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  1. Happy Birthday 2017 Steve!
  2. In the next few days, I will post a number of links regarding this year's draft prospects. For now, let's look at the Scouting Bureau's final rankings. http://3downnation.com/2017/04/13/cfl-scouting-bureau-releases-final-rankings-draft/#comments Justin Dunk lists five players he would add to the rankings. http://3downnation.com/2017/04/14/five-players-not-ranked-cfl-scouting-bureau-probably/#comments ***** The Eskimos have hired Redblack Asst. GM Brock Sunderland to be their new GM. http://3downnation.com/2017/04/20/redblacks-brock-sunderland-interviews-edmonton-gm-job/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/04/22/brock-sunderland-will-named-eskimos-general-manager-report/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/04/22/brock-sunderland-will-named-eskimos-general-manager-report/#comments http://www.cfl.ca/2017/04/27/oleary-redblacks-deserve-kudos-sunderlands-transition-gm/ http://www.cfl.ca/2017/04/24/steinbergs-mmqb-quick-resolution/ http://www.cfl.ca/2017/04/24/esks-name-brock-sunderland-new-general-manager/ http://3downnation.com/2017/04/24/eskimos-to-compensate-redblacks-after-hiring-brock-sunderland/#comments ***** The Als traded SJ Green to the Argos for two draft picks. You will recall that Green injured his leg severely, so he may be unable to come back. http://3downnation.com/2017/04/22/argonauts-acquire-star-receiver-s-j-green-trade-alouettes/#comments http://www.cfl.ca/2017/04/24/s-j-green-signing-toronto-beyond-happy/ http://3downnation.com/2017/04/21/alouettes-chose-ernest-jackson-s-j-green/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/04/20/alouettes-deal-s-j-green-argos-draft-picks/#comments ***** Wayne Smith has retired. http://www.cfl.ca/2017/04/28/argos-veteran-ol-wayne-smith-announces-retirement-12-seasons/ http://www.tsn.ca/argonauts-ol-smith-announces-retirement-1.737540 ***** The Argos have signed former Als Jeff Perrett and Kyle Graves. http://www.tsn.ca/argonauts-add-former-als-perrett-graves-1.734530 http://3downnation.com/2017/04/20/argos-sign-canadian-ol-jeff-perrett/#comments ***** Here are some recent podcasts, in chronological order. http://3downnation.com/2017/04/17/podskee-wee-wee-episode-71/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/04/21/3down-podcast-domestic-violence-policy-esks-gm-search-argo-moves/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/04/24/3downpodcast-esks-hire-brock-sunderland-new-gm/#comments The league has its own podcast, The Waggle, which can be found here: http://www.cfl.ca/thewaggle/ ***** Santino Filoso thinks these four unsigned free agents could help the Redblacks. http://3downnation.com/2017/04/27/four-veteran-free-agents-redblacks-invite-training-camp/#comments
  3. Fleetwood Mac OAS - $10.57 + $3.99 https://www.amazon.com/Original-Album-Fleetwood-Mac/dp/B008MMFBQ6/ Fleetwood Mac 3-album OAC - $7.38 + $3.99 https://www.amazon.com/Original-Album-Classics-FLEETWOOD-MAC/dp/B0030BCCB6/ ***** oldies.com has a number of jazz twofers on sale, most at $1.99 or $2.99. http://www.oldies.com/collection-view/Collectables-Records-CDs/genre_Jazz.html?c=ON2087&utm_source=OLDIES.com+Emails&utm_campaign=ec2cc760f9-send_2087&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f79786119b-ec2cc760f9-187732661&goal=0_f79786119b-ec2cc760f9-187732661&mc_cid=ec2cc760f9&mc_eid=6703a4b92e or https://www.oldies.com/product/topsellers.cfm/collection_Jazz.html
