GA Russell

ECM Stephan Micus - Inland Sea release date July 14, 2017 Stephan Micus: balanzikom, nyckelharpa, chord and bass zithers, shakuhachi, voice, steel string guitar, genbri Inland Sea is Stephan Micus's 22nd solo album for ECM, each one taking his audience on musical journeys to far-flung places and unique sound worlds. For decades, he has been travelling, collecting and studying musical instruments from all over the world and creating new music for them. Micus often combines instruments from different cultures and continents that would never normally be played together, adapting and extending them, and rarely playing them in a traditional manner. The instruments then become a cast of characters that help tell the particular story of that album. While he plays nine different instruments on Inland Sea, the lead role belongs to the nyckelharpa - a keyed fiddle from Sweden, with an array of other instruments and vocals providing layers and textures throughout.

Cal 23....BC 18 https://www.cfl.ca/2017/06/07/stamps-hold-win-pre-season-debut/ To my great surprise and pleasure, Scott Rintoul was back in the Lions' radio booth. I'll see if I can find any word about this.

The pre-season games begin tonight with BC at Calgary at 9:00 pm eastern. http://globalnews.ca/radio/newstalk770/ ***** ESPN3 will carry four pre-season games. https://www.cfl.ca/2017/05/29/ticats-redblacks-kickoff-cfl-tsn-pre-season-coverage/

Happy Birthday 2017 Kalo!

Happy Birthday 2017 Ray!

My contact has responded thus: I read George (sic) Russell's comments, and he's sort of right....except that this project was never intended to be listened to as an album. In this age of streaming and downloading, singles are the best way to get your music to a wider audience. It really is a digital release and we only burned CDs to get the music to reviewers.

Entertainment Cruise Productions Announces 10 Year Partnership with Vail Jazz The Jazz Cruise and Blue Note At Sea Will Serve as the Presenting Sponsors of the 2017 Vail Jazz @ Vail Square series. Two of North America's preeminent jazz festival producers - the Vail Jazz Foundation and Entertainment Cruise Productions - celebrate 10 years of partnership with the announcement that The Jazz Cruise and Blue Note At Sea will serve as the Presenting Sponsors of the 2017 Vail Jazz @ Vail Square series. The 23rd annual presentation of the Vail Jazz Festival will feature over 70 performances between June 9 - September 4, 2017, and Vail Jazz @ Vail Square serves as the Festival's summer-long, flagship series, showcasing the genre's most prolific talent week after week. The nine-week series is held in the enchanting Bavarian-inspired village of Lionshead, situated at the base of Vail Mountain. In similar fashion, The Jazz Cruise and Blue Note At Sea will sail on the top-rated luxury cruise ship, Celebrity Summit, to showcase the world's most celebrated jazz musicians in unparalleled venues. The 2017 Vail Jazz @ Vail Square series is a world tour of jazz music's past and present, kicking off Texas roadhouse-style with Marcia Ball (July 6), then hopping over the Gulf of Mexico to New Orleans for a musical gumbo of big band jazz, Caribbean, classical, pop, blues and R&B with Butler, Bernstein & the Hot 9 (July 13). Frank Vignola's Hot Club of France Tribute Band will conjure the intoxicating sounds of Gypsy jazz and the music's patriarch, Django Reinhardt (July 20), punctuated by the Afro-Cuban explosion, Cubanismo! (August 10), and international flair of Brazilian samba delivered by Grammy-winner Eliane Elias (August 17). Other highlights of the series include appearances by Grammy-nominee Rene Marie & Experiment In Truth (August 3), Joey DeFrancesco & the People (August 24) and a specially-curated presentation by Artistic Director Howard Stone: Ella and Louis, Together Again - featuring Carmen Bradford and Byron Stripling. Recounting the seminal recordings of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, the show will celebrate the best-loved duo's most cherished numbers (July 27). Vail Jazz has found not just a kindred spirit in Entertainment Cruise Productions, but a treasured friend and partner. The organizations share a focus on creating unique listening experiences for passionate jazz fans, as well as a similar taste in artistic excellence (Vail Jazz Party House Band members John Clayton, Jeff Clayton, Terell Stafford, Wycliffe Gordon, Bill Cunliffe and Lewis Nash all appeared as featured performers on the 2017 Jazz Cruise). Jazz fans from coast to coast appreciate the alignment between the organizations. "Every year, I bump into more and more Vail Jazz Festival goers on The Jazz Cruise," says Vail Jazz Development Director Owen Hutchinson, "and likewise for seafarers coming to the mountains in the summer!" Blue Note At Sea, sailing January 27 - February 3, 2018, features living legends of jazz including Chick Corea, Marcus Miiller and David Sanborn alongside the hottest of the new generation of greats like Robert Glasper and Leslie Odom, Jr. Ports of call include Labadee, Haiti, St. Thomas, U.S.V.I, San Juan, Puerto Rico and CocoCay, Bahamas. The Jazz Cruise, sailing February 3 - February 10, 2018 is dedicated to the very best straight-ahead jazz around including Monty Alexander, Kurt Elling, Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Arturo Sandoval, Niki Haris and so many more. Ports of call include a special 24-hour stopover in New Orleans, LA and Cozumel, Mexico. Vail Jazz is honored to partner with The Jazz Cruise and Blue Note At Sea in celebration and perpetuation of the jazz tradition. For more information, visit www.vailjazz.org, www.thejazzcruise.com, andwww.bluenoteatsea.com.

