GA Russell

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For me it's Miles' recording of ESP.

ECM Django Bates’ Belovèd The Study of Touch Django Bates: piano Petter Eldh: double bass Peter Bruun: drums U.S. Release date: November 3, 2017 ECM 2534 B0027523-02 UPC: 6025 573 2663 5 “One of jazz’s great piano trios” - The Guardian Django Bates is a major presence in ECM’s schedule this season. He is featured on Tunisian oud master Anouar Brahem’s new trans-idiomatic international quartet on the album Blue Maqams, alongside Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette. Now comes Django’s own leader date with the trio Belovèd, in which the British keyboardist/composer/arranger addresses his first love, the piano. Bates, who once vowed never to front a piano trio on grounds that there were enough in the world, found his resolve weakening in 2005 when he began teaching at Copenhagen’s Rhythmic Music Academy. “I was walking along its corridors when I heard a drummer and a bass player playing in an ensemble in one of the practice rooms, and thought ‘If I ever changed my mind about piano trios I’d definitely want to use those two guys’”. Before long, the idea became irresistible, and Bates, bassist Petter Eldh and drummer Peter Bruun met to play together on a weekly basis. “We did that for a whole year, just improvising, and it was fantastic.” In response to a commission from Copenhagen Jazz House, Bates then wrote arrangements of music by or associated with Charlie Parker, one of his earliest heroes, and recorded them with Eldh and Bruun for an album called Belovèd Bird, issued on Django’s own Lost Marble label. “It was incredible to me how quickly we could learn written music together, after all the free playing: I’d never experienced that process in that way.” Imaginative arrangements of Parker began to alternate with Django’s own tunes in the repertoire of Belovèd, as the trio was now known, “to see how the two composers would play with each other.” On The Study of Touch, recorded at Oslo’s Rainbow Studio and produced by Manfred Eicher, the band’s origins are acknowledged with a single Parker miniature, an incisively realized version of Bird’s tune “Passport”. Almost all of the rest of the program is from Django’s pen: “It felt like it was time to let Parker go, and to go back to being the composer in the band myself.” The new album, Bates explains, is shaped around its title tune. “The Study of Touch had been performed a lot, in many different contexts [including a premiere at The Proms at the Royal Albert Hall] and I really wanted to document it. And it also seemed a good name for an album, so we started to build pieces around it to tell a story. And they could be old pieces or newer pieces, it didn’t really matter to me, because our music is always changing and evolving.” The first new piece created for this set was “Slippage Street”, written to “counterbalance the beauty of The Study of Touch”: it was composed “picturing the trio in Rainbow Studio with Manfred as our audience. I really wrote it for him to listen to,” says Bates. The album opens, however, with an older composition, “Sadness All The Way Down” which “starts at the very top of the keyboard and works its way down to the very bottom, but with a lot of subtlety in the journey.” It’s a piece that gives notice of the special qualities of Belovéd. “I play a lot more in Belovèd than I do in my other projects, which often have a huge density of sound. Nothing is lost, nothing is hidden in the trio. Everything I play has a space to have a meaning.” His cohorts help to shape that space in their own, idiosyncratic ways, Eldh with his polyrhythmic approach to the bass, Bruun with his almost painterly sense for coloration. These are highly original players. “What Petter and Peter bring to this music of mine is a refusal to play what I’ve written. It’s difficult for a composer to learn that this can be the best way, and hard to explain why it works. I write very detailed music, there’s no lack of detail, and I have my dream sound in mind. Then these guys, each of them, adds at least one other layer of their own. And they bring their own personalities to the music, and then it really takes off…” As the BBC Music Magazinehas written: “The rhythm section of Bruun and Eldh does a staggering job of matching and anticipating Bates’ synaptic-fast soliloquies.” The music is in movement throughout, all the way to its concluding piece, “Happiness All The Way Up” which swiftly bubbles out of the piano’s deep regions and leaps beyond the top notes with what Django describes as “a kind of pentatonic harp sound”, ending the album in an optimistic spirit. Django Bates has credited the variety of musical influences in his work to his childhood, his father being a collector of jazz, African, and Romanian folk music. A founder member of the collective Loose Tubes, his bands have included Human Chain, Delightful Precipice, and stoRMChaser. Bates has also appeared alongside Bill Bruford, Dudu Pukwana, Wynton Marsalis, Michael Brecker, Tim Berne, and Ronnie Scott. He has written for The Dutch Metropole Orchestra, The Brodsky Quartet, Joanna MacGregor, Britten Sinfonia, Royal Shakespeare Company, the Duisburg Philharmonic, the Norrbotten Big Band, and many others. Django made his ECM debut in 1985 with the band First House, and in the early 1990s recorded with Sidsel Endresen’s group, appearing on the albums So I Write and Exile. Bates was appointed Denmark’s first professor of rhythmic music at Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen, Denmark, a position he held until 2011 when he left to take up a position as professor of jazz at the Berne University of the Arts in Switzerland. Peter Bruun began playing drums at age three at Rythmic Childrens School in Vesterbro in Copenhagen, gateway to “a life-long immersion into drums, music and composition”. At 18 he entered Copenhagen’s Rhythmic Music Academy, discontinuing his formal musical education after three years to study on his own while travelling through India and Brazil. In addition to his work with Belovéd, Bruun plays in a number of other bands including All Too Human, with Marc Ducret, Kasper Tranberg and Simon Toldam, and the Samuel Blaser Trio. Swedish-born bassist Petter Eldh started his musical life as guitarist, switching to double bass in his early teens. As with Django Bates, it was the music of Charlie Parker which sparked his interest in jazz. He currently plays across a broad range of contemporary jazz and free improvising contexts including the group Enemy with Kit Downes and James Maddren, Speak Low with Lucia Cadotsch and Otis Sandsjö, Amok Amor with Peter Evans, Gard Nilssen’s Acoustic Unity and more.

