GA Russell

Dave, most of my DVDs are old TV shows, so I am accustomed to less than stellar video. You should see the 1960 Grey Cup!

Thanks guys. I took the plunge. complete - $18.99 prime https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01LTHOP8U/

Happy Birthday FFA!

I remember when this TV show was on forty years ago. I think I saw it once. I remember David Letterman once saying that they were running out of ideas, and that next week's show would be "In search of Leonard's car keys." Does anyone here have an opinion? Was this show stupid, or did it actually point out many unexplained phenomena? Should I get a DVD? Thanks!

Now let's look at the headlines from the past week. It looks like SJ Green will be recovered from his knee injury by training camp time. http://3downnation.com/2017/03/01/alouettes-s-j-green-cleared-training-camp-knee-inury/#comments http://www.cfl.ca/2017/03/01/s-j-green-ready-camp/ ***** Marc Trestman has selected Corey Chamblin to be his new defensive coordinator and assistant head coach. Marcus Brady will return as the offensive coordinator. http://3downnation.com/2017/03/06/madani-former-riders-coach-corey-chamblin-argos-new-dc/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/03/07/argonauts-officially-announce-corey-chamblin-defensive-coordinator-brady-oc/#comments http://www.cfl.ca/2017/03/07/chamblin-brady-lead-trestmans-coaching-staff/ http://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/corey-chamblin-marcus-brady-argos-1.4013421 ***** Sugarfoot Anderson has died at 97. http://3downnation.com/2017/03/08/former-calgary-stampeders-star-ezzrett-sugarfoot-anderson-dies-age-97/#comments http://www.cfl.ca/2017/03/08/cfl-mourns-passing-ezzrett-sugarfoot-anderson/ ***** Chris Best has retired. He was the last member of the 2007 Rider Grey Cup Champs. http://3downnation.com/2017/02/23/riders-offensive-lineman-chris-best-expected-announce-retirement/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/02/25/best-retirement-leaves-big-hole-riders/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/02/23/chris-best-last-member-2007-grey-cup-team-retires/#comments ***** The Riders scheduled an open tryout camp for this Saturday IN MONTREAL!!! As it turns out, that's against league rules, so it was cancelled. http://3downnation.com/2017/03/07/riders-cancel-open-try-set-montreal-alouettes-raise-concerns-cfl/#comments ***** Rico Murray Has signed with the Argos. http://www.cfl.ca/2017/03/03/argos-land-former-ticat-rico-murray/ http://3downnation.com/2017/02/24/defensive-back-rico-murray-latest-former-ticat-join-argos/#comments ***** Eddie Steele has signed with the Riders. http://www.cfl.ca/2017/03/07/riders-sign-national-dt-eddie-steele/ ***** Cory Greenwood has signed with the Eskimos. http://www.cfl.ca/2017/03/08/esks-sign-national-cory-greenwood/ http://3downnation.com/2017/03/08/canadian-linebacker-cory-greenwood-expected-to-sign-with-eskimos/#comments ***** Bakari Grant has signed with the Riders. http://www.cfl.ca/2017/02/21/riders-add-veteran-receiver-bakari-grant/ ***** Greg Van Roten has signed with Jacksonville. http://www.cfl.ca/2017/02/27/former-argo-van-roten-lands-nfl-deal/ ***** Thomas Miles has left the Argos to sign with his hometown Bombers. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/blue-bombers-sign-thomas-miles-1.4010453 http://www.tsn.ca/blue-bombers-sign-winnipeg-born-lb-miles-1.687788 ***** Johnny Sears, Jr., has signed with the Argos. http://3downnation.com/2017/02/17/defensive-back-johnny-sears-jr-signs-argonauts/#comments

