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Happy Birthday 2017 Bob! Now sing..."Day by day, I'm feeling more in love with you..."

Happy Birthday 2017 Jim!

Happy Birthday 2017 miles65!

Happy Birthday 2017 romualdo!

Let's quickly look at the Labour Day Weekend games. Power rankings http://3downnation.com/2017/08/29/3down-power-rankings-riders-rollin-on-up/#comments http://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/cfl-power-rankings-week-11-1.4266082 http://thegruelingtruth.net/football/cfl-power-rankings-week-11-2/ http://www.sportsnet.ca/football/cfl/cfl-power-rankings-week-11-separation-builds-west-division/ https://www.cfl.ca/2017/08/29/blue-bombers-trending-nissan-titan-power-rankings/ http://www.sportingnews.com/ca/cfl/news/cfl-power-rankings-saskatchewan-roughriders-edmonton-eskimo/1mnvsdi7zhgpl17wx6gpfcc38h ***** Week 11 picks http://3downnation.com/2017/08/31/week-11-picks-putting-work-labour-day/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/08/31/slam-dunk-picks-laboured-picks-for-labour-day/#comments https://www.cfl.ca/2017/08/31/pick-em-marquee-matchup-esks-stamps-eye-first-west/ https://www.cfl.ca/2017/08/30/weekly-predictor-rivalry-week-arrives/ http://www.rodpedersen.com/2017/08/week-11-cfl-picks-2017.html http://www.sportingnews.com/ca/cfl/news/week-11-cfl-picks-shootouts-expected-especially-in-the-west-saskatchewan-riders-edmonton-eskimos-calgary-stampeders-winnipeg-blue-bombers/po2w6h2od4ap1ue2cu2xtbddk ***** We are now halfway through the season, so let's look again at the standings and the stats. https://www.cfl.ca/standings/ https://www.cfl.ca/stats/?season=2017 ***** Week 11 game notes https://www.cfl.ca/2017/08/30/cfl-ca-game-notes-look-week-11/ ***** Here's the current list of how former CFL players are doing in NFL camps. https://www.cfl.ca/notable-former-cflers-south/

September 1 1931 - Boxcar Willie born 1933 - Conway Twitty born 1933 - Marshall Lytle born 1944 - Archie Bell born 1946 - Barry Gibb born 1957 - Gloria Estefan born 1966 - The first go-go dancer (at the Whiskey a Go-Go) 2012 - Hal David dies

John, Laurie says that they are all included in the Galaxy box.

John, I've asked Laurie.

ECM Björn Meyer - Provenance Björn Meyer: bass guitar Release date: September 29, 2017 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 and Swiss-based, has shaped a unique voice for his instrument inside the most diverse contexts, working alongside Persian harpist and singer Asita Hamidi, Swedish nyckelharpa player Johan Hedin, and Tunisian oud master Anouar Brahem. For a decade he was a member of Nik Bärtsch's Ronin, in which his bass guitar was frequently the lead instrument. His solo work is concerned with the experience of sound in acoustic spaces: "Even though the instrument is technically non-acoustic, the music is deeply influenced by the properties of the space where it is played. The many different ways in which acoustics affect my compositions and improvisations have always been sources of surprise and inspiration. There is definitely a second member in this solo project - the room!" The participating room on Provenance is the highly responsive Auditorio Stello Molo RSI in Lugano, its rich acoustics helping to bring out all the fine detail in Meyer's subtle playing.

August 30 1919 - Kitty Wells born 1941 - John McNally born 1949 - Hank Williams records "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry."

