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  2. 2025 @CFL Season

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    Week 15 Plays of the Week
    https://www.cfl.ca/2022/09/20/big-game-moments-in-the-week-15-timber-mart-plays-of-the-week/

    *****

    Power Rankings
    https://www.cfl.ca/2022/09/19/power-rankings-gauging-an-eventful-week-15/
    https://3downnation.com/2022/09/19/3downnation-cfl-power-rankings-vernon-adams-jr-leads-lions-to-large-leap/

    *****

    The Argos, Lions and Stampeders may clinch playoff berths this week.
    https://www.cfl.ca/2022/09/19/playoff-scenarios-argos-lions-stamps-eye-playoff-berths/
    https://3downnation.com/2022/09/19/b-c-lions-toronto-argonauts-can-clinch-cfl-postseason-berths-with-week-16-wins/
    https://www.tsn.ca/toronto-argonauts-cfl-east-division-1.1850872
    https://www.tsn.ca/bc-lions-victory-over-calgary-stampeders-winnipeg-blue-bombers-home-playoff-game-1.1850899

    *****

    Zach Collaros is on track to win his second straight MOP Award.  Only four have done that:  Parker, Brock, Flutie and Calvillo.
    https://3downnation.com/2022/09/20/the-only-four-cfl-players-to-win-back-to-back-most-outstanding-player-awards/

    *****

    Harry Langford has passed away at 92.  RIP.
    https://3downnation.com/2022/09/19/calgary-stampeders-wall-of-fame-inductee-harry-langford-passes-away-at-92/
    https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/harry-langford-calgary-stampeders-obituary-1.6583579

    *****

    Week 16 Picks
    https://www.cfl.ca/2022/09/20/prediction-time-cfl-ca-writers-week-16-picks/

  5. 2025 @CFL Season

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted · Edited by GA Russell

    Week 15 Results

    All three games were terrific.  The highlight videos are well worth your time!

    Edmonton 26....Sask 24
    https://www.cfl.ca/games/6266/edmonton-elks-vs-saskatchewan-roughriders/#videos
    https://3downnation.com/2022/09/17/the-sketchy-ones-count-too-nine-thoughts-on-the-elks-win-over-the-riders/
    https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/cfl-roughriders-elks-recap-sept-16-1.6586202

    This was Edmonton's first win in Regina since 2018.

    A Sask win would have clinched fourth place, and eliminated the Elks from the playoffs.  Now the Roughies need to win two of the next four (Winnipeg, Hamilton, Calgary, Calgary).  If they can't beat Edmonton, are they going to beat Winnipeg or Calgary?

    *****

    Hamilton 48....,Winnipeg 31
    https://www.cfl.ca/games/6267/winnipeg-blue-bombers-vs-hamilton-tiger-cats/#videos
    https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/cfl-blue-bombers-ticats-recap-sept-17-1.6586678
    https://3downnation.com/2022/09/17/blue-bombers-implode-in-shocking-loss-to-hamilton-ten-other-thoughts/

    Dane Evans has had a rotten year, but he was all-world today.  The Bombers scored a quick 14 in the fourth to make it interesting, but the Ticats scored again to pull away.

    *****

    BC 31....Calgary 29
    https://www.cfl.ca/games/6268/bc-lions-vs-calgary-stampeders/#videos
    https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/cfl-lions-stampeders-recap-sept-17-1.6586682
    https://www.cfl.ca/games/6268/bc-lions-vs-calgary-stampeders/#preview

    Adams came through in his first start since joining BC.

     

  6. 2025 @CFL Season

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    Now let's look ahead to this weekend.  Only three games, as everyone in the East has the week off except Hamilton.

    Analyses and Week 15 Picks
    https://doorfliesopen.com/2022/09/15/cfl-beat-165/
    http://17degreesports.com/index.php/2022/09/14/cfl-week-15-preview-3/

    https://3downnation.com/2022/09/16/3downnation-cfl-picks-will-the-riders-crush-the-elks-playoff-fantasy/
    https://www.cfl.ca/2022/09/13/prediction-time-cfl-ca-writers-week-15-picks/
    https://www.cfl.ca/2022/09/14/weekly-predictor-rolling-with-the-roughriders/

    *****

    9/13 QB Index
    https://www.cfl.ca/2022/09/13/qb-index-a-trio-of-plot-twists-in-week-15/

    *****

    Week 15 Game Notes
    https://www.cfl.ca/2022/09/15/cfl-ca-game-notes-a-look-at-week-15-2/

    *****

    The names of ten players on each team's neg list were revealed this week.
    https://www.cfl.ca/2022/09/15/10-players-revealed-from-each-cfl-teams-negotiation-list/

     

  7. 2025 @CFL Season

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    Lots and lots of catching up to do, so let's start with the most recent items.