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Maciej Obara Quartet Unloved Maciej Obara: alto saxophone Dominik Wania: piano Ole Morten Vågan double bass Gard Nilssen drums ECM 2573 B0027525-02 UPC: 6025 576 4562 0 “My friends are amazing improvisers. I love their ability to move around freely in open spaces, and the way they shape and give colour to what I have in mind…” Maciej Obara Polish alto saxophonist Maciej Obara makes a very striking ECM debut with Unloved, an album whose expressive range embraces tender lyricism and impassioned, fiery, powerful playing. With the exception of the title track, a yearning ballad written by Krzysztof Komeda (spiritus rector of modern jazz in Poland) for Janusz Nasfeter’s film of the same name, the featured pieces originate from Obara’s pen, in a program that he describes as “a very personal statement, about people very dear to me, and places that inspire me.” He also emphasizes, however, that his themes merely “serve as outlines, from which our sound is set free. …It’s more like composing in real time”, with highly engaged input from all gifted members of his group. Each of the four players is a bandleader in his own right; for five years they’ve have been pooling their talents in the half-Polish, half-Norwegian Obara Quartet, and taking their music around the world. Maciej Obara and pianist Dominik Wania first established their musical rapport inside a Tomasz Stanko ensemble a decade ago, discovering a shared feeling for form and for freedom which is extended in the international quartet with Ole Morten Vågan and Gard Nilssen. Lines of influence radiate in many directions in this band, and all of the players are adept at functioning and thriving in the interstices of the idioms and the zones between the notated and the completely free. Tomasz Stanko has described Maciej Obara as “a great musician, whose music is powerful, mature, deep, full of charm and beauty. It’s his own.” The distinctiveness of Obara’s sound and approach has been a constant through his work from the outset, and - rather like Stanko before him - he has tested his improvisational capacity on both sides of the Atlantic, collaborating in New York in 2010 with Nasheet Waits, Mark Helias and Ralph Alessi (who praised his “great sensitivity for improvisation of the moment”). Reviewing the quartet with Wania, Vågan and Nilssen at the Molde Festival, All About Jazz’s John Kelman wrote that “Obara was nothing short of a revelation, an altoist unafraid to try anything, but constantly listening to the music around him in order to find that shared understanding.” Pianist Dominik Wania graduated from the Krakow Music Academy with an Honors Degree in classical music performance, and won a scholarship to study at the New England Conservatory in Boston. He harnesses a formidable technique in his improvisations – see for instance his thrilling playing on the piece “Echoes” here. His discography as a leader includes the album Ravel, with his setting of the French composer’s Miroirs for jazz trio. Bassist Ole Morten Vågan is the artistic director of the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, and was the prime mover and main composer of the band Motif, which gave early exposure to trumpeter Mathias Eick. He can be heard on ECM with Thomas Strønen’s Time Is A Blind Guide. Other affiliations include the band Generator X with Audun Kleive and Christian Wallumrød. Gard Nilssen is leader of the trio Acoustic Unity with saxophonist André Roligheten and bassist Petter Eldh, and also plays in power-rock/jazz trio Bushman’s Revenge. He has recorded with Mathias Eick for ECM on the album Skala. A former student of Jon Christensen, Nilssen has become one of the most in-demand drummers in Europe, and has worked with many of jazz’s leading figures. This summer he played in trio with Arild Andersen and Pat Metheny at the Molde International Jazz Festival. Unloved was recorded at Oslo’s Rainbow Studio in January 2017 and produced by Manfred Eicher. The first international release - and the first studio album - from the group, it follows three concert recordings released on Polish label For Tune: Komeda: Absolutely Live, Live at Manggha, and Live In Minsk Mazowiecki. The album Unloved is launched with a release concert at the Jazztopad Festival in Wroclaw on November 17, followed by club and festival dates in Germany, Spain, Norway and Poland. For more details consult the tour pages at www.ecmrecords.com and Maciej Obara’s web site: www.maciejobara.com

