GA Russell

Thanks Lon!

I have found a CD called Elvis '56. https://www.amazon.com/Elvis-56-Presley/dp/B003O5MOJI As you know, Elvis's masters are now owned by Sony. Amazon lists the label here as SBME SPECIAL MKTS. Do you think this is a legit release? Do you recommend another CD for his 1956 recordings? Thanks!

Thanks, my friends! My day was quiet and uneventful. I received a few things that might interest you: The House That Trane Built by Ashley Kahn Joao Donato - Sambou Sambou Julie London - London By Night These should keep me busy till Christmas!

Week 20 picks 3Down http://3downnation.com/2016/11/04/week-20-picks-finding-meaning-meaningless/#comments cfl.ca http://www.cfl.ca/2016/11/04/who-are-the-writers-picking-in-week-20/ Jamie Nye http://www.cfl.ca/2016/11/02/weekly-predictor-will-lions-take-riders/ Dan Ralph http://www.therecord.com/sports-story/6946232-cfl-week-20-picks/ ***** Week 20 game notes http://www.cfl.ca/2016/11/03/cfl-ca-game-notes-a-look-at-week-20/ ***** The league has announced each team's nominees for the CFL Awards. http://3downnation.com/2016/11/02/cfl-team-award-winners/#comments http://www.cfl.ca/2016/11/02/2016-cfl-team-award-winners-revealed/ http://3downnation.com/2016/11/02/biggest-oversights-cfl-team-awards/#comments ***** 11/02 checking down http://www.cfl.ca/2016/11/02/checking-kinne-jensen-get-look-week-20/

Montreal 17....Calgary 8 http://www.cfl.ca/games/2352/calgary-stampeders-vs-montreal-alouettes/ Dickenson rested Mitchell. ***** Week 19 Plays of the Week http://www.cfl.ca/2016/10/31/kegsize-plays-of-the-week-wk-19-2/ ***** Power rankings Malcolm Kelly http://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/cfl-power-rankings-1.3830307 cfl.ca http://www.cfl.ca/2016/11/01/nissan-titan-power-rankings/ Scott Cullen http://www.tsn.ca/stamps-stay-on-top-of-cfl-power-rankings-1.598589 ***** Paul McCallum is returning to the Lions for the remainder of the season. http://www.tsn.ca/mccallum-ends-retirement-to-join-lions-1.597379

Week 19 results... Edmonton 29....Hamilton 26 http://www.cfl.ca/games/2349/edmonton-eskimos-vs-hamilton-tiger-cats/ http://3downnation.com/2016/10/28/ticats-lose-game-esks-fantuz-injury/#comments http://3downnation.com/2016/10/29/video-loss-andy-fantuz-means-ticats/#comments http://3downnation.com/2016/10/29/ticats-andy-fantuz-year-torn-acl-sources/#comments http://3downnation.com/2016/10/30/good-bad-hamiltons-loss-eskimos/#comments Andy Fantuz hurt his ACL, and is out for the remainder of the year. ***** Ottawa 23....Winnipeg 10 http://www.cfl.ca/games/2350/ottawa-redblacks-vs-winnipeg-blue-bombers/ http://3downnation.com/2016/10/30/bombers-lay-egg-quest-second-west-12-thoughts/#comments http://3downnation.com/2016/10/30/swarming-defence-leads-way-redblacks-clinch-east/#comments With Hamilton's loss and Ottawa's win, Ottawa clinches first and Hamilton second. http://3downnation.com/2016/10/29/ticats-locked-second-will-host-east-semi-final-nov-13/#comments ***** BC 24....Sask 6 http://www.cfl.ca/games/2351/bc-lions-vs-saskatchewan-roughriders/ http://3downnation.com/2016/10/31/riders-taylor-field-era-ends-defeat-thats-okay/#comments Lowell Ullrich and Darrell Davis say good-bye to Taylor Field. http://3downnation.com/2016/10/28/mosaic-memories-visitors-bench/#comments http://3downnation.com/2016/10/29/fond-memories-taylor-field-family-football/#comments *****

Another point made in the article that surprised me is that for the first six months of 2016, CDs accounted for only 13% of revenue for the record companies.

