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Back in the 60s I read many times that bossa nova started with the soundtrack to the movie Black Orpheus. Nowadays, the historians give the credit to the earliest Joao Gilberto recordings. Marpessa Dawn, the female lead of Black Orpheus, has died. I have thought about her every time I listen to the soundtrack cd, because it includes her startled shriek when she comes upon Death for the first time. I had no idea that she was born in Pittsburgh! From the LA Times: http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-...0,3709281.story <h2 style="">Marpessa Dawn</h2>Actress in 1959's 'Black Orpheus' Marpessa Dawn, the Pennsylvania-born actress who played the doomed Eurydice in the classic Brazilian movie "Black Orpheus," died Aug. 25 of a heart attack at her home near Paris, the New York Times reported, citing her daughter Dhyana Kulth. Based on the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, "Black Orpheus" told the story of an innocent country girl, played by Dawn, and a trolley car driver and musician, played by Bruno Melo. The couple meet during Rio's carnival, but Eurydice is being stalked by Death. Orpheus later retrieves her body from the morgue and falls to his death from a cliff cradling her in his arms. Directed by Marcel Camus, the film won the Palme d'Or at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award and Golden Globe for best foreign film in 1960. Gypsy Marpessa Dawn Menor was born in Pittsburgh in 1934. She was of American and Filipino heritage and moved to England as a teenager, where she had a few small television roles. She later moved to France, where she sang and danced in nightclubs and worked as a governess. She appeared in several movies after "Black Orpheus," but none was as successful.

I have a Christmas song of his. I taped a Christmas radio show some fifteen years ago and he was on it. Play it every December. RIP

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Bobo Stenson has a new album out called Cantando. This is my first album of his. I have been curious about him for a while now. I picked up his rarum cd cheap about a year ago from the Jazz Heritage Society, but never got around to opening it up. I've had this a couple of weeks now, and it took me a while to warm up to it. I realized today that there is one track that goes off the edge of the cliff, and has been interfering with my enjoyment of the cd. It really is a great album for a lazy Sunday afternoon. The trio is completed by Anders Jormin on bass and Jon Falt on drums. Although the players are not as equal as the Evans/LaFaro/Motian trio, Jormin is much more up front than most trio bassists are. I plan to burn a copy without the one track that I don't like. I'm sure that once that's done I'll be playing it a lot.

Liz Taylor was good looking once? Guy Well, apparently I don't know how to cut and paste using the right click, but there is a good photo of Liz at http://www.drudgereport.com right now.

Thanks Mark!

Yeah! Thanks Jim!

Montreal Alouettes 37....Saskatchewan Roughriders 12 http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home The Als clinched second place in the East. One more win and they will clinch first. Pretty good for a team many expected to finish last.

British Columbia Lions 40....Hamilton Tiger-Cats 10 http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home The Ticats were never in it. Rookie QB Quinton Porter started and played the whole game for Hamilton. The Lions had 10 sacks, including 3 by Cameron Wade, who will probably go to the NFL next year. Lions third string QB Zac Champion came in late, making his first CFL appearance, and threw a TD pass.

Surprise! I received a copy of the Roadshows vol. 1 cd today in the mail. I love it. Three selections are from the 1980s, and four from the 2000s. Unlike his Milestone studio recordings I have heard, he never sounds like he is busting a gut. He is relaxed on all of the numbers. It sounds like a great deal of thought was given into making the selections. I would say that it is a five star album because all of the tracks are four stars. The cut from the 2007 Carnegie Hall show is saved for last. I feel that it is the weakest track. All of the others, although with different bands, sound like they were recorded on the same day. Sonny is in consistently good form. Thumbs up!

With Ralph's passing, that means that we have lost four greats (all of whom I was fortunate enough to meet) in 2008 - Jake Gaudaur, Bob Ackles, Ron Lancaster and now Ralph Sazio. We also lost Leif Petterson. Fred Williams says here that Ralph took over as head coach of the Ticats in '63. I guess that means that Jim ("We'll waffle 'em.") Trimble was the Ticats' coach for the '62 Grey Cup game. http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform...aspx?id=4182153 I should have known that Dan Ralph could be counted on to provide a worthy obituary for Ralph: http://www.thestar.com/Sports/Football/article/507402 ***** Calgary Stampeders 44....Toronto Argonauts 16 http://64.246.64.33/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=s...aspx?id=4182312 http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/Gam...6905796-cp.html http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...lobeSports/home The Argos were in it until Dominique Dorsey was injured. After that it was all Stamps.

