j-heath/#comments

TOMASZ STANKO (JULY 11, 1942 – JULY 29, 2018) The great Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko has died, aged 76. An innovative force in the music, with an immediately identifiable sound - integrating, by his own description, “Slavic melancholy and the blues” - Stanko first came to broader attention in the early 1960s with the groups of composer-pianist Krzysztof Komeda, playing on the soundtracks of Polanski’s films and contributing to the Komeda album Astigmatic, one of the defining recordings of new European jazz. The trumpeter would reassess this period of his life on the widely-acclaimed Litania in 1997. Tomasz made his ECM debut in 1975 with the great Balladyna album featuring Tomasz Szukalski on tenor sax, Dave Holland on bass and Edward Vesala on drums. Stanko and the Finnish drummer enjoyed a close artistic friendship, playing together in various configurations including Vesala’s large ensemble on Satu. Like his early hero Miles Davis, Stanko was a discerning bandleader and each of his groups had its own distinct character. Matka Joanna and Leosia, with Bobo Stenson, Anders Jormin and Tony Oxley balanced lyricism and turbulent free play. The band on From The Green Hill – with its unusual frontline featuring Stanko, John Surman, Dino Saluzzi and classical violinist Michelle Makarski - grew out of an experimental session at an ECM festival in Badenweiler. Soul of Things introduced the world at large to the talents of Marcin Wasilewski, Slawomir Kurkiewicz and Michal Miskiewicz, and on Suspended Night and Lontano, one could hear their improvisational capacities opening up under Stanko’s guidance. Wasilewski and co always hailed Tomasz as their mentor, a claim he would modestly wave away: “No, no – I’ve learned just as much from them.” Dark Eyes pooled the talents of young improvisers from the North, with two Danes (Jakob Bro and Anders Christensen) and two Finns (Alexi Tuomarila and Olavi Louhivuori) in a program referencing music originally written to accompany plays of Swedish writer Lars Norén, as well as a title track inspired by an Oskar Kokoschka painting. “Everything you experience gets into the music,” Tomasz said, “but I’ve always been touched as much by art as by anything else in life. Fiction, poetry, film, the theatre. The visual arts especially. The way a painter uses paint, or the way he approaches form, distorting it to abstraction, or painting naturalistically or poetically ... these aspects can be paralleled in my musical language, in the way I shape a melody line.” By the early 2000s, Stanko was splitting his time between New York and Warsaw, subsequently founding a New York Quartet, strikingly free of native New Yorkers, for the album Wisława with Cuban born pianist David Virelles, Detroit drummer Gerald Cleaver, and Californian bassist Thomas Morgan, replaced on December Avenue by Reuben Rogers from the Virgin Islands. In all of his groups Tomasz encouraged freedom of expression and he derived great pleasure from the improvisational contributions of his musicians. Before becoming ill earlier this year he was looking forward to touring in a new quintet with fellow trumpeter Enrico Rava, pianist Giovanni Guidi and the New York Quartet rhythm team of Reuben Rogers and Gerald Cleaver. Friends since 1965, Stanko and Rava had touched on almost all aspects of modern jazz in the course of their long careers – from the freest free playing (both had worked with Cecil Taylor and with Globe Unity) to the tenderest Chet Baker and Miles Davis - inspired balladry – and in concert were developing a broad program to reflect all of this. Manfred Eicher selected a sequence of Tomasz Stanko’s music as a remembrance – listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOJ4KJz97xo&feature=youtu.be NPR’s tribute is here: https://www.npr.org/2018/07/30/633942859/tomasz-stanko-a-trumpeter-whose-music-spoke-to-freedom-has-died

RIP. I will probably get an obit from ECM, and if so I'll post it. I loved his tone.

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Week 7 picks https://cflpowerrankings.wordpress.com/2018/07/25/cfl-week-7-picks/ https://www.cfl.ca/2018/07/25/prediction-time-cfl-ca-writers-make-picks-week-7/ https://3downnation.com/2018/07/26/cfl-picks-let-bad-blood-begin/ http://www.rodpedersen.com/2018/07/week-7-cfl-picks-2018.html https://thegruelingtruth.net/podcast/cfl-weekly-pickem-show-week-7-w-robert-drummond/ https://www.cfl.ca/2018/07/25/weekly-predictor-redemption-hughes-messam-vs-former-team/ ***** one more Week 7 power rankings https://cflpowerrankings.wordpress.com/2018/07/25/power-rankings-after-week-6-2/ ***** Week 7 game notes https://www.cfl.ca/2018/07/25/cfl-ca-game-notes-look-week-7-2/ ***** Week 7 checking down https://www.cfl.ca/2018/07/25/checking-coach-sherman-names-vernon-adams-jr-starting-qb/ ***** Although two of last week's games were on ESPN2, I was able to watch all four on ESPN+!

