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Happy Birthday 2015 Marcel!

Gabriel Alegría Afro-Peruvian Sextet Celebrates 10th Anniversary With 5th CD "10," To Be Released by ZOHO Music August 7 Special Guests Include Arturo O'Farrill,Ron Carter, Russell Ferrante, Badal Roy The New York City- & Lima-Based Ensemble AnnouncesTwice-Monthly Residency at the Zinc BarTo Begin August 13, Through December July 22, 2015 A decade of musical innovation by Gabriel Alegría's Afro-Peruvian Sextet is something to celebrate, and the ensemble marks this anniversary in glorious style with the release of 10, due for release August 7 by ZOHO Music. The program on the band's 5th CD is richly infused with Alegría's trademark synthesis of folkloric Afro-Peruvian rhythms, jazz, and other musical strains. "It's a concept album," Alegría says. "For our 10th anniversary, we wanted to give special care to American and Peruvian standards. It all comes together in the arrangements in the Afro-Peruvian style. We've incorporated many guest artists, people who have helped us along the way. Most importantly, we've brought together jazz musicians with eminent Peruvian musicians, and we're the glue that holds it together." The band's unique blend of deep scholarship and playfulness is evident throughout, with each piece serving as a statement about the delicate balance required to keep one foot in New York and one in Lima: "My Favorite Things," Juan Tizol's "Caravan," and Ornette Coleman's "Lonely Woman" set to a sensuous festejo rhythm; Joe Zawinul's "Birdland" performed as a tribute to the great Peruvian percussionist Alex Acuña, formerly of Weather Report; ingenious renditions of the American and Peruvian national anthems. Guests including bass legend Ron Carter, Grammy Award-winning pianist Arturo O'Farrill, Yellowjackets keyboardist Russell Ferrante, and tabla expert and Miles Davis alumnus Badal Roy augment the sextet, half of whose players are based in Alegría's native Lima and half in New York City, where he is a Professor of Jazz Studies at New York University. Freddy "Huevito" Lobatón, a founding member of the sextet, is a master of Afro-Peruvian percussion who grounds the band in the folkloric textures of the box-like cajón, the cajita, and the quijada (made from the jaw bone of an ass). Drummer Hugo Alcázar, also a founding member, incorporates the cajón into his drum kit's polyrhythmic feel, while American-born drummer Shirazette Tinnin gracefully navigates the predominantly 12/8 beats. Alegría shares the front line with tenor saxophonist Laura Andrea Leguía, a tremendously expressive player who helped found the band. Peruvian criollo guitarist Yuri Juárez provides expertly calibrated rhythmic support and telegraphic solos. In New York, bass duties are shared by two veteran masters, Puerto Rican-born John Benitez and Nigerian-American Essiet Essiet. Gabriel Alegría Afro-Peruvian Sextet Celebrates 10th Anniversary With 5th CD "10," To Be Released by ZOHO Music August 7 Special Guests Include Arturo O'Farrill,Ron Carter, Russell Ferrante, Badal Roy The New York City- & Lima-Based Ensemble AnnouncesTwice-Monthly Residency at the Zinc BarTo Begin August 13, Through December July 22, 2015 A decade of musical innovation by Gabriel Alegría's Afro-Peruvian Sextet is something to celebrate, and the ensemble marks this anniversary in glorious style with the release of 10, due for release August 7 by ZOHO Music. The program on the band's 5th CD is richly infused with Alegría's trademark synthesis of folkloric Afro-Peruvian rhythms, jazz, and other musical strains. "It's a concept album," Alegría says. "For our 10th anniversary, we wanted to give special care to American and Peruvian standards. It all comes together in the arrangements in the Afro-Peruvian style. We've incorporated many guest artists, people who have helped us along the way. Most importantly, we've brought together jazz musicians with eminent Peruvian musicians, and we're the glue that holds it together." The band's unique blend of deep scholarship and playfulness is evident throughout, with each piece serving as a statement about the delicate balance required to keep one foot in New York and one in Lima: "My Favorite Things," Juan Tizol's "Caravan," and Ornette Coleman's "Lonely Woman" set to a sensuous festejo rhythm; Joe Zawinul's "Birdland" performed as a tribute to the great Peruvian percussionist Alex Acuña, formerly of Weather Report; ingenious renditions of the American and Peruvian national anthems. Guests including bass legend Ron Carter, Grammy Award-winning pianist Arturo O'Farrill, Yellowjackets keyboardist Russell Ferrante, and tabla expert and Miles Davis alumnus Badal Roy augment the sextet, half of whose players are based in Alegría's native Lima and half in New York City, where he is a Professor of Jazz Studies at New York University. Freddy "Huevito" Lobatón, a founding member of the sextet, is a master of Afro-Peruvian percussion who grounds the band in the folkloric textures of the box-like cajón, the cajita, and the quijada (made from the jaw bone of an ass). Drummer Hugo Alcázar, also a founding member, incorporates the cajón into his drum kit's polyrhythmic feel, while American-born drummer Shirazette Tinnin gracefully navigates the predominantly 12/8 beats. Alegría shares the front line with tenor saxophonist Laura Andrea Leguía, a tremendously expressive player who helped found the band. Peruvian criollo guitarist Yuri Juárez provides expertly calibrated rhythmic support and telegraphic solos. In New York, bass duties are shared by two veteran masters, Puerto Rican-born John Benitez and Nigerian-American Essiet Essiet. Web Site: gabrielalegria.com Follow: Like: View:

7/23 Checking Down http://cfl.ca/article/checking-down-players-adjusting-to-new-roles ***** Chris Schultz Week 5 picks http://www.tsn.ca/week-5-cfl-picks-can-riders-finally-win-1.335065 ***** Vancouver Sun Week 5 picks and 7/22 power rankings http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/This+Week+Picks+power+rankings/11234736/story.html ***** Phoenix Sports Ticket Week 5 picks http://phoenixsports.com/cfl-week-5-computer-predictions-july-23rd-2015/

Here's a funny Canadian news story. A Canadian expedition via ship whose purpose is to study global warming in the Canadian arctic has been stalled because there has been too much ice! http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/pj-gladnick/2015/07/22/canadian-climate-change-arctic-expedition-derailed-due-heavy-ice

Gregg Xenakes Week 5 picks http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfl/news/news.aspx?id=836702 ***** Jamie Nye Week 5 picks http://cfl.ca/article/weekly-predictor-will-time-zone-hurt-argos-in-bc ***** Sacks are at a record low so far this year. http://cfl.ca/article/statsgeek-quarterbacks-being-protected ***** Taj Smith has a legal problem, so the Riders announced today that he would not play again for them this year. His status regarding the league was not made clear. http://www.tsn.ca/roughriders-decide-to-sit-receiver-smith-for-season-1.334586 ***** Vegas Insider Week 5 preview http://www.vegasinsider.com/cfl/story.cfm/story/1692174 ***** Ed Tait comments on the Bomber convert problems. http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/sports/football/bombers/precious-points-going-wide-318087151.html

Thanks for those, Scott! Of course, those were indeed balks, even if they weren't called. The purpose of the rubber is to regulate how close a pitcher may be to the plate. If his foot is off the rubber, he's too close! In time, the pitchers developed the practice of placing their back foot not on the rubber, but touching the front of it. Thus, they needed to dig a pit in front of the rubber. And in the Greg Maddox case, you may recall that the umpires in those days were not calling the strike zone; so I guess we shouldn't wonder why they didn't call the balks either!

Malcolm Kelly 7/21 power rankings http://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/cfl-power-rankings-week-4-1.3161851 ***** TSN 7/21 power rankings http://www.tsn.ca/stamps-lead-eskimos-rise-in-cfl-power-rankings-1.333948 ***** cfl.ca 7/21 power rankings http://cfl.ca/article/nissan-titan-power-rankings-alouettes-climbing ***** The Stamps have released Shomari Williams. And their first round pick OL Karl Lavoie will be out three months. http://www.tsn.ca/stamps-lose-ol-lavoie-cut-dl-williams-1.333970 ***** The Riders have signed DB Alex Suber http://cfl.ca/article/report-riders-add-veteran-db-alex-suber

Golly, without the ability to read the spines, I wouldn't be able to find anything. Do you guys store everything in alphabetical order?

Thanks for that! Yes, that was a balk too.