  4. ECM Bill Frisell & Thomas Morgan Small Town Bill Frisell: electric guitar Thomas Morgan: double bass U.S. Release date: May 26, 2017 ECM 2525 B0026546-02 UPC: 6025 574 6341 5 Bill Frisell & Thomas Morgan on tour: June 23 Ottawa, ON Ottawa Jazz Festival June 24 Toronto, ON Toronto Jazz Festival June 25 Rochester Rochester Jazz Festival June 27 New Haven, CT Firehouse 12 June 28 Pawling, NY Darryl’s Place June 29 Bay Shore, NY Boulton Center for the Performing Arts June 30 Brooklyn, NY Roulette July 1 Evanston, IL SPACE July 2 Montreal, PQ Montreal Jazz Festival Small Town presents guitarist Bill Frisell and bassist Thomas Morgan in a program of duets, the poetic chemistry of their playing captured live at New York’s hallowed Village Vanguard. Frisell made his debut as a leader for ECM in 1983 with the similarly intimate In Line, establishing one of the most distinctive sounds of any modern guitarist. His rich history with the label includes multiple recordings with Paul Motian andSmall Town begins with a tribute to Motian in the form of a searching, 11-minute interpretation of the late drummer’s composition “It Should’ve Happened a Long Time Ago,” the duo’s counterpoint yielding a hushed power. Morgan, who also played with Motian, has appeared on ECM as bassist of choice for Tomasz Stanko, Jakob Bro, David Virelles, Giovanni Guidi and Masabumi Kikuchi. Frisell first met the California-born Morgan through Joey Baron in the 1990s, when the bassist was “very impressive, even though he was still a kid, basically,” recalls the Grammy-winning guitarist. “Later, we played together at a session led by drummer Kenny Wollesen. In the midst of all this action there, a kind of cacophony, I heard this bass note that just felt so present and right – even though Thomas was 40 or 50 feet away from me in a big studio. It struck me. And we played together again at Paul Motian’s last session, so it’s special that we both have this connection to Paul and his music. I asked Thomas to sit in with some of my groups, and we developed this rapport. Thomas has this way of almost time-traveling, as if he sees ahead of the music and sorts it all out before he plays a note. He never plays anything that isn’t a response to what I play, anticipating me in the moment. That sort of support makes me feel weightless, like I can really take off. “Thomas and I are also similar in that we’re both quiet personalities,” Frisell continues. “Whenever I play guitar, that’s my true voice. It’s not so dissimilar with Thomas, I think. Playing the bass is his natural way of expressing himself. And I'm going to steal a phrase from the saxophonist Charles Lloyd, who once said to me before a gig, ‘I’m really looking forward to singing with you.’ I think that way about playing with Thomas, too. He really plays the song, whether it’s a Fats Domino tune or something abstract – the energy comes from the same place.” The Village Vanguard, opened in 1935, has a unique resonance for Frisell. He recorded there with Motian and Lovano, as well as later as a leader on his own. Moreover, the guitarist first started soaking up the club’s vibe as a listener in 1969, “when it already had so much history, including Paul recording famously there with Bill Evans,” Frisell says. “I first went there to see Gary Burton’s band, then it was Mingus, Roland Kirk, Hank Jones, Charlie Rouse, so many amazing artists. With all the notes that have been played there, the room is like a Gibson guitar from the 1940s – the history is in the molecules of the wood. I’ve played the Vanguard myself now many times over the years, and Thomas played there with Paul and others. We know that the club’s sound and atmosphere will make things happen in a certain way. Playing duo has a special intimacy but also a fragility. We’re not pushing the walls back with volume, after all. You need focus and attention from the audience. You can get that at the Vanguard.” “It Should’ve Happened a Long Time Ago,” the opener for Small Town, had its studio debut on the 1985 ECM album of the same name by the trio of Paul Motian, Joe Lovano and Bill Frisell. That iconic trio had a standing two-week residency at the Vanguard in Paul’s last years. When Frisell and Morgan played the piece at the Vanguard, “the spirit of Paul seemed to hover over us,” Frisell says. “There’s a singing quality to Paul’s music. It’s not like math – it comes from an almost vocal place. The song is deceptively simple, just the melody and one chord, basically; but it conjures this