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The forward-thinking band Umphrey's McGee will carve out new terrain in musical interactivity with their fans at the first "UMBowl," an unprecedented 4-quarter evening-long concert on Saturday, April 24th, at Lincoln Hall in the group's hometown of Chicago.
Umphrey's, which has long forged a close bond with its national fan base through technological innovation, will explore fresh frontiers in the five-hour event, styled to emulate a football game with four "quarters" of unique musical performances that will actually be generated by audience input. Half the night's music will be determined by text messaging on "gameday" itself.
The first quarter (Q1) will be an acoustic set entirely chosen by attendees; ticket holders will receive ballots and cast votes on the songs to be performed. Q2 will be a wholly improvised performance driven by bi-directional texting, sifted and delivered by "offensive coordinator" (and longtime Umphrey's sound caresser) Kevin Browning to the band, which will then use the audience input to construct their jams. Q3 will be an all-request segment, with songs again determined by pre-balloting from the audience members. Fans will be able to vote not just on song selection but actually how those songs are arranged and varied from their original form. In Q4, the live audience will actually act as the group's quarterback, "calling audibles" to direct the course of a free-flowing set via text messages sent to Browning in response to choices projected on an in-house screen.
The text-messaging element of UMBowl, powered by Mozes, was first employed by Umphrey's McGee at their Stew Art (or "S2") series, launched in fall 2009. Hosted as freestanding events before Umphrey's shows in select tour markets, the series is a crowd-sourced improvisation experiment, in which all the music performed by the group on stage is entirely directed by S2 audience members. Sold-out crowds of 50 fans submit their ideas by texting descriptive words, phrases, and pop culture references to the Umphrey's mobile interface, which are then interpreted by the band.
Umphrey's McGee had previously taken new approaches to delivering their music to the fans. Before their most recent studio recording, Mantis, was released in January 2009, the collection was made available for pre-order in an interesting way. The more Mantis pre-orders were received, the more free bonus content was received. Fans "unlocked" levels of content by getting more of their friends to pre-order the album.
The band was also among the first group of performers to offer songs at Rock Band Network. The much buzzed-about video game platform works with Xbox video game systems, and allows bands to offer fans a way to dig into their favorite group's music in ways they have never been able to before.
UMBowl tickets went on sale last Friday and sold out in just minutes.
For the many out-of-town fans attending UMBowl, the band, together with long-standing travel partners CID Entertainment, offered travel packages for the event. Included in each package are tickets to UMBowl, luxury accommodations at the new Hotel Palomar in downtown Chicago, a drink package for the pre-party at the Umphrey's hometown hang The Store, a personalized UMBowl jersey, gameday transportation, and more. For further information, go here.
On April 17-18, thousands of communities around the world will celebrate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. On the California Central Coast, the community of Santa Barbara, together with regional not-for-profit Community Environmental Council, lays claim to sparking the Earth Day movement forty years ago.
This year, 20,000 will gather for Santa Barbara's Earth Day 40 Festival (www.SBEarthDay.org) on April 17-18. Under the apropos 2010 theme "Bringing It Home," the celebration recognizes not only Earth Day's 40th Birthday, but also the community's own legacy of environmental stewardship.
For four decades, Santa Barbara has harnessed its mindful community members, innovative leaders, and abundant access to renewable energy resources to help lead the environmental movement. Today, with the ongoing support of the Community Environmental Council and its aggressive "Fossil Free by '33" initiative, the community continues to serve as a model for how to move an entire region away from fossil fuels.
In 1969, the devastating images of a massive oil spill from an oil platform off Santa Barbara's coast galvanized California into action and caught the attention of the rest of the nation, including Senator Gaylord Nelson, founder of Earth Day. The resulting swell of outrage and concern gave rise to the first Earth Day in 1970, as well as to the creation of the Community Environmental Council – the largest and most established environmental organization in the region, and the host of Santa Barbara's Earth Day 40 Festival.
Today, the Community Environmental Council (CEC) is leading a campaign to move Santa Barbara County away from fossil fuels in one generation – Fossil Free by '33. This bold, regionally driven blueprint seeks to head off a nearly perfect storm of energy-related concerns, including rapidly diminishing oil supplies ("peak oil"), growing concern over our national security because of our dependence on foreign oil, volatile fuel prices, and climate change.
The Fossil Free campaign is particularly timely following the climate talks in Copenhagen last December, in which international leaders noted that more than half of the actions needed to address global warming will be led not by national or international policies, but through local initiatives and leadership.
