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  7. Milton Suggs at Smalls Nov. 28

    in Live Shows & Festivals

    Posted · Edited by GA Russell

    Got this in the mail today:

    The Milton Suggs Quartet

    @ Smalls Jazz Club

    The Milton Suggs Quartet will be making its debut New York performance at

    Smalls Jazz Club on Wednesday November 28, 2012 with two sets of music from 9:00pm to 12am.

    If you won't be in the New York area, the show is available for live viewing at

    SmallsLive.com for $3.00.

    Featuring:

    Milton Suggs - Vocals

    Willerm Delisfort - Piano

    Jonathan Michel - Bass

    Kenneth Salters - Drums

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    Download News Release

    Stay up to date on performances of all of our artists at SkiptoneMusic.com!!

  8. 2025 @CFL Season

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    John, no doubt the Argos are playing their best ball of the year at the right time. But as I pointed out Oct. 23 in post #1344, Ted Michaels agreed with me in his power rankings that the Argos were (less than a month ago!) the third worst team in the league.

    *****

    Greg Xenakes Grey Cup pick

    http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfl/news/news.aspx?id=4544960

    *****

    Here's a good sportsnetwork.com preview of the game.

    http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfl/news/news.aspx?id=4544951

  9. 2025 @CFL Season

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted · Edited by GA Russell

    The Ticats announced today that they will play next year at U of Guelph (17 minutes from Hamilton) while their new stadium is being built.

    http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=409896

    *****

    This will be the third time the Argos have faced the Stampeders in the Grey Cup. Here's an article about the previous two games.

    http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=409847

    TSN had a show which called the '71 Argos the greatest team to never win the Grey Cup (because the Stamps beat them). If the Argos win on Sunday, they should call this team the worst team to ever win it!

  11. DVD - Savion Glover - Fours

    in New Releases

    Posted

    This looks great! I hope I will be sent a copy.

    For Immediate Release Please

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    Jam # 1 McCoy Tyner

    Jam # 2 Eddie Palmieri

    Jam # 3 Roy Haynes

    Jam # 4 Jack DeJohnette

    FOURS ON HALF NOTE AVAILABLE IN STORES AND ONLINE NOW!

    NEW YORK, November 19, 2012 - Universally regarded as the best tap dancer on Earth (though only 39 years old, at this writing), Tony Award-winner SAVION GLOVER showcases his musical side by jamming with jazz royalty. Over the course of an hour-long DVD featuring interview footage and 4 separate jams - one each with McCOY TYNER, EDDIE PALMIERI, ROY HAYNES AND JACK DEJOHNETTE - Savion spars tirelessly, treating viewers to a clinic on rhythmic improvisation. It is a remarkably athletic performance in which he shifts from soloist to accompanist and back, challenging and reacting to his mentors with a searching, spiritual demeanor emblematic of jazz's greatest instrumentalists. The DVD is an eyeful. He illuminates the sheer joy of dance while reaffirming his own quest for creative sublimity.

    Savion invited four Mt. Rushmore figures to an evening jam; he proves himself one of them.

    CAPTURED LIVE AT THE BLUE NOTE

    PATIENCE HIGGINS - SAXOPHONE

    MARCUS STRICKLAND - SAXOPHONE

    KURT FAUSSETTE - PIANO

    ANDY McCLOUD - BASS

    BRIAN GRICE - DRUMS

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  17. CONTEST: 100th Grey Cup game

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted · Edited by GA Russell

    Here's something I didn't know, tweeted by Hall of Famer Matt Dunigan:

    TOR 2-0 vs CGY this season, have won 5 straight vs CGY dating back to 2010.

    *****

    Calgary - 50 points

    Still don't know anything about this Grey Cup competition!

    Have rather fond memories of a stay in Calgary. The team gets my vote...

    brownie, I already have Calgary and 50, so you'll have to pick them with a different tiebreaker!

  22. CONTEST: 100th Grey Cup game

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted · Edited by GA Russell

    It's that time of year again! It's time for the annual Grey Cup contest.