    Saturday's results

    Toronto 24....Ottawa 19
    https://www.cfl.ca/games/6263/toronto-argonauts-vs-ottawa-redblacks/#videos
    https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/toronto-argonauts-ottawa-redblacks-cfl-sept-10-2022-1.6578682
    https://3downnation.com/2022/09/11/shameful-home-effort-sinks-redblacks-ten-other-thoughts-on-losing-to-the-argos/

    The Redblacks weren't quite good enough to win it, but they no longer stink.

    *****

    Winnipeg 54...Sask 20
    https://www.cfl.ca/games/6264/saskatchewan-roughriders-vs-winnipeg-blue-bombers/#videos
    https://3downnation.com/2022/09/10/number-of-riders-players-to-be-game-time-decisions-for-banjo-bowl-due-to-stomach-flu-report/
    https://3downnation.com/2022/09/11/it-looked-like-a-triage-in-there-riders-ravaged-by-stomach-flu-in-banjo-bowl-blowout/
    https://3downnation.com/2022/09/10/blue-bombers-serve-up-50-burger-in-banjo-bowl-win-over-riders-11-other-thoughts/

    Everyone expected the Bombers to win, but no one expected the Riders to come down with a stomach flu.

    *****

    Calgary 56....Edmonton 28
    https://www.cfl.ca/games/6265/calgary-stampeders-vs-edmonton-elks/#videos
    https://3downnation.com/2022/09/11/stamps-dominate-elks-to-complete-the-season-sweep-and-ten-other-thoughts/
    https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/toronto-argonauts-ottawa-redblacks-cfl-sept-10-2022-1.6578682

    The Elks/Eskimos have not won at home since 2019.

    *****

    Week 14 Plays of the Week
    https://www.cfl.ca/2022/09/12/threading-the-needle-in-the-week-14-plays-of-the-week/

    *****

    Power Rankings
    https://3downnation.com/2022/09/12/3downnation-cfl-power-rankings-b-c-lions-continue-dramatic-descent/
    https://www.cfl.ca/2022/09/12/power-rankings-changing-the-conversation/

    *****

    Now let's look at the standings.
    https://www.cfl.ca/standings/

    Almost always, an 8-10 record is good enough to make the playoffs.

    So that means that Winnipeg, BC and Calgary are in.

    Toronto needs to win one more.

    Sask needs to win two of five.  Doable, but not a certainty.

    Montreal needs to win three of six.  Again, it's possible, but not a lock.

    Ottawa and Hamilton would both need to win five of six.  Very unlikely.

    Edmonton has five games left, and will need to win all of them.

  8. The Hot Club of San Francisco - Don't Panic

    in New Releases

    Posted


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    The Hot Club Of San Francisco
    Don't Panic

    Impacting
    September 14th, 2022


    Format(s): Jazz, Non-Commercial, NPR

      Artist Title Time    
     
      The Hot Club Of San Francisco 01. Don't Panic 03:53    
      The Hot Club Of San Francisco 02. Lovers' Leap 04:01    
      The Hot Club Of San Francisco 03. Creve Couer 07:13    
      The Hot Club Of San Francisco 04. Waltz Una Nota 05:18    
      The Hot Club O San Francisco 05. I'm Not Impressed 03:00    
      The Hot Club Of San Francisco 06. Ersatz Samba 04:27    
      The Hot Club Of San Francisco 07. Yerba Buena Bounce 04:03    
      The Hot Club Of San Francisco 08. Blithe Spirit Samba 04:08    
     

     

    		 

    Multiple award-nominated.record producer, Andrew A. Melzer, is releasing the album: "Don't Panic".

     

    "DON'T PANIC" is an acoustic jazz album of original compositions recorded by The Hot Club Of San Francisco at the iconic Coast Recorders (John Coltrane, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Grateful Dead, Dave Brubeck, Stan Getz).


    For over 30 years, The Hot Club Of San Francisco have been touring and dazzling audiences in North America and Europe. This ensemble of versatile and accomplished musicians celebrate the musical style of Django Reinhardt and Stephane G_rapelli's Quintette du Hot Club de France.

     

     

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    DON'T PANI...

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    Don't Pani...