"Copenhagen will likely be a central theme as communities around the world prepare for the 40th anniversary of Earth Day," says CEC Assistant Director Sigrid Wright, noting that the collective international Earth Day events are expected to touch over a billion people. "We believe that climate change is the responsibility of every community to address and that Santa Barbara and California are out in front on this issue."
In downtown Santa Barbara, the Santa Barbara Earth Day 40 Festival will offer real-world solutions, with participation by approximately 250 emerging green businesses, cutting edge technology vendors, and regional and national environmental organizations. Other features will include:
• a two-day amateur Green Shorts Film Festival,• the largest known private Green Car Show in the country, and • a Green Home Pavilion – a re-enactment of a 1,200-square foot home, featuring the latest green construction materials, home décor products, and energy-saving appliances and technologies.
"Earth Day brings us together to celebrate, recharge and focus our energies and resources on ending our dependence on fossil fuels," says Wright.
"This is a pivotal time in history for the environmental movement because for the first time ever, being free of fossil fuels is actually within reach," says Wright. "The CEC and the community of Santa Barbara are committed to reaching this goal by 2033. The region has unique access to renewable energy resources – particularly the sun, wind and ocean. And, as history has shown, the size of the community – small enough change course with relative speed, yet large enough to matter when those changes are made - makes us poised to lead the charge."
In March 2010, the National Jazz Museum in Harlem presents public programming that brings jazz fans closer to artists—emerging to living masters—that embody the art form that defines America to itself and to the world.
Our live performance series, Harlem in the Himalayas, features three forward-thinking musical leaders grounded in the lessons of their forebears, yet who are only bound by the limits of their imaginations. Come see the boundless future their music beholds at the Rubin Museum of Art.
Come engage in conversation with Terry Teachout, author of a celebrated new bio of Louis Armstrong, at Jazz for Curious Readers, and find out details on the controversial 2009 Wall Street Journal article in which he lamented the declining audience for jazz.
Harlem Speaks, our flagship series, features recent NEA Jazz Master awardee Kenny Barron and trombonist Dick Griffin, whose career encompasses all from mainstream jazz to the avant-garde.
Art Blakey, the drum master who led one of the premier jazz ensembles of the 20th century, is the sole focus of our month long Jazz for Curious Listeners (JCL) series and a special Saturday panel discussion. Museum co-director Christian McBride will lead two of the free JCL sessions, and will spearhead a tribute to Herbie Hancock at Stanford University in California as well.
Come to listen, learn, engage and swing!
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Jazz for Curious Listeners The Big Beat: Art Blakey 7:00 – 8:30pm Location: NJMH Visitors Center (104 E. 126th Street, Suite 2C) FREE | For more information: 212-348-8300
Art Blakey is undoubtedly one of the most influential and beloved percussionists and band leaders in the history of the music called jazz, his signature rolls and bandstand power accentuating the bandstands of countless groups as a sideman, and as leader of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.
The Jazz Messengers was a major incubator for young talent. A list of the band's alumni is a who's who of straight-ahead jazz from the '50s on – Lee Morgan, Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard, Johnny Griffin, Jackie McLean, Donald Byrd, Bobby Timmons, Cedar Walton, Benny Golson, Joanne Brackeen, Billy Harper, Valery Ponomarev, Bill Pierce, Branford Marsalis, James Williams, and Chuck Mangione, to name only a few. In the '80s, precocious graduates of Blakey's School for Swing would continue to number among the movers and shakers in jazz, foremost among them trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, who became the most visible symbol of the '80s jazz mainstream; through him, Blakey's swingin' ideals came to dominate the public's perception of the music. At the time of Blakey's death in 1990, the Messenger aesthetic dominated jazz, and Blakey himself had arguably become the most influential jazz musician of the past 20 years. Monday, March 8, 2010
Jazz for Curious ReadersTerry Teachout 7:00 – 8:30pm Location: NJMH Visitors Center (104 E. 126th Street, Suite 2C) FREE | For more information: 212-348-8300
Terry Teachout is a critic, biographer, blogger, and drama critic of The Wall Street Journal, the music critic of Commentary, and the author of Sightings, a column about the arts in America that appears biweekly in the Saturday Wall Street Journal.
And most significantly for tonight, Mr. Teachout is the author of the acclaimed new biography of the Father of Jazz: Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong.