atmosphere that you can really move around in. It’s like a structure without walls; it doesn’t box you in. It’s magical to me, and moving.” Frisell and Morgan also paid homage to two living jazz icons at the Vanguard, playing Konitz’s “Subconscious Lee” and Frisell’s melody-rich original “Song for Andrew No.1,” dedicated to drummer Andrew Cyrille. The guitarist has worked with Konitz on multiple occasions (including Kenny Wheeler’s 1997 ECM album Angel Song), and the saxophonist was in the audience at the Vanguard when Frisell and Morgan recorded Small Town. The duo pulled out his bebop “Subconscious Lee” of 1949 as an impromptu tribute. “Song for Andrew” made its debut on the drummer’s ECM album of last year, The Declaration of Musical Independence, which featured Frisell. “Andrew is a real elder of the music, his experience going all the way back to Coleman Hawkins and then onto Cecil Taylor through today. There’s a lot of music running through guys like Andrew and Lee.” Guitaristically, “Small Town” includes Frisell’s characteristic country/blues accents and has its basis in the playing of Maybelle Carter of The Carter Family, an exemplar of American country music in the 1920s and ’30s. “Maybelle Carter has been a big influence on me,” Frisell notes. “Actually, she’s a big influence on most non-classical guitar players, whether they know it or not, with that way of playing melody and rhythm simultaneously.” The guitarist makes another nod to The Carter Family on Small Town by playing the folk tune “Wildwood Flower,” made famous by the group. A different sort of classic American music is symbolized by Fats Domino’s “What a Party,” an off-kilter example of New Orleans rock’n’roll that Frisell and Morgan recast in a pointillistic way at the Vanguard, at the bassist’s suggestion. “I think it’s a tune that belies the composer’s craft, giving the impression it was discovered rather than composed,” Morgan says. “The opening bass line is ingeniously simple, and the melody has a vocal quality. It wouldn’t seem to lend itself to being played instrumentally, but Bill is the perfect person to do it. His sound is as expressive as a voice, and he weaves the rhythmic and vocal parts together so that you somehow hear more than what’s being played.” Small Town also includes “Poet – Pearl,” a Morgan original bolstered with a Frisell intro. “It was one of my very first compositions,” Morgan says. “I came up with the melody on the subway when I was in my first year at school in New York. Talking about how I wrote it and the title, Bill pointed out that a pearl is rare and beautiful and takes an element of chance to find, like that piece in a way. I think those words have nice connotations not only for the song but also for our collaboration.” The duo rounds off their album with a totem from Frisell’s youth, “Goldfinger.” He recalls: “The atmosphere of that song takes me back to the early 1960s, when I was first getting fired up about playing the guitar, but also when I was learning to drive, doing things like going to downtown Denver on a date to see a James Bond movie. The music itself is so cool, with some pretty amazing things going on in the melody and harmony. Because the tune became so popular, you can miss some of the deeper musical things going on – they become almost subliminal.” Reflecting on the Vanguard and the experience of making Small Town, Frisell concludes: “Even though I’ve played ‘It Should’ve Happened a Long Time Ago’ what must be hundreds and hundreds of times, it always feels different somehow. I mean, it’s the same melody, the same song, but it’s not fixed – it lives. The music lives beyond Paul, just as it will live past us. The Vanguard, too – the notes keep resonating off the walls there, night after night. The listeners down through the years are part of that. They were there with us, as they were for Bill Evans or John Coltrane. Now the music we played on that night is on a record for more people to listen to, the notes resonating