    (Past winners have included Noj (twice), indestructible, Bright Moments, brownie and paul secor.)

    Here are the rules:

    1) Pick the winning team.

    2) Pick the number of total points scored by both teams (aka the tiebreaker).

    Since approximately half of us will pick the winning team, picking the total points is necessary to win the contest. Your total points prediction must be a number which is a multiple of five (5).

    The winning tiebreaker will be the one closest to the correct answer. If two are equally close, the winner will be the lower pick.

    If two people pick the same thing, the first to make the pick will be the winner.

    THE PRIZE: A $17.00 Mosaic Records Gift Certificate, good for both Mosaic and True Blue records. The $17.00 represents one CD of a Mosaic box set.

    Deadline: kickoff, Sunday Nov. 25, 6:00 pm eastern.

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    The Grey Cup game: The Grey Cup is awarded to the world champion of what I think is the greatest game in the world, Canadian rules football. That is to say, the champion of the Canadian Football League.

    The Grey Cup was first awarded in 1909. They have played for it every year since then except three years during World War One. Therefore, this year's will be the 100th Grey Cup game. Fans from throughout Canada will attend the game. The game sold out within 48 hours of tickets going on sale back in June. Therefore, neither team is expected to have an obvious majority of the fans rooting for them.

    This year's game will see the Eastern champion Toronto Argonauts host the Western champion Calgary Stampeders. This is a surprise because both teams finished second during the regular season, and had to defeat the first place team on the road to win their conference championships.

    The location of the game is chosen years in advance. This year's game will be played in Toronto because the league felt that Canada's largest city should host the festivities for the hundredth Grey Cup game.

    Calgary's starting quarterback was injured fairly early in the season. He was replaced by back-up Kevin Glenn, who has spent much of his career as a starter. The Stampeders had a good year. The Argos had a mediocre year because both their offensive and defensive lines are suspect. Their quarterback is Ricky Ray, who twice won the Grey Cup with the Edmonton Eskimos. Ray is a future Hall of Famer who came to the Argos in a major trade last winter.

    The game will be carried live on the NBC sports cable TV channel.

    The halftime show will feature Canadians Gordon Lightfoot and Justin Bieber.

    You can listen to the game here:

    http://tunein.com/radio/Team-1410-s31148/

    http://tunein.com/radio/AM-770-s31172/

    (To listen to the game, you will need Windows Media Player which you can download for free. So you might want to plan ahead if you don't already have it.)

    You can study articles analyzing the upcoming game as well as articles about the season as it unfolded in the CFL thread, which I will be updating during the course of this week.

    Good luck everyone!

    Here's my pick:

    (My heart says Argos, but my head says Stampeders.)

    Calgary - 50 points

    PS - It looks like CJOB will not carry the Grey Cup game this year, so I have substituted the URLs of the Vancouver and Calgary stations above.

  23. 2025 @CFL Season

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    Western Final:

    Calgary Stampeders 34....British Columbia Lions 29

    http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfl/news/news.aspx?id=4544233

    http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfl/scores/final/boxscore.aspx?GAMEID=1083

    http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=409791

    Another upset! Obviously not as big a surprise as the Argos winning, but all year long the Lions have been #1 in everyone's power rankings.

    Pure and simple, Kevin Glenn outplayed Travis Lulay. The Western Final is not a good day for Lulay to have a sub-par game.

  25. 2025 @CFL Season

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    Eastern Final:

    Toronto Argonauts 27....Montreal Alouettes 20

    http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=409775

    http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfl/scores/final/boxscore.aspx?GAMEID=1082

    http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfl/news/news.aspx?id=4544137

    Upset!!! The Argos defense was strong all day. The Als were the better team in the first half, but the Argos outscored them 14-0 in the third quarter, and held on in the final minute to win.

    Every year the Canadian writers say that there is pressure on the team from the city where the Grey Cup will be played to play in the game. IMO this is nonsense, as the Grey Cup is sold out every year. But this year, the home team will really be the home team, although fans from throughout the country will be there to watch the 100th Grey Cup game.

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