RIP. He was on one of my most favorite albums, Stan Getz's Sweet Rain.

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Django Bates piano | Petter Eldh double bass | Peter Bruun drums_ British pianist Django Bates returns to ECM with one of his very finest constellations – three highly individual players subtly challenge the conventions of the jazz piano trio. Bates’ composing and arranging skills are much in evidence, along with his freewheeling, free-flowing virtuosic melodic sense. The terse, percussive edge of Eldh’s bass provides momentum and drummer Bruun details the music with an almost painterly touch. In the crowded world of the piano trio, Belovèd has developed a sound all its own. Stefano Battaglia piano, prepared piano Stefano Battaglia plays both piano and prepared piano (sometimes simultaneously) in a highly attractive double-album program that includes his own compositions and spontaneous improvisations as well as two versions of the Arabic traditional song “Lamma Bada Yatathanna”. The melodic and texturally-inventive pieces, some of almost hypnotic allure, were recorded both in concert and in “closed doors” sessions at the Fazioli Concert Hall in Sacile, Italy, in May 2016, and subsequently arranged into what Battaglia describes as “a wonderful new shape with a completely new dramaturgy” by producer Manfred Eicher. Maciej Obara alto saxophone | Dominik Wania piano Ole Morten Vågan double bass | Gard Nilssen drums Maciej Obara makes a striking ECM debut with Unloved, an album whose expressive range embraces tender lyricism and impassioned, fiery, powerful playing. Bar one track, the themes are by the highly inventive alto saxophonist Obara who emphasizes however that they “serve as outlines, from which our sound is set free. My friends are amazing improvisers. I love their ability to move around freely in open spaces, and the way they shape and give color to what I have in mind…” Björn Meyer bass guitar There is a distinguished tradition of solo bass albums on ECM, but Provenance is the first to be devoted to the electric bass guitar. Björn Meyer, Swedish-born, Swiss-based, and known to ECM followers through his work with Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin and Anouar Brahem, has shaped a unique voice for his instrument inside the most diverse contexts. Although his instrument is technically non-acoustic, Meyer’s solo work is concerned with the experience of sound in acoustic spaces with the richness of the the highly responsive Auditorio Stello Molo RSI in Lugano helping to bring out all the fine detail in his subtle playing. © 2017 ECM | ECM Records USA | 1755 Broadway, 3rd floor | New York NY 10011

Happy Birthday 2017 MG!

Week 16 results Hamilton 30....Winnipeg 13 The Ticats have won four of their last six. https://www.cfl.ca/games/2432/hamilton-tiger-cats-vs-winnipeg-blue-bombers/ http://3downnation.com/2017/10/03/blue-bomber-talk-podcast-episode-60-ft-drew-edwards/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/04/andrew-harris-told-charles-roberts-he-would-take-his-job-while-in-high-school/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/05/news-notes-changes-ticats-vs-brombers/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/05/bombers-qb-matt-nichols-says-wife-knows-football/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/05/bombers-say-they-need-to-take-care-of-business-against-scrappy-ticats/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/06/ticats-kicker-sergio-castillo-injured/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/06/bombers-qb-matt-nichols-leaves-game-hand-injury/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/06/ticats-take-bombers-make-push-playoffs/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/07/video-ticats-june-jones-players-win-bombers/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/07/ticats-learned-win-not-moment-soon/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/07/bombers-lose-game-nichols-11-thoughts/#comments