further. It’s incredible if you think about it.” ECM Quercus Nightfall June Tabor: voice Iain Ballamy: tenor and soprano saxophones Huw Warren: piano U.S. Release date: May 26, 2017 ECM 2522 B0026547-02 UPC: 6025 574 3078 3 “An unlikely trio, you might think, but the combination proves quite magical. Together they create a subtle new idiom.” - The Observer Quercus, the trio in which pianist Huw Warren and saxophonist Ian Ballamy shape new contexts for the dark and moving voice of June Tabor, made a major impact with its ECM debut album, issued in 2013. The recording won the German Record Critics’ Prize as Album of the Year (Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, Jahrespreis) and the international press recognized what the UK folk world has known for many years: that nobody gets inside the meaning of a song in the way that June Tabor does, illuminating a lyric and exploring a tune’s emotional atmosphere. On Nightfall, recorded in December 2015 at Cooper Hall in the Somerset town of Frome and produced by Warren and Ballamy, Quercus takes its creative process to the next level. There are wonderful songs from folk tradition here, including “The Manchester Angel” and the 19thcentury broadside “Once I Loved you Dear (The Irish Girl)”, pieces collected by Somerset folklorist Ruth Tongue (“On Berrow Sands” and “The Shepherd and his Dog”), a charming version of “The Cuckoo” inspired by the singing of Dorset gypsy Queen Caroline Hughes, and there are subtly phrased instrumental pieces – Warren’s pastoral “Christchurch”, Ballamy’s ballad “Emmeline”. There are also four songs which almost every listener will know. The album opens with that most famous song of farewell, “Auld Lang Syne”, and right away Tabor, Ballamy and Warren alert us to the notion that even the most familiar songs can yield new meaning if looked at from new perspectives. Freshly arranged versions of Bob Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice”, the West Side Story Bernstein/Sondheim song of yearning “Somewhere”, and the jazz standard “You Don’t Know What Love Is” similarly prove to be fine vehicles for Tabor’s focused, respectful and austere approach, a matter of honoring the song, even while transforming it. Traditional folk song, contemporary songs, show tunes, jazz – Quercus’s concept can embrace it all. “The folk singer June Tabor has been a marvel of English music since the 1960s, and her long-term pianist Huw Warren and saxophonist Iain Ballamy only enhance her clarity, stillness and deep but fragile sound,” wrote The Guardian’s John Fordham of the trio’s debut album. “Nobody plays a note too many or expresses a false emotion. It’s a unique tribute to the power of song.” As melodic counterpart to Tabor, saxophonist Iain Ballamy is an ideal partner. In a sense, he is a second singer in Quercus. His other primary ECM context, the electro-improv band Food – see the albums Quiet Inlet, Mercurial Balm, This Is Not A Miracle – might seem a long way from Quercus’s pristine sound-world, but there too Ballamy has been refining his sound down to essentials and savoring each tone. Pianist Huw Warren, whose rare combination of originality and understatement has been appreciated by many singers, has been arranger-accompanist for Tabor for nearly three decades. Concurrently, he has been active across a broad span of genres, as composer, jazz improviser and educator, and has worked with musicians from the Scottish Chamber Orchestra to Kenny Wheeler. Huw Warren and Iain Ballamy also play duo concerts. Quercus is on the road in the UK in the weeks ahead with concerts including Turner Sims Hall, Southampton on April 8, Oxford Contemporary Music on May 10, and King’s Place, London on May 11.
  5. Being the last person alive from the 1800's reminds me of the fanfare given to the last Confederate widow. In late 1999, I read frequently that 100 years prior the New York Times argued that the 19th century did not end untill 12/31/1900 because there was no Year Zero.