ECM Roscoe Mitchell Bells for the South Side Roscoe Mitchell: sopranino, soprano, alto and bass saxophones, flute, piccolo, bass recorder, percussion James Fei: sopranino and alto saxophones, contra-alto clarinet, electronics Hugh Ragin: trumpet, piccolo trumpet Tyshawn Sorey: trombone, piano, drums, percussion Craig Taborn: piano, organ, electronics Jaribu Shahid: double bass, bass guitar, percussion William Winant: percussion, tubular bells, glockenspiel, vibraphone, marimba, roto toms, cymbals, bass drum, woodblocks, timpani Kikanju Baku: drums, percussion Tani Tabbal: drums, percussion U.S. Release date: June 30, 2017 ECM 2494/95 2-CD Set B0026784-02 UPC: 6025 571 1952 7 Multi-instrumentalist, composer and improviser Roscoe Mitchell contrasts and – for the first time - combines the sounds and distinctive characters of his four trios in a very special recording made at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art. Mitchell had been invited to premiere new music at the museum, in the context of the exhibition The Freedom Principle, which celebrated the directions in music and art set in motion by the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians on Chicago’s South Side. In this recording, Roscoe Mitchell offers what amounts to a composer self-portrait in continually changing colors and textures, reflecting on his own history while looking toward the future. Two pieces – including the title composition – draw upon the full percussion instrumentarium of the Art Ensemble of Chicago – a panorama of gongs, bells, rattles, sirens, hand drums and more. Recorded in 2015 on the occasion of the AACM’s 50th anniversary, Bells for the South Side is released half a century after the founding of the Art Ensemble - the Roscoe Mitchell Art Ensemble, as it was originally called. The double album opens with “Spatial Aspects of the Sound”, the inventiveness of Mitchell’s writing immediately striking. Craig Taborn and Tyshawn Sorey are both on pianos here and William Winant on tubular bells, the austere character of the music counterbalanced by Kikanju Baku’s sprite-like entry with ankle bells and sleigh bells. The piece is capped by Mitchell’s melody for piccolo. After this anything can happen - and there are many highlights along the way to “Odwalla”, the famous Mitchell-composed theme song of the Art Ensemble, played here by all nine musicians, which concludes the program. These highlights include Roscoe’s own performances on his many woodwinds, from sopranino to bass saxophone. In the trio music Mitchell is heard with Hugh Ragin and Tyshawn Sorey on “Prelude to a Rose”, with Craig Taborn and Kikanju Baku on the freely improvised “Dancing in the Canyon”, with Jaribu Shahid and Tani Tabbal on “Prelude to the Card Game”, “Cards for Drums” (with an outstanding performance by Tabbal), and “The Final Hand”, and with James Fei and William Winant on “Six Gongs and Two Woodblocks” and “R509A Twenty B”. It’s a highly gifted cast of players. Craig Taborn, Jaribu Shahid and Tani Tabbal have appeared on previous Mitchell recordings including Nine to Get Ready, Composition/Improvisation Nos. 1, 2 and 3, and Far Side, while Tyshawn Sorey, Hugh Ragin, William Winant, James Fei and Kikanju Baku, all significant voices in creative music, make ECM debuts here. Fei and Winant are fellow professors, with Mitchell, at Mills College in Oakland, California. Winant has collaborated with composers including Cage, Xenakis, Boulez and Terry Riley as well as improvisers across the genres. Fei, also active as a composer and known for his association with Anthony Braxton, explores extreme regions of sound on woodwinds and electronics; his electronics playing, together with Taborn, on “Red Moon In The Sky” provides some exhilarating moments. Kikanju Baku, youngest of the musicians here, was invited by Mitchell to join him for a set at London’s Café Oto: this has led to spirited work in an ongoing trio with Roscoe and Craig Taborn. Tyshawn Sorey’s remarkable threefold accomplishment as drummer, pianist and trombonist is well displayed throughout the project, and on the title track he plays inside the ‘percussion cage’ originally created by Roscoe Mitchell for Art Ensemble performances. The music was recorded both in the Museum of Contemporary Art’s theatre and in the exhibition space itself, where the Art Ensemble of Chicago’s percussion instruments were on display and artworks by AACM members hung on the walls – including Roscoe Mitchell’s painting Panoply (reproduced in the CD booklet). The compositions “EP 7849” and “Bells for the South Side” were recorded in the exhibition space. The dramaturgy of “EP 7849” includes features for Taborn’s electronics and Jaribu Shahid’s bass guitar. On “Bells for the South Side”, James Fei offers subterranean tones on contra-alto clarinet, and Hugh Ragin – a Mitchell collaborator since the 1970s (and currently a member of the revamped Art Ensemble of Chicago) - builds a vaulting piccolo trumpet solo from pitches suggested by the pealing of multiple bells. *** Roscoe Mitchell, born 1940 in Chicago, has been a restless explorer of forms, ideas and concepts for more than 50 years and, as player, composer and thinker, has been an inspiration for successive generations of musicians. In 1966 his album Sound brought a new dynamic into improvised music with emphases on texture and silences and group creativity and set some directions for the shape of new jazz to come - directions further crystallized in the pioneering work of the Art Ensemble of Chicago, whose ECM albums include Nice Guys, Full Force, Urban Bushmen, and Tribute to Lester. In 2004, Roscoe Mitchell co-led the Transatlantic Art Ensemble with Evan Parker (albums: Composition/ Improvisation Nos. 1, 2 and 3 and Boustrophedon). Recordings with Mitchell’s Note Factory band on ECM are Nine To Get Ready and Far Side. 2017 has seen Roscoe Mitchell working across a characteristically broad range of idioms, beginning the year with a series of tributes to John Coltrane, followed by a London residency with the Art Ensemble, and premieres of new orchestral music with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra Del Teatro Comunale Di Bologna. Activities in the coming months include solo performances and trio work.