He blogs at About Last Night along with Chicago-based critic Laura Demanski (who writes under the name "Our Girl in Chicago"), contributes a weekly book-review column and a monthly videoblog to Contentions, the Commentary blog, and has written about the arts for many other magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times and National Review.
Teachout grew up in Sikeston, Missouri. He attended St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland; William Jewell College in Liberty, Missouri, where he received his B.S. in music journalism; and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He lived in Kansas City from 1975 to 1983, working as a jazz bassist and a music critic for the Kansas City Star. He moved to New York City in 1985, working as an editor at Harper's Magazine (1985-87) and an editorial writer for the New York Daily News (1987-93) and as the News' classical music and dance critic (1993-2000). In 2004 he was appointed by President Bush to the National Council on the Arts, the advisory and review panel of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Teachout is the author of All in the Dances: A Brief Life of George Balanchine (2004, Harcourt), A Terry Teachout Reader (2004, Yale University Press), The Skeptic: A Life of H.L. Mencken (2002, HarperCollins), and City Limits: Memories of a Small-Town Boy (1991, Poseidon Press).
He is the editor of Beyond the Boom: New Voices on American Life, Culture, and Politics (1990, Poseidon, introduction by Tom Wolfe) and Ghosts on the Roof: Selected Journalism of Whittaker Chambers, 1931-1959 (1989, Regnery Gateway). In 1992 he rediscovered the manuscript of A Second Mencken Chrestomathy among H.L. Mencken's private papers and edited it for publication by Alfred A. Knopf (1995). He wrote the forewords to Paul Taylor's Private Domain: An Autobiography (1999, University of Pittsburgh Press), Elaine Dundy's The Dud Avocado (2007, New York Review Books), and William Bailey's William Bailey on Canvas (2007, Betty Cuningham Gallery) and contributed to The Oxford Companion to Jazz (2000, Oxford University Press). He has written liner notes for CDs by Karrin Allyson, Gene Bertoncini, Ruby Braff and Ellis Larkins, Chanticleer, Julia Dollison, Jim Ferguson, Diana Krall, the Lascivious Biddies, Joe Mooney, Marian McPartland, Mike Metheny, Maria Schneider, Nickel Creek, Kendra Shank, Luciana Souza, and the Trio Solisti. Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Jazz for Curious Listeners The Big Beat: Art Blakey, THE BANDLEADER 7:00 – 8:30pm Location: NJMH Visitors Center (104 E. 126th Street, Suite 2C) FREE | For more information: 212-348-8300
Art Blakey's first musical education came in the form of piano lessons; he was playing professionally as a seventh grader, leading his own commercial band. He switched to drums shortly thereafter, learning to play in the hard-swinging style of Chick Webb and Sid Catlett. In 1942, he played with pianist Mary Lou Williams in New York. He toured the South with Fletcher Henderson's band in 1943-1944. From there, he briefly led a Boston-based big band before joining Billy Eckstine's new group, with which he would remain from 1944-1947. Eckstine's big band was the famous "cradle of modern jazz," and included (at different times) such major figures of the forthcoming bebop revolution as Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, and Charlie Parker. When Eckstine's group disbanded, Blakey started a rehearsal ensemble called the Seventeen Messengers. He also recorded with an octet, the first of his bands to be called the Jazz Messengers. Thursday, March 11, 2010
Harlem Speaks Kenny Barron, Pianist 6:30 – 8:30pm Location: NJMH Visitors Center (104 E. 126th Street, Suite 2C) FREE | For more information: 212-348-8300
According to writer Arwulf Arwulf (from whom this bio is adapted), a thorough examination of Kenny Barron's musical accomplishments over a span of 50 years requires a discography of more than 200 pages. That's because in addition to a distinguished career as soloist and leader he has served as one of the most dependable sidemen in all of post-bop mainstream modern jazz. More than 40 albums have appeared under his name, and his presence on literally hundreds of recordings by other musicians paints a panoramic picture of Kenny Barron's lifelong devotion to the music.
Born in Philadelphia, PA, on June 9, 1943, he took on the piano at the age of 12, with a little help from Ray Bryant's sister, known today as the mother of guitarist Kevin Eubanks. Three years later, on the recommendation of his own big brother, saxophonist Bill Barron (1927-1989), he joined Mel Melvin's rhythm & blues band. The aspiring pianist gained more experience while working with drummer Philly Joe Jones, saxophonist Jimmy Heath and multi-instrumentalist Yusef Lateef in Detroit. Lateef's album The Centaur and the Phoenix (1960) was Kenny Barron's first modern jazz recording project, though not as a performer (Joe Zawinul was the pianist on this date) but as composer and arranger.