Thanks Jim!

Here are a few old press releases which I did not post at the time, which you might enjoy seeing. Arvo Pärt The Symphonies NFM Wrocław Philharmonic Tõnu Kaljuste, conductor Forty-five years separate Arvo Pärt’s four symphonies, and each one, as the great Estonian composer has noted, is a world unto itself. Newly recorded and heard in chronological order, they also tell us much about Pärt’s musical and spiritual journey, and the very different ways in which he has exercised his craft - from his early days as a student in 1963 to 2008, by which time he was the world’s most widely-performed contemporary composer. LISTEN / (Pre)ORDER Ravel / Franck / Ligeti / Messiaen Duo Gazzana György Ligeti Duo (1946) / César Franck A major Sonata (1886) Maurice Ravel Sonate posthume (1897) / Olivier Messiaen Thème et variations (1932) Natascia Gazzana violin | Raffaella Gazzana piano A sense of discovery is a key theme in the third ECM recital of sisters Natascia and Raffaella Gazzana. Alongside a landscape of French music for violin and piano, drawing on a multiplicity of inspirations, is a premiere recording of György Ligeti’s Duo. LISTEN / (Pre)ORDER Alexander Knaifel Lukomoriye Oleg Malov piano | Tatiana Melentieva soprano | Piotr Migunov bass Lege Artis Choir conducted by Boris Abalian The fourth New Series album from the St Petersburg-based composer Alexander Knaifel may be his most wide-ranging to date, voyaging from the sacred to the secular and back again via several inspired detours. Luminously quiet, and quietly magical. LISTEN / (Pre)ORDER © 2018 ECM Records, a Division of Verve Group. | 1755 Broadway, New York, NY 10019, All rights reserved. Stephan Micus, Inland Sea Stephan Micus balanzikom, nyckelharpa, chord and bass zithers, shakuhachi, voice, steel string guitar, genbri "Inland Sea is a beautifully textured soundscape not tied to any time or place. With airy tones and earthy twangs, Micus grows something both worldly and otherworldly—mysteriously alien but with something familiar and organic underlying it all.” - Geno Thackara, All About Jazz “There is no musician like Micus; so is the notion that there is no music like his. Inland Sea is another deep dive into sound. While Micus' discipline is rigorous, the listening offers only abundant pleasure.” - Thom Jurek, All Music Inland Sea is Stephan Micus’ 22nd solo album for ECM, each one taking his audience on musical journeys to far-flung places and unique sound worlds. For decades, he has been travelling, collecting and studying musical instruments from all over the world and creating new music for them. Micus often combines instruments from different cultures and continents that would never normally be played together, adapting and extending them, and rarely playing them in a traditional manner. The instruments then become a cast of characters that help tell the particular story of that album. While he plays nine different instruments on Inland Sea, the lead role belongs to the nyckelharpa - a keyed fiddle from Sweden, with an array of other instruments and vocals providing layers and textures throughout. © 2017 ECM | ECM Records USA | 1755 Broadway, 3rd floor | New York NY 10011 Keith Jarrett piano "the very best of the pianist's long-form solo piano releases. It's a set whose importance cannot be underestimated and should not be undervalued." –John Kelman, allaboutjazz.com A Multitude of Angels is a 4-CD set of recordings from a series of solo concerts in Italy from October 1996, documenting the conclusion of Keith Jarrett’s experiments with long-form improvisation in performances from Modena, Ferrara, Turin, and Genoa. “These were the last concerts I played having no breaks within each set,” Jarrett explains in his liner notes. The arc of the music is characteristically comprehensive: “Jazz is ever present here, alongside my deep closeness with classical music (modern and ancient, Ives and Bach).” András Schiff piano “Beethoven sonata cycles are occasions, but they don’t always make history. This one did…. The recordings are luminous. Although they were recorded live in Zurich, Switzerland, they reveal a kind of preserved freshness. An ideal piano dances in imaginary space. Everything in Beethoven can be heard, savored, adored. I recommend them without qualification.” – Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times András Schiff: “The Beethoven sonatas can be logically divided into three distinct groups: early, middle and late. To me, playing them in chronological order is most convincing and deeply satisfying. Among the thirty-two there is not one weak link. And this way the listener is able to follow the process of evolution, step by step. It is a learning experience; we are fellow travellers on