GA Russell

Let's catch up. Here's a surprise. The Lions have signed Steven Jyles. We'll see if he makes the roster. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=448609 http://cfl.ca/article/report-veteran-pivot-jyles-signs-on-with-lions ***** The Toronto city council approved expanding BMO Field, where the Argos are expected to play. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=448179 ***** Chad Rempel has signed with Chicago. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=448645 ***** The guys at cfl.ca have issued pre-season power rankings. The Stamps are #1. http://cfl.ca/article/cflca-power-rankings-stamps-top-off-season-list ***** The Als are changing radio stations, and will now be on Montreal's TSN affiliate. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=448994 ***** This year will be the 50th Vanier Cup, and it will be held for the first time in Montreal, November 29. http://cfl.ca/article/montreal-to-host-50th-vanier-cup ***** The Riders have given Brendan Taman a two-year extension, and are now calling him Vice President of Football Operations and General Manager. http://cfl.ca/article/extended-ride-saskatchewan-keeps-taman-in-the-fold http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=448791 ***** Alex Hall has signed with Carolina. This is big news here because he played his college ball for St. Aug's here in Raleigh. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=449039 ***** Believe it or not, it looks like the Als will sign chad (Ochocinco) Johnson. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=449118 http://cfl.ca/article/alouettes-to-work-out-chad-johnson ***** Rather than play for Ottawa, Marwan Hage has decided to retire. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=449237 http://cfl.ca/article/report-hage-set-to-announce-retirement

That was my first thought as well! I remember them on The Ed Sullivan show in the mid-'60s, and they seemed a little old to me even then.

TJ Hooker - Seasons 1 & 2 - $14.72 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HZMZ286/ref=pe_339690_116669050_em_sim_9_ti ***** The Rockford Files - Season Four - $10.96 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000N2HD6O/ref=pe_339690_116669050_em_sim_10_ti

I forgot Bud Powell and Ornette. That's thirteen.

That's terrific, Jack! Congrats!

Louis Bix Duke Hawkins Lester Christian Blanton Bird Miles Coryell Eddie Jefferson That's eleven.

Happy Birthday Evan!

Doxy Records to Release "Road Shows, vol. 3," First Sonny Rollins Album Under New Distribution Agreement with Sony Music Masterworks/OKeh, On May 6 CD Contains Six Tracks Recorded in Japan, France, and the U.S. Between 2001 and 2012 Rollins to Participate in a Google+ Hangout, "Sonny Rollins Meets His Fans," May 5 at 12:00 Noon EDT April 9, 2014 Since launching his Doxy label in 2006 with the Grammy-nominated studio album Sonny, Please, the great tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins has been turning to his vast archive of his own concert recordings to compile superior performances for release in Doxy's acclaimed Road Shows series. The selections in Volume 1 (2008) spanned nearly 30 years and included a trio track from the saxophonist's 50th-anniversary Carnegie Hall concert, while Volume 2 (2011) focused primarily on his epic 80th-birthday concert at New York's Beacon Theatre. Road Shows, vol. 3, to be released May 6 as part of a distribution agreement with Sony Music Masterworks and its jazz imprint OKeh, draws its six tracks from concerts recorded between 2001 and 2012 in Saitama, Japan; Toulouse, Marseille, and Marciac, France; and St. Louis, Missouri. "Patanjali," a recent-vintage Rollins composition, is given its debut recording on the new disc. The performances, says Rollins, "present parts of me I want to have presented." On May 5 at 12:00 noon EDT, Rollins will expand his forays into social-media territory (and CD promotion) by participating in an unprecedented video conference, "Sonny Rollins Meets His Fans," broadcast live on YouTube and Google+. Ten members of Sonny's global community of listeners and fellow musicians, chosen from the winners of a video contest on his Facebook page, will interact with Sonny, one by one, in real-time video, utilizing Google's popular Hangout platform. Immediately after the live broadcast, the program will be available for viewing on demand on Sonny's web site and Facebook page. In addition to the ten guests (each of whom will receive a copy of Road Shows, vol. 3), moderator Bret Primack will be choosing questions from Google+ viewers. "As one of the few jazz musicians able to fashion a career exclusively as a concert artist," writes Bob Blumenthal in his CD notes, "[Rollins] has made his appearances events that blend the soul-baring seriousness of a 'classical' recital with the participatory release of a music that has always drawn on various kinds of call and response. At his best, which Rollins presents to us here and in the previous Road Shows, he rides the spontaneity of the moment into unique collections of moods, grooves, and feelings." Road Shows' material reflects an artist who has become as enthralled by narrative lines as melodic. Noel Coward's "Someday I'll Find You" -- which he first recorded on 1958's Freedom Suite and then on Sonny, Please -- takes him back to his boyhood days, when it was the theme for the long-running radio show, Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons. The infectious "Biji," introduced on the 1995 album, Sonny +3, was written "back in the days when guys had nicknames like Rahsaan and Famoudou. I adopted Brung Biji as mine. It was sort of African style." "Patanjali" is named after the sage whose Yoga Sutras, he says, "lay down everything you need to know" about a discipline and philosophy that "has helped me get through life and kept me trying to be a better human being." The nearly 24-minute rendering of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's masterwork, "Why Was I Born," is as moving as it is breathtaking -- a monument to Rollins's emotional powers. He won a 2006 Grammy for his version of it on Without a Song: The 9/11 Concert, performing it in Boston five days after the terrorist attack on New York, which forced him to evacuate his apartment. "I've played it a lot," he says. "So I was wondering whether I should put it out again. I decided to because it captured me going in certain directions I felt needed to be put on record. I actually had two versions to choose from. On one of them, everything was quite clean. On this one, I played something I might be the only one who likes. But I liked the groove and a lot of other things. It represents Sonny Rollins at a certain point of creation." Rounding out the program, there's an eight-minute, stand-alone cadenza taken from a 2009 St. Louis show and a brief, album-closing dose of his perennial crowd-pleaser, "Don't Stop the Carnival." Road Shows, vol. 3 was produced by Rollins and his longtime engineer, Richard Corsello. Trombonist Clifton Anderson and bassist Bob Cranshaw are heard throughout, joined on selected tracks by pianist Stephen Scott; guitarists Bobby Broom and Peter Bernstein; drummers Kobie Watkins, Perry Wilson, Steve Jordan, and Victor Lewis; and percussionists Kimati Dinizulu and Sammy Figueroa. "All of these people in my bands are top of the line in their own right," says Rollins. "It's a privilege and pleasure to play with them." Sony Music Masterworks comprises the Masterworks, Sony Classical, OKeh, Portrait, Masterworks Broadway, and Flying Buddha imprints. For email updates and information, please visit www.SonyMasterworks.com. Photography: John Abbott Web Site: www.sonnyrollins.com Like Sonny: Follow Sonny:

Happy Birthday 2014 save!

Season One and Season Three are now $10.96. Season Two is now also $10.96.

Otis Redding - Try a Little Tenderness

I continue to like this one very much, and I play it all the time. I now see that it is up on Spotify.

I had no idea that Paula Prentiss is Italian. I thought she was Jewish.

I didn't know there were so many Rega fans here!

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis - Complete Series - $64.99 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/ref=pe_507280_115625320_pe_button/?ASIN=B00C7A8WWO

RIP. I see that a number of '60s Jazz Crusaders albums are up on Spotify.

I have no idea what the record is for how many soldiers killed with one grenade, but I have to think that this is a record for one bullet. http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/04/02/british-sniper-kills-6-taliban-soldiers-with-one-bullet/?intcmp=obnetwork

I think that the David Carroll is one woman three times!

It has occurred to me that if I save $25 a month, I should be able to get a good turntable for Christmas. For many years I have been under the impression that the Rega for $500 was the least expensive of any quality. Amazon has the Rega RP-1 for $445.00. http://www.amazon.com/REGA-RP1-TURNTABLE-COOL-GRAY/dp/B004B3GELG However I see a couple for half that amount. Wirecutter.com recommends the Audio Technica AT-LP120-USB. http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-turntable/ Amazon has it for $229.99. http://www.amazon.com/Audio-Technica-AT-LP120-USB-Direct-Drive-Professional-Turntable/dp/B002S1CJ2Q/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1396919845&sr=1-1&keywords=turntable+record+player On March 13 the Wall Street Journal recommended the Music Hall USB-1. http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303795904579433222363701870 http://musichallaudio.com/usb-1-turntable/ Amazon has that for $249.00 http://www.amazon.com/Music-Hall-MUSIC-HALL-TURNTABLE/dp/B00DWBE0UA/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1396932044&sr=8-2&keywords=music+hall+usb-1+turntable Any thoughts on these or others?

I now see this Miles at Fillmore box advertised by Amazon at the bottom of this page!

Happy Birthday 2014 Alison!

Just Shoot Me! - Seasons 1 & 2 - $9.99 http://www.amazon.com/Just-Shoot-Laura-San-Giacomo/dp/B00GOC74I4/ref=pd_ys_sf_s_2644980011_b2_49_p?ie=UTF8&refRID=0RRHNF2GC853N8JAPB7S

Here's something you might enjoy. The league on its website is conducting a poll (with videos) of the best trick plays. http://cfl.ca/article/the-great-debate-best-trick-plays-of-all-time

Hardbopjazz, take a look here!

Here's an interesting article. What president learned English as a second language? What president spoke to his wife in Mandarin Chinese when they didn't want those in the room to understand them? http://www.rosettastone.com/blog/what-american-president-learned-english-as-a-second-language/?cid=sm-bl-ob