His recording debut as an improvising artist took place shortly after he moved to New York in 1961 and cut the first of many albums with his brother, who often aligned himself with two graduates of the Charles Mingus Jazz Workshop, trumpeter Ted Curson and saxophonist Booker Ervin. A session in 1962 found Barron working with trumpeter Dave Burns, one-time member of sax and flute man James Moody's exciting bop orchestra. Moody himself played an important role in Barron's career, first hiring him to perform at the Village Vanguard, then bringing him into Dizzy Gillespie's band. Barron stuck with Diz and Moody until 1966, performing at clubs and festivals on both coasts and touring through France and England.
Kenny Barron's first great year of independent recording activity was 1967. In addition to co-leading a band with trumpeter Jimmy Owens, the pianist made records with trumpeter Freddie Hubbard and saxophonists Joe Henderson, Stanley Turrentine, Booker Ervin, and Eric Kloss. Barron seldom recorded with anyone just once. Examples of artists who made many records with Barron during the 1970s are Moody and Lateef, and bassists Ron Carter and Buster Williams, and others such as Marvin "Hannibal" Peterson. Barron also worked regularly with saxophonists Chico and Von Freeman, John Stubblefield, Nick Brignola, and Stan Getz (with whom he toured extensively during Getz's twilight years). The stylistic range continued to widen as Barron sat in with violinists Michal Urbaniak and John Blake, drummer Elvin Jones, and singing trombonist Ray Anderson.
During the '80s, Kenny Barron played piano in the score for Spike Lee's film Do the Right Thing, appeared on multi-performer tribute albums honoring composers Nino Rota and Thelonious Monk, and became a founding member (with Charlie Rouse, Buster Williams, and Ben Riley) of the definitive Monk legacy band, known as Sphere.
A respected educator who has taught at Rutgers, Juilliard, and the Manhattan School of Music, Kenny Barron continues to create music of exceptionally high quality and substantial depth, something he has done for half a century, whether using the Fender Rhodes electromechanical keyboard, a plugged-in harpsichord, a synthesizer, or his lifelong companion, that fundamental jazz instrument, the piano.
In January 2010 Barron was one of the esteemed recipients of the NEA Jazz Master's honor, conferring an official recognition of what Barron's fans have already known for 40 years. Come hear an musical master speak of his life and times in the art of jazz.
Friday, March 12, 2010
Harlem in the Himalayas Jaleel Shaw 7:00pm Location: Rubin Museum of Art (150 West 17th Street) $18 in advance | $20 at door | Box Office: 212-620-5000 ext. 344
Jaleel Shaw, alto saxophone Dwayne Burno, acoustic bass Otis Brown III, drums
One of the most thrilling young alto saxophonists on the jazz scene, Jaleel Shaw holds down the alto chair in the small ensemble of none other than the great Roy Haynes. Tonight see and hear him as he fronts his own band!
Jaleel Shaw grew up in Philadelphia, PA, where he studied with saxophone instructors Rayburn Wright and Robert Landham. As a teen, Jaleel performed, jammed and sat in at the many clubs in Philadelphia, honing his chops and developing strong relationships with the many great musicians there as well as the musicians that came to Philly from New York City.
Upon graduating from high school, Jaleel received a full tuition scholarship to the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Mass, where he attended for four years and earned a dual degree in Music Education and Performance (in 2000). While attending Berklee, Jaleel studied privately with saxophonists Andy Mcghee, Billy Pierce, George Garzone, and Shanon LeClaire.
After graduating from Berklee, Jaleel attended the Manhattan School of Music in New York City, where he received his Masters in Jazz Performance in May 2002. During his time at the MSM, Jaleel was recruited by both the Mingus Big Band and Count Basie Orchestra. Jaleel appears on two Grammy Nominated CDs by the Mingus Big Band - "Tonight at Noon" and "I Am Three."
A year after finishing his graduate studies, Jaleel joined Temple University as a part-time private lesson and ensemble instructor, and soon thereafter began giving private saxophone lessons at The New School.