Jimmy Piersall passed away yesterday at 87. My favorite memory of him was when he stepped up to the plate in '64 wearing a Beatle wig! http://www.foxsports.com/mlb/story/former-major-leaguer-jim-piersall-passes-away-at-87-060417

Happy Birthday 2017 Scott!

Happy Birthday 2017 optatio!

Happy Birthday 2017 etherbored!

Roscoe Mitchell sopranino, soprano, alto and bass saxophones, flute, piccolo, bass recorder, percussion | James Fei sopranino and alto saxophones, contra-alto clarinet, electronics | Hugh Ragin trumpet, piccolo trumpet | Tyshawn Sorey trombone, piano, drums, percussion | Craig Taborn piano, organ, electronics | Jaribu Shahid double bass, bass guitar, percussion | Tani Tabbal drums, percussion | Kikanju Baku drums, percussion | William Winant percussion, tubular bells, glockenspiel, vibraphone, marimba, roto toms, cymbals, bass drum, woodblocks, timpani Roscoe Mitchell contrasts and – for the first time - combines the sounds and distinctive characters of his four trios in an exhilarating double set. The album was recorded at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art where multi-instrumentalist and composer Mitchell had been invited to premiere new music. This project offers what amounts to a composer self-portrait in continually changing colors and textures, reflecting on his own history while looking toward the future. © 2017 ECM | ECM Records USA | 1755 Broadway, 3rd floor | New York NY 10011

What do you think of it, TTK? I only have a few on the Varese Sarabande label, but I like everyone.