After more than a week of rumors, the Riders announced today that they have signed Vince Young. Young hasn't played since 2011, so I have to think that his chances of beating out Kevin Glenn aren't very good. Here are more links (in chronological order) since my last post. http://3downnation.com/2017/03/06/agent-says-vince-young-will-decide/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/03/07/3down-podcast-argo-hires-young-qb-simonize-suspension-cfl-week/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/03/08/vince-young-riderville-sure-not/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/03/08/3down-podcast-will-vince-young-make-difference-riderville/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/03/08/agent-way-regina-work-vince-young-deal-riders/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/03/09/vince-young-touches-regina/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/03/09/riders-announce-official-signing-introduce-vince-young/#comments http://www.cfl.ca/2017/03/08/nye-young-hail-mary-pass-worth-throwing/ http://www.cfl.ca/2017/03/09/riders-officially-ink-former-heisman-nominee-vince-young/ http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/vince-young-signs-with-the-saskatchewan-roughriders-1.4017249 http://www.tsn.ca/going-green-vince-young-signs-with-roughriders-1.692110

Happy Birthday 2017 jazztrain!

Hungarian Power Trio Jü Continues its Crushing Agenda on Summa Norwegian Sax Star Kjetil Møster and Celebrated Hungarian Electroacoustic Bálint Bolcsó Guest on Band's Second RareNoise Release. CD, VINYL AND MULTIPLE DIGITAL FORMATS AVAILABLE IN STORES AND ONLINE ON MARCH 31, 2017 AND THROUGH WWW.RARENOISERECORDS.COM. ÀdàmMészáros Guitars, Kalimba, Percussion Ernö Hock Bass Guitar, Bass Ukulele, Percussion Andràs Halmos Drums, Bells Kalimba and Kjetil Møster Saxophones (on "Partir") Bálint Bolcsó Electronics (on "Partir") New York, March 7, 2017 - Following the success of their acclaimed RareNoise debut, 2014's Jü Meets Møster (a killer collaboration with renowned Norwegian saxophonist Kjetil Møster) the experimental Budapest-based trio of guitarist Ádám Mészáros, bassist Ernö Hock and drummer András Halmos once again bridges hellacious free jazz, throbbing hardcore rock and spacious world and ambient music on their ecstatic, envelope-pushing opus, Summa. Alternately calm (the 12-minute "Jimma Blue") and crushing ("Mongrel Mangrove," "My Heart Is Somewhere Else" and the blistering title track), Summa stands as another powerful manifesto against complacency by the renegade trio. "The original form for us is the trio form," says guitarist Meszanos. "The first album with Kjetil was more like a great adventure. This is just us, and this is the Jü sound." Møster does appear as special guest alongside celebrated Hungarian electroacoustic composer Bálint Bolcsó on the expansive 12-minute track "Partir," providing a bridge to the first album. Another element that enters into the picture to a degree on Ju's sophomore outing is folk music, which can be heard on tunes like "Lady Klimax," with its presence of kalimba, and "Sinus Begena," fueled by Hock's sintir-like bass playing. "We listen to many kinds of traditional musics and like to see ourselves as folk musicians," says drummer Halmos. "Many times when we hear traditional music that is ancient, it sounds really raw and simple, even if it is actually complex. And the music is held together differently than in music that is based on a metronomic pulse. It's a question of being in the moment, so you don't want to control every part." "For me, it was never a conscious thing to prepare for being able to play different styles," he adds. "I don't prefer any genre, just looking for music that I like and trying to play inspired by them. I'd like to avoid being labeled, as it often happens, as a noisy punk band. While their first RareNoise release was recorded in a single day, the Summa sessions took place over the course of five days in the studio. "So we had time to find form for the songs," says Halmos. "If you heard us live recently, you could hear that we play these songs more or less in the forms they are on the album but as we use those forms as starting points to wherever we are taken in the moment. Even though there was a lot of improvisation in the process, the sounds of the songs and the themes are there as anchor points. Still, we always try to keep them fresh, so basically anything can happen while playing." Formed in 2012, each member of Jü is an accomplished player on the Budapest scene. Beside dozens of Hungarian groups, the members have played with such internationally acclaimed musicians as John Zorn, Eugene Chadbourne, Charles Gayle, Chris Potter, William Parker, Hamid Drake, Pamelia Kurstin and Mikolaj Trzaska. As developing musicians in Budapest, they came under the sway of such American renegades as John Zorn (particularly his Naked City and Moonchild bands) and Last Exit, the renegade noise quartet of Bill Laswell, Sonny Sharrock, Peter Brotzman and Ronald Shannon Jackson. Says Mészáros, "Of course I used to listen to these bands a lot. They had a kind of punk appeal that I think of as more physical, so it offers Videosome kind of relief also in a physical way. And we are trying to do that in our own music while allowing for some small accidents to happen along the way that can take you out of your comfort zone, which I like." "Basically, we are trying to tell the same story again and again which is not written word buy word," he adds. "Sometimes we forget something, sometimes we tell more. It's affected by who and when and were we are telling it but it's still more or less the same story." Those stories are told with intensity and sheer abandon on the bone-crunching Summa. TRACKS 1. Lady Klimax 2. Socotra 3. Summa 4. Keltner 5. Partir (featuring Kjetil Møster and Bálint Bolcsó) 6. My Heart is Somewhere Else 7. Jimma Blue 8. Mongrel Mangrove (for Boros Levente) 9. Sinus Begena