     

     

  9. Ramsey Lewis, RIP

    in Artists

    Posted

    Jazz Pianist & NEA Jazz Master

    Ramsey Lewis

    Dies at His Chicago Home,

    September 12, at the age of 87

     

     

    Contact:

    Brett Steele

    Steele Management

    727-420-1547

    brett@steelemgmt.net

     

     

    September 12, 2022

    Jazz pianist, three-time Grammy winner, and NEA Jazz Master Ramsey Lewis, who successfully crossed over from the Jazz charts to the Pop charts, most notably with his smash hit “The In Crowd,” died peacefully at his home in Chicago on the morning of September 12. He was 87.

     

    Ramsey E. Lewis Jr. was born in Chicago on May 27, 1935. Growing up in the Cabrini Green housing project, he began taking piano lessons at age four and played piano at church, where his father was choir director. A jazz fan who played lots of Duke Ellington and Art Tatum at home and took his son to jazz concerts, Ramsey Lewis Sr. encouraged Ramsey to embrace that music.

     

    When Ramsey was a freshman at Wells High School, saxophonist and pianist Wallace Burton, a fellow church musician whose jazz ventures had enticed Ramsey, asked him to join his band, the Clefs, a septet of collegians that blended jazz and R&B. Lewis needed to familiarize

    himself with bebop and other jazz styles but learned on the run. After the outbreak of the Korean War, the military draft claimed several members of the Clefs, including Burton. The three members who didn’t get drafted—Lewis, bassist Eldee Young, and drummer Redd Holt—formed what would become known as the classic Ramsey Lewis Trio.

    In 1956, they released their first album, Ramsey Lewis and His Gentlemen of Jazz, on the Chess label. Three years later, Lewis was invited to perform with the trio at Birdland in New York. Their three-week gig led to performances at the Newport Jazz Festival and the Village Vanguard, and recordings with Max Roach, Clark Terry, and Sonny Stitt.

     

    Lewis broke through in a big way in 1965 with the early crossover smash, “The In Crowd.” The elegantly funky, Grammy-winning song (written by Dobie Gray) was followed by two more chart-toppers, “Hang on Sloopy” and “Wade in the Water.”

     

    After Young and Holt left to form their own group, Lewis continued in the trio format with bassist Cleveland Eaton and future Earth, Wind & Fire eminence Maurice White on drums. He subsequently experimented on electronic keyboards in more expansive settings. A high point was his 1974 album Sun Goddess, produced by White and featuring members of Earth, Wind & Fire (whose falsetto specialist Philip Bailey he would tour with years later). The recording established Lewis as a fusion music icon with broad appeal.

    Ramsey Lewis

    Over the years, Lewis has performed and recorded in a remarkable variety of musical settings. Throughout the ’70s, he embraced R&B and Latin music without abandoning mainstream jazz. In 1983, on the album Reunion, he reconstituted his most famous trio.

     

    In 1995, he introduced the crossover supergroup Urban Knights, featuring Grover Washington Jr., Earl Klugh, and Dave Koz. Urban Knights I was the first of eight albums by the band. In 2005, returning to his gospel roots, Lewis recorded With One Voice, which earned him the Stellar Gospel Music Award for Best Gospel Instrumental Album.

     

    Among his many honors were five honorary doctorate degrees and an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Jazz Artist. “The In Crowd” single was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, and his personal memorabilia reside at the Smithsonian Institution. Lewis received a 2007 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master Award, which placed him in the hallowed company of such piano legends as Ahmad Jamal, Chick Corea, McCoy Tyner, Dr. Billy Taylor, and Cecil Taylor.

     

    In his late eighties, Lewis still connected with younger generations. His monthly Saturday Salon livestream series, produced during the pandemic by his wife Jan, was critically acclaimed. His forthcoming album, The Beatles Songbook: The Saturday Salon Series, Volume One, which will be released November 11 by Steele Records, was drawn from the livestream performances. Ramsey also spent the last year of his life working on his memoir Gentleman of Jazz with his co-writer Aaron Cohen. The book will be released via Blackstone Publishing in 2023.

     

    Ramsey Lewis is survived by his loving wife Janet Lewis; daughters Denise Jeffries and Dawn Allain (Michael); sons Kendall Kelly Lewis, Frayne Lewis (Julletta), and Bobby Lewis (Crystal); grandchildren Apryl Daniels (Dennis), Regan Lewis, Kris Jeffries (Nailah), Joshua Allain, Junell Lewis, Malachi Lewis, Aja Alain, Jordan Lewis, Ramsey Lewis IV, Dorien Olson-Lewis, Miyoshie Lewis, Meshach Lewis, Taylor Lewis, Kevai Lewis, Frayne Lewis Jr., Niya Lewis, and Asia Lewis; great-grandchildren Jalen Simmons, Dennis Daniels III, Omari Jackson; nieces Paula Jackson and Kimberly Johnson; and nephew James Johnson. He was predeceased by his sons Ramsey Lewis III and Kevyn Lewis.

