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My two favorites are: Mike Nock - Ondas Kenny Wheeler - Double Double You
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I agree with John; my "new to me" CDs were not as good this year as they were last. But going over the list, it hasn't been a bad year. The * indicates reissue/vault. *Bill Evans - Plays for Lovers *Stan Getz - Plays For Lovers David Murray 4tet - Waltz Again Moacir Santos - Choros & Allegria Joey DeFrancesco - Organic Vibes Karrin Allyson - Footprints Bennie Maupin Ensemble - Penumbra Jeff Gauthier Goatette - One and the Same *Miles Davis - Legendary Prestige Quintet, disc 1 Jovino Santos Neto - Roda Carioca *Kenny Dorham - Quiet Kenny *Joe Henderson - Milestone Profiles *Richard "Groove" Holmes - Soul Message Mort Weiss - The B3 and Me Sonny Rollins - Sonny, Please *Sergio Mendes - Pure Bossa Nova Mike Marshall and Hamilton de Hollanda - New Words Novas Palavras Various - Jazz Yule Love II 11 new issues, 7 vaults.
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What Holiday Music Are You Spinninng Now
GA Russell replied to Soulstation1's topic in Miscellaneous Music
I opened up a "new to me" CD today: The Weavers - We Wish You a Merry Christmas (MCA) -
Olympic Stadium, home of the Montreal Concorde (!), is finally paid off! It took thirty years. I once saw a game on TV, I think it was the last year of the Alouettes before they folded, and the announced crowd was 4,000; but 400 would have been more like it. Great plays were made to complete silence. It was like watching a scrimmage. I attended the '79 and '85 Grey Cup games there. I'm pretty sure a Grey Cup game there in the near future is scheduled, but I don't recall when. http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...portsOther/home
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So How You Feelin' This Holiday Season?
GA Russell replied to Dan Gould's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
Happy Birthday David! Good luck to you. Hope your health improves pronto! -
Chris, a few minutes after I posted the above, I remembered Mike Vickers with Manfred Mann! However, it should be noted that when they were on TV Vickers always played guitar. He doubled on sax and flute for the albums of course. I became a huge Manfred Mann fan three years after Do Wah Diddy hit. I heard their third album and loved it. I thought that their hits were their worst songs. It was my feeling that Manfred Mann had the most talented musicians of all the British Invasion groups. By the way, the group reformed as The Manfreds with everyone except Mann himself about ten years ago, and has released a number of CDs. I have three of them. No new compositions. The songs are either remakes of their old songs or covers of 60s hits. Lots of fun. Vickers was a member of The Manfreds for a number of years, but left the band a few years ago. As I recall, Mike Vickers was the orchestra conductor on the Beatles' All You Need Is Love.
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Denny Payton of The Dave Clark Five has died. We spoke of the DC5 not long ago on a thread about the R&R Hall of Fame. Payton was the only sax player of the British Invasion that I was aware of. This makes me feel old! Here's his obituary from the LA Times: Denis Payton, 63; played saxophone with the Dave Clark Five From Times Staff and Wire Reports December 19, 2006 Denis Payton, 63, the saxophone player in the British pop band the Dave Clark Five, died Sunday of cancer in Bournemouth, southern England, Clark's office said Monday. Payton, who was born in Walthamstow, East London, England, appeared on all the group's records and also played guitars and harmonica and sang backup vocals. The group was London's answer to the wave of hits pouring out of Liverpool in the 1960s. Their hit records include "Bits and Pieces," "Do You Love Me?" and "Glad All Over." "Denis was a very dear friend who I've known since we were teenagers," Clark said in a statement. "Denis was very brave and not afraid of death. He will be greatly missed by me and all who knew him." Just weeks ago, the group was nominated for induction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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Now the Argos have cut Clifford Ivory! He has been with the team five years, and was an all-star for three of them. I guess the Argos have decided that they can't stand pat, but they're letting their best players go! I agree with John that they are making room for Casey Printers' salary, but Printers' can't win it by himself. http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Football/CFL/Tor...877140-sun.html
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"I'll do the thinnin' around here, Baba Louie." I was an adult before I learned that Babalu was a hit of Desi Arnaz. I was watching when the first Hanna-Barbera TV show was broadcast. It was called Ruff & Reddy. It was an adventure serial featuring a dog and a cat who encountered the mysterious Mr. Gizmo from the planet Munimula, which is aluminum spelled backward. Next came Huckleberry Hound with Yogi Bear and Pixie & Dixe (with Mr. Jinx). Then came Quick Draw McGraw with Augie Doggy and I think Snagglepuss. Then Yogi Bear got his own show, and was replaced on Huckleberry Hound by Hokie Wolf, which I didn't think was very good. I don't remember the cartoons on the Yogi Bear Show, as that was about the time I quit watching.
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Jeff Garcia made the front page of USA Today yesterday! The upper left corner is reserved for a couple of sports headlines and a photo, and yesterday's photo was of Garcia. The article in the sports section was just the usual, suggesting that because the Eagles have won the past three games they are a force to be reckoned with. The Eagles play the Cowboys this week, and if they win they will be in first place in the NFC East with the advantage of the tiebreaker.
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I'm not really hip about what is going on now. My interest is primarily in the 50s and 60s. That said, I'm not aware of any young musicians considered original and innovative who are playing melodies I can hum along to. I think that the market for free jazz will forever be miniscule; and until people write songs which have the potential to become jazz standards, I see jazz petering out.