Jamie Saft Mines New Musical Territory On Duo Project With Guitarist Bill Brovold Serenity Knolls CD, DOUBLE-VINYL AND MULTIPLE DIGITAL FORMATS AVAILABLE IN STORES AND ONLINE ON MARCH 31, 2017 AND THROUGH WWW.RARENOISERECORDS.COM. Jamie Saft Dobro, Lap Steel Guitar Bill Brovold Electric Guitar 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 to excerpts, please go to www.rarenoiserecords.com. New York, March 7, 2017 - Jamie Saft has been a significant presence on RareNoiseRecords since the label's inception: as band leader on New Zion w. Cyro's Sunshine Seas (on piano, analogue keyboards, bass and guitar with percussionist Cyro Baptista) and on The New Standard (on piano and organ with bassist Steve Swallow and drummer Bobby Previte), on celebrated quartet collaborations with Wadada Leo Smith (Red Hill, on piano) and Roswell Rudd (Strength & Power, on piano), as well as on a number of deep free music collaborations involving Joe Morris (Slobber Pup, Plymouth, The Spanish Donkey, on organ and analogue keyboards). Now, on Serenity Knolls, he stakes out some completely different territory. An intimate duo project with guitarist Bill Brovold, a former member of such New York no-wave bands as the Rhys Chatham Ensemble, the East Village Orchestra and the Zen Vikings, it features Saft alternating between playing dobro and lap steel on a set of 12 ambient type tunes with a distinctive heartland undercurrent to them. An accomplished keyboardist-composer who has been widely acknowledged for his work with various John Zorn projects, including The Dreamers, Electric Masada and Moonchild, the Queens native and current resident of Kingston in upstate New York has nonetheless has maintained a longstanding relationship with the guitar. As he explains, "I've played guitar since I was a youth as well as bass guitar, so this isn't something new for me at all. In fact, my guitar playing is featured on many of my albums such as Breadcrumb Sins (Tzadik), Sunshine Seas (RareNoise) and Black Shabbis (Tzadik) as well as being prominently featured in my original score for the Oscar nominated film Murderball." On Serenity Knolls, Saft is paired with the legendary improviser, woodworker, instrument builder and leader of Larval, an influential Detroit improvising post-rock ensemble. "I met Bill in upstate New York where we both currently live in the Hudson Valley," says Jamie. "Bill is a beautiful and diverse friend and it's a pleasure to improvise music with him." On spacious tracks like "Sweet Grass," "Saddle Horn," "The Great American Bison" and the title track, Saft creates that high and lonesome feel with his expressive slide guitar playing. He switches to lap steel on the droning "Bemidji", "No Horse Seen" and the minor key "Greybull." "I've been fascinated by slide guitar styles for many years," he says. "Initially I was exposed to these sounds through Bob Dylan's music, which quickly led me to the universes of country and bluegrass music. I wouldn't say I have specific role models for slide guitar - for me it is a means to produce sustained events from a guitar. I take a more orchestral approach to the instrument. I'm far from a great technician on these instruments. I'd never profess to be in the same league in any way as the legends of pedal steel and dobro. But to me, they are sonic tools to achieve a particular goal." Recorded at Potterville International Sound in Kingston, New York and mixed there by Saft and his colleague Christian Castagno (the same engineer who co-produced and mixed 2016's Sunshine Seas), Serenity Knolls carries a compelling vibe created by Brovold's atmospheric guitar in combination with Saft's melodic gems on dobro and lap steel. "This concept came from improvisations Bill and I were doing at house parties," Saft explains. "Combining the ambient feeling of Bill's unprocessed big hollow body Guild guitar through a Silverface Fender Vibrolux amplifier and the liquid sound of the dobro and lap steel guitar through a 1950's Alamo Amplifier with subtle tape echo enhancements was the intent. We sought to capture something inspired by the American landscape - the Great American Bison, endless highways, Plains drifting - filtered through a distinctly psychedelic lens. It began with the idea of making music that was 'Country Ambient' and arrived at something of an alternative state of consciousness." As for the evocative album title, Saft explains: "Serenity Knolls is both an ideal state of mind as well as the name of the rehab center where Jerry Garcia died." That perfectly captures both the serene nature and expansive, searching attitude heard throughout this beautiful free-flowing recording of strictly guitar music. Serenity Knolls is not only unique in Saft's oeuvre, it holds a unique place in the ever-expanding RareNoise catalog. TRACKS 1. Sweet Grass 2. Mitchimakinak 3. Saddle Horn 4. Wendigo 5. Thermopolis 6. The Great American Bison 7. Bemidji 8. No Horse Seen 9. Splintering Wind 10. Greybuli 11. Serenity Knolls 12. Silent Midpoint

