GA Russell

Sept. 30 Buddy Rich - 1917 Cissy Houston - 1933 Jill Corey - 1935 Johnny Mathis - 1935 Dewey Martin - 1942 Frankie Lymon - 1942 Marilyn McCoo - 1943 Marc Bolan - 1947 Patrice Rushen - 1954 Marty Stuart - 1958 Basia - 1959 Trey Anastasio - 1964 ***** Ian Ogilvy - 1943 Rula Lenska - 1947

I have added a few links to the two Saturday games.

I have added a few links to the two Friday games. ***** Sask 29....Ottawa 16 The Riders controlled the game. Ottawa is sinking. https://www.cfl.ca/2024/09/28/recap-saskatchewan-29-ottawa-16/ https://www.cfl.ca/2024/09/28/riders-claim-second-straight-victory-with-win-over-redblacks/ https://www.tsn.ca/cfl/roughriders-down-redblacks-to-vault-over-lions-in-cfl-s-west-division-1.2180590 https://3downnation.com/2024/09/29/redblacks-attack-toothless-against-riders-12-other-thoughts/ https://cflnewshub.com/cfl-news/cfl-scores-today-saskatchewan-roughriders-29-ottawa-redblacks-16-riders-defense-shines-in-home-victory/ https://www.cfl.ca/2024/09/28/3-stats-that-defined-saskatchewans-week-17-win-over-ottawa/ ***** Toronto 37....Montreal 31 With the Ottawa loss, the Als clinched first place. There ought to be a word for when a team's position in the final standings is locked, so that a win or a loss has no effect. Maybe "meaningless game" is it. Every year, when a win means something for one team, and it is a meaningless game for the other, you don't know how serious the one team's attempt to win is. In this case, it was a great game with a number of lead changes. The Argos won it by kicking two field goals in the final 2:20. The Argos have been playing since 1873, and Hajrullahu set a team record by kicking 8 field goals. This ties the league record. All of the teams are below .500 on the road except the Als. This was the Als' first road loss since early September of last year. https://www.cfl.ca/2024/09/28/recap-toronto-37-montreal-31/ https://www.cfl.ca/2024/09/28/argonauts-best-alouettes-at-home-in-back-and-forth-affair/ https://www.tsn.ca/cfl/liriim-hajrullahu-kicks-record-tying-eight-fgs-to-lead-toronto-argonauts-past-montreal-alouettes-1.2180685 https://3downnation.com/2024/09/29/alouettes-lose-to-argos-still-secure-first-in-east-eight-other-thoughts/ https://3downnation.com/2024/09/29/argos-run-it-by-committee-kick-for-history-in-huge-win-over-alouettes-13-other-thoughts/ https://cflnewshub.com/cfl-news/cfl-scores-today-toronto-argonauts-37-montreal-alouettes-31-argos-edge-als-in-high-scoring-affair/ https://www.cfl.ca/2024/09/28/3-stats-that-defined-torontos-week-17-win-over-montreal/ ***** The tickets to this year's CFL Awards in Vancouver have sold out three days after going on sale. https://cflnewshub.com/cfl-news/pr-2024-grey-cup-festival-ticket-sales-off-to-roaring-start-as-cfl-awards-sells-out/ ***** Now let's take a look at the standings. https://www.cfl.ca/2024standings We know that Montreal and Winnipeg have mathematically clinched a spot in the playoffs. An 8-10 record is good enough to make the playoffs. By that standard, Ottawa and Toronto have also made it. Edmonton's back is against the wall. Calgary's situation isn't much better. Sask, BC and Hamilton have three more games. Sask and BC need one more win, and Hamilton needs two more. Notwithstanding their records, Ottawa, Calgary and BC seem to be the weakest teams currently. ***** I found last week's Plays of the Week.

