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Globe (Allan Maki) Week 9 picks http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/football/cfl-picks-week-9/article2142499/

The Lions have released Kamau Peterson. http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/Winnipeg/2011/08/21/18583436.html http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=374190

Thanks, guys. Your positive feelings toward those albums are interesting. It's been my impression that they sold very poorly, but that may be just flat out wrong.

I've never had any desire to get We Want Miles, Decoy or Star People. Am I missing anything?

Gregg Xenakes Week 9 picks http://64.246.64.33/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=cfl/news/news.aspx?id=4430699

yes!! this was like giving birth!! LOL Correct, brownie and Valerie! I didn't mean it to be so hard. I found a good picture of him sitting at the keyboard, but it would not post properly. I met him in May of 1970 when he was leading his jazz band called Manfred Mann Chapter Three. Great concert! Very nice guy.

I enjoyed his last album, so I'm looking forward to hearing this. I got this press release in the mail today. "Chora Baião," New CD by Brazilian Pianist/Composer Antonio Adolfo, Set for September 27 Release Repertoire Focuses on the Compositions of Chico Buarque & Guinga (& Antonio Adolfo) August 24, 2011 Antonio Adolfo has long been an integral and influential behind-the-scenes player as a producer, composer, arranger, label entrepreneur, and educator -- in his native Rio de Janeiro and beyond. In recent years, however, he has thankfully been devoting more time to recording his own music. First came a critically acclaimed collaboration with his vocalist daughter, 2007's Antonio Adolfo and Carol Saboya Ao Vivo/Live. Last year's Lá e Cá (Here and There), also featuring Saboya, tapped into standards by Americans and Brazilians such as Cole Porter and Antonio Carlos Jobim. For his new CD, Chora Baião, which will be released September 27 on his AAM Music label, Adolfo chose to focus on the Brazilian music styles choro and baião, specifically the works of two brilliant and innovative Brazilian composers, Guinga and Chico Buarque. "I wanted to record an album of material that forces me to play differently," Adolfo says. "My passion is for their harmonies and melodies, which are not just sophisticated, but quite unusual in Brazilian music. When you play American or Brazilian standards, you tend to stay in familiar territory. But with their harmonies you cannot use clichés. It requires you go into some really different directions." The fact that Adolfo's original pieces ("Chicote," "Chorosa Blues," "Chora Baião") fit so comfortably alongside the music of Guinga and Buarque shouldn't be surprising. From Stevie Wonder, Dionne Warwick, and Herb Alpert to Elis Regina, Beth Carvalho, and Sergio Mendes, some of the world's most popular artists have recorded his songs. His title track announces the thread of choro and baião running through the album, drawing on both forms while opening with a bracing jolt of maracatu percussion. "This is a different kind of music, not Jobim," Adolfo says. "Guinga is very inventive with choro and baião. Before Guinga everyone played choro very traditionally. He uses chords like Piazzolla. He's never been played by jazz musicians, but his harmonies are very unexpected." As for Buarque, "I wanted to show him as a musician," says Adolfo. "There's no doubt he's one of the three most important lyricists in Brazil, but he's also a composer who ranks alongside Jobim and Edu Lobo. He chooses different chords and different bass lines. You can hear in songs like 'A Ostra e o Vento' (The Oyster and the Wind) that the harmonies are very sophisticated. As a composer, as a musician who writes songs, he and Guinga do things that nobody else does in Brazilian music, with chords and melodies that are unexpected." Produced and arranged by Adolfo, Chora Baião features the same basic cast heard on last year's Lá e Cá: Uruguayan-born guitarist Leo Amuedo (a frequent collaborator with Ivan Lins), bassist Jorge Helder (often heard with Chico Buarque and Maria Bethânia), drummer Rafael Barata (Edu Lobo, Rosa Passos, Mônica Salmaso), and -- on two tracks -- vocalist Carol Saboya. The formidable Marcos Suzano (Lenine, Gilberto Gil, Zizi Possi) is added on percussion. Besides his prolific work as a pianist, composer, and arranger, Adolfo, 64, continues to be a leader in music education. The Centro Musical Antonio Adolfo in Rio and a new experimental Brazilian music school in Hollywood, Florida, where he resides, are a big part of his current professional life. "Nadia Boulanger and all the other teachers I had were my inspiration to become a music educator myself," says Adolfo. "My involvement in education is a result of my interest in always trying to go deeper and to deal technically with different music subjects, which has helped my own development and growth as a musician." Photos: Paul Constantinides Antonio Adolfo Web Site: www.antonioadolfo.info "Morro Dois Irmãos" (comp. Chico Buarque)

OK, if anyone is still playing, he is the guy with the glasses and the beard in this photo from ca. 1964.

Happy Birthday cih!

RIP. I'll have to put them on tomorrow.

The Ticats have signed Luc Mullinder one day after the Als let him go. http://www.tsn.ca/cfl/story/?id=374327

All right, last hint: He was the only noteworthy rocker to have a beard before Sgt. Pepper.

Happy Birthday 2011 micha!

Still no guesses? Here's a picture of the jazz band ca. 1969.

I've got no objection to that when they are pricing their music at less than $3.00 a CD. The whole concept of copyright, that ownership be for a limited time, spurs the copyright owner to use it or lose it. I think that's a good thing. In my view, there are far too many books and records out of print under copyright for years to come in the US. Let's get it out there.

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I felt a brief and mild earthquake in York, PA, ca. 1983. I was standing at the time, and felt the tremble pass under one foot and then the other. Today in Raleigh I felt nothing. I heard on the national news that they felt it in Wilmington, so I'm surprised that we didn't get anything here.

I suspect that Sony is doing what it can to get these recordings into the consumers' hands before they go into public domain in Europe.

Last hint before I show a picture that will give it away. This rock star led a jazz band for a couple of years.

Still no guesses? Maybe you will find him easier to recognize in this photo. Again, the one in the middle.

No guesses? OK, here's an easier picture. He's the one in the middle.

spotify: Victor Feldman - His Own Sweet Way Shelly Manne - 2-3-4 In yesterday's Celia Rivenbark column she mentions spotify as being the greatest thing on earth except bacon!

I see that Amazon now has this up for pre-order at $14.41. http://www.amazon.com/Road-Shows-2-Sonny-Rollins/dp/B005D1IFNA/ref=pd_sim_sbs_m_4 The six tracks may be sampled at the link.

The guy in brown.

Well, I just listened to Poison Ivy on spotify, and to say that it is about an STD is quite a stretch. It's like the person who sees a double entendre in everything.