ECM Tomasz Stanko New York Quartet - December Avenue Tomasz Stanko: trumpet; David Virelles: piano; Reuben Rogers: double bass, Gerald Cleaver: drums Four years after the landmark album Wislawa, the great Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko's New York Quartet returns with another masterful recording, December Avenue. Always an insightful bandleader, Stanko here encourages spirited improvisation to flower around his characteristically melancholic and soulful themes, and all players are presented to best advantage. New band member Reuben Rogers - originally from the Virgin Islands and perhaps best-known for his work with Charles Lloyd - is a splendid addition to the team, establishing a profound understanding with Cuban-born pianist David Virelles and Detroit drummer Gerald Cleaver. JazzTimes, reviewing the band in concert, reflected on the strengths of the individual players: "Stanko has never had a piano player like Virelles. When his moments came, he configured his own lyrical domain within the world of a Stanko song. For that matter, Stanko has never had a bassist and drummer like Rogers and Cleaver, with their hard edges and their volatile energy." December Avenue was recorded at Studios La Buissonne in the South of France in June 2016 and produced by Manfred Eicher.

2017. Performing April 8,9,10,15 in California w/ Virginia Mayhew (duo), trio w/ Joe La Barbera and Darek Oles Dear friends, I'm looking forward to returning to California in April for some duo concerts with my long-time colleague and friend, tenor saxophonist Virginia Mayhew, and a trio gig with the wonderful bassist Darek Oles and legendary drummer Joe La Barbera. Virginia brings her big, swinging tenor sound (and phenomenal clarinet chops) to my most recent CD, One For Marian: Celebrating Marian McPartland. We will play some of Marian's compositions in duo format, as well as a few standards and originals in Sacramento, San Francisco and Mission Viejo. While on the west coast. I'm looking forward to recording a new trio CD with Darek and Joe in Los Angeles. In celebration, we will play a special trio concert at the Piano Kitchen in Santa Barbara. Details are below. I hope to see you! Saturday 4/8/2017 8:00 PM Piket / Mayhew Duo The Gold Lion 2733 Riverside Blvd Sacramento CA (Opening for saxophonist Biggie Vinkeloe) Sunday 4/9/2017 4:00 PM Piket / Mayhew Duo Chez Hanny 1300 Silver Ave San Francisco CA (415) 552-2729 $20.00 donation Monday 4/10/2017 7:30 PM Piket / Mayhew Duo Saddleback College 28000 Marguerite Parkway Mission Viejo CA $10; $7 student and seniors in advance Saturday 4/15/2017 8:00 PM Roberta Piket Trio with <b>Joe La Barbera</b> and <b>Darek Oles</b> The Piano Kitchen 430 Rose Ave Santa Barbara CA $15.00 Fresh from the recording studio! Special Offer for March Only! Buy my latest recording directly from our artist-driven label, receive a copy of my previous CD, Emanation: Solo, Volume 2, for FREE! Use code