GA Russell

Is the music of the Django OAS included in the complete Django Vogue box?

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.

Happy Birthday 2017 Ag!

Happy Birthday KU/F!

Laurie has released today a free two-minute sample. https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/track/free-almost-3-minutes-troublesome-track

Thanks Lon. I always thought so, but was never sure.

It used to be that the English press would use the term "trad jazz." Is this what they were referring to?

Thanks guys! Mike, you've got me interested in the Paris release instead.

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!

Happy Easter everyone!

RIP. I enjoyed him very much during those years when jazz did not appeal to me.

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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

"Chapter Five," Fifth Album by the Paul Tynan & Aaron Lington Bicoastal Collective, Set for Release May 19 by OA2 Records First Big-Band Album by North Texas State One O'Clock Jazz Lab Alums Features Their Original Compositions & Celebrates Their Modern Approach To Trumpet-Baritone Sax Front Line April 14, 2017 Since joining forces in 2008 as the Bicoastal Collective, trumpeter Paul Tynan and baritone saxophonist Aaron Lington have recorded a series of outstanding albums ranging in instrumentation from tentet to quintet to sextet to a quintet featuring a Hammond B-3 organist. Chapter Five, their fifth album and the first with a full 18-piece big band, adds a sumptuous new volume to the duo's already impressive discography. The new CD will be released May 19 by OA2 Records. As on its predecessors, Tynan and Lington shared writing and arranging credits; each contributed four compositions to the new recording."Our goal with every project has been to do all-original music, always with a different ensemble," Lington explains. "It's always been our dream to do a big-band record, and we were finally able to make this happen." The result is a highly original take on the trumpet-baritone frontline tradition pioneered by jazz masters who inspired them, such as Thad Jones-Pepper Adams and Chet Baker-Gerry Mulligan. Despite living on opposite sides of North America -- hence the name Bicoastal Collective -- Tynan and Lington have remained friends over the decades since meeting at University of North Texas, where both began work on their master's degrees in 1998 and both played in the school's One O'Clock Lab Band a year apart. (Tynan now lives in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, where he's a Professor at St. Francis Xavier University, while Lington is Coordinator of Jazz Studies at San Jose State University in California.) They started recording together when both were in San Jose in 2008 and, on Lington's recommendation, Tynan spent a sabbatical year teaching at San Jose State and Chabot College and playing around Northern California with the likes of Poncho Sanchez, Keely Smith, and, of course, Lington. Arranging for the session to take place at the mid-continental point of Dallas (also close to their alma mater in Denton), Tynan and Lington recorded Chapter Five over two days in July 2016 with 16 handpicked players. "We wanted to record an album featuring all the people who we really trusted with the music," says Tynan. "A lot of them are our best friends, people we've worked with in the past or some we went to school with." The music on Chapter Five ranges from "Two Views," an extremely swinging Lington composition that finds Tynan and drummer Stockton Helbing in an inspired musical dialogue over the band's aggressive ensemble work, to "I Remember Every Day," which features solos by Lington and guitarist Noel Johnston and was inspired by a hypnotic groove by drummer Omar Hakim. Tynan penned "Charting Stars," which features his warm solos on flugelhorn, as a showcase for David Lown's soulful tenor saxophone. Tynan's ballad "Karma's Song" spotlights Lington's rich, at times biting baritone saxophone solo over the lovely ensemble arrangement. Paul Tynan was born in 1975 in Fort Erie, Ontario. The family moved to Houston when he was 5 and to Buffalo when he was 13. He took up the trumpet in the sixth grade. At the Crane School of Music/SUNY in Potsdam, New York, he studied with trombonist and composer Bret Zvacek and heard some of the university's jazz groups. He didn't begin playing jazz, however, until he met trumpeter Tim Hagans during a trip to Sweden. Aaron Lington was born in1974 in Houston and raised in nearby Highlands, Texas, where he played piano, violin, and guitar before taking up alto and baritone saxophones in high school. While doing his undergraduate work at the University of Houston, he did a number of short tours with rock 'n' roll legend Bo Diddley, with whom he played tenor sax. After earning his master's in 2001, Tynan began working at St. Francis Xavier University, where he presently teaches jazz trumpet, jazz history, and arranging. His arrangements, many of which have been recorded by college jazz bands, are available from Maxwell Tree Music, Eighth Note Publications, UNC Jazz Press, and Walrus Music Publishing. After receiving his doctorate from North Texas in 2004, Lington accepted his current position at San Jose State University. His charts have been performed by the Maynard Ferguson's Big Bop Nouveau and the Count Basie Orchestra, as well as by the Pacific Mambo Orchestra, in which he plays. Four of the numbers on the 19-member mambo orchestra's 2014 Grammy Award-winning debut album were arranged by Lington. Tynan feels Chapter Five is the finest recorded example to date of the unique trumpet-and-baritone sax style he and Lington have created. Now that they've recorded their dream big-band album, the two are already talking about the Bicoastal Collective's next chapter: a trumpet-baritone-bass-and-drums set with no pianist using the same instrumentation Mulligan's famous piano-less quartet but in their own distinctive style. Chapter Six and counting. Photography: Bernice MacDonald (Tynan), Tracy Cavano (Lington) Web Site: paultynanjazz.com / aaronlington.com Like: Follow: Paul / Aaron

