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ECM Vijay Iyer Sextet Far From Over 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 U.S Release date: August 25, 2017 ECM 2581 B0027073-02 UPC: 6025 576 7386 9 “Rambunctious, furiously funky…. [This sextet offers] the sort of head-bobbing drive and invention that has landed Iyer on multiple best-of lists over the years” — Los Angeles Times, June 2017 Keyboardist-composer Vijay Iyer’s energized sequence of ECM releases has garnered copious international praise. Yet his fifth for the label since 2014 – Far From Over, featuring his dynamically commanding sextet – finds Iyer reaching a new peak, furthering an artistry that led him to be voted DownBeat Artist of the Year in 2012, 2015 and 2016 and for The Guardian to dub his work the “dizzying pinnacle of contemporary jazz multitasking.” Far From Over features this sextet of virtuoso improvisers – with horn players Graham Haynes, Steve Lehman and Mark Shim alongside rhythm partners Stephan Crump and Tyshawn Sorey – leveraging a wealth of jazz history even as the group pushes boldly forward. The music ranges from the thrillingly explosive (“Down to the Wire,” “Good on the Ground”) to the cathartically elegiac (“For Amiri Baraka,” “Threnody”), with melodic hooks, entrancing atmosphere, rhythmic muscle and an elemental spirit all part of the allure. “This group has a lot of fire in it, but also a lot of earth, because the tones are so deep, the timbres and textures,” Iyer says. “There’s also air and water – the music moves.” Iyer’s previous ECM releases include A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke, a duet album with iconic trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith from last year; Break Stuff from 2015, featuring his longstanding trio with bassist Stephan Crump and drummer Marcus Gilmore; the ravishing 35-minute score to the 2013 film Radhe Radhe – Rites of Holi, presenting Iyer alongside the International Contemporary Ensemble; and Mutations, Iyer’s ECM debut as a leader, showcasing an extended suite for piano, string quartet and electronics. Far From Over found Iyer working in his sextet at New York City’s Avatar Studios, with Manfred Eicher producing the album. Throughout, the pianist plays off the melodic-rhythmic possibilities of the material in a characteristically engaging way – witness his solos in the grooving “In Action” and “Nope.” His orchestration of the horns is both textural and exciting, but in creating his sextet music, Iyer tends to “build from the rhythm first, from the identity of the groove,” he explains. “Many of the rhythms come from folk music – from West African drumming or Indian classical music. ‘Good on the Ground’ draws on South Indian folk rhythms, with this simple but rugged dance quality, a bounce that makes you feel like you might be at an outdoor festival of some kind.” The member of the sextet with whom Iyer has had the longest relationship is bassist Stephan Crump. “I’ve played with Stephan since I moved to New York in 1999, contacting him out of the blue when he didn’t know me from Adam. Stephan is in my trio but was also in my quartet, so we’ve made a lot of records together. It’s often said that my music is complicated, but Stephan has a way of giving it this lyricism and simplicity, backing off technical details to treat the music as a shape and as a feeling.” Drummer Tyshawn Sorey has long been an alternate member of Iyer’s trio, often subbing whenever Gilmore can’t make the gig. Iyer and Sorey have also worked together in various other configurations since 2001, including the sessions for Radhe Radhe. “Tyshawn has perfect pitch and total recall, this sort of omniscient listening skill,” Iyer says. “There are other drummers like that: Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts and Jack DeJohnette come to mind. Tony Williams was like that, too – just hyper-aware of everything that’s happening in the ensemble. Tyshawn is right in that legacy. He has this total view of music, with an understanding of how form and memory are related and how they work through time. He’s a wizard with that. And as a drummer, he has some of the most incredible technical virtuosity, but his groove, his pocket is so deep.” The track “Nope” has a deep funk to it, illustrating Iyer’s point about Sorey’s grooving abilities. Then there is the rhythm trio’s cohesive, high-energy base that the horns fly over ecstatically in “Far From Over,” “Good on the Ground” and “Down to the Wire” (the latter of which also includes a long, roiling solo by Sorey). The elegy “For Amiri Baraka” is given a dramatic trio performance, sans horns. Through touring as a trio, Iyer, Crump and Sorey have developed their own discrete character as a rhythm section, having spent much time “in the heat of things, finding ways to make music work,” the pianist says. “That’s given us a certain unity together. There aren’t many words for it, and there’s no shortcut to getting there. We’ve learned over the years how to hold something down and also how to grow something – how to create the arc of an experience for the audience and ourselves.” The three horn players on Far From Over – Graham Haynes (cornet, flugelhorn and electronics), Steve Lehman (alto saxophone) and Mark Shim (tenor sax) – “are some of my favorite musicians,” Iyer says. “Each of them has a unique identity, sound and vision.” About Shim, whose solo roars through album opener “Poles,” Iyer says: “I think Mark is the rare tenor player of his generation to have that depth and size of sound. With him, I hear all these references: Joe Henderson, Billy Harper, Coleman