After being in New York for five years, Jaleel's debut CD "Perspective" was released in June 2005 to rave reviews. It was named one of the top 5 debut CDs of 2005 by All About Jazz and the Jazz Journalists Association. In the fall of 2005, Jaleel joined world renown drummer Roy Haynes' Quartet and recorded the Grammy nominated CD "Whereas" with the group for the Dreyfus Label.
In the beginning of 2008, Jaleel launched his own record label (Changu Records), on which he released his second CD – "Optimism." Today Jaleel continues to perform primarily in three groups - The Roy Haynes Quartet, the Mingus Big Band, and his own quartet and quintet.
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Saturday Panels Orgy in Rhythm: An In-Depth Look and Listen to Art Blakey 7:30 – 9:30pm Location: NJMH Visitors Center (104 E. 126th Street, Suite 2C) FREE | For more information: 212-348-8300
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers served as a traveling finishing school for countless jazz musicians who later led their own groups and became composers and arrangers of note. Today, meet some of the alumni of the Messengers, and see film footage of Blakey in action as a drummer, band leader, and teacher.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 Jazz for Curious Listeners The Big Beat: Art Blakey ALUMNI REUNION 7:00 – 8:30pm Location: NJMH Visitors Center (104 E. 126th Street, Suite 2C) FREE | For more information: 212-348-8300
With Christian McBride
Christian McBride, co-director of the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, will host alumni of the Blakey band in an evening not to be missed. The spirit of Blakey will be summoned! Friday, March 19, 2010 Harlem in the Himalayas Ambrose Akinmusire 7:00pm Location: Rubin Museum of Art (150 West 17th Street) $18 in advance | $20 at door | Box Office: 212-620-5000 ext. 344
Ambrose's conceptual extension into a new musical language never excludes beauty. As one who listens intently, he values the fertility of a pause, of communication, of tension. Ambrose began conceptualizing early as a musician, theorizing and experimenting as a catalyst for development. He seeks other genres of music to analyze and expose, drawing inspiration from musicians ranging from Bjork to Chopin.
Before he was eighteen, Ambrose had already performed with such famed musicians as Joe Henderson, Joshua Redman, Steve Coleman, and Billy Higgins. After graduating Berkeley High School, he moved to New York to begin a scholarship at the Manhattan School of Music, studying with Vincent Pinzerella from the New York Philharmonic, Dick Oatts, Lew Soloff, and Laurie Frink.
Ambrose is a recent graduate of the Masters program at USC, and also the Monk Institute, where Ambrose's instructors included Terence Blanchard, Billy Childs and Gary Grant. In the past several years, he has worked with such artists as Jimmy Heath, Jason Moran, Hal Crook, Bob Hurst, Terri Lynne Carrington, Ron Carter, and Wallace Roney, Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter. So it should come as little or no surprise that Ambrose was the winner of both the 2007 Carmine Caruso International Jazz Trumpet Solo Competition and 2007 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition. Tuesday, March 23, 2010 Jazz for Curious Listeners The Big Beat: Art Blakey THE EARLY YEARS: with Fletcher Henderson, Thelonious Monk and Billy Eckstine
7:00 – 8:30pm Location: NJMH Visitors Center (104 E. 126th Street, Suite 2C) FREE | For more information: 212-348-8300
Art Blakey's first musical education came in the form of piano lessons; he was playing professionally as a seventh grader, leading his own commercial band. He switched to drums shortly thereafter, learning to play in the hard-swinging style of Chick Webb and Sid Catlett. In 1942, he played with pianist Mary Lou Williams in New York. He toured the South with Fletcher Henderson's band in 1943-1944. From there, he briefly led a Boston-based big band before joining Billy Eckstine's new group, with which he would remain from 1944-1947. Eckstine's big band was the famous "cradle of modern jazz," and included (at different times) such major figures of the forthcoming bebop revolution as Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, and Charlie Parker. When Eckstine's group disbanded, Blakey started a rehearsal ensemble called the Seventeen Messengers. He also recorded with an octet, the first of his bands to be called the Jazz Messengers. Thursday, March 25, 2010 Harlem Speaks Dick Griffin, Trombonist 6:30 – 8:30pm Location: NJMH Visitors Center (104 E. 126th Street, Suite 2C) FREE | For more information: 212-348-8300
In a career spanning over 30 years, Dick Griffin has performed with some of the biggest names in Jazz and Soul, and has appeared with several symphony orchestras as well. A short list of the luminaries Mr. Griffin has worked with includes: Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Tito Puente, Art Blakey, Charles Mingus, Dizzy Gillespie, McCoy Tyner, Marvin Gaye, Michael Jackson, Isaac Hayes, Dionne Warwick, and Lionel Hampton.