a fantastic voyage.” This specially-priced 11 CD edition contains the complete piano sonatas by Ludwig van Beethoven, recorded live in concert at the Tonhalle in Zürich. It also includes encores from these concerts with works by Schubert, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven and Bach, as well as an extensive booklet, which re-collects all original conversations around the sonatas, and adds an insightful new text by András Schiff reflecting upon the “Encores after Beethoven”. “ Better than any other comparably sized collection, this trio of albums offers a crisp overview of 15 dramatic years in the composer’s development.” – Seth Colter Walls, Pitchfork Steve Reich has been described by The Guardian as one of “a handful of living composers who can legitimately claim to have altered the direction of musical history" and as “the greatest musical thinker of our time” by The New Yorker. Reich celebrated his 80th birthday on October 3, and The ECM Recordings brings together the landmark albums Music for 18 Musicians, Music for a Large Ensemble/Violin Phase/Octet and Tehillim in a limited edition set to mark the occasion. Originally released in 1978, 1980 and 1982, each of these recordings had a decisive influence which continues to reverberate across musical idioms. The 3-CD box set includes a 44-page booklet with original liner notes by Steve Reich, a new essay by Paul Griffiths, and session photography by Deborah Feingold and Barbara Klemm. ©2016 ECM | 1755 Broadway, Floor 3, New York, NY 10019 Kim Kashkashian viola Irini Karagianni mezzo-soprano; Tassis Christoyannopoulos baritone Vangelis Christopoulos oboe; Stella Gadedi flute; Marie-Cécile Boulard clarinet; Sonia Pisk bassoon; Vangelis Skouras french horn; Sokratis Anthis trumpet; Maria Bildea harp; Katerina Ktona harpsichord ERT choir, Antonis Kontogeorgiou choirmaster Camerata Orchestra, Alexandros Myrat conductor The stage cantata David features Eleni Karaindrou’s music for a unique piece of Aegean drama, a verse play with words by an unknown 18th century poet from the island of Chios. Its text (first published only in 1979), invites a musical response and Greek composer Karaindrou rises splendidly to the challenge, imaginatively moving between past and present in her settings for mezzo-soprano and baritone singers, instrumental soloists, choir and orchestra. Kim Kashkashian’s evocative viola against strings may trigger associations with Karaindrou’s acclaimed writing for Ulysses’ Gaze. The music also draws inspiration from the world of baroque opera as singers Irini Karagianni and Tassis Christoyannopoulos are brought to the foreground. Karaindrou’s David is a work of changing music colors . Recorded live at the Athens Megaron, it was edited and mixed by Manfred Eicher and Nikos Espialdis for CD release. ©2016 ECM | 1755 Broadway, Floor 3, New York, NY 10019 For five decades, vocalist-composer Meredith Monk has explored what she calls “primordial utterance,” or non-verbal vocal sound that lay beneath and beyond language, expressing “that for which we have no words.” This exploration has led her to create music that The New Yorker describes as simultaneously “visceral and ethereal, raw and rapt,” an art that “sings, dances and meditates on timeless forces.” With her latest, multivalent ECMNew Series album, Monk aimed to address ecology and climate change, she says: “Believing that music speaks more directly than words, I worked to make a piece with a fluid, perceptual field that could expand awareness of what we are in danger of losing. On Behalf of Nature is a meditation on our intimate connection to nature, its inner structures, the fragility of its ecology and our interdependence.” Voices and instruments have equal weight: sometimes each is heard alone; sometimes they are blended to form a new, mysterious sound; sometimes they are combined to create intricate, layered, yet transparent sonic landscapes. ©2016 ECM | 1755 Broadway, Floor 3, New York, NY 10019 David Virelles acoustic piano, Hammond B3 organ, Roland JUNO-6, Vermona electric piano, Wurlitzer electric piano, prepared piano, programming, samples; Alexander Overington electronics, samples, cello; Henry Threadgill alto saxophone; Román Díazvocals; Marcus Gilmore drums, electronic percussion; Rafiq Bhatia guitar; Etián Brebaje Man vocals; Mauricio Herrera percussion; Los Seres: a fictional percussion ensemble, created and programmed by David Virelles The music of Cuban-born, Brooklyn-based pianist David Virelles conjures a hallucinatory world in which ancient Afro-Cuban rhythms and ritual reverberate in the here and now. His latest ECM offering is Antenna, music attuned to a timeless rhythmic-cultural current even as it pulses with a vibrantly