Hawkins. It’s like taking a sip of a certain wine, and it can have an association with all these flavors. Each of these guys has a sound that has so many nuances and textures that make me think of a lot of other music. Partly, it’s because each of them has had such a long, interesting career. Mark played with Betty Carter and Elvin Jones. He has a lot of wisdom from contact with some of the legends in this music.” Haynes – whose horn pairs sensuously with Iyer’s Fender Rhodes in “Poles” (shades of late-’60 Miles Davis) and has extended atmospheric features with electronics in “End of the Tunnel” and “Wake” – enjoyed more than just working contact with jazz icons. “Graham’s father is drummer Roy Haynes, a true legend, so Graham comes directly from that musical legacy,” Iyer explains. “He has a certain relationship to time that’s mysterious. I remember when I had him up as faculty at Banff in Canada a few summers ago, he gave a workshop titled ‘Time Does Not Exist.’ There’s a quality to his playing where you hear that sensibility, in that he has this sense of form that’s really expansive. You hear in his improvisations that he takes the long view, and he achieves a lot with sound, where one note can speak volumes.” Iyer has worked with Lehman – who gives an especially stirring, climactic performance in “Threnody” – nearly as long as his rhythm mates. “I met Steve when he was playing in Anthony Braxton’s group,” the pianist recalls. “Steve turned my head with his sound and his improvisational language. Again, it conjured up a lot of associations: Braxton himself, but also Jackie McLean, with whom he studied. I also heard a compositional wisdom in the way Steve improvised. There’s a burning alto-player sound that people are used to hearing, whether it’s Cannonball Adderley or Kenny Garrett. Steve can have that quality with his technical fluidity and an acerbic sound that can cut. But the way he puts solos and lines together, there’s a lot of other information in there, too. We’ve worked pretty steadily together for more than a dozen years, including in the trio Fieldwork that we’ve had with Tyshawn. So, with all of these guys, I have deep history and great admiration.” In his liner note for Far From Over, Iyer hints at the driving, free-minded spirit of the album by quoting Wadada Leo Smith on the ideal function of music, saying that it should “transform” a listener’s life if only for an instant, “so that when they go back to the routine part of living, they carry with them a little bit of something else.” Iyer expands on that notion while reflecting on the troubled socio-political climate around the world: “There’s a resistance in this music, an insistence on dignity and compassion, a refusal to be silenced. The music can hit hard while also having a searching quality, a yearning – which is basically a blues aesthetic that has been abstracted and then embodied in different ways by the different players in the group. There’s a defiance there, though it’s balanced by a unity the sextet achieves. Defiance and unity, somehow together – that’s the sound this band captures to me. Joy and danger – that spectrum of possibilities is in there, too. There’s real exuberance in the playing, though a lot of the music is fiendishly difficult to play. Sometimes we don’t know how we’re going to make it, which puts us in this vulnerable space. But that vulnerability enables us to access emotion and bring that into the music. It’s not about showing off a certain prowess or being ‘angry.’ It’s about being vulnerable – that has to be in the music. When I hear that in somebody else, I feel like it’s inviting me in. When you reveal something of yourself in the course of making music, it brings the listener right up close to you. It can make them feel involved in the music, so that it’s a shared experience. And that’s the idea.” 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 Keyboardist-composer Vijay Iyer’s energized sequence of ECM releases has garnered copious international praise. Yet his fifth for the label since 2014 – Far From Over, featuring his dynamically commanding sextet – finds Iyer reaching a new peak, furthering an artistry that led The Guardian to call him “one of the world’s most inventive new-generation jazz pianists” and The New Yorker to describe him as “extravagantly gifted… brilliantly eclectic.” Far From Over features a sextet of virtuoso improvisers – with horn players Graham Haynes, Steve Lehman and Mark Shim alongside rhythm partners Stephan Crump and Tyshawn Sorey – leveraging a wealth of jazz history even as it pushes boldly forward. The music ranges from the thrillingly explosive (“Down to the Wire,” “Good on the Ground”) to the cathartically elegiac (“For Amiri Baraka,” “Threnody”), with melodic hooks, entrancing atmosphere, rhythmic muscle and an elemental spirit all part of the allure. “This group has a lot of fire in it, but also a lot of earth, because the tones are so deep, the timbres and textures,” Iyer says. “There’s also air and water – the music moves.” Vijay Iyer Sextet On Tour August 5 Newport, RI (Newport Jazz Festival) September 4 Detroit, MI (Detroit Jazz Festival) September 17 Monterey, CA (Monterey Jazz Festival) October 20 Brooklyn, NY (BRIC Festival) January 9 - 13 New York, NY (Birdland) January 20 San Francisco, CA (SFJAZZ, Miner Auditorium) April 27 Los Angeles, CA (Disney Hall) May 11 Appleton, WI (Lawrence Memorial Chapel) For information on these and other concerts between these dates, visit vijay-iyer.com Top banner Photo © Lynne Harty/ECM Records © 2017 ECM | ECM Records USA | 1755 Broadway, 3rd floor | New York NY 10011