I enjoy the RIP threads because they often remind me of folks I haven't thought about in a long time.

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Happy Birthday Evan!

Thanks, guys.

There have been a few real news items since the last post, so let's begin. The Hall of Fame announced its inductees for 2017: Anthony Calvillo Geroy Simon Mike O'Shea Kelvin Anderson and 2 Builders: Stan Schwartz Brian Towriss http://3downnation.com/2017/03/22/calvillo-simon-headline-canadian-football-hall-fame-inductees/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/03/23/behind-scenes-look-hall-fame-makes-selections/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/03/23/hall-famers-oshea-calvillo-ticat-history/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/03/23/anthony-calvillo-credits-veteran-tracy-ham-helping-resurrect-cfl-career/#comments ***** Larry Highbaugh has died at 67. http://3downnation.com/2017/03/23/eskimos-larry-highbaugh-winner-six-grey-cups-dead-67/#comments http://www.cfl.ca/2017/03/22/cfl-eskimos-mourn-passing-larry-highbaugh/ ***** The Lions traded Jovan Olafiore to the Alouettes for David Foucault and Vincent Brown. http://3downnation.com/2017/03/27/b-c-lions-trade-star-jovan-olafioye-alouettes-david-foucault/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/03/27/lions-traded-star-olafioye-als-hint-money/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/03/23/lions-verge-trading-star-ol-jovan-olafioye-alouettes/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/04/05/alouettes-sign-veteran-offensive-lineman-jovan-olafioye-extension/#comments ***** Terrell Sinkfield has signed with Minnesota. http://3downnation.com/2017/03/30/former-ticats-receiver-terrell-sinkfield-signs-vikings-db/#comments ***** The Argos released Ricky Foley. It was a payroll issue, not a comment on his abilities. http://3downnation.com/2017/03/31/argos-release-canadian-dl-ricky-foley/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/03/31/3down-podcast-foleys-release-grays-pro-day-smith-retires/#comments http://www.cfl.ca/thewaggle/ ***** Ryan Smith has retired. http://3downnation.com/2017/03/31/former-riders-bombers-receiver-ryan-smith-retires/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/03/31/ryan-smiths-retirement-means-bombers/#comments ***** Yesterday the Eskimos fired Ed Hervey. http://3downnation.com/2017/04/07/esks-gm-ed-hervey-relieved-duties-sources/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/04/07/3down-podcast-ed-hervey-got-fired-might-replace/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/04/09/len-rhodes-wrong-fire-ed-hervey/#comments http://www.cfl.ca/2017/04/07/eskimos-part-ways-gm-ed-hervey/ http://www.cfl.ca/2017/04/07/contract-philosophical-differences-key-herveys-dismissal/ http://www.cfl.ca/2017/04/07/oleary-herveys-exit-signals-clear-mandate-esks-managment/ http://www.cfl.ca/thewaggle/ http://www.tsn.ca/eskimos-fire-general-manager-hervey-1.718178 ***** The Als have released Jonathan Crompton. http://www.cfl.ca/2017/04/04/als-part-ways-veteran-pivot-crompton/ ***** The Bombers made a profit of C$2.8 million last year. http://www.cfl.ca/2017/04/05/winnipeg-football-club-posts-operating-profit-2-8-million-2016/ ***** The Argos have released Logan Kilgore. http://www.cfl.ca/2017/04/03/argos-release-quarterback-logan-kilgore/ ***** Avon Cobourne will not be returning to the Bombers' staff this year. http://www.cfl.ca/2017/04/01/statement-running-backs-coach-avon-cobourne/ ***** John Ojo has signed with the New York Jets. http://www.tsn.ca/jets-sign-former-esks-cb-ojo-1.718553 ***** Now let's catch up on the status of this year's free agents. http://www.tsn.ca/2017-cfl-potential-free-agents-1.622946

Chuck, what year was that from?

You bet. He was the Twins' starting catcher for a number of years. My recollection is that in 1960 the Senators' starting catcher was Clint Courtney.

Happy Birthday 2017 Alison!

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