     

    “Ramsey’s passion for music was truly fueled by the love and dedication of his fans across the globe. He loved touring and meeting music lovers from so many cultures and walks of life. It was our family’s great pleasure to share Ramsey in this special way with all those who admired his God-given talents. We are forever grateful for your support.”

    —Jan Lewis

     

    In lieu of flowers, please make donations to The Jazz Foundation of America at https://jazzfoundation.org/

     

    Photos can be found at https://www.ramseylewis.com/photos

     

     

    Photography:Todd Winter

     

     
     
    Ramsey Lewis Web Site

  11. 2025 @CFL Season

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

  13. 2025 @CFL Season

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

  14. CONTEST: 2019 GREY CUP

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    On 5/6/2020 at 0:53 AM, Soulstation1 said:

    I’ll pick 0/0 for ‘20 GB

    Send me my prize !!

     

    As some of you may recall, Jeff correctly predicted that there would be no Grey Cup Final played in 2020.

    Now that he is back with us (Hooray!) and I have learned his current address...

    Jeff, your prize will arrive in two packages by the end of next week.

    Please let me know when they arrive.

    Congratulations, Soulstation1!

  16. George Colligan - King's Dream

    in New Releases

    Posted

    Pianist-Composer George Colligan

    Offers Musings On,

    And a Balm For,

    The Turmoil of Recent Days with

    "King's Dream,"

    Due November 11 on PJCE Records

    Album of 11 Original Compositions

    Is the Acclaimed Polymath Musician's 36th as a Leader,

    5th as a Solo Pianist

     

    September 6, 2022

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    George Colligan expresses the complexities and conflicting emotions of our confusing, sometimes chaotic times with the November 11 release of King’s Dream (PJCE Records). Though not quite a sequel, the album builds on many of the themes presented on his previous solo album, 2018’s Nation Divided.

     

    The 11 original compositions on King’s Dream (Colligan’s 36th album as a leader) are not all new: Some of them go as far back as 2008. But like all the best improvised jazz, the tunes become about the moment in which they’re being played—in this case a very fraught moment. “It was and still is such an unusual time,” Colligan says. “Who knows what tomorrow brings? The music is a representation of that uncertainty.”

     

    The variety of moods on the album help underscore that uncertainty. It moves from the wistful, bittersweet “Clearing the Mind” to the glorious funk of “Change”; from the hard-bitten “Blues for Dwayne Burno” to the lyrical balance of hope and trouble in “King’s Dream”; from the plaintive “Wishing for Things to Happen” to the sanguine “Finally a Rainbow.”

    The title track of King’s Dream is also its centerpiece. Invoking the famous ideals of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the piece both echoes and questions that optimism, making for a statement both timely and timeless about American life while also serving as a microcosm for the album’s precarious position between glass-half-full and half-empty—with glass-half-full perhaps taking the edge.

     

    “In this challenging era and complex world in which we live, we have to believe that good will and enlightenment will prevail over ignorance and hatred,” Colligan writes in the album’s liner notes. “I don’t know whether music can make a difference, but I dedicate my album to those who believe in, as drummer Al Foster would say, ‘Peace, Love, and Jazz.’”

    George Colligan

    George Colligan was born December 29. 1969 in Summit, New Jersey, but considers his hometown to be Columbia, Maryland, where he grew up since about the age of 3. In the fourth grade he took up trumpet in the elementary school band, then got serious about the instrument in middle school—around the time he discovered jazz from a neighbor who gave him a stack of Clifford Brown, Dizzy Gillespie, and Miles Davis records.

     

    Colligan went to Baltimore’s Peabody Institute, earning his degree in classical trumpet. While in Baltimore, though, he started teaching himself to play jazz licks on piano, soon getting gigs on the local scene, and suddenly found himself selling all his trumpets and becoming a professional pianist.

     

    He shuttled back and forth between Baltimore and Washington, DC, mentoring with such musicians as Paul Carr, Gary Thomas, and Reuben Brown for several years before he made the leap to New York City in 1995. These associations meant that he already had some cachet on the New York scene when he arrived, and he was soon working with legendary figures like Eddie Henderson, Gary Bartz, and Lee Konitz, as well as recruiting the revered bassist Dwayne Burno and drummer Ralph Peterson for his own 1996 debut Activism.