Griffin has developed a highly personalized playing style which he calls "circularphonics," a technique that combines the playing of chords on trombone with circular breathing. The expanded range of sounds Griffin creates through his multiphonic technique at times evokes the spirit of such experimental artists as John Coltrane, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and Sun Ra. Never a follower, however, Griffin has developed a unique style on and for the trombone that goes beyond the influence of even those great musicians.
James Richard Griffin was born and reared in Jackson, Mississippi. His first musical influence was a neighbor known simply as Mr. Jesse. At evening time, all the neighborhood children would stop by to hear Mr. Jesse's impromptu blues guitar compositions with lyrics describing the day's events in rhyme. Griffin began studying piano at age 11 and upon entering high school two years later joined the school's marching band where he learned trombone. His professional career began as a teenager, playing piano and trombone in clubs with drummer classmate Freddie Waits. While in high school he also sang in a doo-wop group which was invited to go on the road and perform with Sam Cooke. In junior college, Griffin won several awards for his arranging skills. In 1963, Griffin graduated from Jackson State University and then pursued graduate studies at Indiana University where he received a Masters Degree in Music Education and Trombone.
It was in Chicago, though, where Griffin met avant-garde jazz giant Sun Ra, that his professional career seriously took off. He spent several summers in the mid-1960s playing with Sun Ra's Arkestra. It was during this period that Griffin first met Rahsaan Roland Kirk, who became a close friend. After moving to New York City in 1967, Griffin made his recording debut with Kirk on the album "The Inflated Tear." As a member of the "Vibration Society," Griffin notated and transcribed music for the sightless Kirk. He went on to record several albums with Kirk, including "Prepare Thyself To Deal With A Miracle," "Rahsaan, Rahsaan," "Left & Right," and "Volunteered Slavery." In the early 1970s, Griffin also played in a big band fronted by the great bassist and composer Charles Mingus. During this year-long association, Mingus provided priceless support by encouraging the young trombonist's writing endeavors. Griffin also spent three years in the house band of the legendary Apollo Theater in Harlem, playing for nearly all the Motown greats, including The Temptations, James Brown and Nancy Wilson.
In 1974, Griffin released his debut album as a leader, "The Eighth Wonder," for Strata-East Records, one of the most successful independent jazz labels of that period. Later, he released "Now Is The Time: The Multiphonic Tribe" for Trident Records. During this period, he also taught music theory and the history of Jazz at Wesleyan University (1975-77) and later at SUNY-Old Westbury (1981-83). In the 1980s, Griffin's career encompassed performances in a wide variety of settings with his own group and with others. As a sideman, Griffin performed with some of the best big band musicians of the time—Benny Bailey, Jimmy Heath, Frank Foster, and Slide Hampton—at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. Later in the decade, Griffin toured and recorded with the internationally-renowned ensemble "Ekaya," led by South African pianist Abdullah Ibrahim (f/k/a Dollar Brand).
As a composer, Griffin completed the "World Vibration Suite," a work for symphony orchestra premiered by the Brooklyn Philharmonic. In 1986, his third album "A Dream For Rahsaan," was released by Ruby Records to critical acclaim. This inspired him to adapt the album for a symphony orchestra and three saxophones, which was the format he had previously employed for the "World Vibration Suite." During the 1990s, he performed in over a dozen international Jazz festivals, both as a leader and in the bands of such diverse talents as Illinois Jacquet, Sun Ra, Charles Gayle, Hilton Ruiz, and Lionel Hampton. Along with such notable artists as Dizzy Gillespie and Sonny Rollins, Griffin appeared in the Heineken Jazz Festival in Rotterdam and, in 1991, he traveled to Canada to headline Ottawa's International Jazz Festival. The German label, Konnex Records, re-released Griffin's first and third albums in 1994 with additional tracks. Griffin then released "All Blues," his fourth album (on Amasaya Records), which features he novel lineup of trombone, organ, guitar, and drums. In addition to the title track by Miles Davis, Griffin performs five originals plus tunes by Ellington, Horace Silver, and Hampton Hawes, paying tribute to the blues environment in which he was nurtured.