  6. Trumpeter/Vocalist Bob Merrill Celebrates the Musical Legacy of Pianist/Songwriter Joe Bushkin with "Tell Me Your Troubles: Songs by Joe Bushkin, Vol. 1," Set for May 19 Release by Accurate Records First Volume of Two-Album Tribute Project Features Rhythm Section of Howard Alden, Nicki Parrott, & Steve Johns Plus Guest Appearances by Singer Eric Comstock, Bucky Pizzarelli, Harry Allen, Wycliffe Gordon, & Virtuoso Vocal Accompanists Laurence Hobgood & John Colianni at the Piano Merrill to Serve as Musical Director For Bushkin Centennial Concert At BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center, NYC, Thursday, May 4 April 24, 2017 Coinciding with the centennial of pianist/composer Joe Bushkin's birth, the release on May 19 by trumpeter and singer Bob Merrill of Tell Me Your Troubles: Songs by Joe Bushkin, Vol. 1 (Accurate Records) celebrates the musical legacy of a man who was revered by many of America's foremost entertainers for his wizardry at the keyboard and skills as a tunesmith. He also happened to be Merrill's father-in-law. Bushkin penned songs with his longtime lyricist John DeVries or the great Johnny Burke in the repertoires of the likes of Sinatra (Joe's "Oh! Look at Me Now" was Frank's first hit), Bing Crosby, Nat "King" Cole, Benny Goodman, Louis Jordan, and countless others. This first volume of a planned two-album commemorative project pays reverential tribute to Bushkin's oeuvre and its special blend of mood and merriment on contemporary interpretations of 10 songs ranging from the popular to the obscure. The album opens and closes with archival spoken word salutes to Bushkin by Sinatra and comedian Red Buttons. Cut from the same engaging entertainer's cloth as Bushkin -- not to mention trumpeter-singers like Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Prima, and Chet Baker -- Merrill was already performing crowd-pleasers like "Oh! Look at Me Now" and "Boogie Woogie Blue Plate" (a 1947 hit for Louis Jordan and his Tympani Five) before he met his future wife Christina and bonded with her gregarious father. "These songs have such a timeless, universal appeal," says Merrill. "I really hope the album exposes them to a new generation. Maybe Harry Connick, Diana Krall, Michael Bublé, or even Lady Gaga will give them new life." Tell Me Your Troubles is full of classic tunes and rediscoveries, charismatic vocals, swinging solos, and sparkling arrangements and presents Merrill at his elegant best, whether showcasing his brass palette of trumpet, cornet, and flugelhorn or his smooth Tormé-like vocals, easy articulation, and natural enthusiasm. In addition to the A-List rhythm section of guitarist Howard Alden, bassist Nicki Parrott, and drummer Steve Johns, the album features an illustrious list of guest artists including saxophonist Harry Allen, trombonist/singer Wycliffe Gordon, cabaret star Eric Comstock, guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli, and pianist Laurence Hobgood. A previously unreleased performance of "Oh! Look at Me Now!," from Bushkin's final recording session in 2003 with Merrill, Howard Alden, and drummer Duffy Jackson, is one of the album's standouts. "Joe's tempo for the song had increased over the years," says Merrill, "but I suggested we slow it down to the tempo of Sinatra's later version, from the 1957 album Swingin' Affair on Capitol." (Pictured at left: Bushkin and Merrill, 2003.) "I got to spend a lot of time with Joe, always looking over his shoulder, absorbing stuff by osmosis," recalls Merrill, who coaxed Bushkin out of retirement in the early 1990s and performed with him at festivals and clubs such as New York's Tavern on the Green and L.A.'s Jazz Bakery until his passing in 2004 at age 87. He also produced and wrote liner notes for CD reissues of four Bushkin albums, including last fall's release of Live at the Embers (Dot Time Legends) from 1952. Born in Manhattan in 1958, Bob Merrill traces his early interest in jazz to the fact that Benny Goodman lived in the penthouse of the building he grew up in on the Upper East Side. After his father took him to a Tonight Show taping where he heard Doc Severinsen, Merrill devoted himself to the trumpet (Bushkin's second instrument). He studied with William Vacchiano, first trumpet of the New York Philharmonic, and received improv tips as a teen from Red Rodney. Merrill attended both the New England Conservatory of Music (studying with Jaki Byard, in whose Apollo Stompers he played) and Harvard, where he co-founded a jazz concert series at the Hasty Pudding Club and led a house band for such visiting artists as Illinois Jacquet, George Coleman, Lee Konitz, and Warne Marsh. Merrill released his first album as a leader, Catch as Catch Can, in 1997, the same year he was featured on American Movie Classics leading the AMC Orchestra on the series Gotta Dance! His second album, Got a Bran' New Suit, featured pianist Bill Charlap among others. It was followed by Christmastime at the Adirondack Grill, and then the wildly eclectic Cheerin' Up the Universe (2015), which featured pianist John Medeski and trombonist Roswell Rudd. On Thursday May 4, Merrill will preside over a Joe Bushkin Centennial concert at the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center (199 Chambers Street, Manhattan), part of Jack Kleinsinger's Highlights in Jazz series. Featured performers include several from the new CD's cast (Wycliffe Gordon, Eric Comstock, Nicki Parrott, John Colianni, Harry Allen) as well as pianists Ted Rosenthal and Spike Wilner. Photography: Pam Setchell Web Sites: bobmerrill.net / accuraterecords.com