Laurie Pepper is giving away the 14-minute track Landscape. https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/track/free-landscape She also says... IN HONOR OF ART PEPPER'S BIRTHDAY (SEPT. 1)... The Lovely folks at Concord are releasing the COMPLETE MAIDEN VOYAGE sessions (for download only). These 3 nights at the Maiden Voyage in L.A. with George Cables, David Williams, and Carl Burnett were some of the most memorable nights of my life. This was Art's road band at the end of his life. They'd been touring nonstop for about a year, and they were tight. That's why this particular Landscape is an almost mystically telepathic exchange between the guys. For me, Landscape is also one Art's most exciting originals. That first held note always makes the hairs on the back of my neck rise and my heart beat faster. I harangued those poor folks at Concord, because this set was not available from them AS A SET, complete. BUT NOW IT IS! IT IS! To hear some more tracks from this session, right here on Bandcamp, go to artpepper.bandcamp.com/track/arts-birthday-gift-2-tracks (Free for the Week of Art's Birthday)(includes the best "Everything Happens to Me" you've ever heard) artpepper.bandcamp.com/track/arthurs-blues-maiden-voyage artpepper.bandcamp.com/track/free-thank-you-blues

ECM Vijay Iyer Sextet- Far From Over release date today: August 25th, 2017 Vijay Iyer: piano, Fender Rhodes / Graham Haynes: cornet, flugelhorn, electronics Steve Lehman: alto saxophone / Mark Shim: tenor saxophone Stephan Crump: double-bass / Tyshawn Sorey: drums, cymbals If you're looking for the shape of jazz to come, here it is...the sturdiness of its design and the passion of its execution make [Far From Over] 2017's jazz album to beat. Hank Shteamer, Rolling Stone - August 24, 2017 The 10-track, nearly hour-long album offers one of the bandleader's strongest and most varied programs...The union of players and material inspires a new synthesis: the sound of Iyer consolidating strengths and discovering some new ones as he settles into the vibe created by his most potent band yet. Seth Colter Walls, Pitchfork - August 2017 Far From Over arrests on so many levels that at times the energy and varying emotional pulses seem nearly uncontainable. John Murph, Jazzwise Magazine - September, 2017 Vijay Iyer Sextet on Tour Sept 4 Detroit, MI Detroit Jazz Festival Sept 17 Monterey, CA Monterey Jazz Festival Oct 20 Brooklyn, NY BRIC JazzFest January 9-13 New York, NY Birdland January 19 San Francisco, CA SFJAZZ, Miner Auditorium (*Vijay Iyer Trio) January 20 San Francisco, CA SFJAZZ, Miner Auditorium April 27 Los Angeles, CA Walt Disney Hall May 11 Appleton, WI Lawrence Memorial Chapel (Jazz Fest) The sextet's full performance from Ojai is on YouTube: https://youtu.be/FcmMrLUTUxM (the music begins at the 34 minute mark) Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen violin, harmonium, piano, glockenspiel | Frederik Øland violin Asbjørn Nørgaard viola | Fredrik Schøyen Sjölin violoncello They are widely recognized as the most exciting young string quartet of the present moment, bringing new insights to contemporary composition and core classical repertoire. In parallel, they have also made surprising and impressive forays into the world of Nordic folk music. Following their 2014 album Wood Works, the Danish String Quartet have been delighting audiences by concert performances of the music, and now they bring their folk project to ECM with a stirring new recording: “ 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.” Danish String Quartet On Tour October 7 - Middlebury, VT (Robinson Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts) October 10 - Shaker Heights, OH (Plymouth Church UCC) October 11 - Cincinnati, OH (Memorial Hall) October 12 - Indianapolis, IN (Glick Indiana History Center) October 14 - Tulsa, OK (Westby Pavilion) October 15 - Tulsa, OK (Williams Theatre) October 16 - Dallas, TX (Caruth Auditorium, SMU Owen Arts Center) October 17 - Chattanooga, TN (The Hunter Museum of Art) © 2017 ECM | ECM Records USA | 1755 Broadway, 3rd floor | New York NY 10011

Happy Birthday 2017 Joe!

Round by round... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/boxing/2017/08/27/floyd-mayweather-vs-conor-mcgregor-live-round-round-fight-updates/

Happy Birthday Asimov!

