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Justin Dunk still has not yet posted his Slam Dunk picks yet. Otherwise, here are the last Week 18 picks. http://3downnation.com/2017/10/20/week-18-picks-can-riders-overcome-controversy/#comment-95781 ***** The Als released Tiquan Underwood. I wonder what that's all about. https://www.cfl.ca/2017/10/18/report-durant-returns-first-team-offence-als-prepare-ticats/#UnderwoodTovell ***** The Grey Cup was on display Wednesday at the Canton hall of fame. https://www.cfl.ca/2017/10/18/grey-cup-visits-pro-football-hall-fame-canton/

I think any genius is someone who has an original idea. Einstein is considered a genius because he thought of his theory of relativity before anyone else did. So in jazz, I think a good example would be A Love Supreme. That is not a favorite of mine, but it is unlike what came before it, so it is a work of genius.

Jim, I had that Jim Norton card in '62! I had Dick Christy's card in '61. He was a huge star at State, and he is still mentioned in the paper every once in a while. I remember when he was killed in a car wreck a few years later. By the way, if Talamini was an original Oiler, then he would have been drafted in '60.

Just in time for the playoffs, Ian Wild has come off the injured list. http://3downnation.com/2017/10/18/bombers-activate-lb-ian-wild-injured-list/#comments ***** Weston Dressler will also return to the Bombers. http://3downnation.com/2017/10/17/weston-dressler-set-to-return-for-bombers/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/17/dresslers-return-gives-injury-depleted-bombers-timely-boost/#comments ***** Week 18 game notes https://www.cfl.ca/2017/10/19/cfl-ca-game-notes-look-week-18/ ***** Week 18 checking down https://www.cfl.ca/2017/10/19/checking-no-qb-change-hamilton/ ***** more Week 18 picks https://www.cfl.ca/2017/10/18/cfl-ca-writers-make-week-18-picks/ https://www.cfl.ca/2017/10/18/weekly-predictor-third-times-charm-riders/ http://www.rodpedersen.com/2017/10/week-18-cfl-picks-2017.html https://www.getmoresports.com/cfl-weekly-rundown-for-week-18/ http://thegruelingtruth.net/podcast/cfl-weekly-pickem-show-week-18-wrobert-drummond/ ***** more Week 18 Power Rankings https://www.getmoresports.com/cfl-power-rankings-for-week-18/

Phil Miller passed away yesterday. RIP. From 1971 - 1983, a majority of the albums I bought were Canterbury scene, and he was a major player, recording with Caravan, Hatfield, Matching Mole, National Health and others. One favorite of mine was called Before a Word was Said. One track from that was used by ESPN as the theme song for their weekly fights show. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Miller

RIP. Here's a video of the group performing at the 2004 Grey Cup. http://3downnation.com/2017/10/18/lets-remember-gord-downie-2004-grey-cup/#comments

How to Marry a Millionaire, Season 2 - $8.99 prime https://www.amazon.com/How-Marry-Millionaire-Season-Discs/dp/B01LTHO73S/

My favorite AFL book is called Going Long. https://www.amazon.com/Going-Long-Renegade-American-Football/dp/0071441549/ I've just finished reading Babe Parilli's biography Kentucky Babe. https://www.amazon.com/Kentucky-Babe-Parilli-Story/dp/1463703473/

YA Tittle passed away the other day. RIP. I had his bubble gum card in 1959. Here's a good interview with Hugh McElhenny. http://www.sfgate.com/49ers/article/McElhenny-recalls-Tittle-fellow-member-of-12277540.php

TTK, I once read (perhaps in Miles' approved biography) that he urged Cannonball to sign with a label that took jazz seriously, like Blue Note; and was disappointed when Cannon signed with Mercury.

My favorite album is not very well known - Mike Nock's In, Out & Around (with Michael Brecker, George Mraz and Al Foster). I also like a Sam Rivers impulse! date called Sizzle which I don't think has ever been issued on CD.

Joe, I think you've hit the nail on the head!

I remember the story Quincy Jones told in his autobiography video. Mercury hired him to be in charge of their jazz records. He asked them what they considered a jazz record to be, and they said, "Anything that sells less than 20,000 copies!"