I agree, it doesn't seem like 17 years. The other guy who has been dead much longer than I realized is Stan Getz.

Oregon State's Mike Riley won the Grey Cup coaching the Winnipeg Blue Bombers fifteen or twenty years ago.

Hawthorn Hawks 115....Geelong Cats 89 In the fourth quarter, the Hawks pretty much shut the door on the Cats. Ten years ago I met some folks from Melbourne, and I told them that I was a Hawthorn Hawks fan. One told me that nobody roots for the Hawks except their fans!

After three, I think it's Hawthorn Hawks 89...Geelong Cats 72. It was an incredible see-saw battle with the score tied at 58 fairly late in the third, when Hawthorn scored five (!) quick goals. But at the very end of the period, Geelong scored two quick goals (the last on a penalty kick) to make a game of it again.

I should add that Ralph's Canadian Press obituary is clearly inadequate. I'm surprised that they didn't have a lengthy one already written up. I'll plan to post what I find tomorrow. ***** Winnipeg Blue Bombers 30....Edmonton Eskimos 23 http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home While the rest of America was watching the debate, I was listening to one of the most exciting games of the year! However, one of the reasons it was so close was all the miscues. Alexis Serna missed three makeable field goals. Jamie Stoddard dropped the snap on a convert. Ricky Ray lateralled to a lineman who dropped the ball and let the Bombers recover. The Bombers have now won three in a row, and for the moment are in second place with five wins.

New URL: http://xml.afl.com.au/live_audio.htm?media...s-wh_afl0live11

Interesting that he chose to release one song from last year's Carnegie Hall concert. Maybe he felt that the other songs were not good enough. Maybe he just doesn't like the power trio format anymore. He hasn't used it in decades, right? Allen, you're welcome to your opinion of course. But you haven't liked anything Sonny has done since he joined Milestone forty years ago, am I right? I think it's worth something that Sonny was voted Jazzman of the Year the past two years in the Downbeat Readers Poll. If you don't like the guy, so be it.

Thanks aparxa! I too use firefox, and I was having the identical problem.

We lost another one today. Ralph Sazio has passed away. RIP I met him and his wife at the 1978 Grey Cup game. He was a very nice gentleman. At the time, he was the president of the Ticats. The first CFL game I saw on TV was the 1962 Grey Cup game on Wide World of Sports. I believe that Ralph was the Ticats' head coach that game. I believe that the Argos' hiring him away from the Ticats was the turning point for the team, but in a bad way. Ralph was a football man, and I don't think that he appreciated how important promotion is. Prior to his joining the team, the Argos stunk every year, almost always missing the playoffs and finishing last, yet they sold out CNE Stadium, and along with the Als would have to share revenue with the other seven teams in the league. When Ralph joined the Argos, they became winners, and the attendance dropped through the floor. http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...lobeSports/home ***** Fred Williams Week 14 preview http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform...aspx?id=4182012 David Naylor Week 14 preview http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home

Tonight's the night! With a little research, I have learned that Geelong has been the best team this season, but that Hawthorn has the momentum now. The link to listen is on post #1. I expect the game to begin tonight at midnight eastern time. I plan to stay up till three to take it all in. When Australian rules football games are good (and they usually are not), they're fantastic!

Gee, do you think that BMG will get these?

I wish I could find a list of the many hits he was on. Has anybody seen one?

I've been listening to Pass It On since Tuesday, and I like it a lot. It sounds much more like an old Blue Note than any of the other Holland records I have, in part because the harmonies remind me of the mid-60s Blue Note sound. However, drummer Eric Harland uses a modern New Orleans polyrhythmic beat on some of the songs that I've never found on a Blue Note. Some of the songs are more free than others, but generally the album swings much more than any of Holland's ECM albums that I've heard. Much of the album is made up of songs previously recorded. Here's a list, with the other albums they were included on: Lazy Snake (Dream of the Elders) Equality (Dream of the Elders) Double Vision (Seeds of Time) Rivers Run (Triplicate) Processional (Extensions) Modern Times (Homecoming) I haven't heard that many Holland albums, but of the ones I have heard, Pass It On is the one most likely to be preferred by the posters here. By the way, I find that the time goes by very quickly when I listen to it.

Thanks for posting 7/4! I saw Frith with Skeleton Crew (with was her name Zena? and the other guy) in 1985 in Atlanta. I would have loved to have seen Henry Cow ten years earlier.