This is Canadian Thanksgiving weekend. This is the first Thanksgiving I can recall that they are not playing two games. ***** Week 16 picks https://www.cfl.ca/2017/10/05/cfl-ca-writers-make-week-16-picks/ http://www.rodpedersen.com/2017/10/week-16-cfl-picks-2017.html https://www.cfl.ca/2017/10/04/weekly-predictor-busting-slump/ http://thegruelingtruth.net/podcast/cfl-weekly-pickem-show-week-16/ http://3downnation.com/2017/10/06/week-16-picks-can-the-east-fight-back/ http://3downnation.com/2017/10/06/slam-dunk-picks-turkey-tidings/#comments ***** Week 16 game notes https://www.cfl.ca/2017/10/05/cfl-ca-game-notes-look-week-16-2/

Happy Birthday 2017 Brad!

Power Rankings http://www.tsn.ca/stampeders-steady-atop-cfl-power-rankings-1.876601 ***** Let's look at more recent headlines. Khalil Bass was released by the Redblacks and signed by the Argos. http://3downnation.com/2017/09/15/lb-khalil-bass-released-redblacks/#comments https://www.cfl.ca/2017/10/03/argonauts-sign-lb-khalil-bass-two-others-practice-roster/ http://3downnation.com/2017/10/03/argos-bring-in-lb-khalil-bass/#comments ***** Victor Butler and Cleyon Lang have returned from injury. This should help the Argos a lot. https://www.cfl.ca/2017/10/03/argonauts-sign-lb-khalil-bass-two-others-practice-roster/ https://www.cfl.ca/2017/10/03/argonauts-sign-lb-khalil-bass-two-others-practice-roster/ ***** Alex Singleton set a league record with three consecutive games with at least ten tackles. http://3downnation.com/2017/09/16/canadian-lb-alex-singleton-sets-cfl-record-stamps-extend-home-win-streak/#comments ***** The Alouettes have coaxed Ken Miller out of retirement to serve as an "offensive consultant." http://3downnation.com/2017/09/17/former-riders-head-coach-ken-miller-added-as-offensive-consultant-by-alouettes/#comments ***** The Redblaacks have signed Greg Jones. http://3downnation.com/2017/09/19/redblacks-sign-former-riders-argos-lb-greg-jones/#comments ***** The Riders have brought back Joe Craig. http://3downnation.com/2017/09/22/riders-agree-to-terms-with-joe-craig/#comments ***** James Wilder, Jr., broke an Argos team record by rushing for 331 yards over two consecutive games. http://3downnation.com/2017/09/24/wilder-breaks-team-record-sparks-argos-victory-over-als/#comments ***** Weston Dressler is out for a couple of weeks with an upper body injury. http://3downnation.com/2017/09/25/bombers-receiver-weston-dressler-couple-weeks/#comments ***** The Stampeders have become the first team to clinch a playoff spot, and then a playoff home game. http://3downnation.com/2017/09/25/stampeders-first-team-clinch-playoff-spot/#comments ***** Trent Richardson will play his first game for the Riders this weekend. http://3downnation.com/2017/09/27/riders-will-pay-trent-richardson/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/09/28/riders-signing-trent-richardson-good-bad/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/02/trent-richardson-rejoins-riders/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/03/trent-richardson-make-riders-debut-saturday/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/03/argos-ready-trent-richardson-riders-debut/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/04/trent-richardson-used-to-smash-mouth-football/#comments ***** The Riders have put Naaman Roosevelt on the six-game injured list. http://3downnation.com/2017/09/26/namaan-roosevelt-absent-riders-practice/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/09/28/riders-put-receiver-namaan-roosevelt-six-game-injured-list/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/03/namaan-roosevelt-practising-with-riders/#comments ***** Zach Collaros has refused to renegotiate his contract, so it looks like he won't be with the Ticats next year. http://3downnation.com/2017/09/28/collaros-will-not-renegotiate-wearing-new-uniform-next-season-report/#comments ***** Trevor Harris is expected to return this weekend. http://3downnation.com/2017/10/02/redblacks-rick-campbell-would-be-surprised-if-trevor-harris-doesnt-play-against-b-c/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/03/redblacks-qb-trevor-harris-taking-first-team-reps/#comments ***** The Riders have placed AC Leonard on the six-game injured list. http://3downnation.com/2017/10/03/riders-place-c-leonard-six-game-injured-list/#comments ***** The Ticats released Curtis Newton, and the next day the Argos signed him. http://3downnation.com/2017/10/05/argos-pick-canadian-lb-one-day-ticats-release/#comments