     

    His career continued to grow, collaborating fruitfully with other greats of his generation including Ingrid Jensen, Mark Turner, Nicholas Payton, and Kurt Rosenwinkel; working under Jack DeJohnette, Buster Williams, Billy Hart, and Al Foster; and recording dozens of albums under his own name. In 2005, he married fellow pianist Kerry Politzer, and a few years later they moved to Winnipeg, Manitoba, where he began a career as a jazz educator.

     

    That career continued on to a job at Oregon’s Portland State University, where Colligan moved in 2011 and remains today. In addition to his academic work, he has become a mainstay of the Portland jazz scene—as a drummer as well as a pianist. (He’s the drummer on Kerry Politzer’s latest CD, In a Heartbeat, also on PJCE Records.) Indeed, although King’s Dream is a solo album, it is also a collaboration with a longtime Portland colleague, pianist Randy Porter, who recorded, mixed, and mastered the album at his Heavywood Studio.

     

     

    Photography: Douglas Detrick

     

     

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    George Colligan's EPK: "King's Dream"

    

     

    George Colligan Web Site
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  17. Is this comment true?

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    Posted

    56 minutes ago, JSngry said:

    Oh fuck man, you did it again, posted a link to some hardcore political site under the guise of making an innocuous musical inquiry.

    We do not do that here. You know better. And don't cry censorship when such links get removed from your post, like I am going to do in this one.

    This keeps happening. Too much to be unintentional. 

    No, Jim, it's not a "guise." As I said in the OP, I always post links to show everyone that I'm not making stuff up.  CFL scores, Amazon box set sales, whatever.

    I note that the objections I've seen have not been to the subject matter I post about.  They have always been aimed at the 21st Century media sites themselves.

    Shall we stop linking to the New York Times and Wall Street Journal sites because so much of their content is political?  Or are their sites acceptable because those companies were founded before 2000, and are owned by billionaires?

    You once deleted a link I posted because somewhere the website also had an unrelated article (which I never saw) which Rooster objected to.  Will you delete a link I post to an Amazon CD sale because elsewhere on its site Amazon sells rebel flags?  I have friends who are offended by rebel flags.

    I've never cried censorship, so don't suggest that I do.  And speaking of which, I've never whined (as certain people have) when their objectionable posts stay up.  

    In my view, a large part of the appeal of the 21st Century organizations is that they discuss events that the old outfits ignore.  Why post a link to an article which everyone already knows about?

  18. 2025 @CFL Season

    in Miscellaneous - Non-Political

    Posted

    Labour Day results

    Toronto 28....Hamilton 8
    https://www.cfl.ca/games/6260/toronto-argonauts-vs-hamilton-tiger-cats/#videos
    https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/toronto-argos-hamilton-tiger-cats-cfl-sept-5-2022-1.6572848
    https://3downnation.com/2022/09/05/ticats-suffer-first-labour-day-loss-in-a-decade-and-11-other-thoughts/

    This was the Argos' first Labour Day win over the Ticats since 2012.  The Ticats are in trouble.  They are now tied with Ottawa and Edmonton for the worst record (3 wins) in the league.  Their first two quarterbacks are injured.  Rookie Jamie Newman made his first start.

    *****

    Calgary 26....Edmonton 18
    https://www.cfl.ca/games/6261/edmonton-elks-vs-calgary-stampeders/#videos
    https://www.cbc.ca/sports/football/cfl/calgary-stampeders-edmonton-elks-cfl-recap-sept-5-2022-1.6572854

    The Elks played much better than I expected, and led 8-7 at the half.  But the Stampeders took the lead 22-11 in the third.

  20. Is this comment true?

    in Audio Talk

    Posted · Edited by JSngry
    Deleting link to a hardcore political site/post

    Today I see this comment on the internet.  Some of you know about recording and such things.  Is all this correct nowadays?

    "With tools like GarageBand (included with any Mac) and Audacity (free open source software), anyone with technical know-how of audio mastering can create studio quality albums.

    Combined with the proliferation of direct-to-USB recording, you no longer need to deal with the analog headaches associated with microphone placement.

    Finally, you can use a platform like Soundcloud to get your initial music out there - all bypassing the parasite studio system that has put a chokehold on artists for decades."

    (I always post my links in the spirit of "Pics or it didn't happen."  So here is the link, so that you can see that I haven't made this up.  

  21. 2025 @CFL Season

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