This appears to me to be a 1981 composition of Art's, a recording of which was made by Milcho Leviev. https://artpepper.bandcamp.com/track/free-written-in-paris

Thanks Jim! I'm very surprised that Neal's cap lasted only two years.

June 1, 1967 - Sgt. Pepper is released. This is the first Beatles album which has thee same track order in both the UK and US. June 1, 1969 - The Plastic Ono Band records "Give Peace a Chance" at their Montreal bed-in. ***** Born June 1... Pat Boone - 1934 Ronnie Wood - 1947

Nope! The '50s cap was blue with the red "W." The W's white border was created by the expansion team in '61. The W was changed to the script in use today I think in '67. And I'm going to say that the cap was changed to red in '69. Anybody have a better memory than mine?

The Riders have signed Marquise Williams, the kid who broke Darian Durant's records at Carolina. http://3downnation.com/2017/05/31/new-riders-qb-broke-darian-durants-records-unc/#comments ***** Winston Venable has changed his mind, and decided to retire rather than play for the Argos. http://3downnation.com/2017/05/31/winston-venables-retires-toronto-argonauts/#comments ***** Durant has hurt his knee, but the Als say it's not serious. http://3downnation.com/2017/05/30/darian-durant-leaves-practice-injury/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/05/31/no-serious-damage-darian-durants-knee-alouettes-say/#comments ***** Cory Greenwood need to be carted off Monday. http://3downnation.com/2017/05/29/eskimos-linebacker-cory-greenwood-carted-off-field/#comments ***** The Supplemental Draft was Monday. There was only one guy eligible, and nobody picked him. http://3downnation.com/2017/05/29/cfl-supplemental-passes-without-lone-player-available-selected/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/05/28/cfl-to-hold-supplemental-draft-monday/#comments ***** Here's a surprise: Speedy Banks has agreed to take a $50,000 pay cut. http://3downnation.com/2017/05/24/ticats-brandon-banks-takes-pay-cut-reworked-deal/#comments http://3downnation.com/2017/05/25/speedys-pay-cut-means-ticats/#comments ***** John Hodges expects the Western teams to dominate this year. http://3downnation.com/2017/05/20/west-division-poised-another-season-dominance/#comments

Neal, I am aware of when your avatar is from. Are you????

May 31, 1938 - Peter Yarrow born May 31, 1962 - Corey Hart born

Happy Birthday 2017 Pete!