Sept. 29 Gene Autry - 1907 Jerry Lee Lewis - 1935 Tommy Boyce - 1939 Jean-Luc Ponty - 1942 Mike Post - 1944 ***** Ludwig von Mises - 1881

Winnipeg 55....Edmonton 27 Where was James Taylor singing Steamroller Blues? Winnipeg led 31-0 with 7:58 left in the second quarter. Collaros went on to throw a personal best six touchdown passes. With the victory, the Bombers have clinched a playoff spot. https://www.cfl.ca/2024/09/28/recap-winnipeg-55-edmonton-27/ https://www.cfl.ca/2024/09/27/blue-bombers-clinch-playoffs-with-dominant-showing-against-elks/ https://www.tsn.ca/cfl/surging-winnipeg-blue-bombers-blitz-edmonton-elks-clinch-playoff-spot-1.2180354 https://3downnation.com/2024/09/27/winnipeg-blue-bombers-blast-edmonton-elks-to-clinch-playoff-berth-10-other-thoughts/ https://3downnation.com/2024/09/28/elks-regress-to-old-ways-in-blowout-loss-to-bombers-six-other-thoughts/ https://www.cfl.ca/2024/09/27/3-stats-that-defined-winnipegs-week-16-win-over-edmonton-2/ ***** Hamilton 32....BC 29 Another two hours of boring football (following the Bombers game), with the Lions leading 16-0 at the half, and 23-8 after three. Then...the Ticats woke up. They scored 18 straight points to take the lead, and the Lions needed a field goal on the last play of regulation to tie the game. In OT, Milanovic-Litre scored the walk-off TD from the one. https://www.cfl.ca/2024/09/28/recap-hamilton-32-bc-29/ https://www.cfl.ca/2024/09/28/ticats-claim-overtime-victory-after-late-comeback-against-bc/ https://www.tsn.ca/cfl/hamilton-tiger-cats-claw-out-win-over-bc-lions-in-overtime-1.2180414 https://3downnation.com/2024/09/28/b-c-lions-pull-their-punches-clock-out-early-in-overtime-loss-to-ticats-10-other-thoughts/ https://3downnation.com/2024/09/28/lucky-pair-of-boveralls-tiger-cats-overcome-16-point-deficit-to-defeat-lions-in-overtime-six-other-thoughts/ https://www.cfl.ca/2024/09/28/3-stats-that-defined-hamiltons-week-17-win-over-bc/

Final... Brisbane - 18.12.120 Sydney - 9.6.60 To sum it up, Brisbane scored seven goals in the second quarter, and that was that. Brisbane won three in a row 2001 - 2003, but hadn't won since. Congratulations Brisbane!

After three... Brisbane - 16.11.107 Sydney - 5.4.34 You may recall that two years ago, Geelong beat Sydney 133-52. I don't know what Sydney's problem is, but they don't show up for the Grand Final.

Sydney finished the regular season in first place, and Brisbane in fifth place. Sydney led by two goals for a few minutes in the first quarter, but since then it has been all Brisbane. Brisbane led 27-19 after the first quarter, and an incredible 73-27 at halftime.

While you are listening to the radio, @AFL is posting videos of the goals on Twitter/X.

Here is the radio broadcast. https://nirs.org.au/program-guide/ National Indigenous Radio Service

Week 17 picks https://cflnewshub.com/cfl-news/predictions-cfl-news-hub-writers-week-17-picks/ ***** Week 17 preview https://cflnewshub.com/cfl-news/montreal-alouettes-11-2-1-week-17-preview-vs-toronto-argonauts-7-7-keys-to-the-game-prediction-depth-chart-injuries-odds/

Sept. 28 Koko Taylor - 1929 John Gilmore - 1931 Ben E. King - 1938 Helen Shapiro - 1946 ***** Ed Sullivan - 1901 William S. Paley - 1901 Marcello Mastroianni - 1924

Time to catch up! Collingwood won last year 90-86. The announcer said over and over, "This is one of the greatest Grand Finals ever!" Collingwood had a half-goal lead. They would score a goal, and then Brisbane would promptly score its own to maintain the small deficit. Really something. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_AFL_Grand_Final ***** This year's game is TONIGHT!!!!! The Brisbane Lions will return to face the Sydney Swans. The game will start at 2:30 pm Saturday Melbourne time, which is to say 9:30 pm Friday pacific time, and 12:30 am eastern time. I expect that the audio link from 2022 above will be good. If not, I will post a good link if I can find one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_AFL_Grand_Final