I promise I will catch up, but first let's look at this weekend's games. Power rankings http://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/cfl-power-rankings-week-6-1.4229817 http://www.tsn.ca/stampeders-still-tops-in-cfl-power-rankings-1.820003 http://3downnation.com/2017/07/31/3down-power-rankings-riders-make-progress/#comments https://www.cfl.ca/2017/08/01/riders-climbing-nissan-titan-power-rankings/ ***** Week 7 picks http://www.rodpedersen.com/2017/08/week-7-cfl-picks-2017.html https://www.cfl.ca/2017/08/02/cfl-ca-writers-make-picks-week-7/ https://www.cfl.ca/2017/08/02/weekly-predictor-redblacks-set-sights-win-no-2/ http://3downnation.com/2017/08/03/week-7-picks-west-east-crime-come/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/08/03/slam-dunk-picks-hitting-our-targets/#comments ***** Week 7 game notes https://www.cfl.ca/2017/08/02/cfl-ca-game-notes-look-week-7/ ***** More guys have been placed on the six-game injured list. Cleyon Laing and Victor Butler http://3downnation.com/2017/07/31/argos-put-cleyon-laing-victor-butler-six-game-injured-list/#comments Tyler Crapigna http://3downnation.com/2017/08/01/riders-kicker-tyler-crapigna-added-six-game-injured-list/#comments Weston Dressler http://3downnation.com/2017/08/03/bombers-receiver-weston-dressler-placed-six-game-injured-list/#comments Kamar Jorden http://3downnation.com/2017/08/03/bombers-receiver-weston-dressler-placed-six-game-injured-list/#comments