Happy Birthday 2015 Joel!

Happy Birthday 2015 BeBop!

Let's catch up. After three weeks, the teams had scored on 75% of one-point converts and 72% of two-point converts. I would go for two every time. ***** Two Friday night games... Edmonton 23....Ottawa 12 http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/game/edmonton-eskimos-ottawa-redblacks-20150717/Stats http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfl/news/news.aspx?id=835960 http://cfl.ca/article/edmonton-overtake-ottawa-for-second-straight-week Poured rain. Matt Nichols continues to look good. Grant Shaw kicked five field goals. ***** BC 27....Sask 24 http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/game/bc-lions-saskatchewan-roughriders-20150717/Stats http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/game/bc-lions-saskatchewan-roughriders-20150717/Stats http://cfl.ca/article/lions-claw-their-way-to-victory-in-rematch-with-riders http://3downnation.com/2015/07/18/riders-problems-well-displayed-in-fourth-straight-loss/#comments Another game with heavy rain. BC controlled the entire game, but won by only 3 points. Commentators think that the Riders' offense with Kevin Glenn is quite satisfactory, but that their defense just isn't good enough. However, the Riders have lost all four games by a total of only 12 points. Travis Lulay ran 7 times for 105 yards. ***** And the Saturday game... Calgary 26....Winnipeg 25 http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/game/winnipeg-blue-bombers-calgary-stampeders-20150718/Stats http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfl/news/news.aspx?id=836143 http://cfl.ca/article/cornish-stampeders-gallop-their-way-to-first-place-in-west-divison Lots of fun! The Bombers' Lirim Hajrullahu has not been dependable. With the Riders cutting Chris Milo after Week 1, the Bombers may be looking for someone new. ***** Josh Smith 7/20 power rankings http://3downnation.com/2015/07/20/3downs-week-4-wrap-up/#comments ***** Week 4 Plays of the Week http://cfl.ca/video/index/id/113151/autostart/true ***** Week 4 review http://cfl.ca/article/cfl-replay-looking-back-at-week-4

Jim, is that Gary Bartz? It's possible. I was somewhat familiar with Bartz at that time, but I would not have recognized him on stage. What I can tell you about the music was that it was extraordinarily rhythmic. I wanted to stand up, but I didn't want to be the first to do so. It was a struggle to remain seated, and I'm sure I would have enjoyed myself more if all of us stood. l p, thanks for pointing that out!

RIP. He was a giant. I had no idea that he was still with us.

But why didn't you feel that way when every other pitcher pitching from the stretch wasn't getting called for balking when their back foot left the rubber before the ball left their hand? Scott, what you say is news to me. It's been quite a while since I saw a big league game.

Jim, I looked for musicians I would recognize from the lost quintet, and also Jarrett (who I recall played with them when I saw them in early '70, making it a sextet), and I didn't recognize any one of them. Michael, I don't remember it being in the spring, but I suppose that it was so long ago I should be humble and say that it could have been. I'll study your link! Thanks again!

This reminds me of the NBA ca. 1970 deciding not to call travelling, fouls and stepping off on the pivot foot.

Well, that's interesting! But the venue is not as important to me as the time frame. My girl friend in late '71 took me to the show! That's why I remember that it was in late '71.

It occurs to me that for most people, the quality of their speakers in 2015 is going to be better than what they had in 1959.

Michael, I saw the lost quintet at the Cellar Door in both early '69 and early '70. That was discussed a number of years ago, and there is a thread about it somewhere. I am quite certain of the approximate time frame regarding Constitution Hall. Thanks for that link! However, I am quite certain that Keith Jarrett and Jack DeJohnette did not play at the gig I am referring to. But maybe the music was similar.

I saw Miles in concert in Washington, DC (I believe it was at Constitution Hall), about November, 1971. At one point Miles introduced the members of the band; but of course with his voice, I couldn't hear him. The band had maybe seven members. The one person that I knew was Airto on percussion. Is there a recording of that Miles band available? Thanks!

Scott, his foot is not in contact with the rubber when he releases the ball. That's a balk.

