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RareNoiseRecords Presents Roswell Rudd / Fay Victor / Lafayette Harris / Ken Filiano with Embrace CD, VINYL AND MULTIPLE DIGITAL FORMATS AVAILABLE IN STORES AND ONLINE ON NOVEMBER 17, 2017 (ROSWELL'S 82ND BIRTHDAY!) AND THROUGH WWW.RARENOISERECORDS.COM. ROSWELL RUDD CELEBRATES HIS 82ND BIRTHDAY AND CD RELEASE AT DIZZY'S, JOINING THE AUDIENCE AS FRIENDS AND COLLABORATORS TAKE THE STAGE TO HONOR HIM. FOLLOWING A CANCER DIAGNOSIS, RUDD WILL NOT BE PERFORMING, BUT HE WILL ATTEND THE EVENT. FOR LINEUP AND DETAILS ON THE TRIBUTE AT DIZZY'S ON NOVEMBER 16, PLEASE GO HERE. Roswell Rudd Trombone Fay Victor Voice Lafayette Harris Piano Ken Filiano Double Bass EMBRACE ROSWELL RUDD - A MUSICAL TRIBUTE FROM FRIENDS AND COLLABORATORS DIZZY'S CLUB COCA COLA, NYC November 16, 2017 7.30 PM & 9.30 PM Details Here WITH Archie Shepp, Terry Adams, Emily Haines, Sheila Jordan, Heather Masse, Hal Wilner, Rolf Sturm, Reggie Bennett, Mark Helias Sexmob Steve Bernstein, Briggan Krauss, Kenny Wollesen, Mark Helias Trombone Tribe Josh Roseman, Art Baron, Greg Glassman, Ray Anderson, Deborah Weisz, Steve Swell, Bob Stewart Embrace Fay Victor, Lafayette Harris, Ken Filiano ABOUT THE LABEL - RareNoiseRecords was founded in 2008 by two Italians, entrepreneur Giacomo Bruzzo and music producer Eraldo Bernocchi. Located in London, the label's mission is to detect and amplify contemporary trends in progressive music, by highlighting their relation to the history of the art-form, while choosing not to be bound by pre-conceptions of genre. It seeks to become a guiding light for all those enamored by exciting, adventurous and progressive sounds. For further information and to listen please go to www.rarenoiserecords.com. New York, November 9, 2017 - For his follow-up to 2016's purely improvised studio recording Strength & Power (featuring pianist Jamie Saft, bassist Trevor Dunn and drummer Balazs Pandi), the ever-adventurous trombonist-composer Roswell Rudd made a decided shift in direction on his first RareNoiseRecords release as a leader by embracing jazz standards he has loved and played throughout his long and illustrious career. Accompanied by the brilliant pianist Lafayette Harris, upright bass virtuoso Ken Filiano and soulful vocal sensation Fay Victor, the 81-year-old jazz master (who turns 82 years old on November 17, the day of the release) delivers with rare potency and poignancy on the aptly-titled Embrace. This intimate, drum-less quartet session is brimming with conversational playing between all the participants, with Rudd and Victor partaking in some particularly interactive exchanges on jazz classics like Billy Strayhorn's "Something to Live For," Charles Mingus' "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat," Thelonious Monk's beautiful ballad "Pannonica," the standard "Can't We Be Friends" and the traditional "House of the Rising Sun." Rudd has high praise for his empathetic partners on Embrace. "Lafayette Harris is one of the best accompanists that I ever played with. Boy, is he there! He's not only ahead of the music, he's in the moment and behind it all at the same time. It's amazing to find somebody who can play like that. It's as if Lafayette has been there all my life when I play with him. Kenny Filiano is a virtuoso of the bass, particularly with the bow. Let the world be told and shown! And Fay Victor is my most recent discovery. Fay is an instrument, a voice, a personality, a spirit...all of those and more." Of the members in this Embrace quartet, Rudd goes back furthest with Filiano (the bassist appears on the trombonist's 2000 album Broad Strokes as well as 2011's The Incredible Honk). Harris appeared on Rudd's 2008 album Keep Your Heart Right (which had a similar drum-less quartet configuration featuring vocalist Sunny Kim) and also on The Incredible Honk. Victor previously made a guest appearance on two tracks from 2013's Trombone For Lovers. "I like playing without drums occasionally and I've done that a bit over the years," says Rudd. "I hear the harmonics of the singers a lot better when the drums aren't there. I don't know, it just seems to work better for me with voice and piano. Getting those interactions is something that's very important to me, which I learned about from Sheila Jordan and some other vocalists that I've been lucky enough to play with. I really want to hear the whole harmonic series of the singers when I play with them. And you know that's a very delicate and temperamental place to come from." Rudd treads delicately on the tender opener, "Something to Live For," a 1939 song, which marked the first collaboration between Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington. Following a beautiful solo piano intro, Rudd sings the melody through his horn in raucous yet poignant fashion, like latter day Billie Holiday. Victor enters and the trombonist proceeds to shadow and comment on her soulful singing through the remainder of the piece. They inject a lively, almost calypso type bounce into Mingus' "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat," a tune mostly played as a brooding, funereal dirge. "That version came from playing it over and over when we got together," says Rudd. "This is what eventually emerged." Victor showcases her