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INTERSTATIC TAKES THE GLOVES OFF ON THIRD RECORDING FOR RARE NOISE ARISE REPRESENTS THE ORGAN TRIO'S MOST INTENSE OFFERING TO DATE AVAILABLE IN STORES AND ONLINE AUGUST 4, 2014 AND THROUGH RARE NOISE RECORDS ON CD, VINYL AND HI-RES DIGITAL DOWNLOAD Roy Powell Hammond Organ Jacob Young Electric Guitar Jarle Vespestad Drums ABOUT THE LABEL - RareNoiseRecords was founded in late 2008 by two Italians, guitarist/arranger/ producer Eraldo Bernocchi and all-round music nut Giacomo Bruzzo. Located in London, the label was created to present a platform to musicians and listeners alike who think beyond musical boundaries of genre. For further information and to listen please go to www.rarenoiserecords.com. New York, June 18, 2014 - With each successive outing -- first 2011ʼs Anthem followed by their raucous RareNoiseRecords debut, 2013ʼs InterStatic -- the potent Norway-based trio of expatriate Brit organist Roy Powell, Norwegian guitarist Jacob Young and Norwegian drummer Jarle Vespestad has upped the ante on intensity and audaciousness while arriving at a nexus where rock organically meets jazz. Now the powerhouse unit has reached a new level with 2014ʼs superb Arise. Together these three complementary voices create an organ/guitar trio for the 21st century. "The chemistry between the band members is what it always was," says principal composer Powell. "Itʼs three strong-willed, opinionated people working together to make the best music we can. We have regular discussions and disagreements but thankfully few fist fights. And although I write the majority of the material, it is constantly being honed by the group, which is why live work is so important." Fueled by the remarkably flexible drummer Vespestad (known for his work with Tord Gustavsen, Silje Nergaard, Supersilent, and Farmers Market), Arise shifts nimbly from grungy anthems like "Doozy Mugwump Blues" and "Alexa" to intricate numbers like "Caerbannog" (named after the cave protected by the killer rabbit in the absurdly comedic 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail) to the swinging "Alpha Dog." Powellʼs "Frankʼll Fix It," full of challenging stop-time phrases, is dedicated to one of his major influences, Frank Zappa. "I was lucky enough to be introduced to the music of Zappa and Miles Davis at exactly the same time when I was 13 years old hanging with my hip pen-pal´s family in Germany in ´79," he recalls. "I heard Bitches Brew and Roxy & Elsewhere and my mind opened up and remained that way as I searched for those recordings and others by Frank and Miles when I got back to the UK. I listen regularly to Zappa to this day and probably will never stop, just like I have been reading William S.Burroughs for 30 years and still find profound truths in his work." Powellʼs dynamic "Wonderfall" carries the influence of the pioneering fusion band Lifetime featuring UK guitar hero John McLaughlin and Newark, New Jersey-based organist Larry Young. "I was never drawn to the Jimmy Smith organ trio sound from his Blue Note Records days in the early ʻ60s," says Powell. "It was only when listening to Larry Young that organ became a serious interest for me and as I grew up listening to jazz-rock, the whole idea of being locked into a previous eraʼs aesthetic did not appeal. Instead, I loved the sense of freedom and risk-taking that I heard on Lifetimeʼs Emergency!" For the outstanding, genre-bending guitarist Jacob Young, Arise represents a complete departure from his more pristine outings as a leader on the ECM label. His unhinged wah-wah and distortion solos throughout Arise provide the some of the most explosive moments on this very audacious trio outing. "InterStatic is entirely a different kind of group and differs from my ECM outings in several ways," says the Oslo-based guitarist. "On my ECM albums we strive for a cleaner, more natural acoustic sound on each instrument. InterStatic is sound-wise almost an opposite to my ECM group. I love both ways of working with improvised music. Young, Powell and Vespested represent a powerful triumvirate on their third record together overall and second for RareNoise Records. "We have developed a deep respect for each other over the course of our three albums," says Young. "We are three different guys that happen to play some music together, sometimes we have a blast doing it too. Sometimes we disagree, and we can discuss angles of maybe a mix or a tempo or a certain way of how to play a tune, but we have headroom to handle this. In a way, we have learned to deal with each otherʼ s quirks, strengths and moods and we get good at reading each other in the process." "Open-mindedness should be a pre-requisite of all musicians so we just play whatever we feel like," adds Powell, who also plays organ in the RareNoise group Naked Truth. "At the time of our first release, Anthem, we were mixing the repertoire of a modern jazz organ trio with no distorted sounds with some more rock sounds. We took this further on InterStatic and now on Arise the gloves are off. We get a real kick out of performing the more intricate compositions to audiences as nothing beats some well coordinated weirdness together with some heavy grooving and soloing!" All of those elements come together in righteous fashion on Arise, InterStaticʼ s most thunderous and freewheeling outing to date. TRACKS Doozy Mugwump Blues Caerbannog Alpha Dog Iwato Frank'll Fix It In The Beginning Doozy (Reprise)