5 Original (Blue Note) Albums... Wayne Shorter - $10.80 + $3.99 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01KL0L9CQ/ Art Blakey - $10.61 + $3.99 https://www.amazon.com/Original-Albums-BLAKEY-JAZZ-MESSENGERS/dp/B01KL0L9DK/ Joe Henderson - $9.98 + $3.99 https://www.amazon.com/5-Original-Albums-HENDERSON-JOE/dp/B01KL0L9DA/ Dexter Gordon - $10.65 + $.3.99 https://www.amazon.com/5-Original-Albums-GORDON-DEXTER/dp/B01KL0L9AS/ Kenny Burrell - $10.81 + $3.99 https://www.amazon.com/5-Original-Albums-BURRELL-KENNY/dp/B01KL0L9GC/ Herbie Hancock - $10.67 + $3.99 https://www.amazon.com/5-Original-Albums-HANCOCK-HERBIE/dp/B01KL0L9EY/

There was a FRONT PAGE (!!!) article in yesterday's Wall Street Journal which said that the candy industry has no definition for the taste of candy corn. http://www.wsj.com/articles/yo-candy-corn-m-ms-and-oreos-are-all-up-in-your-flavor-1477666766

I did not like this at first, but it has grown on me a lot. I think one reason is that I like Disc II much more than Disc I.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/boost-in-online-pirated-cd-sales-deal-another-blow-to-music-industry-1477867243 1) The sales are online. 2) "Greatest Hits" discs are the most likely to be counterfeit.

Happy Birthday 2016 Greg!

Happy Birthday 2016 Patrick!

Thanks kh!

I suspect I asked this before, and made no follow-up action. I would like to get some George Adams for Christmas. With Don Pullen? Is the Soul Note material the best, or would you recommend something else?

more Week 19 picks... Justin Dunk http://www.sportsnet.ca/football/cfl/week-19-cfl-picks-plenty-play-season-winds/ 3Down http://3downnation.com/2016/10/28/week-19-picks-riders-say-goodbye-stamps-chase-history/#comments

Happy Birthday 2016 Guy!

Week 19 game notes http://www.cfl.ca/2016/10/27/cfl-ca-game-notes-a-look-at-week-19/ ***** This week's game will be the last at Taylor Field. http://www.cfl.ca/2016/10/27/nye-mosaic-heartbeat-rider-nation/ http://www.tsn.ca/fans-players-to-say-goodbye-to-mosaic-stadium-1.593544 ***** Week 19 picks... Jamie Nye http://www.cfl.ca/2016/10/27/weekly-predictor-will-rookie-lead-als-another-victory/ Dan Ralph http://www.thespec.com/sports-story/6933888-cfl-picks-week-19/ The Grueling Truth http://thegruelingtruth.net/podcast/cfl-weekly-pickem-showweek-19/ ***** Justin Dunk thinks that Bo Levi Mitchell should be this year's *unanimous* MOP. http://3downnation.com/2016/10/25/cfl-mop/#comments ***** Ian Busby (who is from Calgary) speculates that this year's Grey Cup may be another Battle of Alberta. http://3downnation.com/2016/10/26/west-grey-cup-might-wakeup-call-cfl-needs/#comments ***** Joel Gasson ruminates on who will be the Riders' nominees for this year's CFL Awards. https://outlook.live.com/owa/?realm=hotmail.com&path=/mail/search/rp ***** Dave Dickenson expects Bakari Grant to be back from the injured list for the Western Final. http://www.tsn.ca/stamps-expect-grant-back-for-playoffs-1.592856 ***** TSN looks at this week's games in anticipation of the playoffs. http://www.tsn.ca/playoff-seeding-the-focus-in-week-19-matchups-1.591191 ***** 10/26 checking down http://www.cfl.ca/2016/10/26/checking-collaros-comes-back-esks-battle-injuries/ ***** Marshall Ferguson admires "the Canadian game." http://www.cfl.ca/2016/10/25/ferguson-canadian-game-beautiful-unique/