urban, modernist energy. Antenna – a six-track, 22-minute EP released exclusively on vinyl and digitally – sees Virelles channel Afro-Cuban percussion into an electro-acoustic, almost psychedelic swirl, one that melds jazz improvisation and organic grooves with digital refraction, shadowy synthesizers, otherworldly field recordings and Cuban street poetry. Antenna is an undulating, throbbing, dizzying dream of sound. Mbòkó, Virelles’s ECM leader debut from 2014, featured in Best Of The Year lists in The New York Times, NPR, iTunes and The Village Voice, among others. The Guardiandescribed it as “a jazz-infused world-music project beyond categories,” adding: “Virelles looks set to make big differences in contemporary music for years to come.” ©2016 ECM | 1755 Broadway, Floor 3, New York, NY 10019

Here is some more on the Manziel trade. http://3downnation.com/2018/06/21/june-jones-johnny-manziel-should-be-playing-in-the-nfl/#comments http://3downnation.com/2018/07/09/half-of-the-nfl-has-checked-in-with-manziels-agent-about-johnny-football/#comments http://3downnation.com/2018/07/10/landon-rice-big-part-ticats-unorthodox-o-line/#comments http://3downnation.com/2018/07/10/suitor-alouettes-kicked-the-tires-on-manziel-deal-found-out-price-was-high/#comments http://3downnation.com/2018/07/23/update-ticats-practice-new-guys-arent-yet/#comments http://3downnation.com/2018/07/24/hamilton-johnny-trade-makes-football-sense-not-famous-sense/#comments http://3downnation.com/2018/07/24/qa-alouettes-gm-kavis-reed-on-trading-for-qb-johnny-manziel/#comments http://3downnation.com/2018/07/24/update-ticats-practice-new-guys/#comments http://3downnation.com/2018/07/24/former-gm-danny-maciocia-would-not-have-made-manziel-trade/#comments http://3downnation.com/2018/07/24/alouettes-starting-vernon-adams-at-qb-not-johnny-manziel-against-eskimos/#comments ***** Manziel's successor at A&M, Kenny Hill, has also signed with the Alouettes. http://3downnation.com/2018/06/25/manziels-successor-at-texas-am-qb-kenny-hill-signs-with-alouettes/#comments ***** Mic'hael Brooks signed with the Riders. http://3downnation.com/2018/06/24/riders-sign-former-lions-dl-michael-brooks/#comments ***** The league and the union agreed to discontinue voluntary mini-camps. http://3downnation.com/2018/06/25/cfl-cflpa-cancel-voluntary-off-season-mini-camps/#comments ***** Andy Fantuz cited Ricky Ray's injury when announcing his retirement, so I looked for anything more about Ray's injury that I had not already posted, and found this one. http://3downnation.com/2018/06/27/argos-qb-ricky-ray-expected-to-miss-the-rest-of-the-2018-season-sources/#comments ***** The Eskimos, after consultation, decided not to change their nickname. http://3downnation.com/2018/06/28/eskimos-brass-on-northern-visits-to-talk-about-name-where-we-fit-in/#comments http://3downnation.com/2018/07/03/eskimos-not-changing-name-consultations-inuit-ceo/#comments ***** Faith Ekakitie signed with the Als. He then promptly tore his Achilles tendon, and is out for the year. http://3downnation.com/2018/06/14/alouettes-sign-2017-no-1-draft-choice-dl-faith-ekakitie/#comments http://3downnation.com/2018/06/29/faith-ekakitie-suffers-torn-achilles-will-miss-entire-2018-season/#comments ***** The Ticats cut Braden Schram, and he quickly signed with the Riders. http://3downnation.com/2018/06/28/analysis-why-the-ticats-moved-on-from-braden-schram/#comments http://3downnation.com/2018/07/02/riders-sign-former-ticats-canadian-ol-braden-schram/#comments ***** The Riders sent Eric Striker to the Argos for a neg list name. http://3downnation.com/2018/07/03/riders-trade-lbdl-eric-striker-to-argos/#comments ***** Jeff Hecht signed with the Bombers. http://3downnation.com/2018/07/09/bomers-sign-former-riders-canadian-db-jeff-hecht/#comments ***** Solomon Elimimian hurt his wrist badly, and was put on the six-game list. http://3downnation.com/2018/07/17/32404/#comments http://3downnation.com/2018/07/17/b-c-lions-set-pass-torch-elimimian-injury/#comments ***** Nik Lewis officially retired as a Stampeder Friday. http://3downnation.com/2018/07/18/nik-lewis-officially-retiring-stampeder/#comments http://3downnation.com/2018/07/20/cfl-receptions-leader-nik-lewis-retires-calgary-stampeder/#comments ***** Here is the latest on Terrell Owens. http://3downnation.com/2018/07/20/eskimos-release-terrell-owens-negotiation-list/#comments http://3downnation.com/2018/07/20/agent-for-terrell-owens-feels-there-is-interest-from-other-cfl-teams/#comments http://3downnation.com/2018/07/21/terrell-owens-says-its-very-obvious-he-has-skill-set-to-still-play-pro-football/#comments ***** Frederic Plesius has signed with the Bombers. http://3downnation.com/2018/07/21/frederic-plesius-agrees-terms-bombers/#comments