  7. Happy Birthday 2017 Mark!
  8. It's been so many decades that I've watched a full nine innings that I suppose my opinion counts for nothing. Nevertheless, I'll say that when I was a boy, the best outfielders didn't make the spectacular plays because they were already standing where the ball was hit.
  9. Bill Frisell: guitar | Thomas Morgan: double bass Small Town presents guitarist Bill Frisell and bassist Thomas Morgan in a program of duets, the poetic chemistry of their playing captured live at New York’s hallowed Village Vanguard. Frisell made his debut as a leader for ECM in 1983 with the similarly intimate In Line. Small Town sees Frisell and Morgan pay homage to the Paul Motian with a searching, 11-minute interpretation of the late drummer’s composition “It Should’ve Happened a Long Time Ago,” the duo’s counterpoint yielding a hushed power, and to jazz elder Lee Konitz on “Subconscious Lee.” In addition there are several country/blues-accented Frisell originals, including the hauntingly melodic title track, and the set is capped with an inimitable treatment of John Barry’s famous James Bond theme “Goldfinger.” © 2017 ECM | ECM Records USA | 1755 Broadway, 3rd floor | New York NY 10011 SPECIAL OFFER FOR ECM VINYL FANS https://arkivjazz.com/ecm-vinyl-titles © 2017 ECM Records, 1755 Broadway, New York, NY 10011 Share on Facebook, Twitter, Forward to a Friend
  10. Thanks Lon, crisp and everyone in between!
  11. Well, Lon, do you think I should get the Koln or the Paris?
  12. Is the music of the Django OAS included in the complete Django Vogue box?
  13. Avishai Cohen trumpet | Yonathan Avishai piano Barak Mori double bass Nasheet Waits drums A year after his impressionistic, critically-lauded ECM debut Into The Silence, trumpeter Avishai Cohen’s Cross My Palm With Silver introduces a program of new pieces which put the focus on the ensemble, on teamwork, with a quartet of the highest caliber. The adroit, almost telepathic interplay among the musicians allows Avishai Cohen to soar, making it clear why he is one of the most talked-about jazz musicians on the contemporary scene. “All of these people together are my dream team”, says the charismatic trumpeter of fellow players Yonathan Avishai, Barak Mori and Nasheet Waits, who share his sense for daring improvisation and his feeling for structure. “I feel we’re in a perfect place with the balance. It’s open and there’s so much room for the improvisation to take the music any place we can. At the same time the composition is very specific and the vibe is very direct and thought about.” As with Into The Silence, Cross My Palm With Silver was produced by Manfred Eicher at Studios La Buissonne in the south of France. © 2017 ECM | ECM Records USA | 1755 Broadway, 3rd floor | New York NY 10011 ECM Bill Frisell & Thomas Morgan Small Town release date: May 26, 2017 Tour dates: June 23 Ottawa, ON Ottawa Jazz Festival June 24 Toronto, ON Toronto Jazz Festival June 25 Rochester, NY Rochester Jazz Festival June 27 New Haven, CT Firehouse 12 June 28 Pawling, NY Darryl’s Place June 29 Bay Shore, NY Boulton Center for the Performing Arts June 30 Brooklyn, NY Roulette July 1 Evanston, IL SPACE July 2 Montreal, PQ Montreal Jazz Festival Small Town documents guitarist Bill Frisell and bassist Thomas Morgan in a program of luminous duets, the poetic chemistry of their playing captured live at New York’s hallowed Village Vanguard. ECM Quercus - Nightfall release date: May 26, 2017 June Tabor: voice Iain Ballamy: tenor and soprano saxophones Huw Warren: piano Quercus’s self-titled ECM debut won the album-of-the-year award of the German Record Critics in 2013, was widely praised by the international press, and especially celebrated in Britain where June Tabor has long reigned as “the dark voiced queen of English folk music” (to quote The Times). Folk and jazz and chamber music become one in Quercus’s world, where recontextualizing of material is part of the process, prompting listeners to pay heightened attention even to familiar songs. ECM Aaron Parks - Find the Way release date: June 2, 2017 Aaron Parks: piano, Ben Street: double bass, Billy Hart: drums For the second ECM album by Aaron Parks – following the solo releaseAborescence, which JazzTimes praised as “expansive, impressionistic… like a vision quest” – the prize-winning pianist has convened a cross-generational trio featuring bassist Ben Street and drummer Billy Hart. The rhythm pair, which also teams in Hart’s hit quartet for ECM, blends fluidity and strength – what Parks calls “an oceanic” quality, producing waves of energy for the pianist to alternately ride and dive into. Find the Way has the aura of a piano-trio recording in the classic mold, from melody-rich opener “Adrift” to the closing title track, a cover of a romantic tune Parks grew to love on an LP by Rosemary Clooney and Nelson Riddle. Always concerned with balancing the masculine and feminine impulses in music, Parks also drew inspiration for this album from the likes of Alice Coltrane and Shirley Horn (for whom Hart played); space and subtlety are a priority, with the pianist aiming to allow “the music to breathe and be.” ECM Ferenc Snétberger - Titok Release date: June 2, 2017 Ferenc Snétberger: guitar / Anders Jormin: double bass Joey Baron: drums Hungarian guitarist Ferenc Snétberger made a lot of new friends with his ECM solo debut In Concert (“a beautiful, assured performance” – All About Jazz) and will make many more with Titok, which features his trio with Swedish bassist Anders Jormin and US drummer Joey Baron. Recorded at Oslo’s Rainbow Studio in May 2015 and produced by Manfred Eicher, it’s a warm and involving album, with an emphasis on intensely melodic improvisation and interaction which draws the listener gently into its sound-world. The rapport between Snétberger and Jormin is evident from the outset, as both guitar and bass explore the contours of Ferenc’s compositions. Throughout, Joey Baron’s drums and cymbals provide shading and texture with restraint and subtlety.
  14. Happy Birthday 2017 Ag!
  15. Happy Birthday KU/F!
  16. Laurie has released today a free two-minute sample. https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/track/free-almost-3-minutes-troublesome-track
  17. Thanks Lon. I always thought so, but was never sure.
  18. It used to be that the English press would use the term "trad jazz." Is this what they were referring to?
  19. Thanks guys! Mike, you've got me interested in the Paris release instead.
  20. I saw Monk with Rouse at the Vanguard Thanksgiving weekend, 1968. (Walter Booker was on bass, and Roy Haynes on drums.) Here is a Monk with Rouse concert less than a year later. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00U2NDQ7Y/ My interest is almost entirely based upon the fact that it was recorded so soon after I saw them. Has anyone heard this? How is the sound? How is the music? Thanks!
