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  1. Jim, is that In Europe album included in the Seven Steps box?
  2. Person of Interest: Season Two - $15.00 http://www.amazon.com/Person-Interest-Season-Jim-Caviezel/dp/B009LDD1H6?SubscriptionId=AKIAJ7T5BOVUVRD2EFYQ&tag=camelhomealerts-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B009LDD1H6
  3. Yesterday was the first day of free agency, and a lot of players changed teams. Here's the list. http://cfl.ca/page/2014-free-agent-tracker Among the biggest names... Shea Emry joined the Argos. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=443596 http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfl/news/news.aspx?id=4666004 Nick Moore joined the Bombers. http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfl/news/news.aspx?id=4666010 http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=443618 Craig Butler joined the Ticats. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=443629 http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfl/news/news.aspx?id=4666019 Patrick Watkins joined the Eskimos. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=443675 http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfl/news/news.aspx?id=4666365 The Argos released Noel Prefontaine. That should be the end of the line for him. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=443692 http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfl/news/news.aspx?id=4666352 Simoni Lawrence signed with Minnesota. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=443621 Jovon Johnson joined the Redblacks. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=443701 http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfl/news/news.aspx?id=4666388 Diamond Ferri joined the Als. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=443737 Kory Sheets signed with Oakland. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=443709 ***** Arland Bruce and Bryant Turner tweeted comments regarding the Missouri kid coming out of the closet which Marc Cohon didn't like, so they were fined. http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfl/news/news.aspx?id=4665953 http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=443568 ***** The league announced its 2014 schedule today. The pre-season starts June 9 (Toronto at Winnipeg), and the season starts June 26 (also Toronto at Winnipeg). The Grey Cup game will be Nov. 30. http://cfl.ca/schedule/year/2014/time_zone/0
  4. Another BuzzFeed classic. Check out the summer camp application. http://www.buzzfeed.com/danoshinsky/19-simple-questions-to-determine-if-you-really-hate-duke
  5. The snow is sticking to the ground here, including the streets and sidewalks.
  6. RIP, Sid. http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2014/02/12/sid-caesar-dies-at-age/
  7. Happy Birthday, Bruce! It's been a while since Bruce has checked in. Does anyone know if he's OK?
  8. A number of Rider items. Graeme Bell is retiring. The Riders released Diamond Ferri, Chris Garrett and Milt Collins. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=443486 http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfl/news/news.aspx?id=4665610 ***** The Bombers' Chris Cvetcovic is retiring. http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfl/news/news.aspx?id=4665623 http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=443491 ***** The Ticats' Simoni Lawrence will soon sign with Minnesota. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=443450 ***** Jovon Johnson becomes a free agent tomorrow, and he will not return to the Bombers. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=443526 ***** Calgary traded Chris Randle and a draft pick to the Bombers for a draft pick. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=443534 http://cfl.ca/article/bombers-strike-early-acquire-randle-from-stamps ***** Ottawa has placed Kevin Glenn on the trading block. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=443541
  9. That infield looks like the surface of the moon!
  10. Happy Birthday 2014, Michael!
  11. Target/target.com is advertising today DVD box sets of the following television shows for $15.00: Scandal Dexter Under the Dome Criminal Minds Modern Family Sons of Anarchy Downton Abbey The Walking Dead NCIS Pretty Little Liars. The ad doesn't make clear what the season of each show is.
  12. I listened to the Snakeoil album from 2012 yesterday and today, and I was struck by how much it reminded me of Henry Cow. I was a big Henry cow fan back in the day, and I enjoyed listening to Snakeoil.
  13. It occurs to me that for the $51 billion spent for Sochi, Putin could have purchased every NFL team!
  14. Rather than tell you what the deal is, I'll let you read the article for yourself, and wonder why you or I didn't think of this first. http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2014/01/28/man-uses-one-first-class-ticket-to-get-free-airline-lounge-meals-for-year/
