GA Russell

Angel Eyes Nancy with the Laughing Face Since I Fell for You

Happy Birthday Lon! My best wishes to you!

Here's the cover of the program of the 1961 pre-season game between the Als and the Chicago Bears. https://twitter.com/TSNDaveNaylor/status/363812101418012672/photo/1

Here's a guy who has fun animating beer labels. http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2013/08/02/beer-labels-come-to-life-with-animated-gifs/?intcmp=features

Michael Ansara has died. One generation remembers him as an Indian. Another remembers him as a Star trek character. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/03/arts/michael-ansara-actor-who-played-cochise-and-kang-dies-at-91.html?_r=0

About 1969 RCA Victor introduced a vinyl which as I recall was called Dynaflex. You could bend it in two without breaking the record. Does anyone remember how it sounded? In the mid-sixties, Verve and Impulse! releases cost a dollar more because their vinyl was better, supposedly. Does anyone recall if that was true?

Hamilton Tiger-Cats 30....Edmonton Eskimos 29 http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfl/news/news.aspx?id=4613794 http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=429017 I went to bed early last night, and missed this one. It looks like it was a great one. ***** You will recall that Ticats draft pick Lyndon Gaydosh signed instead with the Carolina Panthers. Yesterday the Panthers put him on Injured Reserve with a herniated disk. He could be out all season, and remain Carolina property. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=429023 ***** The players union is appealling the arbitrator's decision that Chris Williams must abide by his contract with the Ticats. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=428914

Brandon Whittaker will be out 3-4 weeks. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=428978

Tonight's Hamilton-Edmonton game will be on the NBC Sports channel at 9:00. ***** TSN Week 5 power rankings http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/feature/?id=97698 ***** Chris O'Leary Week 6 picks http://www.cflblogzone.com/2013/08/week-6-cfl-picks-dan-hawkins-fired-in-montreal-and-a-cfl-lip-reading-video/ ***** Harry Smith has died. He was the Saskatchewan head coach in 1951. http://www.usctrojans.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/080113aaa.html ***** Globe Week 6 picks http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/football/cfl-week-6-picks/article13570984/ ***** more fan comment on the Dan Hawkins firing http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/football/alouettes-fire-head-coach-dan-hawkins/article13545185/

"Five and More," 3rd CD by the FivePlay Jazz Quintet, To Be Released September 17 by Auraline Records Guitarist Tony Corman & Pianist Laura Klein Co-Lead the Quintet, Which Also Features Saxophonist Dave Tidball, Bassist Paul Smith, & Drummer Alan Hall CD Release Shows Scheduled for 9/29 Bird & Beckett, San Francisco 11/2 Musically Minded Academy, Oakland 2/1/14 The Jazzschool, Berkeley August 1, 2013 Mainstays of the San Francisco Bay Area jazz scene since the 1980s, the members of the adventurous quintet FivePlay share a long musical history stretching back to their student days at Berklee in Boston. Co-led by husband and wife Tony Corman (guitar) and Laura Klein (piano) and also including reedman Dave Tidball, bassist Paul Smith, and drummer Alan Hall, the band has now completed work on its third album, Five and More, to be released September 17 on the Auraline label. The new disc is FivePlay's most ambitious to date, with an array of special guests on hand to enhance the group's already rich sonorities: vibraphonist Ted Wolff (another Boston friend), trombonist Frank Phipps, the Albatross Clarinet Quartet, and a four-man trombone section. "So much of the fun for us is the interaction," says Corman, "especially with people you've been playing with for three decades. It can be really psychic." Klein composed four of the numbers on Five and More: "Enology," named in honor of her and Tony's son Evan, recently graduated with a degree in wine and viticulture; the jazz waltz "Glow in the Dark"; "Stella Steps Out," a modal swinger; and "Abbott's Lagoon," which conjures up a magical place in rural Point Reyes, California. Corman wrote the Latin-tinged "The Girl You Look Right Past"; "What Bobby Said," in honor of Tony's musical hero Bobby Paunetto and featuring Wolff and the Albatross quartet; "One Better," a swinger pitting the trombone section against Tidball's tenor and Corman's guitar; the bossa nova "Rosa Rugosa"; and "Making Spirits Rise," a gently swinging jazz waltz. Tidball, who switches between soprano and tenor saxophones and clarinet and bass clarinet on the album, contributed "Glamorgan," a ballad named for the county in Wales where he grew up. Seated: Alan Hall, Laura Klein: Standing: Paul Smith, Dave Tidball, Tony Corman. New York City-born and raised Laura Klein earned a B.A. in music from SUNY Buffalo and spent two years "playing all over Buffalo, from elegant nightclubs to funky little chitlin circuit dives" with the ten-piece Equinox Soul Band. After that she attended Boston's Berklee College of Music, where she met her future husband. Tony Corman was born in Boston and played both piano and clarinet as a child; he took up saxophone at 16. After meeting Klein at Berklee, the two soon began jamming together ("This girl's got a sound, a beautiful tone," he thought at the time) and then, in 1979, living together. They married in 1984, shortly before moving to the Bay Area. Dave Tidball, Alan Hall, and Ted Wolff, all friends from Boston, eventually relocated west as well. Of the five members of FivePlay, only bassist Paul Smith is a relative newcomer to the couple's circle of Boston buddies. Corman's saxophone-playing days and the group Triceratops (a sextet including Corman, Klein, Hall, and Tidball) came to an end in 2002 when a jaw problem prevented him from continuing to play woodwinds. "I changed a fundamental of my technique that fried something in my basal ganglia, which caused my jaw to permanently forget what is required to play," is how Corman describes the situation. "I spent a little time in a very dark place, finally realized I wasn't done, and grabbed a guitar and got busy at age 50. Though I'll never have the hours of practice you get when you start young, I do think that 35 years of saxophoning makes me approach the guitar differently. The lines are in my head; the challenge is to get them out on this new axe." Since its inception in 2005, FivePlay has performed at venues throughout Northern California, including Yoshi's, the Piedmont Piano Company, and jazz festivals in Sonoma, Danville, San Ramon, Vallejo, Brentwood, and Livermore. Their previous CDs are FivePlay Jazz Quintet (2010) and Five of Hearts (2011). "We write music to charm and enchant and engage as opposed to impress with instrumental prowess or some sort of sophisticated conceptual approach," Corman says. "My hope always is to write a song that, the minute it's over, you'll want to play it again." FivePlay will be bringing the music from Five and More to three Bay Area venues in the coming months: 9/29 Bird & Beckett, San Francisco (4pm); 11/2 Musically Minded Academy, Oakland (8pm); and 2/1/14 The Jazzschool, Berkeley (8pm). Photography: Irene Young Web Sites: www.fiveplayjazz.com www.tonycorman.com www.lauraklein.net Listen to a three-minute montage from the new CD! Follow Tony:

Tim Burke announced today that Justin Goltz will start at QB for the Bombers for the remainder of the year. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=428912

Today is IPA Day. Here is a subjective list of the author's favorites. I haven't seen any of these in the stores around here. http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2013/08/01/6-beers-to-celebrate-national-ipa-day/

The Als have fired Dan Hawkins, and replaced him with Jim Popp. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=428903 http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfl/news/news.aspx?id=4613306 http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/Montreal/2013/08/01/21016116.html

Bill Scranton has died. He was the commencement speaker at my girl friend's graduation. When he started talking about "geo-politics" and "eco-politics", all of the poly sci majors (who had heard four years of that) tuned out and fell asleep! http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/30/us/politics/william-scranton-former-pennsylvania-governor-dies-at-96.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

George Scott has died. I remember him best with the '67 Red Sox. As I recall, he used to call his home runs "'taters." http://www.boston.com/sports/blogs/thebuzz/2013/07/report_george_scott_has_passed_away.html

When I cut and paste a press release, I get that message every time. I delete all the photos, but I feel the post loses something because of it.

Welcome Chris!

This weekend is the first of the two bye weekends. ***** Ted Michaels power rankings http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfl/news/news.aspx?id=4613114 ***** Greg Xenakes Week 6 picks http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfl/news/news.aspx?id=4613208

Toronto Argonauts 38....British Columbia Lions 12 http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfl/news/news.aspx?id=4613002 http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=428799 Surprise! Zach Collaros made his first pro start and looked terrific.

Tonight's Toronto-BC game will be on the NBC Sports channel at 7:30.

Here is Matt Dunigan's valuable explanation of December's expansion draft, including an in depth analysis of the quarterback situation. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=428714

Paul Desmond: Complete RCA Albums Collection - $15.46 http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005QOT6T6/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&seller= ***** Woody Shaw: Complete Columbia Albums Collection - $15.51 http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Woody-Columbia-Albums-Collection/dp/B005QOR1ZM/ref=pd_sim_m_6

The novel/movie The Exorcist was based upon the true story of a boy named Bobby who was inhabited by an evil spirit in the late 40s after his aunt taught him how to play with a ouija board. That's what I believe.

Blue Train, thanks for that short interview you link to!

There is a college professor (an economist) named Andrew Zimbalist who specializes in the business of pro sports, and is frequently quoted in the paper. He says that a city obtaining its first team receives economic benefits from it, but additional teams provide nothing to the city's economy.