GA Russell

Saskatchewan has released Jason Armstead. http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/Winnipeg/2010/04/15/13605681.html

Winnipeg has released Siddeeq Shabazz. The Bombers have a new general manager named Joe Mack, and he is putting his own stamp on the team. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/football/bombers-sign-receiver-jeffers-harris/article1536937/

Nate, is your avatar Sylvia Tyson?

Great!

His new disk Initiate just went up at lala: http://www.lala.com/#artist/The_Nels_Cline_Singers

Blue Note fans might like a new album by Chicago trumpeter Pharez Whitted called Transient Journey. It has a 1966 Blue Note sound, except when the electric piano is used, which brings it up to 1969. The sextet includes Bobby Broom. It is up at lala here: http://www.lala.com/#album/1657606138579261315/Pharez_Whitted/Transient_Journey

Here's an interesting mag deal I have found. America's best selling short story magazine for 75 cents. Dell publishes four digest (modern day pulp) fiction magazines - two mystery (Ellery Queen and Alfred Hitchcock) and two sci-fi (Analog and Asimov). I was surprised to read their claim that Alfred Hitchcock is "America's best selling short story magazine". Dell is offering back issues of Alfred Hitchcock and Ellery Queen, three for $2.25. Technically, it is $1.00 for the three mags, and $1.25 for the shipping. You can order as many packs of three as you like, but if you order multiple packs they won't guarantee that every issue is different. Dell chooses the issues. The offer is called the Dell Mystery Magazine Sampler Pack. http://www.themysteryplace.com/order/order_ahmm.aspx

Winnipeg has signed Buck Pierce. I wish him well, but I don't think it is sporting to have a guy on the team who is injured as often as he is. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/football/buck-pierce-headed-to-blue-bombers/article1531511/

Lala: Wayne Shorter - Schizophrenia Dave Bargeron - Barge Burns...Slide Flies

Happy Birthday 2010 BM!

I see now that Dark Eyes is up at lala. http://www.lala.com/#album/432627041169189890/Tomasz_Stanko_Quintet/Dark_Eyes

I see that board member Save bought the latest Tomasz Stanko album Dark Eyes back in October, and listed it in his year's top ten. Here in the US it was not released until a week ago Tuesday, March 30. Stanko and his quintet are now touring the US in support of the album. Here's the entire tour that I've been given: Tomasz Stanko Quintet – USA tour: April 5 Seattle, WA Triple Door April 6 San Diego, CA Anthology April 7 Los Angeles, CA Musician's Institute April 9 Chicago, IL Logan Square Auditorium April 10 Denver, CO Dazzles April 11 San Francisco, CA SFJAZZ Festival April 13-17 New York, NY Birdland April 18 Baltimore, MD An Die Musik April 20 Boston, MA Regattabar Tomasz Stanko Quintet –Canada tour: June 28 Toronto, ON Toronto Jazz Festival June 29&30 Victoria, BC Victoria Jazz Festival July 2 Edmonton, AB Edmonton Jazz Festival July 3 Montreal PQ Montreal PQ Jazz Festival July 4 Ottawa, ON Ottawa Jazz Festival

I'm with Allen. I thought this would be a thread about April Stevens and Nino Tempo.

It has the same sound as This is the Place, but the band seems tighter to me. It never stops swinging, yet someone who is not into jazz would enjoy it too.

LOL! What was wrong with my thread?

I wish all spam were as inoffensive as this. If this were a thread about a topic I was interested in, and someone posted that he is in the business, and that anyone interested could learn more by visiting his site, that wouldn't bother me. In fact, I don't think that it would meet the criteria of spam as originally considered by the guy who referenced the Monty Python joke. If the post is nothing more than an honest suggestion to visit a legitimate website where one could indeed learn more about the subject at hand, I don't think that I would consider it spam. Self-serving, of course!, but not spam.

Happy Birthday ophelia! Hope the kids let you get some sleep on your birthday!

Lala: Georgie Fame - A Portrait of Chet (His penultimate album, also from last year.)

Happy Birthday Allen!

Lala: Paul Jones - Starting All Over Again (His latest, from last year.) Georgie Fame - Tone-Wheels 'a' Turnin' (His latest, from last year.)

I hope everyone enjoys the day. We've got beautiful weather here in North Carolina - warm, but not too much so.

Happy Birthday jk!

Lala: Jerry Cole & His Spacemen - Power Surf! The Searchers - The Definitive Pye Collection, disc 3

Mike Cuellar died yesterday. I'll never forget a doubleheader I saw in 1975. It was in Baltimore's Memorial Stadium, and we had tickets in the upper deck, immediately behind home plate. It was against the Red Sox. Cuellar pitched one game, and Luis Tiant pitched the other. It was 18 innings of screwballs! I had never seen anything like it, and I guess I never will. This is from the Baltimore Sun: http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2010-04-02/sports/bal-former-orioles-pitcher-mike-cuellar-dies-0402_1_dave-mcnally-orioles-fortunes-american-league-pennants He was a 32-year-old junk-ball pitcher thought to be past his prime when obtained in a trade from Houston Astros for outfielder Curt Blefary in 1968. Instead, Cuellar blossomed into a workhorse who helped anchor a storied rotation that carried the Orioles to three American League pennants, five playoff appearances and three World Series. Four times, he won 20 or more games. Seven times, he pitched at least 248 innings. His first year in Baltimore, Cuellar went 23-11, pitched five shutouts and became the first Oriole hurler (and Latin American) to win the American League Cy Young Award, sharing it with Denny McLain of the Detroit Tigers. "When Mike came, he solidified the whole pitching staff," center fielder Paul Blair said. "We had complete confidence in him, Dave McNally and Jim Palmer when they walked out on the mound. "We knew that if we scored two or three runs -- four at the most -- we'd win the game. That's a great feeling for a team." In Cuellar's first three seasons in Baltimore, the club won 318 games, reaching the Series each year. In 1969, the Orioles lost to the New York Mets in five games, Cuellar recording the only victory. "Mike was a monstrous part of the great teams we had from 1969 to 1971," said Earl Weaver, the Hall of Fame manager. "He was an artist on the mound and a player [whose acquisition] put us over the top. "Several times, down the stretch, he pitched with two days' rest, when we needed it." Cuellar's best year was 1970, when he went 24-8 and led the league in both victories and complete games (21).

Lala: Cannonball Adderley - Cannonball's Bossa Nova The Searchers - The Definitive Pye Collection, disc 2