Week 17 picks https://3downnation.com/2024/09/27/3downnation-cfl-picks-will-riders-rb-ryquell-armstead-run-for-revenge-over-redblacks/ https://www.cfl.ca/2024/09/27/from-the-editors-desk-were-talkin-playoffs-in-week-17/ https://pifflespodcast.com/blog/piffles-picks-week-17/ ***** Week 17 previews https://cflnewshub.com/cfl-news/cfl-games-today-september-27-2024-edmonton-elks-vs-winnipeg-blue-bombers-hamilton-tiger-cats-vs-bc-lions-tv-channels-odds/ https://cflnewshub.com/cfl-news/edmonton-at-winnipeg-preview/ https://cflnewshub.com/cfl-news/hamilton-tiger-cats-5-9-week-17-preview-vs-bc-lions-7-7-prediction-depth-chart-injuries-odds/ ***** GA Russell's Week 17 picks Winnipeg over Edmonton (The Bombers have won their last six.) BC over Hamilton (The Ticats have won their last three, and the Lions have been unimpressive since their great start. But I'll go with the Lions at home. If the Ticats win this, then they are for real, regardless of their bad start before they hired Chris Jones to run the defense.) Sask over Ottawa (The Redblacks have been foundering, so Masoli will start. The Riders' long losing streak was mostly made up of close losses. Now that it's over, I look for them to win at home.) Montreal over Toronto (The Argos have been inconsistent all year. They couldn't beat the Ticats in three tries. So I expect the Als to be able to deal with them.)

Sept. 27 Vincent Youmans - 1898 Bud Powell - 1924 Red Rodney - 1927 Randy Bachman - 1943 Meat Loaf - 1947 Russ Kunkel - 1948 Shaun Cassidy - 1958 Avril Lavigne - 1984 ***** Sam Adams - 1722 William T. Orr - 1917 William Conrad - 1920

Week 17 picks https://doorfliesopen.com/2024/09/26/cfl-beat-222/ https://rodpedersen.com/week-17-cfl-picks-2024/ ***** Power Rankings https://cflnewshub.com/cfl-news/cfl-power-rankings-week-16/ ***** 9/26 Checking Down https://www.cfl.ca/2024/09/26/checking-down-bethel-thompson-masoli-under-centre-in-week-17/ ***** 9/26 Game Notes https://www.cfl.ca/2024/09/26/cfl-ca-game-notes-shemar-bridges-close-to-record-breaking-season/ ***** Week 17 previews https://cflnewshub.com/cfl-news/cfl-week-17-edmonton-elks-5-9-at-winnipeg-blue-bombers-8-6-preview-odds-injury-report-prediction/ https://www.cfl.ca/2024/09/26/bombers-elks-open-week-17-with-western-clash/ https://cflnewshub.com/cfl-news/bc-lions-7-7-week-17-preview-vs-hamilton-tiger-cats-5-9-prediction-depth-chart-injuries-odds-keys-to-the-game-player-to-watch/ https://www.cfl.ca/2024/09/26/lions-ticats-meet-at-bc-place-for-friday-night-football/

Sept. 26 George Gershwin - 1898 Ted Weems 1901 Julie London - 1926 Romano Mussolini - 1927 Dick Heckstall- Smith - 1934 Gary Bartz - 1940 Joe Bauer - 1941 Bryan Ferry - 1945 Gal Costa - 1945 Lynn Anderson - 1947 Olivia Newton-John - 1948 Craig Chaquico - 1954 Carlene Carter - 1955 ***** Derek Ho - 1964

I'm looking forward to this one as well. The late Eisenhower and early Kennedy administrations was a great era for orchestra arrangements, IMO.