CUONG VU AND RICHARD KARPEN JOIN FORCES ON ELECTRO-ACOUSTIC PROJECT INDIGO MIST Provocative Ellington/Strayhorn Tribute, That The Days Go By And Never Come Again, Scheduled for August Release on RareNoiseRecords AVAILABLE IN STORES AND ONLINE AUGUST 4, 2014 AND THROUGH RARE NOISE RECORDS ON CD, VINYL AND HI-RES DIGITAL DOWNLOAD Cuong Vu trumpet Richard Karpen piano Luke Berman bass Ted Poor drums Ivan Artega Live Electronics iPad Performers Shih-Wei Lo Douglas Niemela Joshua Parmenter ABOUT THE LABEL - RareNoiseRecords was founded in late 2008 by two Italians, guitarist/arranger/ producer Eraldo Bernocchi and all-round music nut Giacomo Bruzzo. Located in London, the label was created to present a platform to musicians and listeners alike who think beyond musical boundaries of genre. For further information and to listen please go to www.rarenoiserecords.com. New York, June 18, 2014 - Trumpeter-composer Cuong Vu has established himself as a distinctive voice on the new music/improvising scene for his adventurous work over the past 20 years with the likes of guitarist Bill Frisell, Pat Metheny and Laurie Anderson as well as his four recordings as leader. Composer Richard Karpen has earned accolades for his work in the classical field as well as for being a cutting edge sonic experimenter of the highest order. Joined by innovative bassist Luke Bergman (their faculty colleague at the University of Washington) and Vu's longstanding bandmate, drummer Ted Poor, these two kindred spirits push the envelope in a myriad of provocative ways on That The Days Go By And Never Come Again. An extended suite that pays tribute to the indelible composing team of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn in a most uncompromising fashion, their extraordinary RareNoiseRecords debut under the collective name of Indigo Mist is unlike any Ellingtonia you've ever heard." Says Vu, "The whole record, to me, is a tone poem that is deeply affected by their music, even to the point where as we were at the apex of experimenting, Duke and Billy were always in the room with us and we had to come to terms with their presence. I feel that we've respectfully paid homage to them by taking our own connection to them and sprinkled that all over the record like a mist." The unlikely duo of New York-based improviser-bandleader Vu and Seattle academician Karpen crystallized when they met at the University of Washington. As Vu explains, "One of the things that I did when I became a new faculty here was to research my colleagues, mainly just to get to know about the various interests of the School of Music faculty and get a feel for how I would move about within that musical community. Once I started reading about Richard, I was immediately interested because his work was on the forefront of electro-acoustic music as well as being a composer from the Western Classical Art Music tradition. Much of classical music had such an impact on how I interfaced with music while I was doing my bachelors of music that I've always been interested in working with a serious composer at some point. Then when I heard his music I was completely blown away and knew that I had to work with him, if not to just make music together somehow, then to at least learn from him." Adds Karpen, "It is very unusual for a 'classically' trained composer like me, with my particular background and continued interest in experimental music and several decades of very deep involvement in the development of computer music both as a composer and as a programmer, to be head of such a School of Music. And it seems to me to be just as unusual for someone coming from a jazz background like Cuong, who is deeply involved in breaking through artificial boundaries through many kinds of experimentation, would be on the a faculty of such a school. The chance that both of us would be at the