This one is much better than I expected. Her voice and this album remind me of Bebel Gilberto's first album, which I liked a lot.

RIP. I never understood the extent of his success, but I was reminded of him every year in the paper because I was born on his birthday.

Thanks guys!

Pianist/Composer David Lopato's "Gendhing for a Spirit Rising" Set for September 8 Release On Global Coolant Records Groundbreaking World Jazz Fusion 2-CD Set Combines Javanese Gamelan & Other Eastern Musical Traditions With Western Improvisation Appearing at Cornelia Street Cafe, NYC, Oct. 23, With Ratzo Harris, Michael Sarin July 28, 2017 Musical genres have been melding for ages, yet pianist/composer David Lopatohas developed an eclectic East-West fusion that truly has no precedent. Arespected educator, inventive composer, inveterate musical explorer, and fearless sonic pioneer who has traveled a highly personal "silk road," Lopato is releasing the extraordinary Gendhing for a Spirit Rising on September 8 via Global Coolant Records. This two-CD set is the culmination of the mesmerizing musical landscape he has cultivated since his first encounter with Javanese gamelan in the mid-1970s. Along the way, including a pivotal year spent in Java as a Fulbright Scholar, Lopato carved out a niche for himself by crafting a fascinating and idiosyncratic instrumental voice that distinguishes him from others on the contemporary music scene. An opulent smorgasbord of sounds, Gendhing for a Spirit Rising showcases the leader's work on piano, marimba, vibraphone, glockenspiel, Sundanese kendhang (hand drums), gongs, and electronics. Joining him on the recording are such jazz luminaries as Marty Ehrlich(alto and soprano saxophones), Mark Feldman (violin), Erik Friedlander (cello), Ratzo Harris(bass), Bill Ware (vibraphone), and drummers Tom Rainey and Michael Sarin; classical marimba virtuoso William Moersch; I. M. Harjito, the preeminent master of the Javanese rebab (traditional spike fiddle); and American gamelan masters Anne Stebinger and Marc Perlman (Javanese kendhang). "I wanted to be able to infuse Western harmonic movement into a modal system that doesn't have that type of motion (and many Indonesian musicians perhaps prefer it that way)," Lopato explains."I sampled the gongs not only because I needed them to be compatible with Western tuning, but also to reinforce that sense of harmonic motion. And I chose certain instruments (vibes, glockenspiel, and marimba) because their timbres are somewhat similar to those of the Javanese instruments upon which their parts are modeled." Every musical moment on Gendhing for a Spirit Rising is informed by Lopato's decades of intensive study and experimentation that found him embracing stride piano, the post-bop continuum, avant-garde classical music, blues, Afro-Caribbean rhythms, and the traditional music of a myriad of other cultures, most importantly that of West Africa and of Indonesia. Disc 1, Java, contains the recording's title track, a four-movement symphonic work for 10 musicians marked by incantatory rhythms and shimmering textures. The opening movement "Ladrang" flows from Lopato's work early in his career with Steve Reich and features a sumptuous melodic line above its churning rhythmic structure. "This Life" opens up space for improvisation, with Ehrlich's alto and soprano saxophones leading the surging opening theme, which feels like a bebop steeplechase over a lush West Javanese landscape. "Jalan Jiwa" evokes the "walking music" of Wayang Kulit, the traditional Javanese shadow puppet play, while the expansive "Gendhing" is an ingenious melding of Javanese gamelan structure with Western instrumentation and tuning. (Gendhing is a general term used to describe pieces in the gamelan repertoire but also refers to the longest form in terms of gong cycle and overall length in that musical tradition.) With Bill Ware's vibes serving as a sonic bridge between Disc 1 and Disc 2, the jazz-steeped New York volume kicks off with "Beboppin' with Bella," a striking piece inspired by the interlocking metallophone lines in Balinese gamelan. The meditative "Jakshi" takes a Middle Eastern turn with its keening melody, and the cathartic three-part "Suite 911" flows from Lopato's experience living up the street from the World Trade Center. A prolific composer who has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts for both jazz and classical music, Brooklyn native David Lopato made his recording debut with the critically praised 1982 solo piano session Giant Mbira (Lumina). He followed up with the highly dynamic 1993 trio session Inside/Outside (Enemy), and 1998's The Standard Line (Unity), a duo project with baritone saxophonist David Mott. With his last album, Many Moons (Global Coolant), he returned to the solo piano format. After earning his B.A. in music composition at Yale in the early 1970s, Lopato went on to study West African drumming and Javanese gamelan at California Institute of the Arts in the mid-1970s. Eight years later, with the aid of a Fulbright Fellowship, he was able to deepen his knowledge of Javanese music and culture at the source. "Much of the music on Disc 1 is an outgrowth of that experience," he says. On the faculty of the Jazz & Contemporary Music Department at the New School University in New York since 1991, Lopato has taught courses ranging from music theory, composition, and ear training to film scoring and the use of computer technology in music. A vital member of the New York City arts community, he produced a concert series at InHouse, a downtown Manhattan performance space devoted to contemporary improvised music, from 1990 to 2010. David Lopato and his trio-mates, bassist Ratzo Harris and drummer Michael Sarin, will be performing at Cornelia Street Café in New York City on Monday 10/23, 8:30 pm. Web Site: davidlopato.com

RIP June Foray! I've been meaning to pick up her book "Did You Grow Up with Me Too?" http://www.oldies.com/product-view/BK2562.html https://www.amazon.com/Did-You-Grow-Too-Autobiography/dp/1593934610/

