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Duane Eddy, 'the first rock 'n' roll guitar god,' dead at 86 (msn.com)

Great! I didn't know NFL teams allowed such transfers.

Kevin, how many years did you have to wait to become first in line?

I have found this at YT Music as well.

RIP.

Dodgers play an entire game without striking out once for the first time since 2006 (msn.com)

Flavio Silva Explores Multiple Dimensions of Electric Guitar With the June 7 Release of "Eko" on Break Free Records Recorded in São Paulo, Album Features Six Originals, One Brazilian Standard Performed by a Top-Flight Quartet That Straddles Fusion, Postbop Jazz, Brazilian Traditions   April 30, 2024 Guitarist Flavio Silva gives his beloved Brazilian jazz a new electrical charge with Eko, set to arrive June 7 on his own Break Free Records. The follow-up to 2018’s Break Free, Silva’s third album digs deeper into the fusion sound that has always been a simmering ingredient in his heady brew of various jazz and Brazilian flavors. Brazilian rhythms have, of course, been an indispensable piece of the jazz fusion puzzle ever since percussionist Airto Moreira played on Miles Davis’s Bitches Brew sessions. With Eko, Silva drives home the hand-in-glove relationship of those sonic palettes. “This is an electric album,” Silva affirms. “Even though there’s double bass, the aesthetic is way more toward the electric side.” That much is certain. The album’s opening “Motaba” is a veritable whiplash of rock-infused power and attitude. In addition, the title track and the closing “Sunflower” are nothing if not hard-driving, plugged-in stuff, irradiated as much by keyboardist Gabriel Gaiardo’s Fender Rhodes and synths as by Silva’s sinewy but crystalline guitar tone. With that said, there’s no question but that more traditional Brazilian and jazz musics also exert a powerful influence within these seven tracks. “Pare de Saranhar Meu Cabelo Menino” is remarkably lilting and delicate, driven by Cuca Teixeira’s brushwork on the cymbals and Sidiel Vieira’s stolid upright bass; both Milton Nascimento’s “Dom Quixote” and Silva’s “To Blade and Cowherd” exhibit a lighter, postbop-oriented touch; and “Heroes and Friends,” for all its scalding electric textures, is ultimately a full-on swinger. This says as much about Silva’s collaborators on Eko as it does about the guitarist himself. Gaiardo, Teixeira, and Vieira are three of the most acclaimed and in-demand players on the scene in the musically rich city of São Paulo, where they’ve cultivated a repertoire as wide as it is deep, thus establishing themselves as Silva’s peers by any measure. You can hear it in the music. Flavio Silva was born February 11, 1985 in in São Paulo, Brazil. His was a household immersed in music, whether in the northeastern folk music that his father loved or the more contemporary MPB that his mother favored. Silva himself preferred the sounds of Black American pop music: funk and R&B, which inspired him to try his hand at the guitar he grew up hearing his father’s friends play. When he was 13, Silva’s guitar teacher bent his ear toward jazz fusion guitarists; a later teacher introduced him to acoustic jazz. The discovery literally changed his life. It started him on the course to earn a degree in jazz, which in turn led him to the professional jazz circles of São Paulo—and later to Europe. He spent six years in Belgium and the Netherlands, honing his craft and recording his eponymous first album with fellow Brazilian expats (including drummer Cuca Teixeira). The next stop was New York, where Silva matriculated at Queens College in 2015 to earn a master’s in jazz studies. His teachers included fellow guitarists Paul Bollenback and Mike Moreno, as well as alto saxophonist Antonio Hart, who turned Silva loose on the endlessly fecund New York scene. He was soon a first-call guitarist among the jazz elite, several of whom joined him to record his second album, Break Free—an important breakthrough for the young guitarist. The 2018 release of Break Free, however, more or less coincided with the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, and Silva chose to wait out the lockdowns in his hometown of São Paulo. His return and two-year stay in the Brazilian metropolis led him to reconnect with his colleagues there. The bounty of that reconnection is Eko, which reflects everything that the guitarist has done and learned in his accomplished musical career. Paulistas can catch Flavio Silva this month at the following São Paulo venues: Thurs 5/2 Let’s Beer Brewery; Sat 5/18 O Picco; Thurs 5/23 Cine Clube Cortina. Photography: Bill Douthart   EPK: Flavio Silva | Eko  Flavio Silva Web Site  

A lawyer is talking to an elderly couple seated in his office. “You’ve been married for over 70 years! Why on earth do you want to get divorced now??” The old lady responds “We wanted to wait until the kids were dead.”