Week 18... Hamilton 39....Ottawa 36 http://www.cfl.ca/games/2345/hamilton-tiger-cats-vs-ottawa-redblacks/ http://3downnation.com/2016/10/21/ticats-make-playoffs-via-hard-fought-ot-win-ottawa/#comments http://3downnation.com/2016/10/22/redblacks-fall-apart-late-14-thoughts/#comments http://3downnation.com/2016/10/23/good-bad-hamiltons-thrilling-double-overtime-win-redblacks/#comments ***** With the Ticats' victory, both Toronto and Montreal were eliminated from the playoffs, joining Sask. So now the remainder of the season will be devoted to determining the playoff matchups. http://www.cfl.ca/standings/ ***** Calgary 31....Toronto 13 http://www.cfl.ca/games/2346/toronto-argonauts-vs-calgary-stampeders/ http://3downnation.com/2016/10/22/argos-playoff-contention-loss-stamps/#comments ***** Montreal 19....Sask 14 http://www.cfl.ca/games/2347/montreal-alouettes-vs-saskatchewan-roughriders/ http://3downnation.com/2016/10/22/riders-remind-everyone-still-ways-go-loss-montreal/#comments http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/video/bizarre-ending-caps-alouettes-win-over-roughriders%7E978140 ***** BC 32....Edmonton 25 http://www.cfl.ca/games/2348/edmonton-eskimos-vs-bc-lions/ ***** Week 18 Plays of the Week http://www.cfl.ca/2016/10/24/kegsize-plays-of-the-week-wk-18-3/ ***** Vic Rapp died today at 80. RIP. http://www.tsn.ca/former-lions-coach-rapp-dies-at-80-1.592871 http://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/vic-rapp-cfl-former-coach-of-the-year-dead-1.3823376 ***** I forgot to mention a couple of weeks ago that Baltimore let Marc Trestman go. http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/ravens/ravens-insider/bal-john-harbaugh-fires-offensive-coordinator-marc-trestman-20161010-story.html ***** Here are some articles about the playoff races. http://3downnation.com/2016/10/23/first-place-east-make-big-difference-ticats/#comments http://3downnation.com/2016/10/25/breaking-cfls-races-top-bottom/#comments ***** This week's power rankings cfl.ca http://www.cfl.ca/2016/10/25/nissan-titan-power-rankings-adams-jr-helps-alouettes-take-flight/ Malcolm Kelly http://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/cfl-power-rankings-1.3820767 Scott Cullen http://www.tsn.ca/stamps-lead-lions-rise-in-cfl-power-rankings-1.592807