One of the most versatile and inventive musicians of today, Griffin has played with symphony orchestras such as The Harlem Philharmonic and The Symphony Of The New World, and has performed in several Broadway shows including "The Wiz," "Me & Bessie," "Raisin," and "Lena" (starring Lena Horne), as well as in the Paris production of "Black & Blue" (starring Linda Hopkins). He has made many television appearances in the U.S. on shows such as "The Today Show", "Soul", "Faces", "The Ed Sullivan Show", and "Like It Is". He also has appeared in the UK on the BBC and on TV programs in Germany, France, and Italy. Finally, he also appeared in the film "The Cotton Club" and performed on the soundtrack for the movie "Gordon's War".
During the past few years, Griffin has performed more extensively with his own group, the Dick Griffin Organ Ensemble, and he also played at the Uncool Jazz Festival in Switzerland with Charles Gayle in 2001. Griffin has also continued to devote his time to his artwork. His abstract paintings and works on paper have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, private and corporate collections in both the U.S. and Europe. Some of his early pieces grace the covers of each of his four CDs.
Tonight you can witness an artist not beholden to genre labels and engage in discussion with him during the audience Q&A portion of the evening. Friday, March 26, 2010
Harlem in the Himalayas Luis Bonilla 7:00pm Location: Rubin Museum of Art (150 West 17th Street) $18 in advance | $20 at door | Box Office: 212-620-5000 ext. 344
If ever an artist could be called an octopus, Luis Bonilla is it. The California raised, Costa Rican trombonist, composer and arranger has sought out, taken in and mastered an incredible array of musical styles. His success as a sideman with such greats as McCoy Tyner, Dizzy Gillespie, Lester Bowie, Tom Harrell, Freddie Hubbard, Astrud Gilberto, Willie Colon and Toshiko Akiyoshi attests not only to the skill and variety of Bonilla's talent, but also to a mind restlessly committed to exploring some of the most complex and demanding music of our time.
Yet there is nothing rarefied about the Bonilla experience. He has worked as a studio musician with Tony Bennett, Marc Anthony, La India and Mary J. Blige and understands and exploits the liveliness of pop as well as the rhythmic sway and punch of Latin Jazz. Currently a member of the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra under Arturo O'Farrill's direction (both 2009 Grammy winners) and Dave Douglas's latest group (Dave Douglas & Brass Ecstasy), Bonilla is one of those rare artists whose work is always expanding, taking in more and more while remaining singular and focused: "Bonilla may be a trombonist used to handling that big long sliding thing, but when it comes to execution of his ideas, he lets nothing slide" (All About Jazz).
Critics praised his first two albums on the Candid label, Pasos Gigantes (1998) and iEscucha! (2000), acknowledging Bonilla's ability to give voice to radically different musical sensibilities with an ease and seamlessness that belies the rigor and sophistication of the music. Pasos Gigantes made Jazziz's top ten Latin list of 1998. Even as early as these first two albums, critics noted Bonilla's leadership and sophisticated use of tonal colors. As a faculty member at both Temple University and Manhattan School of Music, Bonilla has an intuitive sense in how to bring out the best in those working with him. Listen to any of his albums and you will hear an extraordinary level of trust and inspiration in each band member's playing. As the critic for All About Jazz noticed, "Bonilla gives his colleagues ample space to breathe, adding momentum to the flow of his compositional ideas."
His next album, 2007's Terminal Clarity was a celebration, reflection and aesthetic extension of his years working with Lester Bowie. While retaining the brash harmonic structures of his mentor's work from Brass Fantasy to his earlier and justly famous work with the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Bonilla adds a "contagious exuberance" (Jazzwise magazine) that is at the heart of his artistic vision. Without in any way diminishing Bowie's audacity, Bonilla manages to balance "the cerebral and the down-and-dirty (Jazz Times), taking "bold steps to merge Latin genres, free jazz and a variety of other influences" (Latin Jazz Corner).
In Bonilla's latest album, I Talking Now! (2009), he pushes these disjunctions even harder, politely demanding that we feel connections between wildly disparate styles of music. A heady mix of swing, rock, free jazz, funk, movie soundtracks, avant-garde noise and ballads, I Talking Now, for all its musical diversity, speaks with one voice. It is a distinctly American vision, a gentle craziness that suggests that every one and every sound can co-exist if we just keep on taking in more and more. Luis Bonilla is moving in directions that are expanding our notions of jazz and leading us into startling new realms with "remarkable creativity and versatility" (Newsday).
