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Happy Birthday 2014 Guy!

dgs, I saw a comment on Twitter that said the Riders have gotten their one loss for the season over with!

I see that Donald Sterling called his wife a pig today. Don't you just love seeing a couple happily married fifty-eight years? http://www.nbcsports.com/basketball/nba/sterling-says-he-wont-sell-team-calls-wife-pig

I came across a Jan. 30 BusinessWeek article on Sony's resurrection of the Okeh label, and its signing of Sonny Rollins. Although the jazz market is aging, Sony is going to go after it because jazz fans buy physical CDs. The article said that 14 million jazz albums were sold in 2007, but only 5 million last year. The author did not say whether those numbers are for the US market or worldwide. I suspect that the numbers include the smooth jazz people, but the article didn't say. http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-01-30/sony-targets-jazz-fans-with-okeh-record-label-revival

I saw Bud Daley start for Kansas City against the Red Sox at Fenway in 1960.

Happy Birthday Randy!

I saw a comment on Twitter that said that tennis would be more interesting if the court were fifteen yards wider and ten yards longer!

On your marks, get set, go! Zombies Heaven - $38.49 http://www.amazon.com/Zombie-Heaven-The-Zombies/dp/B0000004E0?SubscriptionId=AKIAJ7T5BOVUVRD2EFYQ&tag=camelalerts-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B0000004E0

Happy Birthday Barak!

Argos 48....Riders 15 http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfl/news/news.aspx?id=4706782 At one point it was 25-1.

Happy Birthday Jack!

Happy Birthday 2014 GP!

Alouettes 24....Lions 9 http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfl/news/news.aspx?id=4706642 The Als looked like a different team this week. Kevin Glenn threw another two INTs, making it 6 in two games. He threw only 7 all last year. ***** Eskimos 28....Ticats 24 http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=456477 Great game! The Esks took the lead with a Grant Shaw FG with less than two minutes left. On the last play of the game, Ticat QB Dan LeFevour was stopped on a quarterback sneak from the two.

Bombers 36....Redblacks 28 http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=456392 The Redblacks had the ball three times in the first quarter, and scored a touchdown every time. Chevron Walker scored the team's first-ever points with his touchdown. But the Bombers clawed back, and took the lead for the first time with a little over two minutes left in the game. Bombers rookie Nic Grigsby scored three TDs, and had a great game. ***** The Bombers released Korey Banks, and thus lost the $60,000 signing bonus they gave him. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=456380

This report says that not only does no one buy CDs anymore, but the kids aren't buying mp3's like they used to. Instead, the kids prefer paying for the premium streaming services. http://www.showbiz411.com/2014/07/03/music-biz-alarm-all-albums-down-14-1st-six-months-2014-streaming-way-up-kids-dont-want-to-own-the-music

I received my fourth $5 Amazon gift card today.

Lowell Ullrich Week 2 picks http://blogs.theprovince.com/2014/07/03/the-picks-week-2-in-the-cfl/ ***** Yahoo power rankings https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/blogs/cfl-55-yard-line/cfl-super-power-rankings--week-1-full-of-surprises-201202952.html ***** The origin of the Ticats' Oskie Wee Wee cheer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oski_Yell?utm_source=hootsuite&utm_campaign=hootsuite

Happy Birthday 2014 WD45!

Catching up on last weekend's games... Stampeders 29....Alouettes 8 http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfl/news/news.aspx?id=4705153 It was 29-1 when the Als scored on the last play of the game. I have to think that their offense problems are related to the dismissal of Rick Worman a couple of weeks ago. ***** Eskimos 27....Lions 20 http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfl/news/news.aspx?id=4705155 See-saw battle for three quarters, but Kevin Glenn threw four interceptions. ***** Roughriders 31....Tiger-Cats 10 http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfl/news/news.aspx?id=4705321 The Ticats were never in it. Sask rookie running back Anthony Allen had a huge day. And the Ticats' o-line looks pretty bad. The Ticats are the youngest team in the league this year. ***** Because the three Eastern teams all lost, the RedBlacks are alone in first place before ever playing a game! ***** The Bombers signed Romby Bryant. http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfl/news/news.aspx?id=4705231 The Bombers also suspended Korey Banks. He asked for his release, and they suspended him for the time being, apparently so they wouldn't have to pay him. http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfl/news/news.aspx?id=4705464 ***** Mo Price broke his hand against the Als. No word yet on how long he'll be out. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=456134 ***** Lowell Ullrich reports that the league is discussing with the NFL the idea of the NFL paying the league for players they sign. http://www.theprovince.com/sports/paving+towards+sale+players/9991463/story.html?__federated=1 ***** CBC power rankings. http://www.cbc.ca/sports-content/football/opinion/2014/07/cfl-power-rankings-week-1-2.html cfl.ca power rankings http://cfl.ca/article/cflca-power-rankings-stamps-top-inaugural-2014-list ***** Highlights videos http://cfl.ca/article/cfl-replay-a-look-back-at-week-1-20140630113410 http://cfl.ca/video/index/id/98091 ***** Chris Schultz Week 2 picks http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=456073 Gregg Xenakes Week 2 picks http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfl/news/news.aspx?id=4706102

Happy Birthday 2014 Late!

Happy Birthday 2014 Face!

I'm pretty sure that I got one of their albums from Wayside Music ca. 1982. As I recall, it had a very dark cover. Maybe I can find it in a box.