`Laurie has released her latest of Art. This is vol. 8. $7 for the download with a 13 minute track free. https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/album/art-pepper-unreleased-art-vol-viii

Let's skip ahead to this week's games. Both tonight's game (Montreal at Winnipeg, 8:30 pm et) and tomorrow's game (BC at Edmonton, 9:30 pm et) will be on ESPN2. ***** Power Rankings http://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/cfl-power-rankings-1.4222077 http://www.tsn.ca/stampeders-back-on-top-of-cfl-power-rankings-1.784189 https://www.cfl.ca/2017/07/26/nissan-titan-power-rankings-redblacks-rise-2/ http://3downnation.com/2017/07/25/3down-power-rankings-rising-boatmen/#comments ***** Week 6 picks http://www.rodpedersen.com/2017/07/week-6-cfl-picks-2017.html http://3downnation.com/2017/07/27/week-six-picks-humdinger-west/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/07/27/slam-dunk-picks-value-east-teams/#comments https://www.cfl.ca/2017/07/26/cfl-ca-writers-make-picks-week-6/ https://www.cfl.ca/2017/07/26/weekly-predictor-will-esks-handed-first-loss-week-6/ ***** Week 6 game notes https://www.cfl.ca/2017/07/26/cfl-ca-game-notes-look-week-6/ ***** Week 6 checking down https://www.cfl.ca/2017/07/26/checking-down-wk-6/

Let's continue with more headlines before we get back to the games. Here is a video of the new Canadian football computer game. http://3downnation.com/2017/05/31/trailer-provides-first-look-canadian-football-video-game/#comments Corey Chamblin returned to the league as an Argo assistant. http://3downnation.com/2017/06/01/corey-chamblin-returns-sidelines-argos/#comments Next year's Grey Cup will be in Edmonton. http://3downnation.com/2017/06/02/2018-grey-cup-held-edmonton-report/#comments Alex Bazzie signed with Arizona. http://3downnation.com/2017/06/05/cfl-star-alex-bazzie-signs-arizona-cardinals/#comments As you may have noticed, the players are using a new helmet this year. http://3downnation.com/2017/06/06/new-helmet-hopes-effective-limiting-head-truama/#comments You may have seen Vince Young's picture on the cover of Sports Illustrated a few weeks ago. It turns out that the Riders put him on the retired list. They did not release him, and they still have the rights to him. http://3downnation.com/2017/06/11/door-remains-open-vince-young-riders-pre-season-opener/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/06/20/riders-pull-plug-vince-young-experiment-still-expect-better-offence-2017/#comments The Riders' pick Elie Bouka was doing well in Arizona's camp last month. http://3downnation.com/2017/06/13/riders-draft-pick-db-elie-bouka-impressing-in-arizona/#comments Reflections on Don Matthews http://3downnation.com/2017/06/14/don-reflections-great-don-matthews/#comments Here is more on the league's selection of Randy Ambrosie as the new commissioner. http://3downnation.com/2017/06/16/duane-forde-running-cfl-commish-job-league-never-called/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/06/16/runner-jeffrey-orridge-strong-candidate-time-around/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/06/21/qa-cfl-chair-jim-lawson-commissioner-search/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/07/10/will-hill-case-ambrosie-faces-first-test-cfl-commissioner/#comments Orlondo Steinauer resigned as the Ticat DC to take the Fresno State job in the US, so Austin moved Jeff Reinebold over from special teams to defense. http://3downnation.com/2017/06/25/expect-jeff-reinebolds-ticat-defence/#comments The Alouettes will use Olympic Stadium as their practice field for the next three years. The deal includes better facilities. http://3downnation.com/2017/07/03/new-partnership-parc-olympique-good-news-alouettes/#comments Sask released Jonathan Newsome, who promptly signed with Ottawa. http://3downnation.com/2017/07/04/riders-release-dl-jonathan-newsome/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/07/12/redblacks-put-former-riders-dl-jonathan-newsome-six-game-injured-list/#comments Ed Hervey has spoken publicly for the first time since he was let go by the Eskimos. http://3downnation.com/2017/07/10/exclusive-ed-hervey-breaks-silence-for-first-time-since-eskimos-firing/#comments The Redblacks released AJ Jefferson, who promptly signed with the Riders. http://3downnation.com/2017/07/10/redblacks-release-db-aj-jefferson/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/07/17/riders-agree-to-terms-with-db-a-j-jefferson/#comments David Braley expects to sell the Lions by the end of the season. http://3downnation.com/2017/07/13/report-david-braley-sell-b-c-lions-seasons-end/#comments

Happy Birthday 2017 md!