CALIFORNIA after adding both CDs to your shopping cart. In the News... The January issue of JazzTimes features a two-page profile of me by the excellent writer Shaun Brady. The December issue of Downbeat magazine contains a Woodshed article which I wrote on the art of solo piano. The fall 2016 JazzIz contained an article about One for Marian by award-winning writer Neil Tesser. A track from the recording is featured on the CD that ships with the paper copy of the issue. One for Marian Electronic Press Kit Check out this four-minute video about One for Marian. Preview some of the music, and hear me discuss my friendship with Marian and the musicians on the CD. Please consider sharing the video on social media. Pressed for time? Watch the (roughly) 1-minute sneak preview! Here's an article about One For Marian in the June issue of DownBeat magazine. You can read it online now! Find me on social media and share jazz with your friends: Thirteenth Note Records | 751 Palisades Ave. #62, Teaneck, NJ 07666

Watch the music video of Billy's tune Cannonball, featuring the band and many musicians and friends you may know. This whimsical video was produced, directed and edited by Roberta and Billy. Billy Mintz Quintet: Ugly Beautiful CD Release Date March 7th Get your CD or download now! Long-awaited double CD of Billy's Compositions "2 hours of inside/outside goodness from one of NYC's best bands." -Hank Shteamer “I like to let the music unfold in the moment,” venerated drummer, composer and bandleader Billy Mintz said recently. “For me, it’s about a feeling.” Nowhere is Mintz’s zen-like reverence for the moment more apparent than on his extraordinary new 2-CD set, Ugly Beautiful. Recorded on a December day in 2015 in one room with no headphones (“when you record that way you can hear the instruments naturally”), it documents his quintet playing his eclectic reserve of original compositions. Billy Mintz: Ugly Beautiful (Thirteenth Note Records) Street Date: March 7th, 2017 Catalogue #: TNR010 Web Site: www.billymintz.com Music Video: www.tinyurl.com/MintzCannonballMedia Contact: info@thirteenthnoterecords.com Billy Mintz Quintet Billy Mintz drums and compositions John Gross tenor saxophone Tony Malaby tenor & soprano saxophones Roberta Piket piano, organ, clavinet, Rhodes Hilliard Geeene bass Order or download Ugly Beautiful directly from Thirteenth Note Records now: Also available soon on ITunes, CDBaby, Amazon, and on exploitive streaming-only sites. Thirteenth Note Records | 751 Palisades Ave. #62, Teaneck, NJ 07666

Happy Birthday 2017 Jazzjet!

Happy Birthday 2017 Brendan!

Thanks, guys. The prices of both are about a quarter above their lows, so I ordered both the Gordon and the Burrell today.

My copy arrived Monday, but since the following day was Mardi Gras I decided to wait till then to open it up and enjoy it. Congratulations guys on a job well done! For me, it is a perfect last-music-before-I-go-to-bed album.