scatting prowess on this number before singing the Rahsaan Roland Kirk lyrics, which the saxophonist had penned for his 1976 album The Return of the 5000 Lb. Man. "Yeah, we got our own take on it," continues Rudd. "And that tune is so infectious it is bound to get to each musical personality in its own way. And that's what we are. We're four musical personalities who go together, whatever we're playing." Victor channels her inner Betty Carter on a jaunty, swinging rendition of "Can't We Be Friends," which features the vocalist in some daring scat exchanges with Rudd's muted trombone. "I think Fay started singing it one day and it just took over," Rudd recalls. That's it. It was just right for us." Their raucous rendition of Ray Noble's "I Hadn't Anyone Till You" is bristling with energy and supported by Harris' Fats Walleresque touch on piano. Rudd explains the origins of his collaboration with Victor on this 1938 chestnut: "We wanted to do something together but we really didn't know each other that well. And she finally said, 'Do you know, 'I Hadn't Anyone Till You?' and I said, 'Yeah! And I hadn't been able to find anybody to play that with. So let's do that one.' So that brought us together. That got us started right there, doing that song. And we've kept that up." Filiano's bowed bass intro to the lovely "Too Late Now" (from the 1951 Fred Astaire-Jane Powell movie Royal Wedding) showcases his low-end virtuosity while Victor reveals her romantic side in interpreting the Alan Jay Lerner lyrics. Rudd, who contributes one of his most lyrical solos of the session here, next testifies on his trombone on a chilling rendition of "House of the Rising Sun," which also features Victor in a most expressive Carmen McRae mode. "I Look in the Mirror," a smart, swinging, Blossom Dearie-styled ditty about accepting the aging process, was written by Rudd's partner, Verna Gillis. "That was one of the first things we collaborated on," says Rudd. "And I didn't feel it as a sultry ballad or a sad song, I felt like a Dixielander on that one." The album closes with a heartfelt reading of Monk's most beautiful ballad, "Pannonica," a tune he composed in 1956 as a tribute to jazz patron Baroness Pannonica de Koenigswarter. It's a tune that Rudd has played countless times since 1962, when he formed a band with saxophonist Steve Lacy that specialized in Monk's music. "I used to play 'Pannonica' a lot with Steve Lacy. We later recorded it together on an album we did, called Monk's Dream (2000, Verve). So I was used to playing it in Monk's original key, which is C. But Fay came in with it in A flat, so that threw me off a little bit. Because everything lies so beautifully in that song and with Monk's music in general that you tend to remember it where he wrote it, where he played it. So that took a little adjustment." Victor gives a heartfelt reading of Jon Hendricks' lyrics on this achingly beautiful ballad while Rudd turns in a remarkably expressive solo on this Monk classic. Embrace is the latest chapter in the extraordinary career of the revered trombonist, who came up playing Dixieland in college before dipping into the avant-garde in the early '60s with the likes of Cecil Taylor, Archie Shepp, John Tchicai, Don Cherry and longtime collaborator Steve Lacy. In more recent times, the ever-adventurous Rudd has collaborated with Malian musicians (2001's MALIcool), traditional Mongolian musicians (2005's Blue Mongol) and Latin musicians (2007's El Espiritu Jibaro). He gathered nine of the greatest trombonists on the scene, along with the Gangue Brass Band of Benin, for 2009's Trombone Tribe and in 2016 he debuted on RareNoiseRecords with the audacious improvised outing Strength & Power. His latest for the label may be his most inspired and affecting outing to date. A tribute to the master trombonist is scheduled for November 16 and will be held at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Dizzy's Club. Friends and collaborators will celebrate this outstanding musician, who was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer in 2013. Roswell is unable to play right now but hopes to be strong enough to attend this glorious musical event. For further info, please visit http://www.jazz.org/dizzys/ TRACKS 1. Something To Live For 2. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat 3. Can't We Be Friends 4. I Hadn't Anyone Till You 5. Too Late Now 6. House Of The Rising Sun 7. I Look In The Mirror 8. Pannonica CREDITS "Something To Live For" by Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington (Billy Strayhorn Songs Inc/Dimensional Music/Reservoir Media Mgmt Inc/Emi/Mills Music Inc). "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" by Charles Mingus (Jazz Workshop Inc/Union Square Music Publishing Ltd). Lyrics by Rashaan Roland Kirk. "Can't We Be Friends" by Paul James and Kay Swift (Harms Inc/Chappell Music Ltd). "I Hadn't Anyone Till You" by Ray Noble (Redwood Music Ltd/Chappell&Co Ltd). "Too Late Now" by Burton Lane (Emi Feist Catalog Inc/Warner Chappell Music International Ltd). "House Of The Rising Sun" (Traditional - Palace Music Co Ltd). "I Look In The Mirror" by Verna Gillis (BMI). "Pannonica" by Thelonious Monk (Thelonious-Music 1630 Publishing Services Inc/Catalyst Music Publishing Ltd). Lyrics by Joe Hendricks.