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Have they been good recently carrying Sony/Columbias? I'm wondering if they will have the Soft Machine remasters due out in February.
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I have a Georgie Fame CD called Name Droppin' which was recorded live, I think at Ronnie Scott's. In the middle of the set, he welcomes to the bandstand to much appreciation Peter King. Good playing, but it's Fame's disc, not his. I believe that the Fame CD Walking Wounded was taken from the same gig.
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Meaning no disrespect, but I don't agree with the inclusion of the Rolling Stones to his credits. The Stones were hugely popular during their days with British Decca (London in the US). When that contract expired, they formed their own label and contracted with Atlantic to distribute it. I don't think that Atlantic contributed to the Stones' popularity. As I recall, Cream was on the Polydor label in Britain. That may not be right. I don't think Cream's popularity was due to any Ertegun influence either, but I may be wrong about that. I've never understood Atlantic's relationship with Stax. It appeared to be a distribution deal. But somehow Atlantic obtained ownership of the masters about 1967. Anybody know why?
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I was at BJ's today, and I saw that they have Perry Mason - The First Season, Vol. 2 (20 shows) for $38.99. I don't get cable, so I haven't been watching it on TV Land or whatever. If I get some Christmas money I may pick it up, as well as the first season of Remington Steele (the only good season IMO) which came out last year.
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The mandolinists Mike Marshall and Hamilton de Holanda mentioned above have issued a new duet CD + DVD album entitled New Words Novas Palavras. The CD was recorded in 2005. The DVD is three songs from the CD performed in concert in Savannah in March of this year. Marshall plays the mandolin. De Holanda plays something called the bandolim, which looks like a lute with a circular body and sounds to me like a ukelele. No other musicians are on the discs. If you think that Coltrane and Johnny Griffin were fast on the sax, you should hear these two, especially de Holanda. Thirty-second notes galore! All lines are played as clean as can be. The two take turns within each song playing lead and rhythm. Ten of the thirteen songs are Brazilian tunes. The other three are Autumn Leaves, a Bela Fleck song and a Marshall original. Like the other albums from Adventure Music, these songs are not based upon the blues, so for me the album makes a nice change of pace. But it is the technical virtuosity of the two artists that sells this record. Really amazing. The performances command your attention. They are not background music. I would not want all of my collection to be as busy as this, but I highly recommend this if you are in the market for a tour de force. edit for typo
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The Argos released R. Jay Soward and Eric England along with four others today, in what is described to be salary cap moves. This is crazy. They are two of their best players. I don't know what they are being paid, but I don't like any league's salary cap for that reason. I think teams should cut players because they find somebody better, not because of a salary cap. http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home edit for typo
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One I've had enough of for the rest of my life is anybody's version of But Baby, It's Cold Outside. Yecchh.
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"I love you Spartacus!" - Tony Curtis "He'll know because I'll tell him." - Jean Simmons Weird -- I totally don't remember him, though it's been a while since I've seen the movie. Guy, in my book Jean Simmons was in those days, as Spartacus's wife, even more beautiful than Liz Taylor or any other woman in the world!
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"I love you Spartacus!" - Tony Curtis "He'll know because I'll tell him." - Jean Simmons
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This story got a lot of traction yesterday. I saw something about it on CNN. If I understand it correctly, the original report said that sales were off from January. Well maybe that is because January could be the best month for iTunes, what with everyone who received one for Christmas filling up his unit with music in January. Still, an average of only 20 seems awfully low to me. Today, the analyst is backing off, and claims are made that sales are way up from last year. This is from the Barron s website: Earlier this week, Apple (AAPL) investors were getting all jittery about reports on Bloomberg, The Registerand elsewhere suggesting there had been a huge drop in downloads from iTunes. That’s been followed by a backlash of tidal wave proportions. Forrrester Research analyst Josh Bernoff, who wrote the original study on which those alarming stories were based, wrote on his blog yesterday that much of the media coverage was misleading: for starters, he says that his own study, based on credit-card data, was based on too little data. He goes on to say that “iTunes sales are not collapsing,” but he does assert that “iTunes sales are leveling off.” Bernoff also notes what Apple investors should already know: that Apple makes money from selling iPods, not from selling tracks on iTunes. Meanwhile, comScore today reports that iTunes sales in the year’s first three quarters were up 84% from the same period a year earlier, with a 67% increase in the number of transactions and a 10% rise in the average transaction size. Shaw Wu, an analyst with American Technology Research, estimates that iTunes downloads were running 2.5 million a day in September, up 95% year-over-year. But he notes that the real point is the one Bernoff made: “To us, the iTunes software portion is the more critical and underappreciated part of the AAPL story than the much talked about iTunes store,” he wrote in a research note today. “We believe iTunes software is what gives an iPod its unique user interface and ease-of-use, in particular when synching with a PC and/or Mac, still arguably the best platforms for productivity and to manage content libraries.”
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Romans 1:26-27 1 Corinthians 6:9 1 Peter somewhere, I can't find it now Jude, verse 7 PS - I'm not finding what I thought in 1 Peter.
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Two sources have told the CP that Charlie Taaffe will be named the Ticats head coach tomorrow: http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home edit to add a later and more full article: http://www.globesports.com/servlet/story/R...tsFootball/home
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Board Member SEK has died
GA Russell replied to Chuck Nessa's topic in Miscellaneous - Non-Political
I never sensed that he was in poor health. His posts were consistently intelligent and informative. I'll miss him.