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My Hawthorn Hawks will be playing the Sydney Swans. Matt Priddis of the West Coast Eagles has been awarded the Brownlow Medal, which is the league's MVP award. As you can see here, the game will begin at 2:30 pm Saturday Melbourne time, which is12:30 am New York time and 9:30pm Friday Los Angeles time. http://www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/hawthorn-and-sydney-its-grand-to-see-you-again-20140922-10kfuc.html

I really like the selection of songs on this one.

A favorite album from my youth was Tomorrow Never Knows by Steve Marcus. Mike Nock takes a solo on Gary Burton's Half a Heart that I still enjoy 45 years later.

I recently shopped around, and selected the Original Mattress Factory. I've had it for about a month, and I'm quite pleased with it.

Happy Birthday niels!

I vote for Art Pepper's last performance, at the Kennedy Center with Roger Kellaway, which Laurie Pepper released on her Widow's Taste label.

I was surprised to read in BusinessWeek not long ago that Boston Brewing (Sam Adams) is America's largest brewer, because everyone larger is now owned by a foreign corporation. http://money.msn.com/business-news/article.aspx?feed=AP&date=20140919&id=17948124&ocid=ansmony11

My vague recollection of Manfred Mann Chapter III's first album is that one side tested the limit.

Tre Voci Kim Kashkashian viola Marina Piccinini flute Sivan Magen harp Claude Debussy: Sonata for flute, viola and harp / Tōru Takemitsu: And then I knew ‘twas Wind / Sofia Gubaidulina: Garten von Freuden und Traurigkeiten Kim Kashkashian, who won a Grammy last year with her solo viola Kurtág/Ligeti disc, returns with a new trio. Tre Voci includes Italian-American flutist Marina Piccinini and Israeli harpist Sivan Magen. All three musicians have been acknowledged for bringing a new voice to their instruments. Kashkashian, Piccinini and Magen first played together at the 2010 Marlboro Music Festival, and agreed that the potential of this combination was too great to limit it to a single season. Since then they have been developing their repertoire which, on this compelling first release, revolves around Debussy’s 1915 Sonata for flute, viola and harp and its influence. ©2014 ecm | 1755 Broadway, Floor 2, New York, NY 10019

This arrived Friday, and I didn't wait to put it on. I already like both Vitro and her taste in sidemen, so the question for me was always going to be her selection of songs. As it happens, I like these songs more and more each time I play the cd. Vitro already has five albums up on Spotify, so may she'll put this one up too.

I have received word that the street date for this was delayed a week, and that it went on sale yesterday.

Web Version Forward Unsubscribe [ PURCHASE TICKETS HERE ] In their new duo, the players approach the music on this striking and unusual album from different vantage points: Lechner is a classical soloist with an uncommon interest in improvisation, Couturier a jazz musician travelling ever further from jazz. On Moderato Cantabile they present their own arrangements of works by three fascinating outsiders from the margins of music history – G.I. Gurdjieff, Komitas, and Federico Mompou. To differing degrees their music reveals influences from the east, both in terms of relationship to folk traditions and religious music, and philosophically. A contemplative air pervades the session. ©2014 ecm | 1755 Broadway, Floor 2, New York, NY 10019

I've continued to enjoy Mike Longo's album Step On It which I got in February, so I'll look forward to this one as well. Pianist Mike Longo's Consolidated Artists Productions To Release New CD, "The Mike Longo Trio Celebrates Oscar Peterson Live," With Bassist Paul West & Drummer Ray Mosca, October 7 September 15, 2014 Pianist Mike Longo had the distinct privilege of studying, for six intense months in 1961, with his idol Oscar Peterson in Toronto. Among several key principles imparted by Peterson to his pupil was the importance of "not playing like anyone but yourself," says Longo. "He told me that people who are trying to play like Art Tatum are making a big mistake in that they are trying to be Art Tatum instead of trying to be as good as Art Tatum. 'So don't make the mistake of trying to play like me, Mike.'" Longo plays for Peterson on the terrific new The Mike Longo Trio Celebrates Oscar Peterson Live, to be released October 7 by his CAP (Consolidated Artists Productions) label. Recorded on June 25, 2013, at the John Birks Gillespie Auditorium in the New York City Baha'i Center with onetime Gillespie bassist Paul West and former Peterson drummer Ray Mosca, the disc finds Longo playing very much like himself in a well-chosen set of tunes the prolific Peterson had recorded over the years. Six were composed by jazzmen: Duke Ellington's "Love You Madly," Thad Jones's "A Child Is Born," Fats Waller's "Honeysuckle Rose," Nat Adderley's "Work Song," Thelonious Monk's "52nd Street Theme," and Clifford Brown's "Daahoud." The remainder come from the Great American Songbook: "Sweet Georgia Brown," "Always," "Fascinatin' Rhythm," "Love for Sale," "Yesterdays," "Tenderly," and "I Remember You." Longo enjoyed a 27-year association with Dizzy Gillespie, one of Peterson's major musical influences and one of Longo's as well. He held down the piano chair in Gillespie's quintet from 1966 to 1973 (following Kenny Barron) and became Dizzy's music director, composer, arranger, and devoted blood brother, continuing to work with the man long after going out on his own. By the time he'd joined Gillespie, Longo pretty much had the entire history of jazz and related idioms at his fingertips. Born in Cincinnati in 1939, he taught himself to play boogie-woogie at three. As a teenager in Fort Lauderdale, where the family had moved when he was in the third grade, he spent a year playing gospel piano at a black Baptist church. 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, and has since done two dozen more. The last 18 have appeared on CAP, a musicians' cooperative label managed by Longo and his wife. The catalog now boasts some 150 releases, with four volumes of Gillespie at Ronnie Scott's London club in 1973 due out shortly. Since January 6, 2004, the anniversary of Gillespie's death, Longo has presented concerts every Tuesday evening in the Gillespie Auditorium of the New York City Baha'i Center, where his new CD was recorded. He has booked such jazz greats as Charli Persip, Benny Powell, and Annie Ross and appears regularly with his own three groups: the Mike Longo Trio, the 17-piece New York State of the Art Jazz Ensemble (with four CAP CDs to its credit and 160 of his own charts in the band book), and the six-member Mike Longo Funk Band (playing material from the pianist's three highly collectable fusion albums for the Mainstream, Groove Merchant, and Pablo labels in the '70s). He also has enjoyed a successful second career as an educator and creator of instructional books and videos. "One of the most important things I've learned was discovering the place inside you where real music comes from," says Longo. "You don't really compose something, you uncover it. Dizzy used to say music is out there, waiting for someone to come get it." Web Sites: jazzbeat.com, mikelongojazz.com Follow:

Happy Birthday gslade!

Shout Factory will release a new box of the Complete Secret Agent aka Danger Man Dec. 9 for $55.98. http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Agent-aka-Danger-Complete/dp/B00NC9TT4E/ref=sr_1_6?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1410758469&sr=1-6&keywords=secret+agent+aka+danger+man

Mark your calendars! This year's Grand Final will be played Sept. 27. Once again Olivia Newton-John will sing the national anthem. Halftime guests will include Tom Jones. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_AFL_Grand_Final http://www.theage.com.au/afl/ladder

Jazz on Film will release a new volume called Crime Jazz October 6. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hawaiian-Checkmate-Shotgun-Untouchables-Staccato/dp/B00KJ3VW28/ref=zg_bsnr_231201_74 Looks good!

Happy Birthday Dan!

14 minute documentary on Ottawa fans! (I'm a Southsider!) http://cfl.ca/page/northsidesouthside ***** The Scouting Bureau has announced its first list of Top 20 candidates for next year's draft. http://www.cfl.ca/video/index/id/102563 ***** cfl.ca Week 12 game notes http://cfl.ca/article/2014-cflca-game-notes-a-look-at-week-12 ***** Week 12 picks... Chris Schultz http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=461279 Gregg Xenakes http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfl/news/news.aspx?id=4723229 Dan Ralph http://www.thestar.com/sports/football/2014/09/10/cfl_picks_week_12_alouettes_eskimos_kick_off_key_weekend.html Lowell Ullrich http://blogs.theprovince.com/2014/09/12/the-picks-week-12-in-the-cfl/ EdTait http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/sports/football/bombers/cfl-this-week----week-12by-ed-tait-274860301.html?cx_navSource=d-more-news Mike Beamish with power rankings http://www.vancouversun.com/sports/Week+Picks+power+rankings/10192745/story.html

I think it's fair to say that last weekend was the best so far. BC 7....Ottawa 5 http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfl/news/news.aspx?id=4721997 http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=461067 Very heavy rain. No touchdowns. Game halted with 4:35 left because of lightning. Travis Lulay hurt his shoulder again. He dislocated his shoulder, and was put on the six-game injured list. http://cfl.ca/video/index/id/102187 http://cfl.ca/article/sidelined-again-lulay-placed-on-6-game-injured-list Chevon Walker hurt his arm, and may be out for the year. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=461122 ***** Stampeders 41....Eskimos 34 http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfl/news/news.aspx?id=4722284 I think the victory clearly makes the Stamps the league's #1 team, but their inability to put the Eskimos away showed a certain weakness. Grant Shaw tore a pectoral muscle and is out for the year. So the Eskimos signed Luca Congi. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=461188 http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=461281 ***** Als 38....Ticats 31 http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfl/news/news.aspx?id=4722505 The Als came back from a 24-10 deficit. Montreal is hoping that Jonathan Crompton is the answer. ***** Banjo Bowl: Sask 30....Bombers 24 http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=461199 Darian Durant hurt his right elbow (torn tendon), and is out for the year. There goes the Riders' chances. http://cfl.ca/video/index/id/102313 http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfl/news/news.aspx?id=4722924 http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=461334 The Bombers' 50/50 draw was worth $70,000 - the largest in their history. http://cfl.ca/article/syndicated/458921/biggest-5050-prize-in-bombers-history ***** cfl.ca Week 11 review http://cfl.ca/article/cfl-replay-a-look-back-at-week-11 ***** Mark Cohon announced that the league would honor the NFL's suspension of Ray Rice. http://cfl.ca/article/mark-cohon-issues-a-statement-regarding-ray-rice ***** Week 11 Plays of the Week video http://www.cfl.ca/video/index/id/102393 ***** cfl.ca power rankings http://cfl.ca/article/pintys-power-rankings-angry-birds-attack

I notice that the cover of the green album above uses a photo of Aaron Neville id'd as Art Neville!

I read a comment on the Washington Post's website that said that the chief investigator Mueller and the Ravens president Cass were partners in the same law firm.

Thanks TD!

I haven't seen the video, and I haven't really been following the story. Can someone explain to me why so many sportswriters are critical of Goodell regarding this Rice issue? What do they think he did wrong, and what do they think he should have done?

For those of you with Amazon Prime, I see that Prime Music has quite a number of Gerald's recording, but (I think) none from Pacific Jazz. PS - Re PJ: I see three tracks total available from his You Better believe It! and Moment of Truth albums.