ECM Jon Balke - Siwan - Nahnou Houm Release date November 17, 2017 Mona Boutchebak: vocals, oud; Jon Balke; piano, keyboards, percussion; Derya Turkan: kamanche; Pedram Khavar Zamini: tombak; Helga Norbakken: percussion; Bjarte Eike: baroque violin; Alison Luthmers, Øivind Nussle: violins; Milos Valent, Per Buhre, Torbjørn Köhl: violas; Judith Maria Blomsterberg, Mime Brinkmann: cellos; Johannes Lundberg: bass Siwan, the international collective led by Norwegian keyboardist-composer-arranger Jon Balke, released its ECM debut in 2009 and is now back, rallying its powerful instrumental forces behind a new lead singer, Mona Boutchebak from Algeria. Perceived correspondences between Arabic music, Andalusian classical music and European baroque music fired Jon Balke's imagination when he started this project a decade ago. To bring these sound worlds closer together he set poetry of Al Andalus, reflecting upon a period of coexistence between adherents of the three great religions. But Siwan does not set out to be an "historical" project: it's a contemporary creation, delivered by an alliance of strongly individual players, fronted by a vocalist deeply rooted in Arab music traditions.

Valentin Silvestrov Hieroglyphen der Nacht Anja Lechner violoncello, tamtam | Agnès Vestermann violoncello Released in time for the great Ukrainian composer’s 80th birthday on September 30, this features Silvestrov’s achingly beautiful music for solo violoncello and for two cellos. His compositions often take the form of metaphorical conversations with composers of the past and the present. “My own music is a response to and an echo of what already exists,” says Silvestrov, viewing his oeuvre as a series of “codas” to music history. John Potter Secret History Sacred Music by Josquin and Victoria John Potter voice | Anna Maria Friman voice Ariel Abramovich, Jacob Heringman alto, tenor & bass vihuelas Lee Santana alto & tenor vihuelas | Hille Perl viola da gamba Tomas Luis de Victoria and Josquin Desprez were not contemporaries, lived and worked in different countries, and perhaps shared little in terms of abstract compositional style. Yet generations of musicians recognized them as kindred spirits, and tablature versions of their masses and motets circulated amongst lutenists. In this characteristically creative project, Potter - joined by Trio Mediaeval singer Anna Maria Friman and three outstanding vihuela players - explores “what happens to music after it is composed.” Alexei Lubimov Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Tangere Alexei Lubimov tangent piano Russian pianist Alexei Lubimov is the rare artist who has been a trailblazer in two directions, both a champion of new music and a dedicated interpreter of Baroque music with a passion for period instruments. In this remarkable reading of music by CPE Bach, Lubimov responds to the inventiveness of the composer’s fantasies, sonatas and rondos by making full creative use of the sonorities of the tangent piano with great expression and intensity. Danish String Quartet Last Leaf Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen violin, harmonium, piano, glockenspiel Frederik Øland violin | Asbjørn Nørgaard viola Fredrik Schøyen Sjölin violoncello, double bass They are widely recognized as the most exciting young quartet of the moment, bringing new insights to contemporary composition and core classical repertoire. In parallel, their surprising and impressive forays into the world of Nordic folk music delight audiences at their concerts. This stirring new recording is their second folk project: “in these old melodies, we find immense beauty and depth, and we can't help but sing them through the medium of our string quartet,” says the DSQ © 2017 ECM | ECM Records USA | 1755 Broadway, 3rd floor | New York NY 10011 ECM Django Bates' Belovèd - The Study of Touch Release date: November 3, 2017 Django Bates: piano; Petter Eldh: double bass; Peter Bruun: drums British pianist Django Bates returns to ECM with one of his very finest constellations, the trio Belovèd, with Swedish bassist Petter Eldh and Danish drummer Peter Bruun, and an aptly named album, The Study of Touch. All three musicians are highly individual players, subtly challenging the conventions of the jazz piano trio. The group came together a decade ago when Bates was teaching at Copenhagen's Rhythmic Music Conservatory. Bates' composing and arranging skills are much in evidence, along with his freewheeling, free-flowing virtuosic melodic sense. The terse, percussive edge of Petter Eldh's bass provides momentum and drummer Peter Bruun details the music with an almost painterly touch. In the crowded world of the piano trio, Belovèd has developed a sound all its own. The Study of Touch was recorded at Oslo's Rainbow Studio in June 2016, and produced by Manfred Eicher. ECM Maciej Obara Quartet - Unloved Release date: November 3, 2017 Maciej Obara: alto saxophone; Dominik Wania: piano; Ole Morten Vågan: double bass; Gard Nilssen: drums Maciej Obara makes a striking ECM debut with Unloved, an album whose expressive range embraces tender lyricism and impassioned, fiery, powerful playing. With the exception of the title track - written by Krzysztof Komeda (spiritus rector of modern jazz in Poland) for Janusz Nasfeter's film of the same name - themes are by the highly inventive alto saxophonist. Obara emphasizes however that his themes "serve as outlines, from which our sound is set free. My friends are amazing improvisers. I love their ability to move around freely in open spaces, and the way they shape and give color to what I have in mind...It's more like composing in real time." The players have been developing their concept for several years: Maciej Obara and pianist Dominik Wania, another major talent, first met in a Tomasz Stanko ensemble a decade ago. Since 2012 they have been joined by two highly creative Norwegian musicians, bassist Ole Morten Vågan and drummer Gard Nilssen. (Vågan's ECM credits include work with Thomas Strønen's Time Is A Blind Guide, while Nilssen can be heard on Mathias Eick's Skala.) Unloved was recorded at Oslo's Rainbow Studio in January 2017 and produced by Manfred Eicher. THE SOUND OF HELP Bill Frisell Offers Special Download To Benefit Houston’s Mayor, Sylvester Turner’s Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund 100% Worldwide. The download can be purchased in the following formats; MP3, AAC & FLAC for $12.99 & $16.99 respectively [CLICK HERE] © 2017 ECM | ECM Records USA | 1755 Broadway, 3rd floor | New York NY 10011