Schomburg Center For Research in Black Culture Acquires Jazz Legend Sonny Rollins's Personal Archive Collection to Offer Extensive Insight Into the Prolific Creative Life and Career of One of Music's Greatest Minds May 30, 2017 The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at The New York Public Library today announced the acquisition of American tenor saxophonist and jazz legend Sonny Rollins's personal archive. The robust collection includes more than 150 linear feet of material that document Rollins's life and career from the 1950s to the present. This acquisition also marks the Harlem native's "return" to the neighborhood of his youth. Rollins was profoundly influenced and inspired by the sights and sounds of the Harlem Renaissance and its pioneers, including Duke Ellington and Louis Jordan, who shaped modern music and Rollins's creative life. "Well, I'm home again," Rollins said. "Home, where I absorbed the rich culture which was all around me. Where, on 137th Street, two blocks from the Schomburg, I was born in 1930. This archive reveals my life in music, how someone principally self-taught became taught. How the spiritual light of jazz protected and fed me, as it does to this day." Spanning a 60-year career and more than 80 albums, the Rollins archive is rich with texture, offering an intimate look into the creativity, curiosity, and organization that led to the artist's creative process and practice. Archive items range from audio reels and cassettes of unheard music and practice sessions, personal photographs from Rollins's travels abroad, sheet music with margin notes, personal writing, practice diaries, and handwritten letters between Rollins and his wife and partner of more than 45 years, Lucille Pearson Rollins. The archive also offers insight into Rollins's social and professional network of musicians through detailed notes from recorded sessions, letters, and snapshots from touring over the decades. To be primarily housed within the Schomburg Center's Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division, the Rollins archive joins a robust collection of jazz-related materials across the institution's divisions, including the A Great Day in Harlem Documentary collection, the Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History project, the Don Redman papers, the Billy Taylor collection, the Ron Carter collection, and the Duke Ellington Society collection. This acquisition also adds significant weight to the New York Public Library's collection of jazz-related items including the George Avakian and Anahid Ajemian papers, which include letters from Rollins to Avakian and several unreleased live and studio recordings from Rollins's time at RCA; the Ivan Black papers that include promotional and performance photographs of Rollins; along with the Sy Oliver, Phoebe Jacobs, and Benny Goodman collections. "Rollins had a measure of professional and personal stability that allowed him to collect the artifacts of his life from original manuscripts and compositions to his business records, unlike many of his peers. In this sense, his archive is unique," said Shola Lynch, curator of the Schomburg's Moving Image and Recorded Sound division."He has also been aware of keeping the flame. As Rollins said recently of his peers and mentors: 'They're not here now so I feel like I'm sort of representing all of them, all of the guys. Remember, I'm one of the last guys left, as I'm constantly being told, so I feel a holy obligation sometimes to evoke these people.' As in life, Rollins's archive will undoubtedly evoke them and their musical relationships, and through it, will add granularity to a swath of black history. For the first time, Rollins has opened the doors to studying his music, life, and work as a giant of jazz." "Famous for his reinventions, Sonny Rollins and his archive reveal the profound nature of jazz, America's classical music. Drafts, notes on composition, extensive correspondence, the entire spirit and scope of the Rollins archive show his sophisticated, sustained, and spiritual creative process up close in a way that may best be called literary," said Kevin Young, noted author and Director of the Schomburg Center. "Having the archive of Sonny Rollins come home here, just blocks from where he was born and grew into one of our finest artists, provides a connection to the geniuses who made Harlem and whose legacies, like those of James Baldwin and Maya Angelou, also are housed at the Schomburg." Highlights from the Sonny Rollins Archive include: ● Personal papers, diaries, notes, and drawings illuminating Rollins's private thoughts and creative process sporadically through the decades ● Recordings of practice sessions as well as recording takes from as early as the 1960s ● Snapshots and photos from life on the road with his fellow musicians from as early as the 1960s ● Personal correspondence between Rollins and his wife and manager, Lucille Pearson, over the decades that range the gamut from love notes to unfiltered thoughts related to colleagues, bandmates, and business The Sonny Rollins archive will be processed over the next year at NYPL's Library Services Center in Long Island City, and will be made available for research at the Schomburg Center. About the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, a research unit of The New York Public Library, is generally recognized as one of the leading institutions of its kind in the world. For over 90 years the Center has collected, preserved, and provided access to materials documenting black life, and promoted the study and interpretation of the history and culture of peoples of African descent. Educational and Cultural Programs at the Schomburg Center complement its research services and interpret its collections. Seminars, forums, workshops, staged readings, film screenings, performing arts programs, and special events are presented year-round. More information about Schomburg's collections and programs can be found at schomburgcenter.org. About the New York Public Library The New York Public Library is a free provider of education and information for the people of New York and beyond. With 92 locations-including research and branch libraries-throughout the Bronx, Manhattan, and Staten Island, the Library offers free materials, computer access, classes, exhibitions, programming, and more to everyone from toddlers to scholars, and has seen record numbers of attendance and circulation in recent years. The New York Public Library serves more than 18 million patrons who come through its doors annually and millions more around the globe who use its resources at www.nypl.org. To offer this wide array of free programming, The New York Public Library relies on both public and private funding. Learn more about how to support the Library at nypl.org/support. Photo of Sonny Rollins by John Abbott. Web Sites: sonnyrollins.com, schomburgcenter.orgRead the New York Times piece about the archive acquisition (by Giovanni Russonello)

I've always liked what I've heard from Joao Donato.

Greggery, how is the sound on that? I thought that that particular label is known for poor sound.