I give about 100 books each year as Christmas presents. I like to give cookbooks to the various women in my life, because cookbooks can be feminine without being a romantic gesture. Most of these cookbooks are about cookies or chocolate. The guys get books about backyard grilling or hot sauce. I give teens interesting stories to read, so that they will discover the joy of reading for pleasure rather than under compulsion (schoolwork). Who knows? Maybe I am the only person giving books to these people!

NFL to allow players to wear protective soft-shell helmet covers during games (msn.com)

This arrived in the mail today, and I like it a lot. No weak tracks. Good for relaxing before getting ready for bed.

Well, you're welcome to disagree, but I'm quite certain that I have seen the Coltrane recordings referred to as a "power trio."

April 28 Blossom Dearie - 1924 Ann-Margret - 1941 Willie Colon - 1950 Chuck Leavell - 1952 ***** April 29 Duke Ellington - 1899 Russ Morgan - 1904 Donald Mills (of The Mills Brothers) - 1915 Toots Thielemans - 1922 I remember that Dizzy Gillespie once said, "Toots Thielemans would be the greatest jazz musician in the world if he just threw away that harmonica." Danny Davis - 1925 Big Jay McNeely - 1925 Carl Gardner (The Coasters) - 1928 April Stevens - 1928 I learned to my surprise not long ago that she had a big hit on her own about 1952. Ray Baretto - 1929 Joe Porcaro - 1930 He might be on a Lalo Schifrin album of Ms. TTK's. Lonnie Donegan - 1931 Rod McKuen - 1933 Willie Nelson - 1933 Zubin Mehta - 1936 Klaus Voorman - 1938 (Manfred Mann Chapter Two!, Revolver album cover, post-Beatles Lennon and Harrison, Nilsson) George Adams - 1940 Duane Allen (Oak Ridge Boys) - 1943 Hugh Hopper - 1945 Tammi Terrell - 1945 Tommy James - 1947 That's quite a selection!

I'm not a big fan of the power trio, so I imagine that I have heard fewer recordings of this format than many of you. That said, I've listened to CD 1 of this, and I think it is my favorite power trio recording ever.

TTK, is her show's music similar to yours? Maybe these will interest her. April 27 Kirby Stone - 1918 Connie Kay - 1927 Anouk Aimee (A Man and a Woman) - 1932 Jim Keltner - 1942 Sheena Easton - 1959 I'll keep looking.

April 26 Ma Rainey - 1886 Jimmy Giuffre - 1926 Jorgen Ingmann - 1925 Francis Lai - 1932 Duane Eddy - 1938 Maurice Williams - 1938 Bobby Rydell - 1942 Gary Wright - 1943 ***** Also a favorite of mine, radio actor Vic Perrin - 1916

Speaking of William Shatner... 32 Famous Actors That Have Tried Their Hand At Singing (msn.com)

Golden retriever puppy born with green fur is now in the viral limelight, named Shamrock (msn.com)

Pinder was the last surviving member of the 1964 Moody Blues. On the other end of the spectrum, all five members of the 1964 Manfred Mann are still with us.

Mike Pinder, the pianist of The Moody Blues, has died at 82. RIP.

The Rolling Stones set to play New Orleans Jazz Fest 2024, opening Thursday (msn.com)

April 25 Guglielmo Marconi - 1874 Earl Bostic - 1913 Ella Fitzgerald - 1917 Albert King - 1923 Jerry Lieber - 1933 Bjorn Ulvaeus - 1945 Stu Cook - 1945 Digby Fairweather -1946