July 26 1992 - Mary Wells dies. 2013 - JJ Cale dies. Born... 1941 - Bobby Hebb 1941 - Darlene Love 1942 - Dobie Gray 1943 - Mick Jagger

We have a lot of catching up to do! Let's look first at the news. Swayze Waters' temporary replacement Ty Long has done so well that Wally decided to cut Waters. http://3downnation.com/2017/06/14/swayze-waters-hoping-calm-lions-kicking-game-cfl-return/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/07/12/lions-cut-kicker-swayze-waters/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/07/12/release-b-c-swayze-waters-football-doesnt-love-everybody-back/#comments ***** A large number of players have been placed on the six-game injured list. Some think that not all of the guys are injured. Cory Greenwood http://3downnation.com/2017/06/01/esks-cory-greenwood-year-torn-acl/#comments Cordarro Law http://3downnation.com/2017/06/13/stamps-dl-suffers-potential-season-ending-injury/#comments JC Sherritt http://3downnation.com/2017/06/30/jones-tries-fill-void-left-star-linebacker-sherritt-eskimos-host-alouettes/#comments Henoc Muamba http://3downnation.com/2017/06/30/riders-place-canadian-lb-henoc-muamba-six-game-injured-list/#comments Terrence Tolliver http://3downnation.com/2017/07/03/ticats-place-rec-terrence-toliver-six-game-injured-list/#comments DeVier Posey http://3downnation.com/2017/07/12/argos-receiver-devier-posey-placed-six-game-injured-list/#comments Ian Wild and Tristan Okpalaugo http://3downnation.com/2017/07/12/bombers-place-ian-logantristan-okpalaugo-six-game-injured-list/#comments Sam Giguere http://3downnation.com/2017/07/13/alouettes-receiver-sam-giguere-put-six-game-injured-list/#comments Adam Konar http://3downnation.com/2017/07/16/canadian-lb-adam-konar-suffers-significant-leg-injury/#comments Brandon Whitaker http://3downnation.com/2017/07/25/argos-rb-brandon-whitaker-placed-six-game-injured-list/#comments

July 25 1963 - Cilla Black makes her test recording for George Martin and EMI. 1965 - Bob Dylan plays folk rock at the Newport Folk Festival. 1969 - Neil Young performs with CS&N for the first time. 1984 - Big Mama Thornton dies. 1995 - Charlie Rich dies. ***** Born... 1943 - Jim McCarty

Happy Birthday 2017 Marcel!

July 23 1955 - Slim Whitman's Rose Marie begins it eleven-week run at #1 on the UK charts. 1989 - Ringo Starr begins his first tour since The Beatles' break-up. 2011 - Amy Winehouse dies. ***** Born... 1935 - Cleve Duncan 1947 - Tony Joe White 1952 - Janis Siegel 1971 - Alison Krauss

July 22 1963 - Vee-Jay presses Introducing The Beatles (but not released until Jan. 10, 1964). 2004 - Sacha Distel dies. ***** Born... 1941 - George Clinton 1943 - Bobby Sherman 1944 - Estelle Bennett 1947 - Don Henley 1963 - Emily Saliers

July 21 2004 - Jerry Goldsmith dies. 2005 - Long John Baldry dies. ***** 1946 - Barry Whitwam born

Happy Birthday 2017 BeBop, wherever on the globe you may be!

Duane, was the music on Midnight Special live performances or lip-synched?

I see tonight that there is a young (born 1991) singer named Jazzmeia Horn. Here is her Wikipedia bio. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazzmeia_Horn She has a new album called A Social Call which is on the Prestige label. You will note that the Prestige logo of ca. 1966 is used. https://www.amazon.com/Social-Call-Jazzmeia-Horn/dp/B06XJ5Y1CD/ Anybody know anything about Concord's plans for the label?