  15. LOL! Bev, I wonder if the kids think I'm a "mouldy fig" because I like '50s and '60s jazz!
  16. This one should be good. Pianist Mike Longo Reconvenes His Trio with Bob Cranshaw & Lewis Nash For "Step on It," Their Third Recording CD to Be Released March 4 By Longo's Consolidated Artists Productions February 7, 2014 In his distinguished and sometimes surprising career, pianist Mike Longo has established himself as an invaluable sideman, most notably with Dizzy Gillespie, and as a versatile leader of groups ranging from his 17-piece New York State of the Art Jazz Ensemble to his six-man eponymous Funk Band. Longo is also a master of the trio format, and he dedicates his new CD, Step On It, to explorations of jazz standards in the company of two favorite trio-mates, bassist Bob Cranshaw and drummer Lewis Nash. Longo's label, Consolidated Artists Productions, will release the disc on March 4. "To the average listener he is playing great jazz," says producer Bob Magnuson of Longo, "but anyone who has followed the curve of his career hears the highly refined development of a consummate artist." The trio had previously been heard on Sting Like a Bee (2009), a Top 5 jazz radio staple, and its follow-up To My Surprise (2011), which added guest soloists Jimmy Owens and Lance Bryant. "We seem to have an enormous amount of rapport as a unit once the downbeat hits," understates Longo. For Step On It, he rehearsed with Cranshaw and Nash for two hours the day before the recording: "We just ran down the heads so we would know the direction each composition would take and the concept of performing them." Almost everything at the session was nailed in one take. (Pictured at left: Bob Cranshaw, Mike Longo, Lewis Nash.) Playing songs you've heard hundreds of times, Longo makes you think you're hearing them for the first time. Wayne Shorter's "Nefertiti," a pensive modal classic by the Miles Davis Quintet, is transformed on Step On It into what Longo called "a real groove thing." Joe Henderson's mini-tone poem, "Black Narcissus," is pumped with energy. "We play it like a delicate waltz," said the pianist. His polymetric threesome's treatment of "Poinciana" was influenced not by Ahmad Jamal's classic cocktail recording but the Four Freshmen's textured, high-spirited rendition. "Jazz is like a baseball game," says Longo. "People say, oh man, I've seen all this before. But then you start playing, even with the least bit of preparation, and you find something new in the themes, the time conception, the band's touch. The three of us all come from the same school of playing. We don't know what's gonna happen." Born in Cincinnati in 1939, Mike Longo was 8 when his family moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he crossed paths with (and got some early breaks from) Cannonball Adderley. He got "hooked on" Oscar Peterson and, in the fall of 1961, spent six intensive months in Toronto taking private lessons from the keyboard virtuoso. "I had to practice 13 hours a day," he says, "but it was worth it." Back in New York, he accompanied such singing greats as Jimmy Rushing, Nancy Wilson, and Joe Williams. Serendipity struck at the Metropole, where Longo was performing downstairs with trumpeter Red Allen at the same time Dizzy Gillespie was leading his band in the room upstairs. During a break, Gillespie saw Longo perform and was impressed enough to name him as one of the best young talents around in the union magazine, International Musician. Two years later, Gillespie saw Longo perform at Embers East; some months after that, Gillespie asked him to become his pianist after seeing Longo's trio (with bass great Paul Chambers) back Roy Eldridge, a hero of Dizzy's, at Embers West. Longo held down the piano chair in Gillespie's quintet from 1966 to 1973 (following Kenny Barron). He became Dizzy's music director, composer, arranger, and devoted blood brother, and continued working with the man long after going out on his own. "When I first heard Dizzy and Charlie Parker's music in the eighth grade, it was like listening to tape running backwards," says Longo. "But something I heard stuck in my head, a certain sound in Dizzy's playing. I had this weird dream in which I went to the piano and played that sound like I knew it, the sound of that place in his playing that was falling in a strange place in the time. Everything seemed different to me after that." Longo's 1962 debut album, A Jazz Portrait of Funny Girl, was one of numerous jazz-goes-Broadway collections released during that era. In the intervening years, he has amassed a deep body of originals, including a wide assortment written for or about Dizzy ("Matrix," "Soul Kiss," "Samba," "I Miss You John," and the orchestral work, A World of Gillespie). 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 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: www.jazzbeat.com www.mikelongojazz.com
  17. Since about New Year's, the board's clock has been 15 minutes slow. Any idea what's going on?
  18. Milestones, you might be interested in this Montreux DVD for $3.98 http://www.oldies.com/product-view/13508M.html
  19. Mike O'Shea announced today that Drew Willy will be the Bombers' starting quarterback. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=443246 This announcement surprises me a great deal. It's as if O'Shea has no recollection of Stefan LeFors' being named the Bombers' starting quarterback in 2009 under similar circumstances. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_LeFors http://www.examiner.com/article/winnipeg-blue-bombers-fire-head-coach-mike-kelly (With the second link, I also got a Bob Dylan Chrysler commercial.) ***** Kerry Joseph has officially retired. http://www.edmontonjournal.com/sports/could+still+Newly+retired+Edmonton+Eskimos+quarterback+Kerry+Joseph/9464859/story.html
  20. Seriously? I've never gotten that impression over the decades, either from print or conversations. TTK, I can't recall ever reading something about Herbie that did not mention that he played with Miles.
  21. Happy Birthday 2014 mr jazz!
  22. My hunch is that Herbie will always be remembered as Miles' piano player.
  23. Weston Dressler has signed his contract with Kansas City, which will become official with the start of the NFL's fiscal(?) year. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=443063 ***** Joe Paopao is returning to the Lions as their receivers coach. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=443129 http://cfl.ca/article/receiving-help-paopao-joins-lions-coaching-staff ***** Luca Congi requested and received his release from the Ticats. He was going to become a free agent on Tuesday anyway. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=443154 http://cfl.ca/article/release-granted-ticats-part-ways-with-congi ***** The Bombers traded Jade Etienne to the Riders for Drew Willy. Willy was set to become a free agent, but signed a two-year contract with the Bombers. Will the Bombers still go after Glenn? Apparently Glenn's contract depends upon playing time, so he's not going to be happy sitting behind Hank. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=443151 http://cfl.ca/article/getting-their-man-bombers-acquire-qb-willy-from-riders ***** Marc Cohon will meet with the Mayor of Halifax Sunday to discuss their getting an expansion team. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=443195 ***** Doug Kyed of NESN is reporting that Indianapolis has signed Henoc Muamba. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=443182 http://nesn.com/2014/02/cfl-star-lb-henoc-muamba-released-to-pursue-nfl-career-patriots-had-interest/
  24. Larry, the Wall Street Journal made a similar observation a couple of months ago. It was the author's belief that teams would stop paying such a high percentage of their payrolls to the quarterbacks in order to have money to spend for a good offensive line. I usually skip the Super Bowl halftimes, but I'm glad I didn't this year. I was very impressed with Bruno Mars' band. I think that they would make a lot of people look good.
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