I don't have to tell you that football season records (and also career records) are inflated because they play more games now. When I was growing up, the season was 14 games long. Today every team has played 14 games. So let's look at the current stats. https://www.cfl.ca/stats/ Mitchell has thrown for 4,000 yards. Oliveira has rushed for 1,000 yards. McInnis and Hardy have both caught for 1,000 yards. Streveler has scored (by rushing) 10 touchdowns. McInnis has scored (by receiving) 7 touchdowns. I bet somewhere in a closet the league has the record book of the final year of the 14-game schedule, which would show who holds these records for a 14-game season.

League games are once again being carried by SiriusXM. https://www.cfl.ca/2024/09/25/now-hear-this-siriusxm-back-for-more-cfl-games-new-exclusive-content-2/ ***** Week 17 preview https://www.cfl.ca/2024/09/25/costabile-4-storylines-to-watch-in-week-17/

"Terry Gibbs Dream Band, Vol. 7: The Lost Tapes, 1959," Latest Installment in Gibbs's Archival "Dream Band" Series, To Be Released Oct 11 (CD), Nov 8 (Digital) On Whaling City Sound As Gibbs Turns 100 Legendary Vibraphonist/Bandleader Unearths Incandescent Big Band Performances of Work by All-Star Arrangers, Live in Hollywood in March & November 1959   September 23, 2024 The gift of Terry Gibbs’s vast tape archive keeps on giving with the October 11 release of Terry Gibbs Dream Band, Vol. 7: The Lost Tapes, 1959 on Whaling City Sound (digital release November 8). The newly discovered tapes find the vibraphonist and first-generation bebopper (still alive and kicking as his 100th birthday approaches on October 13) leading his legendary 16-piece Dream Band at two Hollywood nightclubs in March and November 1959. The 18 tracks feature superb performances by some of the finest arrangers in jazz history, delivered in stunning high fidelity. Gibbs and his son, drummer/bandleader/co-curator Gerry Gibbs, thought they had exhausted the surviving documentation of Terry’s swing-boppin’ big band with the 2002 release of Vol. 6: One More Time. (Vols. 1-5 came out in fairly quick succession between 1986 and 1991.) Then, earlier this year, the elder Gibbs was going through the archival files on his son’s computer when he stumbled across one labeled “1959 Jazz Party.” “I said, ‘Hey, what the hell is that?’” he recalls. “So I played it and it was the Dream Band.” Gibbs had booked the ensemble in the winter of 1959 at the Seville in Hollywood as a way of rehearsing them for a recording session without breaking union rules; when they packed the place, they were asked to stay on. After several weeks they moved to the Sundown, a club on the Sunset Strip, where they remained for about a year. During that time, Gibbs built up a book with charts from an unbelievable list of arrangers, whose talents are on display here: Bob Brookmeyer (“Don’t Be That Way”), Al Cohn (“Cottontail”), Marty Paich (“Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise”), and the band’s tenor players, Med Flory (“Flying Home”) and Bill Holman (“Begin the Beguine”). “I talked with my arrangers,” explains Gibbs in Vol. 7’s liner notes, “and I wanted to have arrangements that presented the band as an ensemble band.” That full-band focus doesn’t stop the soloists—among the best of the day—from giving crackling, hard-swinging performances. Trumpeter Conte Candoli sounds off brilliant on both the driving “Bright Eyes” and the ballad “Moonglow”; trailblazing trombonist Carl Fontana brings his brawny sound to “Let’s Dance”; and drummer Mel Lewis, soon to be big band royalty in his own right, defies the title of “No Heat” with his simmering fills and brief solo. And then there’s Gibbs himself, whose dusky signature tone on the vibes nevertheless illuminate “The Song Is You,” “Dancing in the Dark,” and “Prelude to a Kiss.” “It was a labor of love,” says Gibbs of the Dream Band’s superlative work. “I made $11! The band got $15, but they didn’t mind! They were playing for the love of it!” On Dream Band, Vol. 7, that love for the music shines through. Terry Gibbs was born in Brooklyn, New York on October 13, 1924, as Julius Gubenko. A member of a musical family (his father was a violin teacher and orchestra leader), he found his way to the mallets by playing his older brother Sol’s xylophone. He took lessons with drummer-percussionist Fred Albright at 9, won a radio talent show at 12, and hit the road with singer Judy Kayne’s band at 16. While serving in the Army during World War II (stationed Stateside), Gibbs—who had taken the name to sound punchier on concert marquees and programs—heard Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie playing the new sounds of bebop, and it changed his life forever. Before long he was playing the music himself, making records with Allen Eager, Tadd Dameron, and Stan Getz in addition to touring and recording in the big bands of Bill De Arango, Buddy Rich, and Woody Herman (of whose “Four Brothers” band Gibbs was a vital member). In the intervening decades, the list of names on Gibbs’s resume reads like a roll call for the Jazz Hall of Fame, from Benny Goodman to Ray Charles to Alice Coltrane. He has led quartets, quintets, sextets, and big bands, including the house bands for Mel Tormé, Steve Allen, and Jerry Lewis; played on recording sessions for John Lennon and Leonard Cohen; and written an award-winning biography in 2003’s Good Vibes: A Life in Jazz before he retired from performance at the age of 92. Gibbs continues to live an active life, however, appearing weekly on Facebook with his TG Q&A Show. Photography: Rebekah Gibbs      Terry Gibbs Web Site  