same place at the same time, and with one of us heading this school, seems to be one chance in millions! The provocative tone poem kicks off with a torrent of drums from Ted Poor entitled "L'Heure bleue." While traversing the kit with power and precision, Poor's drumming is sonically enhanced to give it the effect of rolling thunder, gently falling rain or a phalanx of drummers. Poor then switches to mallets for the evocative title track as Karpen and Vu make their entrance into the mysterious soundscape, beginning with Karpen's sparsely plucked notes from inside the piano and continuing with Vu's electronically treated trumpet and Luke Bergman's sparse bass lines. The piece builds to a thunderous crescendo with Karpen's throbbing bass notes and Cecil Tayloresque cascading in the high register of the piano. Poor's potent free drumming fuels the track while Vu's intuitive keening trumpet wails over the top of the fray. This urgent piece gradually morphs into a haunting treatment of Strayhorn's "A Flower is a Lovesome Thing" that has Vu remaining close to the melody as Karpen pushes the harmonic envelope with his probing piano work. It then flows organically into a thoughtful but uncompromising meditation on Strayhorn entitled "Billy." An element of swing enters the picture on "Duke," which opens with Poor's hip, syncopated playing on the kit in intimate conversation with Vu's unaffected trumpet worked, Bergman and Karpen enter the conversation near the midway mark and extrapolation ensues until they build up to extreme layers of density and dissonance with Vu reaching into his bag of extended techniques on the trumpet to match the pitch of the turbulent proceedings. At their tumultuous peak, Vu and Bergman lay out and Karpen gradually settles into zen-like repose on the piano, setting up for a sublime reading of Ellington's gorgeous "In a Sentimental Mood," which is played beautifully by Vu and underscored with tastefully restraint by Karpen, Bergman and Poor. This gentle but brief bit of Ellingtonia then morphs into the more mysterioso excursion "Charles" (for Mingus), which in turn leads into a highly impressionistic take on Strayhorn's "Lush Life." Karpen's furious, rolling bass notes and aggressive stabs at the keyboard next come into play on "The Electric Mist," a frenzied improvisation which has the pianist going toe-to-toe in full-out Cecil Taylor mode with drummer Poor augmenting his urgent attack with some powerhouse playing of his own. The piece ends with an electronic barrage that is purely of the 21st century. The album concludes with a spacious, abstract rendition of Ellington's "Mood Indigo" that begins with the sounds of a gong (or singing bowl) and plucked piano strings penetrating the silence before Bergman and Vu enter with a walking-on-eggshells approach. The familiar theme of this final nod to Ellington is hinted at throughout the course of the piece but not truly revealed until near the end of its eight-minutes in the beautifully warm tones of Vu's trumpet. It's definitely the most challenging music I've been engaged in our musical interests and curiosities, I'm at a place in my life right now where it's crucially important for me to make music that is completely honest and without any external pressures. "We're trying to do something new and different while flipping the whole idea of playing 'jazz' upside down," says Vu of this Indigo Mist project. "And by choosing this music as our primary subject matter or subject of inspiration, we are addressing jazz in a way that I feel is in reverence and trying to add our own perspective of the greatness what jazz really means to me along with the greatness of these two masters." TRACKS L'Heure Bleue Indigo Mist A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing Billy Duke In A Sentimental Mood Charles Lush Life The Electric Mist Mood Indigo