ECM Keith Jarrett A Multitude of Angels Keith Jarrett: piano U.S. Release date: November 18, 2016 ECM 2500-03 B0025828-02 CD 6025 570 2466 1 A Multitude of Angels is a four-disc set of recordings from a series of solo concerts in Italy in October 1996, documenting four nights of performances from Modena, Ferrara, Turin, and Genoa. These discs fit into the chronology of Jarrett’s many live solo recordings after 1995’s La Scala. A Multitude of Angels marks the end of the first period of the solo concerts, documented on ECM recordings from the Bremen-Lausanne set to Sun Bear Concerts, an era in which Jarrett’s spontaneously developmental, free-flowing music could lead the receptive improviser to many different places. “Jazz is ever present here,” says Jarrett of the music on A Multitude of Angels, “alongside my deep closeness with classical music (modern and ancient, Ives and Bach)…” The continuous arc of music from each of the Italian concerts is comprehensive: “I could feel the energy as spiritual, but sometimes I was in a Baptist church, sometimes in a mosque; or in Ireland, Spain or Africa…Of course, none of this was going through my mind at all as I played, because I was playing as though it was the last time.” In terms of performance format, it was to prove a ‘last time’ of sorts, a conclusion of the pianist’s experiments with long-form improvisation. As he explains in his liner notes, “These were the last concerts I played having no breaks within each set.” After these concerts, two years would elapse before Jarrett played in public again. At home, he recorded the solo The Melody At Night With You in 1997, a meditation on pure melody, and returned to the stage with his “Standards” trio with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette at the end of 1998. Solo concerts were slowly reintegrated into his itinerary – see 2002’s Radiance, for instance – by which point the format itself had changed, with the sets now sequences of improvised “pieces”. So the music A Multitude of Angels closes a chapter. Of the early solo concerts Keith Jarrett once said, “When I play pure improvisation, any kind of intellectual or emotional handles are inappropriate to just letting the river flow.” The recordings – including the present one, captured by Jarrett himself on a DAT machine – allow performer and listener to re-enter the river. “I can only hope you can have the extraordinary experience I had upon re-discovery of this music,” says Jarrett. ECM David Virelles Antenna David Virelles: acoustic piano, Hammond B3 organ, Roland JUNO-6, Vermona electric piano, Wurlitzer electric piano, prepared piano, programming, samples Alexander Overington: electronics, samples, cello Henry Threadgill: alto saxophone Román Díaz: vocals Marcus Gilmore: drums, electronic percussion Rafiq Bhatia: guitar Etián Brebaje Man: vocals Mauricio Herrera: percussion Los Seres: percussion* *a fictional percussion ensemble, created and programmed by David Virelles Release date: November 18, 2016 ECM 3901 B0025611-01 UPC: 6025 571 0440 0 The music of Cuban-born, Brooklyn-based pianist David Virelles conjures a hallucinatory world in which ancient Afro-Cuban rhythms and ritual reverberate in the here and now. His latest ECM offering is Antenna, music attuned to a timeless rhythmic-cultural current even as it pulses with a vibrantly urban, modernist energy. A six-track, 22-minute EP released exclusively on vinyl and digitally, Antenna sees Virelles channel Afro-Cuban percussion into an electro-acoustic, almost psychedelic swirl, one that melds jazz improvisation and organic grooves with digital refraction, shadowy synthesizers, otherworldly field recordings and even Cuban street poetry. Antenna is an undulating, throbbing, dizzying dream of sound. Virelles’ ECM leader debut from 2014, Mbòkó, scored high on Best Of The Year lists for The New York Times, NPR, iTunes and The Village Voice, among others. The Guardian described Mbòkó as “a jazz-infused world-music project beyond categories,” adding: “Virelles looks set to make big differences in contemporary music for years to come.” The pianist was born in 1983 and bred in Santiago de Cuba, moving to Canada in 2001 and to New York City in 2009. His studies included private lessons in composition with the great jazz composer-saxophonist-flutist Henry Threadgill, who adds his alto to the teeming sonic brew of Antenna. Prior to the release of Mbòkó, Virelles appeared as a sideman on two ECM albums: Tomasz Stanko’s double-disc Wisława and Chris Potter’s The Sirens, both from 2013. Reviewing a Virelles headlining concert later at the Village Vanguard, Ben Ratliff of The New York Times described the pianist as having “a sure touch and multiple musical vocabularies, of which he seems determined to create a synthesis that isn’t schematic or obvious.” About Antenna, Virelles says: “This album is unlike any that I’ve made before – the music would have been impossible to create in the usual way, with this level of sonic experimentation. I wanted the music to have the sound and feel of traditional Afro-Cuban rhythms, but generated and deconstructed electronically, so that I could make new, very different music out of those elements. I spent a lot of time trying to make my electronic percussion sound as natural as possible, yet Marcus Gilmore’s drums and cymbals were sampled so that he could not only play his drum kit but also generate some grooves digitally, still using his own sound. We added ambient noise in the background of the opening and closing percussion pieces I programmed, to make them sound like field recordings – a sonic atmosphere I like. I’m proud of the otherworldly aspect of those tracks.” The album title, Antenna, reflects the music’s ancient-meets-modern blend, Virelles explains: “There’s a very old idea of human beings, or any living organism, functioning as antennas for a higher order of intelligence and purpose – our bodies being conduits for the manifestation of that energy in the physical world.” The irresistible track “Rumbakuá” – with its tapestry of Cuban vocals and traditional rhythms voiced with an urban phrasing and feel – evokes the channeling of Afro-Cuban culture down through the generations. “It’s about how the culture survived dislocation and colonization, remaining a beacon for people,” Virelles says. “The words – in Spanish as well as African dialects that survived in Cuba – reference music, poetry, religion, divination, herbology. They’re also an invitation to rejoice, as these are things that give us an identity and a path even when people lack the material essentials.” On “El Titán de Bronce” Virelles improvises across an atmospherically off-kilter electro-acoustic groove. “Water, Bird-Headed Mistress” features Threadgill’s distinctive alto saxophone threaded through an electronic eddy of textured sound, designed in league with co-producer Alexander Overington. “I’m obsessed with sound, being able to tell stories with it,” Virelles says. “To me, the means aren’t as important as the ends when it comes to music. Whether I’m using the piano or a synth and samples, I’m always trying to tell stories with sound. And there’s no doubt that the experience of working with electronics has opened me up to new concepts rhythmically, expanding my range as a composer and a musician.” Reflecting on the communicative role of rhythm in ancient cultures, Virelles points out how “master drummers were revered in those societies. Their role went beyond music: They served as storytellers and spiritual guides. Different kinds of rhythms communicated different messages, and these rhythms are related to our physical experience as we’ve evolved over thousands of years. I suspect that’s why, even in contemporary Western culture where we don’t have an equivalent notion to the master drummer, we still respond viscerally to the sound of drums. In creating Antenna, I imagined those age-old rhythms being played by a futuristic drum ensemble – one that I ended up calling Los Seres, even though those sounds were programmed by me. I tried to translate a timeless rhythmic aesthetic to electronic instruments, as well as experiment with rendering a modern vocabulary via traditional drums. I wanted this music to underscore the commonality between past and present.”