Happy Birthday 2017 Eric!

Jon Balke Siwan Nahnou Houm Mona Boutchebak vocals; Jon Balke keyboards; Derya Turkan kemençe; Helge Norbakkenpercussion; Pedram Khavar Zamini tumbak; Ensemble Barokksolistene Siwan is a contemporary creation, delivered by an alliance of strongly individual players, fronted by a vocalist deeply rooted in Arab music traditions. Django Bates’ Belovèd The Study of Touch 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, comprising highly individual players who subtly challenge the conventions of the jazz piano trio. Maciej Obara Quartet Unloved 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 © 2017 ECM | ECM Records USA | 1755 Broadway, 3rd floor | New York NY 10011

Now you're chuckin' it in there Colt .45s!

Semi-Finals results Sask 31....Ottawa 20 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2452/saskatchewan-roughriders-vs-ottawa-redblacks/ http://3downnation.com/2017/11/12/redblacks-star-receiver-greg-ellingson-suffers-injury-riders/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/11/12/turnovers-cost-redblacks-east-semifinal-loss-riders/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/11/12/resurgent-marcus-thigpen-powers-riders-to-east-final/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/11/12/riders-marcus-thigpen-goes-couch-within-win-grey-cup/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/11/12/glenn-leads-riders-to-emphatic-win-over-redblacks-in-east-semi/#comments Trevor Harris set a playoff record with 60 pass attempts. ***** Edmonton 39....Winnipeg 32 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2453/edmonton-eskimos-vs-winnipeg-blue-bombers/ http://3downnation.com/2017/11/12/eskimos-beat-bombers-advance-west-final/#comments CJ Gable ran wild in the second half. ***** So both road teams won! Both of next week's games are currently scheduled to be shown on ESPNews. ***** Here is a video of Ottawa celebrating a touchdown in a unique way. https://www.cfl.ca/2017/11/12/celebration-heard-across-football-world-lights-social-media/ http://3downnation.com/2017/11/12/redblacks-raise-or-lower-bar-on-td-celebrations/#comments

Both of tomorrow's Semi-Finals will be on ESPN2 - the Eastern at 1:00 pm eastern, and the Western at 4:30 pm eastern.

I read The Glory of Their Times five years ago and enjoyed it very much. I can also recommend Pitching in a Pinch by Christy Mathewson.

With Rader I always think of Jim Bouton's story about the birthday cake.

My picks for the CFL Awards... Player - Reilly Defense - Singleton Canadian - Harris O-Lineman - McEwen Rookie - Wilder Special Teams - Finch Coach - Dickenson