The Riders got into a fight during yesterday's practice. The press is treating it like it's a big deal, but I'm not sure if it is. http://3downnation.com/2017/10/16/incident-practice-lead-duron-carter-suspension/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/17/riders-duron-carter-and-bakari-grant-salaries-guaranteed/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/17/jovon-johnson-stands-up-for-riders-teammate-duron-carter/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/17/riders-hc-chris-jones-says-fight-harmless-wont-comment-on-discipline/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/17/qa-riders-head-coach-chris-jones-on-fight-gone-bad/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/17/jovon-johnson-shares-what-led-to-riders-fight-duron-carter-side-steps-coach-involvement/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/17/riders-fans-cant-ignore-fight-means/#comments https://www.cfl.ca/2017/10/17/report-jones-riders-address-media-alleged-practice-altercation/ http://www.sportsnet.ca/football/cfl/riders-coach-downplays-carter-williams-fight-part-football/ ***** Darvin Adams is gone for at least the remainder of the regular season. http://3downnation.com/2017/10/17/bombers-leading-receiver-darvin-adams-remainder-regular-seasom/#comments ***** The league has released the list of those eligible for the Most Outstanding Rookie Award. https://www.cfl.ca/2017/10/17/cfl-unveils-list-eligible-players-outstanding-rookie-award/ http://3downnation.com/2017/10/17/eligible-players-cfl-outstanding-rookie-award/#comments ***** more Week 18 Power Rankings https://www.cfl.ca/2017/10/17/eskimos-headed-nissan-titan-power-rankings/ ***** early Week 18 picks http://www.sportingnews.com/ca/cfl/news/week-18-cfl-picks-saskatchewan-roughriders-postseason-berth/j12wek530lpz1gg79qpw2atci

Nashville Jazz Crusader Rahsaan Barber's Third CD as a Leader, "The Music in the Night," Set for November 3 Release On His Jazz Music City Records New CD Focuses on Standards After Two Recordings of Mostly Original Material October 17, 2017 Saxophonist, composer, and bandleader Rahsaan Barber's years of activity as a performer, producer, presenter, educator, and most recently DJ in his native Nashville have established him as an integral part of the city's vibrant jazz scene. In fact, Barber named his record label and concert production company Jazz Music City to make the point that there's more to America's "Music City" than the Grand Ole Opry. With the release on November 3 of The Music in the Night, he also reveals there's more to Rahsaan Barber than his reputation as composer of the cutting-edge modern jazz works that were the primary focus of his two previous albums, 2005's Trio Soul and 2011's Everyday Magic. Only glimpsed there were his gentle side and his skills as a gifted interpreter of standards that, in his hands, are transformed in fresh and highly original ways. Barber writes in his liner notes that recording an album of standards was his mother Stella's idea. She told him "how much she missed hearing my approach to standards, and how much she felt my ability to interpret familiar songs sets me apart from my peers." He also followed the advice of his grandmother, the late Zepher Selby, who told him to "play pretty" and "make sure you put a blues in every set." Every track on The Music in the Night is notable, ranging from the swinging opener "Isn't She Lovely" to the gorgeous treatment of the Michael Jackson hit "She's Out of My Life"; from a reggae-tinged rendition of Rodgers and Hart's "My Funny Valentine" to the Ray Charles classic "Georgia on My Mind" treated as a slow blues with a backbeat. Then there are versions of Hoagy Carmichael and Johnny Mercer's "Skylark," the lyrics of which inspired the album title, and Antonio Carlos Jobim's "The Girl from Ipanema." While it never achieved the popularity to qualify as a standard, "The Backbone" (composed by bassist Butch Warren for a 1964 Dexter Gordon album) is a tour de force showcasing the chops of Barber's rhythm section: pianist Matt Endahl, drummer Derrek Phillips, and 20-year-old bassist Jack Aylor. Family played a huge role in Rahsaan Barber's musical development. Stella and Robert Barber Sr. named their twin sons, Rahsaan and Roland, born in Nashville on April 2, 1980, after the late multi-reed master Rahsaan Roland Kirk. The twins grew up listening to hymns at Nashville's St. Luke CME Church, which their great-great uncles and aunts had helped to found in 1915 and where their grandmother later served as pianist and choir director. At home, they heard records by Luther Vandross, Stephanie Mills, and other soul singers favored by their mother, a singer herself. Their father, a blues fan originally from Memphis, began taking saxophonist Rahsaan and trombonist Roland to sit in at blues clubs when they were as young as 14. And his grandmother introduced Rahsaan to the music of such early tenor saxophone giants as Coleman Hawkins, Ben Webster, and Don Byas. After graduating high school, the brothers enrolled at Indiana University (IU) and studied with onetime George Russell trombonist David Baker, who, Rahsaan says, "redefined what jazz education could look like and sound like. He was a trailblazer culturally." Barber also credits Tom Walsh, his saxophone teacher at IU, "with the grand majority of what I can do with the saxophone. He was a godsend-the right person at the right time at the right place." The twins spent five years at IU, both receiving bachelor's degrees and Artist Diplomas in jazz and instrumental studies. After recording Twinnovation, their only album together, in 2001, they spent two years at the Manhattan School of Music, earning master's degrees in jazz performance in 2005. Roland today teaches at Vanderbilt University, where his parents had met years earlier. Rahsaan taught at Belmont College for six years and at Tennessee State University for two and a half years before recently retiring from academia. Barber presently performs with several of his own groups: his quartet and quintet, as well as the septet El Movimiento, which blends jazz, Latin, and world music with hip-hop and rock; The Megaphones, which combines New Orleans brass band music and hip-hop; and the 12-piece Nashville Salsa Machine. He has produced CDs by trumpeter Imer Santiago, vocalist Stephanie Ablington, and El Movimiento. His extensive recording and/or performing credits include work with such diverse artists as Big Smo, Kelly Clarkson, Gladys Knight, Delfeayo Marsalis, Kirk Franklin, Hunter Hayes, Kid Rock, Martina McBride, Idina Menzel, Lionel Richie, and Darius Rucker. He serves as vice president of the Tennessee Blues and Jazz Society, where he designs live re-creations of classic jazz and blues albums and hosts the weekly one-hour radio show "Generations of Jazz" Mondays at 7 p.m. on KFSK-FM at Fisk University. Photography: Rusty Russell Web Site rahsaanbarber.com