Alto Saxophonist Richie Cole Heads South of the Border for Inspiration on "Latin Lover," Due Oct. 20 on His RCP Imprint (Richie Cole Presents) Acclaimed Torchbearer of Hard Bop Presents Eclectic Latin Jazz Program with Inventive Versions of Songs from Broadway & Hollywood As Well as Pop Hits & Originals October 3, 2017 Alto saxophonist Richie Cole has covered a lot of stylistic ground since he left the Berklee School of Music in 1969 to join the Buddy Rich Band at age 21. Long known as a torchbearer for bebop, Cole started referring to his style of playing as "Alto Madness" in the 1970s, and that has been his motto ever since. In the course of a prolific career fast approaching the half-century mark, Cole has included Latin jazz tunes on many recordings, but surprisingly -- given his affinity for that style -- has never devoted an entire album to Latin jazz. Cole has now remedied that oversight with Latin Lover, his new album for Richie Cole Presents, which will be released on October 20. What's not surprising is the highly original stamp Cole places on arrangements and repertoire throughout. He's put together a wonderful and witty program of music that, in addition to four of his own compositions (including a reprise of "Island Breeze" from his classic 1978 outing Alto Madness), features versions of the traditional Mexican children's song "Cielito Lindo," a Mariachi band staple today; "Lonely Bull," a smash hit for Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass in 1962; Great American Songbook classics "Almost Like Being in Love" and "Harlem Nocturne"; and unexpected items such as "If I Only Had a Brain" from The Wizard of Oz, arranged as a samba, and Neil Sedaka's 1974 pop hit, "Laughter in the Rain." "I've always had a passion for Latin music and Latin-flavored embellishments, so it was time," Cole explains, though in keeping with his sense of humor he admits the album's title is ironic. "I doubt anyone would consider me a Valentino-type Lothario," he quips. As for some of the unconventional song choices on the new album, they share a common denominator: "What matters is that these tunes have great melodies and I can swing my ass off on them." As a teenager, Cole played in Machito's big band for two summers at the Concord Hotel, a famed resort in New York's Catskill Mountains. "Playing with Machito was my first real exposure to this music," he recalls. "I was kind of lost at first. The bassist never played on the one and that took a lot of getting used to. But eventually I got it. It was a great learning experience." Cole has played plenty of Latin jazz since cutting his teeth with Machito, including in an all-star festival band with Tito Puente alongside Dizzy Gillespie and Stan Getz. Coming of age on the East Coast, he was exposed to all manner of Latin sounds and has also toured Mexico numerous times (his son-in-law is from there), most recently with veteran trumpeter Luis Gasca. Bassist and producer Mark Perna is one of the "angels" who have been instrumental in facilitating Cole's artistic output since the saxophonist moved to Pittsburgh in 2014. "We really put a lot of thought into how to follow Richie's ballads album," Perna says, referring to last year's well-received Richie Cole Plays Ballads & Love Songs. Perna reassembled the simpatico cast from the Ballads album -- guitarist Eric Susoeff, who's worked with artists ranging from Dizzy Gillespie to Ivan Lins, and whose primary focus is his Latin Jazz quintet Salsamba, founded in 1984; versatile drummer Vince Taglieri, whose extensive experience includes work with big bands, theater productions, and jazz artists such as Bobby Shew and Sean Jones; and Perna himself, a veteran musician who's recorded six albums under his own leadership and has worked with Don Aliquo, Emily Remler, and Ron Affif, among many others -- with the addition of pianist Kevin Moore, a Berklee alum whose musical travels have taken him to 60 countries and back to his native Pittsburgh. "The songs on Latin Lover aren't heavily arranged," says Perna, "but they're very much tailored to Richie. He's really one of a kind." Richie Cole was born on Leap Day in 1948 in Trenton, NJ. His father, a big band enthusiast, ran the Harlem Club, a local jazz joint, and the Las Vegas-style showroom, Hubby's Inn. Cole was 10 when he started playing the saxophone. At 16, he attended a music camp directed by alto legend Phil Woods before heading for Boston's Berklee School of Music on a full scholarship from DownBeat magazine. After coming up in the big bands of Buddy Rich, Lionel Hampton, and Doc Severinsen, Cole formed his own quintet. In the early '70s, he began a long association with the great vocalist Eddie Jefferson that lasted until Jefferson's tragic death in 1979. Over the ensuing decades, Cole has toured regularly, recorded prolifically in myriad settings, and resided in numerous cities on both coasts and in between. Now comfortably ensconced in Pittsburgh, he's free to pursue his muse and unleash his creativity, Alto Madness and beyond. Photography: Aaron Jackendoff Web Site:markpernamusic.com/richie-cole