Sports Illustrated: What the CFL feels like. http://mmqb.si.com/2014/06/27/cfl-winnipeg-blue-bombers-toronto-argonauts/

I need to give the vocalists more of my time. San Francisco Bay Area Vocalist Sherie Julianne To Release Debut CD "10 Degrees South" On Her Azul do Mar Imprint, July 29 Collaboration with Pianist Marcos Silva Features Collection of Songs by A.C. Jobim, Roberto Menescal, João Donato, Moacir Santos, Chico Pinheiro, & Others CD Release Show Scheduled for California Jazz Conservatory (formerly the Jazzschool), Berkeley, on November 15 June 27, 2014 Sherie Julianne's path to singing Brazilian music took many unexpected turns -- from a musical childhood in Miami to studying and teaching dance in San Francisco to working over the last decade with her mentor Marcos Silva at the Jazzschool in Berkeley. Silva, a native of Rio de Janeiro, is also Julianne's collaborator on the singer's ravishing debut, 10 Degrees South. The CD will be released by her Azul do Mar label on July 29. "I can't explain exactly what it was but I fell completely, totally, and utterly in love with Brazilian music and started listening to it all the time," Julianne says. "I'm American, not Brazilian, and I wanted to find music that fits my personality, that speaks to my American roots, while being immersed in Brazilian rhythms." Julianne possesses a translucent honey-amber voice ideally suited for the lithe and flowing melodies that distinguish so many Brazilian standards. Her supple sense of time and her facility at brisk tempos makes her a double threat, emotionally incisive on ballads and fearless on breakneck arrangements. She's joined by a superlative cast of musicians, including master pianist/arranger Marcos Silva, who's worked extensively with a long list of Brazilian and American jazz musicians, Leny Andrade and Flora Purim and Airto among them; veteran saxophonist/flutist Mary Fettig; and the dynamic rhythm section tandem of drummer Phil Thompson and bassist Scott Thompson (no relation). Ace guitarist Jeff Buenz, who has performed and recorded with the great Brazilian jazz vocalist Claudia Villela, rounds out the ensemble. Beyond introducing a fresh and vital new voice, 10 Degrees South stands out as an unusually well informed program. Julianne's exquisite taste and persistent curiosity has led her to captivating material that has eluded other American singers of a similar bent. The album opens with João Donato and Gilberto Gil's surging "Bananeira," from Donato's 1975 album Lugar Comum. She puts her stamp on Jobim's ballad "Bonita" as well as the bossa classics "O Pato" and "O Barquinho." At the center of the album Julianne ventures far off the beaten path, starting with "Brasil Nativo," a startlingly beautiful song by Paulo César Pinheiro and Danilo Caymmi that appears on Jobim's 1987 masterpiece Passarim. Digging into the circular melody of "Encontro," she's possibly the first American vocalist to record a piece by guitarist Chico Pinheiro, one of the most inventive composers on the Brazilian scene. Marcos Silva contributes one of his own superbly crafted songs, the deliciously aching ballad "Painting" (with a lyric translated from the Portuguese by Heather Davis). Photo: Ashley Summer Born and raised in Miami, Sherie Julianne grew up in a close-knit family where her father's experiences soaking up jazz and Latin music in New York City reverberated through the years. She studied violin and played in various ensembles through college, and sang in her middle school and high school choruses. But by high school her primary creative outlet was modern dance. Julianne led a dance company while earning a fine arts degree from the University of Florida, and moved to the Bay Area in the late 1980s to pursue her love of dance. While studying at the Oberlin Dance Collective Julianne often found herself in classes accompanied by percussionists, an experience that forged her powerful rhythmic sensibility. "It helped so much with Brazilian music," she says. "In dance, feeling the music inside yourself is essential. Your body is the art form, and the rhythm moves in you and through you." Julianne continued to study and teach dance for many years but eventually decided that she wasn't going to attain the level she sought. Her focus turned back to singing, and she began taking lessons with the respected Bay Area jazz singer Daria. Before long she discovered Berkeley's Jazzschool (now the California Jazz Conservatory), where her studies with vocalist Stephanie Bruce soon led to Marcos Silva. While she had less singing experience than most of the people in Silva's class, he immediately noticed that Julianne possessed excellent time and intonation. Performing regularly in class with the class band (Silva, Phil Thompson, and Scott Thompson), she gradually built up a repertoire. Attending Dennis Broughton's Brazil Camp in Cazadero, she deepened her knowledge and experience, while befriending celebrated artists like Guinga and Chico Pinheiro. "One great thing about the Jazzschool program is that it forces you to be a performer," says Julianne, who started gigging around San Francisco with Silva and the Thompsons in Sol do Brasil. (Scott Thompson is Chico Pinheiro's touring bassist.) Lately she's been working under her own name, and is looking forward to performing with Silva, Mary Fettig, and the Thompsons at her CD release show 11/15, at the California Jazz Conservatory. "It's been an honor and privilege to work with these musicians, and a joy for me to share this beautiful music," says Julianne. "Through the work in developing the material for this album, I had the chance to dive deep into the music. It's a rare opportunity for many artists to devote themselves to a vision and see it through. I am extremely inspired now and am already working on another performance concept delving into the music of one Brazilian composer. I want to try something a little more unplugged with soft percussion, cello perhaps, and Marcos on piano, of course. That's what happens, I believe. You go down the path and, through the act of doing, all kinds of creative ideas and inspiration start to flow. It's exciting!" Photography: Bambi Cantrell Web Site: sheriejulianne.com Like: Follow: Listen/Buy: cdbaby.com/cd/sheriejulianne

Happy Birthday 2014 Stefan!