I am currently looking at two CD releases of Percy Mayfield singles. The first is on Jasmine. The other is on Acrobat. Do either of these labels have a reputation of being better than the other? https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Love-1947-1962-RECORDINGS-REMASTERED/dp/B01KO9GBXQ/ https://www.amazon.com/Singles-Collection-1947-62-Percy-Mayfield/dp/B07RH67W4Q/ Thanks!

Black Friday sales this year will begin on October 6! https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php

Week 17 picks https://www.cfl.ca/2024/09/24/prediction-time-cfl-ca-writers-week-17-picks-3/ https://www.cfl.ca/2024/09/24/weekly-predictor-jumping-on-board-with-the-boatmen/ ***** Power Rankings https://www.cfl.ca/2024/09/24/amsoil-power-rankings-a-land-of-opportunity/ ***** Playoff Scenarios https://www.cfl.ca/2024/09/24/111th-grey-cup-playoff-scenarios-als-redblacks-bombers-eye-spots/ https://www.tsn.ca/cfl/cfl-playoff-picture-remains-murky-in-west-heading-into-week-17-1.2178586 https://3downnation.com/2024/09/24/ottawa-redblacks-winnipeg-blue-bombers-looking-to-clinch-playoff-berths-in-week-17/ ***** In the wake of such poor showings by the Ottawa and Edmonton offenses Saturday, it looks like Masoli and MBT will start this week. https://www.cfl.ca/2024/09/24/report-jeremiah-masoli-takes-first-team-reps-on-tuesday/ https://www.tsn.ca/cfl/jeremiah-masoli-to-start-for-ottawa-redblacks-against-roughriders-1.2178662 https://3downnation.com/2024/09/24/ottawa-redblacks-to-start-qb-jeremiah-masoli-vs-saskatchewan-roughriders-report/ https://www.cfl.ca/2024/09/24/report-mcleod-bethel-thompson-to-start-for-elks-vs-bombers/ https://www.tsn.ca/cfl/edmonton-elks-qb-mcleod-bethel-thompson-expected-to-start-in-rematch-with-winnipeg-blue-bombers-1.2178697 https://3downnation.com/2024/09/24/mcleod-bethel-thompson-to-start-for-edmonton-elks-vs-winnipeg-report/ ***** Colton Hunchak has signed with the Riders. https://www.cfl.ca/2024/09/24/riders-sign-national-wr-colton-hunchak/ https://3downnation.com/2024/09/24/saskatchewan-roughriders-sign-former-calgary-stampeders-receiver-colton-hunchak/ ***** Fan voting for this year's All-CFL team starts today. Vote here: https://www.cfl.ca/2024/09/24/make-it-count-all-cfl-fan-vote-now-open/ https://www.cfl.ca/2024/09/24/time-to-vote-players-make-their-case-for-all-cfl/ https://www.tsn.ca/cfl/make-it-count-all-cfl-fan-vote-now-open-1.2178759