Week 20 results Hamilton 33....Montreal 0 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2448/montreal-alouettes-vs-hamilton-tiger-cats/ ***** Winnipeg 23...Calgary 5 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2449/winnipeg-blue-bombers-vs-calgary-stampeders/ Calgary started Canadian Andrew Buckley at QB. With their win, the Bombers clinched second place. ***** Edmonton 28....Sask 13 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2450/edmonton-eskimos-vs-saskatchewan-roughriders/ With their win, the Eskimos clinched third place. ***** Toronto 40....BC 13 https://www.cfl.ca/games/2451/toronto-argonauts-vs-bc-lions/ With their win, the Argos clinched first place. ***** Here are the 2017 final standings. https://www.cfl.ca/standings/ ***** And here are the 2017 final stats. https://d3ham790trbkqy.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/2017-CFL-Statistics-to-Week-20-Final.pdf ***** final Power Rankings https://www.cfl.ca/2017/11/07/argos-rise-final-nissan-titan-power-rankings/ http://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/cfl-power-rankings-end-of-season-2017-1.4390429 http://www.tsn.ca/stampeders-finish-no-1-in-cfl-power-rankings-1.909878 http://3downnation.com/2017/11/06/3down-power-rankings-muddied-at-the-top/#comments ***** The leaqgue announced this week its 2017 All-Star teams. http://www.sportsnet.ca/football/cfl/star-quarterbacks-ricky-ray-mike-reilly-lead-cfl-star-teams/ http://3downnation.com/2017/11/08/cfl-names-divisional-stars/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/11/08/star-quarterbacks-ricky-ray-mike-reilly-lead-cfl-star-teams/#comments ***** Semi-Finals picks https://www.cfl.ca/2017/11/08/weekly-predictor-nye-makes-semi-final-picks/ http://thegruelingtruth.net/podcast/2017-cfl-playoffs-rwb-podcast/ https://www.cfl.ca/2017/11/10/prediction-time-cfl-ca-writers-make-semi-final-picks/ https://www.getmoresports.com/cfl-betting-divisional-semifinals-betting-picks/ ***** Semi-Finals game notes https://www.cfl.ca/2017/11/10/cfl-ca-game-notes-look-division-semi-finals/ ***** Semi-Finals checking down https://www.cfl.ca/2017/11/09/checking-will-nichols-start-bombers-semi-final/ ***** The league has also announced the finalists for the CFL Awards. https://www.cfl.ca/2017/11/09/simply-best-shaw-cfl-award-nominees-announced/ http://3downnation.com/2017/11/09/ray-reilly-square-off-cfl-outstanding-player-award/#comments

Happy Birthday Jeff!