I've been enjoying this quite a bit for the past week. It is not nearly as "latin" as I expected it to be. At a low volume, not only do I not hear the bass (which is common for me), I don't hear the piano either. That leaves the alto sax and guitar duetting, with a little drumming behind them.

Saturday's results Winnipeg 26....BC 20 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2438/bc-lions-vs-winnipeg-blue-bombers/ http://3downnation.com/2017/10/11/ombers-qb-matt-nichols-will-play-saturday-against-the-lions/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/11/b-c-lions-cant-explain-season-slipping/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/13/bombers-qb-matt-nichols-ready-lions-glove-no-glove/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/14/bombers-lose-leading-receiver-darvon-adams-shoulder-injury/ http://3downnation.com/2017/10/14/bombers-clinch-playoff-spot-put-lions-dire-straights/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/14/bombers-clinch-playoff-berth-suffer-key-injuries-11-thoughts/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/15/truly-offensive-lions-life-support/#comments ***** Edmonton 30....Toronto 27 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2439/toronto-argonauts-vs-edmonton-eskimos/ http://3downnation.com/2017/10/12/argos-james-wilder-wont-running-wild-edmonton/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/13/gable-looks-build-off-big-eskimos-debut-edmonton-hosts-toronto/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/15/derel-walker-helps-eskimos-clinch-playoff-spot-win-argos/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/15/odell-willis-healthy-scratch-eskimos/#comments ***** So with their wins on Saturday, both the Bombers and the Eskimos have clinched playoff spots. Here are the scenarios for Week 18. https://www.cfl.ca/2017/10/14/playoff-scenarios-2017-week-18/ http://3downnation.com/2017/10/16/cfls-muddled-playoff-picture-slowly-starting-clear/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/15/cfl-playoff-scenarios-week-18/#comments ***** Chris Getzlaff has signed with the Riders. https://www.cfl.ca/2017/10/16/getzlaf-goes-home-inks-deal-riders/ http://3downnation.com/2017/10/16/riders-sign-chris-getzlaf/#comments ***** Great news! The league has resumed its Plays of the Week. Here are Week 17's. https://www.cfl.ca/2017/10/16/a-couple-of-impressive-aerial-plays-top-the-list-in-week-17/ http://3downnation.com/2017/10/10/stamps-remove-receiver-kamar-jorden-six-game-injured-list/#comments ***** Moe Leggett is out for the year with a torn achilles tendon. https://www.cfl.ca/2017/10/15/maurice-leggett-suffers-season-ending-injury/ http://3downnation.com/2017/10/15/bombers-maurice-leggett-suffers-season-ending-injury/#comments ***** Here is an unofficial all-rookie team. https://www.cfl.ca/2017/10/15/bright-future-breaking-2017-rookie-team/ ***** Week 18 Power Rankings http://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/cfl-power-rankings-week-19-1.4357712 http://www.sportingnews.com/ca/cfl/news/week-18-cfl-power-rankings-edmonton-eskimos-ottawa-redblacks-on-rise-at-perfect-time-of-season/127vt94fnsbvc19snoexf2jb92 http://thegruelingtruth.net/football/2017-cfl-power-rankings-105th-grey-cup-in-sight/ http://www.sportsnet.ca/football/cfl/cfl-power-rankings-week-18-redblacks-team-beat-east/ http://3downnation.com/2017/10/16/3down-power-rankings-surging-and-sinking-from-playoff-contention/#comments