Vienna's JAM MUSIC LAB UNIVERSITY A Fully Accredited Institute Offering Bachelor and Master Degrees Studies in Jazz, Popular Music, Production, Pedagogy and More Beginning September 2017 www.jammusiclab.com JAM MUSIC LAB UNIVERSITY Welcomes to Its Faculty Esteemed Educators Thomas Gansch and Juan Garcia-Herreros JAM MUSIC LAB UNIVERSITY Announces Scholarship and Grants Opportunities for Advanced Students Auditions In September 2017 JAM MUSIC LAB UNIVERSITY Receives Over 100 International Submissions for "SPHERES OF A GENIUS" A Composition Competition Recognizing the Centennial Celebration of Thelonious Monk In Partnership with The Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra Winning Work Premieres at Golden Hall Gala, Vienna July 7, 2018 www.spheresofagenius.com THE JAM MUSIC LAB UNIVERSITY Vienna, July 18, 2017 - Located in one of Europe's most beautiful and musically-rich cities,Jam Music Lab proudly celebrates its newly-attained University status. It is now a fully accredited academic institute. The University specializes in jazz and popular music, with an emphasis on practical experience and employment opportunities. Students benefit from educational guidance in professional environments. Situated in the 11th district of Simmering, an urban and culturally diverse district of Vienna, Austria, the Jam Music Lab University is housed at an architectural landmark known as the Gasometer. There are four former storage tanks called Gasometers - all built in 1899 - that served as the monarchy's major energy provider. The city of Vienna remodeled and revitalized the protected monuments, resulting inGasometer Music City, now a flourishing university campus covering 11,000 m2. Besides Jam Music Lab University, this campus features a performance hall (seating 2000-3000), music retailers, student dormitory and music-related annexes for students of various ages. A host of pedagogical collaborations are available. Gasometer Music City has its own subway station. Vienna's center is only a short ride away. Throughout the city, concert venues and stages offer everything from classical to jazz to progressive music. The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Radio Symphony Orchestra and other internationally renowned ensemblescall Vienna theirhome.The University utilizes this tight network of contacts, partnering with club owners, presenters and festivals - among them, the acclaimed JAZZFEST Wien. Professors and students are routinely invited to perform and to demonstrate their skills. The JMLU faculty: International, first-rate professors, who work extensively in their fields of expertise, including Grammy-award-winning musicians and producers. Renowned guest authorities, including Bill Dobbins, Director of the U.S.'s famed Eastman School, leading workshops, seminars and master classes. JMLU emphasizes these tracks: Music Performance aims at instrumental, vocal, compositional and musical proficiency at a high level. Music Pedagogy provides insights to the methods and principles of music instruction. Media Music teaches film scoring, and music production for film, theatre, commercial production and video games. JMLU offers these degrees: Bachelor of Arts, Music (4 years) Bachelor of Arts, Music Education (4 years) Master of Arts, Music (2 years) Master of Arts, Music Education (2 years) JMLU understands the importance of integrating real-world experience with academic training. By teaching the business of music, students build and develop careers. "We are located in the city of music," explains Marcus Ratka, Director of JMLU. "Vienna's high culture is of major importance to people's daily lives. Artists and musicians are well regarded, and a healthy music scene creates work by demand. We aim to equip our students, so they can fulfill their promise." Courses are held in German and English. Skills in both languages are desirable. Bachelor & Master Studies begin in September 2017. Video submissions are possible for applicants not residing in Austria: http://www.jammusiclab.at/assets/downloads/aufnahme-bachelor.pdf http://www.jammusiclab.at/assets/downloads/aufnahme-master.pdf http://www.jammusiclab.at/assets/downloads/application-bachelor.pdf http://www.jammusiclab.at/assets/downloads/application-master.pdf JAM MUSIC LAB UNIVERSITY SCHOLARSHIPS The University offers a range of assistance programs, covering full and partial grants support. Submission deadline for the September term is August 25, 2017. http://www.jammusiclab.at/assets/downloads/info-scholarships-de.pdf http://www.jammusiclab.at/assets/downloads/info-scholarships-en.pdf JMLU NEWEST FACULTY MEMBERS The University is proud to welcome esteemed educators Thomas Gansch and Juan Garcia-Herreros. Thomas Gansch Gansch is an Austrian trumpeter and artist who works across all boundaries of musical genres and concepts - classical, jazz, pop, folk, interpretation, improvisation and composition. His musical language possesses gravitas, as well as humor. He is a founding member of the acclaimed ensemble Mnozil Brass, has served the inestimable Vienna Art Orchestra, and created Gansch & Roses, his own "little big band." Gansch offers students a holistic approach, diversity of styles, technique and the opportunity for specialized development in their interests and talents. http://www.jammusiclab.at/assets/downloads/news-gansch-en.pdf http://www.jammusiclab.at/assets/downloads/news-gansch-de.pdf Juan Garcia-Herreros Garcia-Herreros is a celebrated Colombian bassist-composer whose work in Latin Jazz and World Music have earned him a host of top honors, including a Grammy nomination. Long recognized for his virtuosity on the electric 6-string, he is a highly influential instrumentalist with a command of multiple musical genres. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Garcia-Herreros https://www.the-snow-owl.com/ "SPHERES OF A GENIUS" 100 YEARS OF THELONIOUS MONK To honor the centennial of Thelonious Monk, the great American jazz pianist-composer, JMLU has created "Spheres of a Genius," an international competition dedicated to composition. In a resounding show of support, over 100 submissions have been received from around the world! "Monk´s music has opened doors to new sounds, structures and ways of creating music," says organizer Marcus Ratka. "He raised awareness for the charming beauty of dissonance and contradictions in the arts." The competition aims to: Reflect the spirit of Thelonious Monk from a contemporary perspective Inspire innovation and originality Provide a platform for the interrelationship of composed and improvised forms Encourage the exploration of large-scale interactions, vis-a-vis the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, which will premier the winning composition in the historicGolden Hall, July 7, 2018. The concert will be broadcast as part of the Ö1 radio program. The winner receives € 5.000. First runner-up receives € 3.000. Second runner-up gets € 2.000. The Jury will consist of experts in the field - representatives of the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Jam Music Lab University and international authorities.www.spheresofagenius.com Historic Golden Hall For further background information, please read the interview with Marcus Ratka, Director of JMLU, conducted by Larry Appelbaum, American jazz scholar, critic, broadcaster and Senior Music Specialist at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.: http://www.jammusiclab.at/assets/downloads/Interview-Ratka-Appelbaum.pdf