  21. Happy Easter everyone!
  22. RIP. I enjoyed him very much during those years when jazz did not appeal to me.
  23. Jeffrey Orridge Wednesday announced his resignation effective June 30. http://3downnation.com/2017/04/12/cfl-commissioner-jeffrey-orridge-stepping-report/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/04/12/cfl-commissioner-jeffery-orridge-got-boot/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/04/12/league-hopes-replace-orridge-time-2017-season-starts/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/04/12/3down-podcast-orridge-commish-oday-interviewing-esks/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/04/15/five-good-things-jeffrey-orridge-commissioner-cfl/#comments http://www.tsn.ca/orridge-steps-down-as-cfl-commissioner-1.722497 http://www.tsn.ca/cfl-s-challenges-extend-well-beyond-its-search-for-a-new-commissioner-1.722992 http://www.sportsnet.ca/football/cfl/jeffrey-orridge-steps-cfl-commissioner/ http://www.sportsnet.ca/football/cfl/jeffrey-orridge-ouster-leaves-cfl-starting-yet/ http://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/orridge-departs-cfl-commissioner-1.4067412 http://www.cfl.ca/2017/04/12/statement-canadian-football-league-regarding-jeffrey-l-orridge/
  24. CUONG VU 4TET PERFORMS THE MUSIC OF MICHAEL GIBBS ON BALLET Guitar Great Bill Frisell Guests On Trumpeter's New RareNoise Release CD, VINYL AND MULTIPLE DIGITAL FORMATS AVAILABLE IN STORES AND ONLINE ON APRIL 28, 2017 AND THROUGH WWW.RARENOISERECORDS.COM. Cuong Vu Trumpet Bill Frisell Guitar Luke Bergman Bass Ted Poor Drums 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, April 13, 2017 - On the heels of his acclaimed 2016 recording, Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny (Nonesuch Records), and his 2014 collaboration with electro-acoustic pianist-composer and Director of the School of Music at the University of Washington Richard Karpen on Ellington-Strayhorn tribute That The Days Go By And Never Come Again (RareNoiseRecords), trumpeter-composer Cuong Vu joins forces with guest guitarist Bill Frisell on Ballet, a tribute to renowned composer-arranger Michael Gibbs. With regular Vu 4Tet bassist Luke Bergman and drummer Ted Poor, the four exchange ideas in the moment in a collective fashion on the expansive opening track, "Ballet," which gradually morphs into a kind of quirky, dissonant blues waltz featuring brilliant solos from Vu and Frisell. The ethereal ballad "Feelings and Things" showcases Frisell's more sensitive and spacious side while Vu turns in a remarkably lyrical solo here. "Blue Comedy," a tune recorded by the Gary Burton Quartet (with Larry Coryell, Steve Swallow and Bob Moses) on 1968's In Concert, kicks off with a drum salvo from Poor before Frisell and Vu join together on some tight unisons through the intricate head. As the piece progresses, it picks up a kind of shuffle-swing momentum which Frisell solos over with his signature fractured phrasing and surprising detours. Vu and Poor engage in some spirited exchanges near the end of this jaunty number. The most dramatic piece on the album, "And on the Third Day," which originally appeared on Gibbs' 1970 self-titled debut album, evolves gradually from a peaceful opening drone to a turbulent crescendo featuring powerful. soaring solos from both Vu and Frisell, the latter power chording with impunity and kicking on his fuzz box and backwards pedal for maximum effect. "This recording came about as Bill's wish to bring Mike Gibbs out to the University of Washington to do some of his arrangements of Bill's music for orchestra," says Vu. "Mike is indeed an iconic hero to Bill and it all came about from Bill's desire to bring him to the UW. I asked the boss, Director of the School of Music, Richard Karpen, and he gave us the green light because he wanted to honor Bill. We did two nights with the first night being the orchestra night and the second being the big band night (both student ensembles). The quartet of Bill, Ted Poor, Luke Bergman and myself was a featured part of those (both the orchestra and the big band) performances. In addition to that, the quartet (sans orchestra/big band), played Mike's music as the second set each night. This recording is from the second night." Regarding this exhilarating Vu 4Tet project, Vu says, "This was a very collective/equal opportunity effort, so we just played and dealt with the cards collectively as they were dealt. I think it just comes down to the collection of players and our individual aesthetics coming together and trying to find a common goal/language." They succeed in triumphant fashion on Ballet, the second collaboration between Cuong Vu and Bill Frisell (their first was Vu's 2005 ArtistShare album Mostly Residual). TRACKS 1. Ballet 2. Feelings And Things 3. Blue Comedy 4. And On The Third Day 5. Sweet Rain
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