Amy London Will Release Bridges on November 17 Vocalist Revisits the First Decade of her Career with a 15 Song Retrospective Fred Hersch, Darmon Meader, Harvie S, Victor Lewis, Bob Mintzer and Dr. Lonnie Smith Are Among the Stellar Cast of Collaborators Sometimes you must look back in order to move forward. With the November 17 release of Bridges, vocalist Amy London is doing just that, allowing 15 tracks of previously recorded music to finally see the light of day. While most recently recognized for her work with critically acclaimed group The Royal Bopsters, Amy’s career began in the early 1980s after she first arrived in New York City. Within a short time, the Cincinnati native found herself working with the likes of Fred Hersch, Bob Mintzer, Cyro Baptista, and two-time gold record trumpeter Tom Browne, with whom she toured in 1982. Determined to launch a solo recording career, Amy recorded the bulk of the album’s fifteen songs – 14 classics and 1 original – with Fred Hersch in his home studio in 1987. After an awkward meeting with Concord’s Carl Jefferson didn’t result in a deal and as her ensemble work became increasingly successful, Amy literally put Bridges on the shelf, where it has remained for the past twenty five years. During that time, she did achieve her dream of a solo recording career with the release of two albums on Motema, When I Look in Your Eyes (2007) and Let’s Fly (2010). But the music sitting on the shelf in her bedroom closet, the music that is now featured on Bridges, would not be stilled. Not while she recorded with New York Voices as the fifth singer on their CD,Visions Within (MSR), not while she was cast as the lead singer in the Angel City 4, the vocalese group that was the musical engine of Cy Coleman’s six-time Tony-winning and Grammy-nominated Broadway hit, City of Angels (CBS), not while she helped develop the vocal program at The New School, and not while she raised two daughters. “I would often listen to these recordings and think, ‘These should be out in the world,” says Amy. “Thanks to the magic of Dave Kowalski, who sent me to West West Side Studios, my two-inch masters, that were on the brink of disintegration, were baked and brought back to life digitally. Dave was then able to open them up and remix them.” The album opens with Hersch’s arrangement of title track on which he also contributes vocals. Drummer Victor Lewis, Harvie S on bass, Bob Mintzer on tenor sax, and Cyro Baptista on percussion comprise the ensemble that supports Amy as she moves through the subsequent seven songs, all from that 1987 recording session, including Cole Porter’s “Love for Sale,” and Oscar Brown’s “Strong Man.” Amy’s own composition, “This Time,” rounds out this first grouping of tracks. “When I was on the road with Tom Browne, I was influenced by his crossover jazz style and wrote 'This Time' on the tour bus," recollects Amy. “Ipredominantly write vocalese lyrics, so it was unique for me to write both melody and lyrics. I showed it to Fred, who wrote this arrangement with all the key changes on the Bob Mintzer solo.” Amy says that the chronology of the three recording sessions as they appear onBridges is less important than the fact that the album represents the best of the early recordings she made since first arriving in NYC. “During the time that I was in City of Angels, I fell in love with bebop,” Amy remembers. “That was the musical progression that’s represented on Bridges’ second five tracks, which were recorded in 1990, when Amy returned to the studio to work with Yaron Gershovsky (who’s been the musical director of Manhattan Transfer for 40 years). For these sessions Amy recruited pianist Peter Madsen (Stan Getz, Stanley Turrentine, Benny Golson, George Coleman, Oscar Brown Jr., Ravi Coltrane), bassist Dean Johnson (Gerry Mulligan), drummer Eliot Zigmund (Bill Evans, Michael Petruccianni) and trumpeter Byron Stripling (Count Basie, Carla Bley, Joe Henderson) to join her and New York Voices leader Darmon Meader on five additional tracks, including a striking interpretation of Langston Hughes’ poetry on Madsen’s “Dream,” and Amy’s vocalese rendering of Gigi Gryce's solo from Oscar Pettiford’s “Bohemia After Dark.” Before the two sessions detailed above, in 1984, after her international tour with Tom Browne and a subsequent tour with Charles Aznavour, Amy was invited to perform with Hammond B-3 hero Dr. Lonnie Smith at several gigs. She then invited him, along with Browne’s main tenor sax-man Bobby Franceschini (Mike Stern), guitarist Jack Wilkins (Buddy Rich, Jack DeJohnette), and bassist Harvie S and drummer Akira Tana – who had performed with Amy in Aznavour’s band – for a session that resulted in the two tracks - “You’ve Changed” and “Naima” - that round out this career retrospective. To Amy, the music here represents the varied facets of what she brings to her work as a musician, not simply as a vocalist. Bridges confirms that singers can not only hold their own among a strong cadre of instrumentalists, but that they do, in fact, contribute equally to the final product, whether it be a live performance or dusty tapes on a closet shelf. “Bridges represents a 'bridge' to my early work as a young jazz singer in NYC, when I was still transitioning from the influence of Laura Nyro and Motown Girl Groups into my lifelong love for bebop singing ala Lambert, Hendricks and Ross. These 15 sides represent my early ideas, and I am so thrilled that I was able to collaborate with these excellent jazz musicians, who took my arranging ideas, added their own, and helped bring Bridges to fruition. As a vocal jazz educator, I have taught hundreds of singers how to be arrangers, and to have faith that the music they hear can be transferred onto the bandstand, and communicated to the band and ultimately end up on recordings.”

Happy Birthday 2017 Paul!

Happy Birthday 2017 Neal!

Happy Birthday 2017 Porcy!

I've played this every day this week. It's right up my alley. Forty years ago I would have thought that it was too bland; but I guess my metabolism has changed!

I didn't know Ellis played for the Yankees. I only remember him with the Pirates.

Week 20 game notes https://www.cfl.ca/2017/11/02/cfl-ca-game-notes-look-week-20/ ***** Week 20 checking down https://www.cfl.ca/2017/11/02/checking-plenty-movement-week-20/ ***** Week 20 picks http://3downnation.com/2017/11/03/week-20-picks-eskimos-feeling-a-home-playoff-game/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/11/03/slam-dunk-picks-eskimos-stacking-green-for-bettors/#comments