Last night Nik Lewis set the new league record for career pass receptions, breaking Geroy Simon's record. Both Simon's pass and Lewis's pass were thrown by Darian Durant. http://www.tsn.ca/lewis-breaks-all-time-receptions-record-1.838658 https://www.cfl.ca/2017/08/24/nik-lewis-becomes-cfls-all-time-receptions-leader/ http://www.sportsnet.ca/football/cfl/alouettes-nik-lewis-becomes-cfls-time-receptions-leader/ http://3downnation.com/2017/08/24/cfl-community-reacts-nik-lewis-setting-time-receptions-record/#comments

Thanks John!

Pianist/Composer Richard X Bennett Connects Mumbai & New York City With 2 New Ropeadope Releases, His First Recordings on an American Label, Due October 6 Trio Date "What Is Now" & Indo-Jazz Quintet Album "Experiments With Truth" Both Feature Rhythm Section of Bassist Adam Armstrong & Drummer Alex Wyatt Baritone Saxophonist Lisa Parrott & Matt Parker on Tenor/Soprano Are Added on "Experiments ... " CD Release Show Set for October 11, Rockwood Music Hall, NYC August 25, 2017 Since moving to New York from his native Toronto in the 1990s, pianist and composer Richard X Bennett has thrived as a performer in a broad variety of stylistic contexts. Splitting his time between New York and Mumbai, he released a series of acclaimed albums on several Indian imprints, with his last two on Times Music, India's largest label. Until now, however, Bennett had yet to put an album out on an American label. On October 6, a dual release by Ropeadope Records will mark the pianist's first American recordings -- the trio date What Is Now and the Indo-jazz quintet session Experiments With Truth. Bennett displays his loose, percussive, and conversational instrumental style on the trio album. The raga-infused music on the quintet album is something else again, as stylistically remote from his trio opus as the Big Apple is from Bollywood. Bennett is joined on both CDs by bassist Adam Armstrongand drummer Alex Wyatt, with baritone saxophonist Lisa Parrott and tenor and soprano saxophonist Matt Parkeraugmenting the trio on the quintet album. What Is Nowpresents Bennett as a bold instrumentalist and as a composer of themes that beg for lyrics. The album's mood, energy, and tone range from the tender opener "Vital Grace" to the playful "Go Against the Tide," from the sanctified sway of "Sefrou Soul" to the cinematic scope of "Bittersweet Success." One also gets a taste of Bennett's sense of humor on a distinctly original doo-wop arrangement of "Over the Rainbow." Bennett describes the quintet's sound on Experiments With Truth as "Mingus meets raga in the 21st Century." Music he originally conceived and performed with North Indian classical musicians is arranged and performed in a jazz context. "As far as I can tell it's the first time it's been done," Bennett says. "I don't claim to be a raga musician, because first off, the piano isn't a raga instrument. I'd say it's raga-based. I like the analogy they use on cooking shows, 'This is my take on a dosa.' As a jazz musician, this is my take on raga," the vast vocabulary of melodic structures, or modes, upon which classical Indian music is based. "I was always somewhat of a minimalistic player," Bennett adds. "The blues is also like a specific raga, and if you play it academically it won't sound right. You can't just run the scales. With Indian music, everybody else was doing fusions based on complicated rhythmic figures. I'm much more interested in the melodies." Experiments With Truth opens with "The Fabulist," a long, persuasively surging piece based on a particularly ancient raga (raga malkauns). "Portrait in Sepia" feels like an Ellingtonian tone poem by way of Calcutta, opening with an ominously swaying cadence designed for Parrott's brawny horn. The album's centerpiece is the two-movement "Durga Suite," which evokes dual but very diverse aspects of the warrior goddess Durga (also known as Devi and Shakti). The title track, which borrows its name from Gandhi's autobiography The Story of My Experiments With Truth, is a stimulating and increasingly wild piece inspired by the early morning raga ramkali. While growing up in Toronto, Richard X Bennetthoned his own approach to the piano. His highly personal sound flowed from limited contact with bebop and early exposure to traditional New Orleans jazz and avant-garde combos like the Art Ensemble of Chicago and World Saxophone Quartet. The first jazz he ever saw live was South African pianist Abdullah Ibrahim "and I walked out of the concert being able to play five of his songs," Bennett recalls. "I've always loved that inside/out approach, Jaki Byard and Don Pullen. I don't play bop but I do just about every other jazz style." He introduced his Indo-jazz concept on the 2009 solo album Ragas on Piano (Dreams Entertainment), and expanded the instrumentation with the late bassist Gaku Takanashi and tabla master Naren Budhkar on 2011's Raga and Blues(Mystica Music). Picked up by Times Music, India's biggest label, he released 2013's critically hailed New York City Swara, with Takanashi, Budhkar, Carnatic violinist Arun Ramamurthy, and drummer Michael Wimberly, followed by the 2015 duo album Mumbai Masala with Hindustani vocalist Dhanashree Pandit Rai. Today Bennett also works with Honk & Tonk, a "N.O.L.A. meets noir" duo with saxophonist Michael Blake, and composes for modern dance, most recently a piece for the Alvin Ailey Company performed at the Essence Festival in New Orleans. Bennett will celebrate the release of What Is Now and Experiments With Truth in the company of his trio and quintet, at Rockwood Music Hall in New York City on Wednesday, October 11. Mini-videos from "What Is Now" Mini-videos from "Experiments With Truth" Photography: Sean Yoo Web Site: richardxbennett.comFollow:

Soft Machine - NDR Jazz Workshop - $18.19 https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003GEDLEY/ I remember that this received many votes for Jazz Album of the Year from someone's critcs' poll. Contrary to the Amazon listing, I recall this to be 2 CDs + 1 DVD.

Dan, I suspect that it would be a matter of state law. If so, only a Florida attorney's advice would be trustworthy. Anyone want to disagree, and say that it is a federal matter?

Week 10 picks http://3downnation.com/2017/08/24/slam-dunk-picks-value-in-small-west-road-favourites/#comments ***** There was a lengthy article on the front page of last Sunday's sports section of The News & Observer about Armanti Edwards. http://www.newsobserver.com/sports/nfl/article167843882.html

Breaking... As the GM, Kent Austin has resigned as the Ticats' head coach, and replaced himself with June Jones. http://3downnation.com/2017/08/24/kent-austin-appoints-june-jones-ticats-head-coach/#comments https://www.cfl.ca/2017/08/24/austin-appoints-june-jones-head-coach/ http://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/kent-austin-june-jones-ti-cats-head-coach-1.4260822 http://www.tsn.ca/jones-appointed-as-new-head-coach-of-ticats-austin-remains-vp-1.838227

Peter Erskine https://jazztimes.com/departments/farewells/peter-erskine-remembers-john-abercrombie/ DownBeat http://downbeat.com/news/detail/guitarist-john-abercrombie-dies-at-72 WaPo https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/john-abercrombie-influential-jazz-guitarist-of-the-70s-fusion-scene-dies-at-72/2017/08/23/af0970e2-8814-11e7-a50f-e0d4e6ec070a_story.html?utm_term=.574e25815571 NYT https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/23/arts/music/john-abercrombie-lyrical-jazz-guitarist-dies-at-72.html?emc=edit_tnt_20170823&nlid=57793556&tntemail0=y&_r=0 Nate Chinen/NPR http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2017/08/23/545611872/john-abercrombie-wry-and-exploratory-jazz-guitarist-dies-at-72 ***** My ECM contact mentions that the text of Roger's post contains an error. It was the New Directions band, not the Special Edition band.

Week 10 picks http://3downnation.com/2017/08/24/week-10-picks-can-the-riders-compete-away-from-mosaic/#comments http://www.rodpedersen.com/2017/08/cfl-week-10-picks-2017.html https://www.cfl.ca/2017/08/23/cfl-ca-writers-make-week-10-picks/ https://www.cfl.ca/2017/08/23/weekly-predictor-riding-momentum/ http://www.sportingnews.com/ca/cfl/news/week-10-cfl-picks-my-lone-upset-call-is-ottawa-knocking-off-the-lions/xxbuo0nkznx9103b4rs6i4prh ***** another Power Ranking http://thegruelingtruth.net/football/power-rankings-cfl-week-10/

I too hit one. First time ever!