Happy Birthday 2016 spin!

Happy Birthday 2016 Justin!

How about Terry Gibbs? It's been some time since his last album.

Zsófia Boros guitar The second album from the Hungarian-born Vienna-based guitarist finds her embracing a broad scope of music, broader even than on her outstanding debut En otra parte. This time the range extends from contemporary composition to jazz etude via music from Brazil, Argentina, Italy and Azerbaijan - all embraced with imagination and creative flair. Pieces played here by Zsófia Boros include Egberto Gismonti’s challenging “Celebração de Núpcias” (made famous on Dança das cabeças), Franghiz Ali-Zadeh’s “Fantasie”, Al Di Meola’s “Vertigo Shadow”, and Carlo Domeniconi’s Turkish-influenced “Koyunbaba”. These Local Objects are rendered universal by Boros’s subtle and sensitive playing in an album recorded at Lugano’s Auditorio Stelio Molo in November 2015 and produced by Manfred Eicher. ©2016 ECM | 1755 Broadway, Floor 3, New York, NY 10019 Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble Sidney Chen, Ellen Fisher, Katie Geissinger, Meredith Monk, Bruce Rameker, Allison Sniffin: voices; Bohdan Hilash: woodwinds; John Hollenbeck: percussion Allison Sniffin: piano, keyboard, violin, French horn; Laura Sherman: harp For five decades, vocalist-composer Meredith Monk has explored what she calls “primordial utterance,” or non-verbal vocal sound that lay beneath and beyond language, expressing “that for which we have no words.” This exploration has led her to create music that The New Yorker describes as simultaneously “visceral and ethereal, raw and rapt,” an art that “sings, dances and meditates on timeless forces.” With her latest, multivalent ECM New Series album, Monk aimed to address ecology and climate change, she says: “Believing that music speaks more directly than words, I worked to make a piece with a fluid, perceptual field that could expand awareness of what we are in danger of losing. On Behalf of Nature is a meditation on our intimate connection to nature, its inner structures, the fragility of its ecology and our interdependence.” Voices and instruments have equal weight: sometimes each is heard alone; sometimes they are blended to form a new, mysterious sound; sometimes they are combined to create intricate, layered, yet transparent sonic landscapes. The Crossing PRISM Saxophone Quartet Donald Nally, conductor The music of English composer Gavin Bryars has long managed the distinction of being both “accessible and defiantly personal” (The New York Times). A deep yet unsentimental emotional resonance and a patient, contemplative view of time – whether relating to harmonic rhythm or human experience – are complementary characteristics that run through his instrumental, vocal and theatrical catalog like a red thread, the composer inspired by disparate spirits from Wagner and Satie to Cage and Silvestrov. The ECM New Series released multiple recordings of Bryars’ music in the 1980s and early ’90s, including the classic albums After the Requiem and Vita Nova. The first full ECM album from Bryars in decades is The Fifth Century, which includes the seven-part title work: a slowly evolving – yet immediately involving – setting of words by 17th-century English mystic Thomas Traherne, performed by the mixed choir of The Crossing with saxophone quartet PRISM. The album also features Two Love Songs, luminous a cappella settings of Petrarch for the women of The Crossing. The music within words, the humanity in breath, the sense of eternity within a moment or of a moment in eternity – all are at play in Bryars’ latest music. ©2016 ECM | 1755 Broadway, Floor 3, New York, NY 10019

Bobby Vee has died at 73. RIP. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/bobby-vee-sixties-pop-idol-dead-at-73-w446448 His The Night Has a Thousand Eyes has always been a favorite of mine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssCLB6Y8zjA