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The CFL today outlawed kicking the ball out of bounds on the fly between the 20 yard lines. It will be a ten yard penalty. The league also returned (after one year) to the old system of blocking on kick returns - blocking on the side and front are legal again. http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home

Happy Birthday FFA!

Blood, Sweat & Tears - Greatest Hits (Columbia) The Best of The Strawberry Alarm Clock (MCA Back-Trac) Demon Fuzz - Afreaka! (Janus) 1971 John Stevens - Chemistry (Vinyl) 1975 Didier Lockwood - Surya (Inner City) 1980 Area - Caution Radiation Area (Cramps)

Fred Frith - Speechless (Ralph) 1980 Material - Memory Serves (Elektra Musician) 1982 The Best of George Shearing (Capitol)

The Falcons signed Joe Horn today. He's already 35! http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home

Various - Mardi Gras in New Orleans (Mardi Gras) The Best of The Four Freshmen (Capitol) National Health - D.S. al Coda (Europa) 1981

Hatfield and the North (Br. Virgin) 1973 French TV (Lost) 1984 Thelonious Monk - Two Hours with Thelonious, disc 1 (ABC Riverside) 1961? The Cannonball Adderley Sextet in New York (Riverside Bill Grauer) 1962

TTK, it's not that great. It's not bossa nova. It has plenty of percussion as you would expect, but not much in the way of cross-rhythms. The melodies are not exciting, and the keyboard is electric, which I don't fancy. I prefer Romao's Pablo album Hotmosphere from the following year which I picked up at the Concord Blowout sale.

My pick this month is The Best of Django Reinhart on Blue Note. I don't know much about this. I assume that Django recorded these for a French EMI label, perhaps Odeon. I also assume that all of this material was included in the Mosaic box. Dan Morgenstern wrote the liner notes, and I believe selected the tunes as well. This will be my first Django album.

When Your Music raised its price from $4.99 to $5.99, I ordered Think Tank and a couple of others because it was highly recommended by the posters at AAJ. I don't dislike it, but it is much different from what I expected. It is more abstract and less soulful than the other Pat Martino recordings I had heard. I play it a few times a year, but only when I come upon it - I never seek it out as something I'm in the mood to hear. This thread has given me the urge to listen to it again, but I can't find it!

Great news! Break a leg!

Yesterday: Cannonball Adderley - Greatest Hits (Riverside Bill Grauer) Dom Um Romao - Spirit of the Times (Happy Bird, licensed from Muse) 1975 The Four Freshmen - Freshmen Favorites (Capitol) Cannonball Adderley - Why am I Treated So Bad? (Capitol) 1967? Gary Windo - Dogface (Europa) The Tommy Flanagan Trio (Prestige Moodsville OJC) Paul Bley - Open, to love (ECM) 1972 Now: Pete Fountain - New Orleans at Midnight (Coral) 1963

Guy, my copy is on the way. The disc goes on sale tomorrow. Initially, I confused Anat Fort with another musician who has a new album coming out (actually two) named Anat Cohen. I don't think I've ever heard a record with Paul Motian I didn't like, so I'm looking forward to it. I'll let you know.

OK, I have just gone to the website and have seen a number of more for $4.98 that look interesting, including quite a number of Oscar Petersons for those of you who like him; and Art Blakey - A Night at Birdland vols. 1 & 2; Moanin', all RVG Paul Desmond - Two of a Mind, Late Lament, Easy Living Horace Silver - Song for My Father and Cape Verdean Blues, both RVG Keith Jarrett - Standards, vols. 1 & 2 Michel Legrand - Legrand Jazz (Didn't I read here the other day that some of you guys wished this were still available?)

I received an email today with a number of CDs listed for $4.98, including: Chet Baker Quartet Live, vol. 3 (Mosaic material) Chris Potter - Traveling Mercies Gerry Mulligan - What is There to Say? Terence Blanchard - Wandering Moon Claude Bolling Big Band - Jazz Brunch Lambert, Hendricks & Ross - Everybody's Boppin' Gene Harris & the Three Sounds - Live at the It Club, vol. 2 Branford Marsalis - I Heard You Twice the First Time Ken Burns Jazz - Thelonious Monk

Shrdlu, we talked briefly about that twofer just the other day on the "vinyl spinning" thread. Since you've mentioned it, I'll give New York, NY a spin tonight.

Porcy, Gilles was a Canadian from Quebec. Don't blame us for him!

Guy, we're on the same page! Since you like Grey and Pink, their third album, I recommend their second album If I could Do It All Over Again.

One of my favorite albums. Highly recommended!

Mike & Sally Oldfield, Pekka Pohjola (Happy Bird) 1981 Ben Mink - Foreign Exchange (PVC-Passport) 1980

Another pet peave of mine! I have noticed that nearly 100% of the women tailgaters are driving SUVs. I have to believe that they drive carelessly because they believe they will not be physically hurt in case of a collision.

My thoughts exactly. I enjoyed both MM albums when they came out, but I do not rate them as highly as a number of other Canterbury albums.

I remember driving on the Pennsylvania Turnpike listening to the radio when I heard the news.

I pulled out my two Mariachi Brass albums today, and I was struck by the difference in their quality. Given that they are pop, not jazz...Hats Off might rate five stars. In the Mood is strictly two stars. Listening to the vintage mid-60s songs on Hats Off was fun!

Willem Breuker Kollektief - Summer Music (Margo) 1978 The Mariachi Brass - Hats Off (World Pacific) 1967? The Mariachi Brass - In the Mood (World Pacific) 1968?