Pianist Mike Longo's Consolidated Artists Productions To Release His New CD, "Only Time Will Tell," With Bassist Paul West & Drummer Lewis Nash, March 31 March 3, 2017 Connoisseurs of jazz piano trios will welcome the release, on March 31, of Only Time Will Tell, the new trio recording by piano master Mike Longo with Paul West on bass and Lewis Nash on drums. The disc is Longo's 20th for the CAP (Consolidated Artists Productions) label, and his 26th since debuting as a leader in 1962. Included on the CD are two compositions by Dizzy Gillespie, with whom Longo worked as pianist and musical director for 26 years, until Gillespie's death in 1993. The up-tempo "Wheatleigh Hall" was first recorded by the trumpeter in 1957 on an album with Sonny Rollins and Sonny Stitt. The gently swinging "Just a Thought," written by Gillespie in the '60s as a piano feature, had never been previously recorded. Longo's trio-mates had their own associations with Gillespie. West had done two stints with the trumpeter -- in the '50s with Dizzy's big band and again in the '60s with the quintet that included Longo. Nash had worked with Gillespie on several occasions in subsequent years. Longo, West, and Nash play two Thelonious Monk tunes -- "Nutty" and "Brilliant Corners" -- on Only Time Will Tell and also offer their takes on Oscar Pettiford's "Bohemia After Dark"; "Exactly Like You," delivered at an ultra-slow tempo; and Eubie Blake's "Memories of You," which closes the album. Among the Longo originals are the bossa nova-propelled "Stepping Up"; "Conflict of Interest," first recorded for a 1994 quintet album dedicated to Gillespie; and the gently waltzing title track, inspired by a documentary about Lyndon Johnson. "I started feeling sorry for him and went to the piano and wrote it," says Longo. "The point of the title is that after the passage of time, things may appear different than when you originally perceived them." (Pictured at left: Lewis Nash, Mike Longo, Paul West.) The son of a band-leading bassist father and a church organist mother, Michael Longo Jr. was inspired as a child by boogie-woogie pianists Sugar Chile Robinson in his native Cincinnati, and Jack Fina later in Fort Lauderdale, where the Longos had moved when he was in the third grade. While in Florida, Longo was later inspired by jazz piano master Oscar Peterson, with whom he would eventually spend six months studying privately. After earning a bachelor's degree in classical piano at Western Kentucky University, in 1959, Longo spent two years touring with the Salt City Six, the Dixieland group, and was hired at the Metropole Café in New York as one of the club's house pianists. In his two shifts a day, he backed Coleman Hawkins, Gene Krupa, and Henry "Red" Allen, among many others. Gillespie, who first heard the young pianist at the Metropole, hired him in 1966. Longo went on to make nine albums with the trumpet legend, beginning with Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac in 1967, and has also recorded with Astrud Gilberto, Lee Konitz, Buddy Rich, and Moody, to name just a few. He cut the first album under his own name, A Jazz Portrait of Funny Girl, in 1962; his last 20 have appeared on Consolidated Artists Productions (CAP), a musicians' cooperative label managed by Longo and his wife. He also has enjoyed a successful second career as an educator and creator of instructional books and videos. Since January 6, 2004, the anniversary of his friend Dizzy Gillespie's death, Longo has presented concerts every Tuesday evening in the Gillespie Auditorium of the New York City Baha'i Center. Longo will appear there 4/25 with his 17-piece New York State of the Art Jazz Ensemble featuring Ira Hawkins. He'll be performing at Mezzrow 5/25 with Paul West. Web Site: jazzbeat.com

Nils Økland is an innovative violinist and Hardanger fiddle master who is creatively expanding the range of the traditional music of his homeland, Norway. He describes his music as a “hybrid between the poetry of folk music and the energy of punk”… He will come to the United States to play for the very first time both in duo and with the Kjølvatn band performing music from his ECM recordings. In Concert March 21 New York, NY National Sawdust, Nils Økland Band March 22 Chicago, IL Constellation, Nils Økland Band March 24 Knoxville, TN Big Ears, Nils Økland Band March 25- Knoxville, TN Big Ears, duo w/Sigbjørn Apeland March 26 - Knoxville, TN Big Ears, duo w/Mats Eilertsen © 2017 ECM | ECM Records USA | 1755 Broadway, 3rd floor | New York NY 10011

Happy Birthday 2017 Al!