November 7th & 8th New York, NY - (Jazz Standard) Click for Details November 10th Boston, MA - (Regatta Bar) Click for Details © 2017 ECM | ECM Records USA | 1755 Broadway, 3rd floor | New York NY 10011

Happy Birthday 2017 Bluerein!

Happy Birthday 2017 John!

Happy Birthday 2017 T.D.!

Joe Medjuck might know the answer to this: Why have the newspapers of America kept silent about these casting couch-ers for decades? Fifty years ago, newspapers were chock full of movie ads. But it's been many years since I've seen one. So why do the newspapers ignore the obvious?

This international collective led by Norwegian keyboardist-composer-arranger Jon Balke, released its ECM debut in 2009 (“a contemporary masterpiece” – allaboutjazzcom) and is now back, rallying powerful instrumental forces behind a new lead singer deeply rooted in Arab music traditions. Perceived correspondences between Arabic music, Andalusian classical and European baroque music fired Jon Balke’s imagination when he started this project a decade ago. Siwan is a contemporary creation, delivered by an alliance of strongly individual players. Mona Boutchebak vocals; Jon Balke keyboards; Derya Turkan kemençe; Helge Norbakken percussion; Pedram Khavar Zamini: tumbak; Barokksolistene: Bjarte Eike violin, leader; Alison Luthmers violin; Øivind Nussle violin; Milos Valent viola; Per Buhre viola: Torbjørn Köhl viola; Judith Maria Blomsterberg cello; Mime Brinkmann cello; Johannes Lundberg bass © 2017 ECM | ECM Records USA | 1755 Broadway, 3rd floor | New York NY 10011

Week 17 results Calgary 28....Hamilton 25 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2436/calgary-stampeders-vs-hamilton-tiger-cats/ http://3downnation.com/2017/10/11/stampeders-head-hamilton-reinforcement-receiver/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/12/milton-ticats-playoff-hopes-dependent-masolis-progress/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/12/jerome-messam-terry-williams-form-new-look-stamps-backfield/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/12/ticats-make-changes-ahead-showdown-calgary/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/12/ticats-look-avenge-embarrassing-60-1-loss-stampeders/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/13/ticats-need-win-calgary-face-nail-biting-night/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/13/stamps-forced-challenge-obvious-blown-call-early-ticats/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/13/ticats-diminutive-return-man-willie-quinn-leaves-game-crutches/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/13/ticats-loss-clinches-playoff-spot-argos/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/13/now-wait-ticats-take-penalty-lose-stamps-last-play/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/13/video-ticats-courtney-stephen-loss-stampeders/#comments ***** Ottawa 33....Sask 32 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2437/ottawa-redblacks-vs-saskatchewan-roughriders/ http://3downnation.com/2017/10/10/riders-make-series-roster-moves/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/10/redblacks-activate-ol-jon-gott-off-injured-list/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/12/chad-owens-set-riders-debut/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/12/riders-lafrance-hope-make-playoff-push-redblacks/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/12/report-chance-redblacks-brad-sinopoli-wont-suit-riders-game/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/13/redblacks-receiver-brad-sinopoli-scratched-riders-game/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/13/twitter-beef-redblacks-riders-feud-duron-carter-cheap-shot/#comments ***** So as of this moment, here are the playoff scenarios. The Ticats' loss combined with the Redblacks' win eliminates the Ticats from playoff contention. Both the Argos and the Redblacks have clinched at least second place in the East. The fourth place Western team has clinched the crossover spot. https://www.cfl.ca/2017/10/13/playoff-scenarios-stamps-argos-eye-division-crown/ http://3downnation.com/2017/10/14/ticats-eliminated-playoff-race-redblacks-win/#comments

Tonight's Calgary-Hamilton game is currently on ESPN2.