Miami has a reliever from this area named Carter Capps. Take a look at this. It's a balk. http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/mlb/miami-marlins/article27416770.html

This came out Tuesday, and I see that it is already up on Spotify. ***** Bassist/Composer Robert Sabin's"Humanity Part II"To Be Released by Ranula MusicJuly 14 The Tentet Session is Sabin's Third CD,& First Since 2007's "Romero" CD Release Show at Greenwich House, NYC,Tuesday, August 18 June 19, 2015 For his bewitching new album Humanity Part II, bassist, composer, and film music aficionado Robert Sabin assembled a brass-heavy tentet in service of a dark, glacial, cinematic sound. The CD, Sabin's third in ten years, will be released on his Ranula Music label July 14. "I love the way film music invokes states of mind that you carry from the film, things beyond the music itself," says Sabin, whose 2007 album, Romero, grew out of his obsession with the zombie thrillers of George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead), and whose debut, Killdozer (2005), was about a deranged man and a heavily armored instrument of destruction. "I enjoy taking a theme from a horror movie and getting more juice out of it, really going deeper inside it." Sabin's exceptional tentet for Humanity Part II includes some of the finest players and fellow composers on the New York scene, including guitarist Jesse Lewis, saxophonists Aaron Irwin and Jason Rigby, trumpeters Dan Urness and Matt Holman, hornist Chris Komer, trombonist John Yao, tubaist Ben Stapp, and drummer Jeremy Noller. "Being a great composer means having great people play your music," says Sabin. "These were the players I had in mind when I wrote the album, and there isn't anyone else I would even consider playing on the recording." The title track fuses together two Ennio Morricone themes composed for John Carpenter's 1982 remake of The Thing, formerly arranged for synthesizers. "Through a Glass Darkly," inspired by legendary Swedish director Ingmar Bergman's early-'60s trilogy, is a three-part study in existentialism -- in loneliness and silence. "Tenebre," an understandably unsettled work, is named after the 1982 film by Italian horror master Dario Argento, whom Sabin admires (among his more delicate touches) for "his beautiful use of color and style, natural and unnatural." Humanity Part II's most haunting piece, "Scarecrow," is based not on a film theme but elements of Ravel's masterpiece Gaspard de la nuit. Signifying a hanged man dangling against the horizon, a repeating note chimes ostinato-style in the far background. "Chromatic brooding permeated with silence" -- that's how Sabin describes his basic approach. For all that, the music is fully alive and unexpectedly affecting in taking you places you haven't been before. Born on October 27, 1972 in Portland, Oregon, Robert Sabin studied saxophone in elementary school and played in the fifth-grade band. He took up electric bass in high school and was soon exploring basic elements of jazz and contemporary music, inspired by his growing affinity for the instrument and its role in an ensemble. His first serious exposure to improvisation came when he attended New York University as an undergraduate. After belatedly transferring into the music department, and then gaining admission to the jazz program, he worked hard with his esteemed instructor Mike Richmond and, after graduation, with another distinguished bassist, Michael Moore. Later studies would include work with Mark Helias, Michael Formanek, and Jay Anderson, eventually playing with a long list of notable veterans including Oliver Lake, Jean-Michel Pilc, Peter Bernstein, Dick Oatts, Kenny Werner, Brian Lynch, and Dave Liebman. Sabin acquired his graduate degree at the Manhattan School of Music before heading back to NYU for his doctorate. He did his dissertation on bassist Gary Peacock, an underrated artist in Sabin's estimation: "He is such an intuitive artist. He's not about technique or chops. When he taught me, it was more about what things you can do to avoid getting in your own way." Dr. Sabin serves on the faculty of Hunter College High School and has worked with the Manhattan School of Music Precollege as well as directed the Jazz Program at the New York Summer Music Festival and Institute. He was awarded second place in both the 2001 and 2003 International Society of Bassists' Jazz Competitions. Sabin and his tentet will present the powerful music of Humanity Part II at Greenwich House, 46 Barrow Street, New York City, on Tuesday 8/18 at 7:00 pm (212-242-4770); $10 cover. Photo: Eduardo Donoso Web Site: robertsabinbass.com Follow:

I see that this one is now up on Spotify. I like it. The arrangements remind me of Buddy Rich's PJ Band; but unlike Buddy's drumming, the drumming here is very relaxed.