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in New Album INCIDENTALS Tim Berne alto saxophone; Oscar Noriega clarinet, bass clarinet; Ryan Ferreira guitars; Matt Mitchell piano; Ches Smith drums, vibraphone, percussion, timpani With David Torn guitar Tim Berne has been described as “a saxophonist and composer of granite conviction” by The New York Times. Incidentals is the fourth album from his spirited Snakeoil band and the second (following on from 2015’s You’ve Been Watching Me) to feature the quintet line-up in which his core group with clarinetist Oscar Noriega, pianist Matt Mitchell and drummer/vibraphonist Ches Smith is augmented by guitarist Ryan Ferreira. The music is characteristically action-packed in the Berne tradition: powerful, dynamic, often fast-moving - yet also very clear in all its teeming detail. “We somehow achieved more sonic space by adding another player,” the bandleader notes wonderingly. It’s an impression maintained even when producer David Torn takes up his own guitar in a cameo at the climax of the modestly-titled “Sideshow”(in reality a 26-minute epic journey), soloing amid thunderous timpani and over serpentine melody outlined by sax and clarinet. ON TOUR [ All dates are with Snakeoil unless otherwise indicated ] August 6 Newport Jazz Festival September 13 New York, NY (Jazz Standard) September 14 Newburgh, NY (Queen of the Hudson) September 15 Baltimore. MD (An Die Music Live!) September 16 Chicago, IL (Constellation) September 17 Los Angeles, CA (BlueWhale) September 19 Reno, NV (Laughing Planet) September 20 Portland, OR (Fremont Theatre) September 21 Seattle, WA (Earshot, The Royal Room) September 22 Phoenix, AZ (The Nash) September 23 San Francisco, CA (SFJAZZ, JHL) September 24 Vancouver (Western Front) September 29 New Orleans, LA (The Old U.S. Mint, w/local musicians) September 30 Pittsburgh, NY (City of Asylum: Trio w/Matt Mitchell & Kate Gentile) October 1 Pittsburgh, NY (City of Asylum: Double solo concert w/Matt Mitchell) October 6 Philadelphia, PA (Snakeoil + Sun of Goldfinger, FringeArts) December 1 New Haven, CT (Firehouse 12) © 2017 ECM | ECM Records USA | 1755 Broadway, 3rd floor | New York NY 10011