Let's go back to some recent headlines. Here's the most relevant track of NFL cuts of CFL people I've seen. http://3downnation.com/2017/09/02/cfl-related-nfl-cutdown-tracker/#comments ***** It looks like next year's CFL Week will be in Winnipeg. https://www.3downnation.com/2017/09/08/cfl-week-headed-winnipeg-report/#comments ***** The league is considering usng a ball the same size as the NFL's. http://3downnation.com/2017/09/11/cfl-demoing-footballs-that-would-be-exactly-the-same-as-nfl-balls/#comments ***** The league's trading deadline is Oct. 11. http://3downnation.com/2017/09/11/cfl-sets-trade-deadline-date-time/#comments ***** BC has hired Ryan Phillips as a regional scout. http://3downnation.com/2017/09/11/former-lions-db-ryan-phillips-hired-as-regional-scout-by-b-c/#comments ***** Otha Foster has rejoined the Riders. http://3downnation.com/2017/09/12/defender-otha-foster-on-his-way-to-join-riders/#comments ***** Travis Lulay's playing career may be over. http://3downnation.com/2017/09/12/travis-lulay-coping-lost-season-uncertain-future/#comments ***** The Riders released AJ Jefferson, and the Eskimos signed him the following day. http://3downnation.com/2017/09/12/eskimos-agree-to-terms-with-db-a-j-jefferson-day-after-riders-release/#comments ***** The Ticats released Bryan Tyms, and the Argos promptly signed him. http://3downnation.com/2017/09/13/ticats-release-rec-brian-tyms/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/09/14/argos-sign-former-ticats-receiver-bryan-tyms/#comments ***** The league expects to add a week to the schedule (giving each team three bye weeks) next year for the purpose of giving the players more rest. http://3downnation.com/2017/09/13/cfl-go-21-week-schedule-2018/#comments ***** Ambrosie has outlawed practices with pads for the remainder of the season. http://3downnation.com/2017/09/13/b-c-lions-coach-laments-practice-rule-changes/#comments