Week 20 Power Rankings http://3downnation.com/2017/10/30/3down-power-rankings-new-no-1-emerges-as-playoffs-near/#comments http://www.sportingnews.com/ca/cfl/news/week-20-cfl-rankings-edmonton-eskimos-calgary-stampeders-canadian-football-league-playoffs/1dlybka9vu2qt13uke7u934a7q http://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/cfl-power-rankings-week-20-1.4379228 https://www.cfl.ca/2017/10/31/nissan-titan-power-rankings-new-no-1-town-2/ http://thegruelingtruth.net/football/cfl/weekly-cfl-power-rankings-2017-last/ http://www.sportsnet.ca/football/cfl/cfl-power-rankings-week-20-eskimos-retake-top-spot/ ***** early Week 20 picks http://www.sportingnews.com/ca/cfl/news/week-20-cfl-picks-edmonton-eskimos-calgary-stampeders-hamilton-tiger-cats/3xbzcabmpl3v1jlehmekhx78x https://www.cfl.ca/2017/11/02/cfl-ca-writers-make-week-20-picks/ https://www.cfl.ca/2017/11/01/weekly-predictor-stamps-really-lose-3-row/ ***** And so the Redblacks have finished at 8-9-1. You will recall that that was their record last year when they became the first team ever to finish first with a losing record. It could happen again. This is the final week of the regular season, and only one team (Calgary) knows where it will finish. I don't recall that happening before. Here are the scenarios. https://www.cfl.ca/2017/10/29/playoff-scenarios-week-20/

That's it.

The league announced the team award winners today. https://www.cfl.ca/2017/11/01/cfl-announces-2017-team-award-winners/ http://3downnation.com/2017/11/01/2017-cfl-team-award-winners/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/11/01/breaking-down-the-b-c-lions-team-award-winners/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/11/01/reeilly-ray-named-team-finalists-cfl-outstanding-player-awards/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/11/01/singleton-snags-triple-honours-stamps/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/11/01/mike-reilly-beats-out-brandon-zylstra-for-eskimos-mop-award/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/11/01/stampeders-linebacker-singleton-earns-league-high-three-top-player-nominations/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/11/01/3downnation-podcast-cfl-award-winners-coaching-hot-stove/#comments

Anouar Brahem oud | Dave Holland double bass Jack DeJohnette drums, percussion | Django Bates piano “Blue Maqams ..will not only go down as one of the year's best ECM releases; it's a classic-in-the-making that should ultimately be considered one of the label's very best recordings in its nearly fifty-year history.” –John Kelman, allaboutjazzcom “… a program that features traditional music from Arab culture as well as more modern jazz elements. Each musician shines here. Holland uncorks a sturdy solo on “Bom Dia Rio,” a composition dating back to 1990. DeJohnette masterfully uses his cymbals as the main percussive voice on much of “Unexpected Outcome” and on parts of “La Nuit.” Bates’ beautiful playing on “The Recovered Road To Al-Sham” will certainly win him new fans and send them searching for his leader albums.” –Bobby Reed, DownBeat (Editor’s Choice) “Blue Maqams is lovely. It's a nearly perfect illustration of balance between cultural and musical inquiry, underscored by the confidence and near symbiotic communication of this gifted ensemble. This is an exceptional outing, even for an artist as accomplished and creative as Brahem. “ –Thom Jurek, All Music © 2017 ECM | ECM Records USA | 1755 Broadway, 3rd floor | New York NY 10011 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4Kh985eJGU

Jim, I'm not aware of anyone in the league who has a 'fro. For a number of years, many of the black guys have worn braids. The last word I've seen is that no one in the league expects Kaepernick to sign with a CFL team. http://3downnation.com/2017/09/15/alouettes-put-qb-colin-kaepernick-on-negotiation-list/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/09/26/alouettes-gm-kavis-reed-contacts-qb-colin-kaepernick/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/09/28/nfl-source-on-colin-kaepernick-to-the-cfl-zero-percent-chance-he-comes-up/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/09/28/alouettes-gm-kavis-reed-still-waiting-hear-back-kaepernick-camp/#comments ***** However, Johnny Manziel's agent has formally requested that Hamilton offer Manziel a contract. It is widely believed that Manziel will play in the CFL next year. http://3downnation.com/2016/08/26/espn-orridge-create-manziel-size-mess-cfl/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/07/18/3down-podcast-whataboutkaren-johnny-manziel-ticats-tensions/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/09/14/ticats-granted-extension-multiple-teams-express-interest-manziel/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/09/15/johnny-football-talk-not-focus-ticats-get-set-riders/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/09/16/time-stop-talking-johnny-manziel/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/09/17/cfl-extends-deadline-ticats-offer-johnny-manziel-contract/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/09/27/commissioner-decides-keep-johnny-manziel-cfl-least-next-season/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/09/27/johnny-manziel-says-hes-ready-play-today-despite-cfls-decision/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/09/27/league-fumbles-johnny-manizel-decision/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/09/27/cfls-johnny-manziel-ruling-good-ticats/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/09/27/3downnation-podcast-johnny-manziel-pause-button/#comments

Nope!

The Dave Clark 5 had two hit singles called "Everybody Knows."