There have not been many headlines since my Feb. 16 posts, so let's catch up a little bit on what has happened. First let's look at the articles about the Argos, Jim Popp and Marc Trestman, in chronological order. http://3downnation.com/2017/02/22/ex-alouettes-gm-jim-popp-now-leading-candidate-toronto-argonauts-post/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/02/24/madani-jim-popp-marc-trestman-set-take-toronto/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/02/27/popp-trestman-announced-tuesday/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/02/28/argos-reunite-gm-jim-popp-head-coach-marc-trestman/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/02/28/argos-hiring-process-mess-doesnt-mean-wont-work/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/02/28/20490/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/03/01/no-pressure-popp-trestman-arrive-save-argos/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/03/02/can-trestman/#comments ***** Vince Young is considering coming out of retirement, and has spoken to the Riders. http://3downnation.com/2017/02/02/riders-add-former-nfl-star-vince-young-neg-list/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/02/02/vince-young-move-odd-one-riders/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/02/15/rider-neg-list-quarterback-vince-young-hires-agent-wants-resume-career/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/02/16/vince-youngs-agent-says-hes-opened-discussions-riders/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/02/16/young-poses-questions-answers-riders/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/02/24/riders-neg-lister-vince-young-files-trademark-make-vince-great/#comments ***** Johnny Manziel is on the Ticats' neg list. He was rumored to have worked out with the Riders without Hamilton's permission. http://3downnation.com/2016/12/02/ticats-neg-lister-johnny-manziel-strikes-deal-domestic-violence-charges-dropped/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/02/09/riders-workout-johnny-manziel-2/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/03/01/johnny-manziel-re-hires-old-agent-aiming-nfl-comeback/#comments ***** The Stampeders gave Drew Tate to the Redblacks. http://3downnation.com/2017/02/21/redblacks-acquire-qb-drew-tate/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/02/22/tate-trade-provides-immediate-future-insurance/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/02/22/stamps-really-traded-drew-tate/#comments ***** Joey Abrams analyzes the free agent moves of the Eastern teams. http://3downnation.com/2017/02/21/won-free-agency-east-division/#comments Joey Abrams analyzes the free agent moves of the Western teams. http://3downnation.com/2017/02/21/who-won-free-agency-in-the-west-division/#comments

Here is this year's Hall of Fame ballot. http://cfhof.ca/eligible-candidates/

Yesterday's Wall Street Journal had a front page article about Target Stores, which did poorly last year. It said that John Zolidis, an analyst at Buckingham Research Group, wrote in a research note this week that Target needs to exit underperforming categories like CDs, DVDs and other media. https://www.wsj.com/articles/target-offers-downbeat-2017-outlook-as-sales-fall-1488284262

Hey, I didn't say "no Dexter!" Twenty-five years ago I picked up a twofer of his complete Savoy sides. Anybody know that one? Anyway, thanks for the recs. One day I would like to pick up some of his late-'60s Prestige as well.

The other day I read Dexter Gordon's Downbeat interview from the Feb 10, 1977, issue. That has motivated me to consider picking something of his up. This package has always been inexpensive. Today it is $8.88 + $3.99. https://www.amazon.com/5-Original-Albums-DEXTER-GORDON/dp/B01KL0L9AS Has anyone heard this, and recommend it? Or do you recommend something else of his instead? Thanks!

The Argos announced this morning that they have hired Jim Popp to be their new GM, and Marc Trestman to be their new head coach. http://www.cfl.ca/2017/02/28/new-captains-ship-popp-trestman-reunite-lead-argos/ http://www.tsn.ca/argos-reunite-gm-popp-and-head-coach-trestman-1.683285