Week 16 Power Rankings http://3downnation.com/2017/10/02/3down-power-rankings-stampeding-field/#comments http://www.sportingnews.com/ca/cfl/news/week-16-cfl-power-rankings-toronto-argos-on-the-rise/jsgfxb8a1w481c4jg95cx7z4k http://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/cfl-power-rankings-week-17-1.4317143 http://www.sportsnet.ca/football/cfl/cfl-power-rankings-week-16-stampeders-remain-class-league/ http://thegruelingtruth.net/football/cfl/2017-cfl-power-rankings-week-16/ https://www.cfl.ca/2017/10/03/nissan-titan-power-rankings-stamps-holding-no-1/ ***** early Week 16 picks http://www.sportingnews.com/ca/cfl/news/week-16-cfl-picks-cj-gable-may-get-eskimos-over-the-hump-edmonton/uowl6q6wtssp1654baltgxu2l ***** The Ticats have traded CJ Gable to the Eskimos for two neg list names. http://3downnation.com/2017/09/20/ticats-rb-c-j-gable-miss-game-vs-lions-due-injury/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/09/28/gable-green-ticats-decision-make-running-back/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/02/ticats-trade-rb-c-j-gable-to-eskimos/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/02/qa-eskimos-gm-brock-sunderland-on-trading-for-c-j-gable/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/02/milton-gable-leaves-hole-locker-room-not-roster/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/02/qa-ticats-gm-eric-tillman-on-dealing-away-c-j-gable/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/03/podskee-wee-wee-episode-90/#comments

Happy Birthday 2017 Ken!

Happy Birthday 2017 Edward!

Happy Birthday 2017 Rod!

Now there is confirmation of his passing. http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/10/03/legendary-rock-star-tom-petty-dead-at-66.html

Man from UNCLE - Season 1 - 9.99 GBP https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00VFZU95U/ This is half what I paid for it.

last Week 15 picks http://3downnation.com/2017/09/29/slam-dunk-picks-field-goal-differences/#comments ***** Week 15 results Sask 18....Ottawa 17 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2428/saskatchewan-roughriders-vs-ottawa-redblacks/ http://3downnation.com/2017/09/28/redblacks-suffer-another-loss-on-o-line-before-game-against-visiting-riders/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/09/30/riders-flip-script-ottawa-spectacular-fashion/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/09/30/redblacks-blow-another-fourth-quarter-lead-12-thoughts/#comments ***** Calgary 59....Montreal 11 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2429/montreal-alouettes-vs-calgary-stampeders/ https://www.cfl.ca/games/2429/montreal-alouettes-vs-calgary-stampeders/ http://3downnation.com/2017/09/28/stamps-rb-jerome-messam-game-alouettes/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/09/28/former-stamps-star-nik-lewis-set-visit-mcmahon-stadium-likely-last-time/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/09/30/stampeders-lay-epic-beatdown-alouettes/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/09/30/picking-pieces-alouettes-horrific-loss-calgary/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/09/30/mitchell-stamps-exert-dominance-heading-bye-week/#comments ***** Toronto 43....Hamilton 35 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2430/toronto-argonauts-vs-hamilton-tiger-cats/ http://3downnation.com/2017/09/28/ticats-andy-fantuz-set-return-weekend-argos/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/09/30/cfl-command-centre-makes-another-mind-boggling-call/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/09/30/ticats-blow-fourth-quarter-lead-lose-argos-ot/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/09/30/video-ticats-june-jones-masoli-lawrence-loss-argos/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/01/argos-break-curse-of-tim-hortons-field/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/01/milton-seeds-ticats-ot-loss-argos-sown-early-season-slump/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/01/learned-ticats-devastating-overtime-loss-argos/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/02/ticats-nobody-blame-loss-argos/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/01/questionable-officiating-costs-ticats-dearly-loss-argos/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/02/cfl-admits-blew-replay-call-ticats-loss-argos-sources/#comments ***** Winnipeg 28....Edmonton 19 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2431/winnipeg-blue-bombers-vs-edmonton-eskimos/ http://3downnation.com/2017/09/29/eskimos-hope-bye-week-rest-helps-rediscover-winning-against-bombers/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/01/darvin-adams-one-hand-toe-tap-touchdown/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/01/chris-randle-picks-off-mike-reilly-sends-eskimos-sixth-straight-loss/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/10/01/bombers-essentially-clinch-home-playoff-game-12-thoughts/#comments

He may be still alive. Drudge currently says that he is "clinging to life." http://drudgereport.com CBS reported that he had died, but TMZ said that that report is wrong. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/tom-petty-rock-iconoclast-who-led-the-heartbreakers-dead-at-66-w506651 http://www.indiewire.com/2017/10/tom-petty-dead-66-cardiac-arrest-1201882918/