I'm really looking forward to this! Resonance Records to Release 2-Disc Live Set by Charles Lloyd, "Manhattan Stories," September 9 Two 1965 New York Concerts, Recorded at Judson Hall & Slugs', Feature Lloyd with His Previously Unrecorded Quartet of Gabor Szabo, Ron Carter, & Pete La Roca June 23, 2014 In the words of a classic TV show, there are eight million stories in the Naked City. Resonance Records uncovers a pair of long-untold tales from New York City's fabled jazz past on Manhattan Stories, due for release on September 9. These two performances capture the always-extraordinary saxophonist and flutist Charles Lloyd in 1965, leading a remarkable and previously unrecorded quartet featuring three jazz giants: guitarist Gábor Szabó, bassist Ron Carter, and drummer Pete La Roca. The story told by these two concerts is one of an already-distinctive voice at the outset of a now-legendary career. In 1965, when these sets were recorded at the now-defunct venues Judson Hall and Slugs', Lloyd was fresh from his stint with drummer and bandleader Chico Hamilton, where he'd first crossed paths with Szabó. Lloyd already had two albums to his name; both Carter and Szabó are heard on his second for Columbia, Of Course, Of Course, from which two titles on these new dates are culled. Within a year he would form his groundbreaking quartet with Keith Jarrett, Cecil McBee, and Jack DeJohnette. Szabó himself was on the verge of cementing his name in the jazz canon, starting his acclaimed run of Impulse! releases the next year. Carter was midway through his stint with the second great Miles Davis quintet, while La Roca had already worked with a host of names from the music's pantheon, including John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Bill Evans, and Joe Henderson. Photo of Charles Lloyd by Lee Tanner. © Lisa Tanner Photography. "It was a specific time and place," Lloyd told Manhattan Stories annotator Don Heckman. "We all felt like the boundaries were being dissolved and we could do or try anything. This is a music of freedom and wonder -- we were young and on the move." Together, the band embarks on a series of adventurous excursions through pieces like Lloyd's classic "Sweet Georgia Bright" and "Dream Weaver" as well as Szabó's "Lady Gabor," originally recorded by the Chico Hamilton Quintet. Nothing on either disc clocks in at under ten minutes, allowing every member to stretch out and fully explore this mesmerizing material. Manhattan Stories showcases, with more than 80 minutes of music, a truly expressive group interaction that remains otherwise undocumented. "The first time I heard these recordings, I was blown away and knew immediately how special they were," says co-producer Zev Feldman. "This just might be the holy grail for longtime Charles Lloyd fans like myself who think they've heard it all. No way. Not yet! There have been archival recordings released over the years with the classic quartet featuring Jarrett and DeJohnette, but there's never been a release with this group before -- and not just a group, but a group with four legendary masters. The music and spirit are very exciting. Photo of Charles Lloyd and Gábor Szabó by Hank Parker, courtesy of Sony Music Entertainment. The interplay between Charles and Gábor alone is a testament to their genius. It's a real gift for us to share this with the world." The Judson Hall recording comes from the archives of Resonance founder George Klabin, whose trove has previously yielded treasures from Bill Evans and Jimmy Giuffre. In fact, the first disc included here was recorded on a festival date shared with Giuffre that was released this year on the Elemental Music label. The occasion was Charlotte Moorman's Avant Garde Festival of New York, produced by saxophonist and jazz critic Don Heckman, who contributes an essay to Manhattan Stories. Klabin, then a 19-year-old student at Columbia University, had recently been appointed head of the jazz department at university radio station WKCR-FM and sought to present original recordings as part of his show. He recorded the Judson Hall show with up-close microphone placement techniques and state-of-the-art engineering -- well ahead of 1965 standards. The Slugs' performances were recorded by Bjorn von Schlebrugge, who accompanied Lloyd to his Manhattan gigs. In 2009, Feldman brought Klabin's tapes to Lloyd's California home to play for the saxophonist, who raised the ante with his own recordings of the quartet. Those tapes, which comprise Disc 2, were made the same year at Slugs', which Feldman calls "one of the most important jazz shrines there ever was. I wanted to celebrate the memory of that club as well." The release thus received not only Lloyd's blessings, but his wife, Dorothy Darr, signed on as co-producer. For Record Store Day last month, Resonance offered a limited-edition pressing on orange, marble-colored 10-inch, 140-gram vinyl of Live at Slugs', designed to be a collector's piece for fans and as a pre-release teaser of the full release to come. The 10-inch featured two cuts from Manhattan Stories. Manhattan Stories features the pristine sound quality, extensive liner notes, and meticulously designed artwork that have become Resonance Records' trademarks. In addition to Heckman's reminiscences, the set includes liner notes by Feldman, Willard Jenkins, Stanley Crouch, and renowned producer Michael Cuscuna (who shares executive producer credit with Klabin on this project). The music, which was mixed at Resonance's Los Angeles studios, will also be available as a 2-LP set pressed by audiophile-respected R.T.I. (Record Technology Inc.). It was mastered for CD and vinyl by Bernie Grundman. "I was determined to build perhaps the most exciting package for Charles ever assembled for one of his releases," Feldman says. "I think we've accomplished that in a way that truly celebrates this master." Manhattan Stories showcases stellar music in an ideal setting -- much as those two NYC venues did on a pair of unjustly forgotten evenings nearly fifty years ago. Disc 1 (Judson Hall): Sweet Georgia Bright (17:49) How Can I Tell You (11:57) Lady Gabor (12:50) Disc 2 (Slugs'): Slugs' Blues (12:57) Lady Gabor (13:53) Dream Weaver (15:25) Web Site: resonancerecords.org Follow Resonance Records:

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Happy Birthday 2014 Rosco!

Happy Birthday Paps!

Happy Birthday Bruce!

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Last night at 10:00 pm was the deadline for teams to make their final cuts. Here's the list. http://cfl.ca/article/moving-day-teams-continue-trimming-rosters Jim Popp says that Jamel Richardson was offered a guaranteed salary with time to recover from his injury, but he turned it down. I believe that Ottawa let go all of their experienced kickers.

£ € Thanks Uncle Skid! Alan, I couldn't get anything with -k.

Is there a simple way for me to type a pound sign and a euro sign with an American keyboard? Thanks!

Bill Evans - Complete Verve - 35,36 euros http://www.amazon.de/Complete-Verve-1945-1959-Bill-Evans/dp/B00IK5I0OA?SubscriptionId=AKIAJ7T5BOVUVRD2EFYQ&tag=camelcamelc06-21&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00IK5I0OA

Here's a video of Jon Cornish.

Tonight's games... Redblacks 26....Alouettes 10 http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=455353 http://cfl.ca/article/walkers-td-trio-leads-redblacks-to-win-over-als Eskimos 19....Roughriders 14 http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=455367 http://cfl.ca/article/eskimos-stymie-roughriders-to-close-out-pre-season Lions 37....Stampeders 13 http://cfl.ca/article/logans-massive-first-half-carries-bc-over-calgary http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=455355 That's it for the pre-season games. The regular season will start Thursday with Toronto at Winnipeg.

RIP. My favorite Goffin-King song when I was in high school was Manfred Mann's recording of "Oh no, not my baby." But looking at the list of their hits, I had no idea that they also wrote... Go away little girl Point of no return I'm into somethin' good Don't bring me down http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_written_by_Goffin_and_King

Region 2... The Naked Gun Trilogy - 5.00 GBP http://www.amazon.co.uk/Naked-Gun-Trilogy-DVD/dp/B0029OMEY0/ref=sr_1_90?m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1403309227&sr=1-90 ***** 'Allo 'Allo - Series 1 & 2 - 7.00 GBP http://www.amazon.co.uk/Allo-1-2-DVD/dp/B000067A8U/ref=sr_1_164?m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1403309501&sr=1-164

Time again to catch up. The Als released Jerome Messam. http://cfl.ca/article/out-in-montreal-messam-released-by-alouettes ***** Here's a good punt return by the Riders' Marshay Green. http://cfl.ca/video/index/id/97251 ***** Here's a round-up of the first round of cuts. http://cfl.ca/article/cfl-teams-make-first-major-cuts-to-rosters ***** The Lions released six-year NFL vet Brandon McDonald. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=455034 ***** Bodog lists the Lions as its Grey Cup favorite, and the Redblacks as the longest shot. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=455126 ***** Canada Post is celebrating the return of the CFL to Ottawa with stamps of both the Redblacks and Russ Jackson. http://www.canadapost.ca/shop/new/ottawa-redblacks-collection.jsf;CPO_JSESSIONID=yn2jTkbRZCn17JfdSkpjqx3nQTQdJ9dNtMymL8tpVQc2qFY03S28!1621328584?execution=e1s1 http://cfl.ca/article/campbell-new-stamps-a-longtime-coming-for-ottawa-fans ***** Last night... Argos 41....Ticats 23 http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=455272 ***** The Bombers cut Max Hall today. That means that none of the Bombers' QBs from last year will be back. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=455272

Happy Birthday CJ!

Here is what I think is the 2014 line-up of radio stations. Montreal http://www.tsn.ca/montreal/listen/ Ottawa http://www.tsn1200.ca/ Toronto http://www.tsn.ca/Toronto/ Hamilton http://player.900chml.com/#play Winnipeg http://player.cjob.com/ Saskatchewan http://www.620ckrm.com/listenlive.php Calgary http://www.newstalk770.com/?refresh=48570 Edmonton http://www.630ched.com/?refresh=85216 British Columbia http://player.1410.teamradio.ca/ http://player.1040.teamradio.ca/

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OJ Brigance is now Baltimore's Senior Player Development Advisor. Yesterday he received this year's Halas Award for overcoming adversity. Yet another CFL alum with ALS. Something is going on, and I hope the doctors find out soon what it is. http://www.pressboxonline.com/2014/06/16/oj-brigance-wins-football-writers-halas-award http://www.cbssports.com/general/writer/gregg-doyel/24102946/oj-brigance-cant-speak-but-his-words-always-hit-their-target

I'm surprised to see that it's still free today.

I read in Jazz Anecdotes a few weeks ago...Argonne Thornton changed his name to Sadik Hakim and told everyone. Charlie Parker was the only person to never thereafter call him by his birth name.

I'm finding lots of little things on twitter that don't really merit in-depth analyses to be linked to. You are welcome to follow me at @RealRussellMoon

Check out this video of Mike Reilly!