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 Christian McBride/Loren Schoenberg Duo/Informance at Stanford University's Community School for Music and Arts, Mountain View
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 | 6:00 pm
Community School for Music and Arts, Mountain View
The annual duo concert/lecture by the NJMH's dynamic directors! ALSO – SAME NIGHT: Jazz for Curious Listeners The Big Beat: Art Blakey FILM NIGHT
7:00 – 8:30pm Location: NJMH Visitors Center (104 E. 126th Street, Suite 2C) FREE | For more information: 212-348-8300
Don't miss this free session with one of the world's best bass instrumentalists sharing his views on, and selections by, Art Blakey, in this last of a month-long series of events focused on the man affectionately called "Buhaina."
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
A TRIBUTE TO HERBIE HANCOCK: CHRISTIAN McBRIDE AND FRIENDS
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 | 8:00 pm Stanford University's Dinkelspiel Auditorium
$34–38 (Adult) | $10 (Stanford Student) $31–35 (Other Student) $17–19 (Youth Under 18) In a concert curated by the National Jazz Museum in Harlem (NJMH), museum co-director and bass phenom Christian McBride leads a tribute to the legacy of pioneering jazz composer/keyboardist Herbie Hancock. McBride has long embraced electric jazz, funk, and soul music as a vibrant part of the jazz mainstream. Here, he leads his versatile band through Hancock's incredible body of work, from his years as a Miles Davis sideman and Blue Note Records solo artist in the 1960s, through his groundbreaking Headhunters fusion project in the '70s, to his work with pop vocalists and producers in the '80s and '90s, and his current interest in young hip hop and techno artists. The concert is the culmination of a season of free public programs on jazz and technology, and a continuation of Lively Arts' collaboration with NJMH and the Stanford Jazz Workshop, revisiting classic jazz repertoire from a fresh perspective.
***note: the JAZZ AT THE DWYER with Etienne Charles and his Trinidadian Jazz Band will occur on APRIL 23rd, not MARCH 23 as listed on our mailing card.
During his life time, the legendary drummer Art Blakey performed at Saint Peter's Church, 'The Jazz Church," many times. He was well known for his Jazz Messengers "school of jazz" which produced many legendary jazz musicians of today, including Wayne Shorter, Cedar Walton, Lou Donaldson, Terrence Blanchard, Billy Harper, Brian Lynch, Donald Harrison, Reggie Workman, Bobby Watson and others.
The program starts at 3:00 PM on Sunday, March 14, 2010 in the Living Room of Saint Peter's Church, "The Jazz Church" at 619 Lexington Avenue (54th Street) – Midtown – with several free events: "The Legend Wall" - an Exhibit of Information about Art Blakey and a Panel Discussion about Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers' enduring influence on jazz. It will be moderated by a prominent jazz scholar and panelists will include several Jazz Messengers and an expert on Art Blakey and/or the "hard bop" era of Jazz. A presentation about Art Blakey and his drumming techniques by a well-known drummer may also be included. At 5:00 PM, Jazz Vespers - also free- takes place in the Sanctuary with music led by one of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers.
The Concert begins at 7:00 PM. with live performance of the music of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. Jazz Messengers' bands preceded by a student band will perform the legendary compositions created by Art Blakey and the Messengers over the more than 30 years that various versions of the Messengers held forth. Suggested ticket donation: $20 ($10 for students with ID).
Several other events are a part of Prez Fest 2010. We will partner with the National Jazz Museum in Harlem that will highlight Art Blakey during the month of March 2010 including interviews of Jazz Messengers and an all-day seminar on Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers. In addition, a special event is being planned for the 68 Jazz Messengers who are still performing.
PREZ FEST 2010 CELEBRATING ART BLAKEY & THE JAZZ MESSENGERS Saint Peter's Church 619 Lexington Avenue (at 54th Street), New York City
This morning RJD2 took to his website to announce that he will be giving away free records, MP3s, and more each Monday from now through the release of his forthcoming full length, The Colossus, on January 19th, 2010.
It all kicks off with a giveaway of a super rare vinyl test pressing of "The Horror" EP, originally released in 2003 on Definitive Jux records and in line to be reissued on November 17th via RJ's newly formed label, RJ's Electrical Connections, now home to nearly all things RJD2 past and present.
So far this year has seen the re-release of 2001's Your Face or Your Knee Caps on August 18th and a limited edition box set entitled RJD2 2002-2010, out last week. A strictly vinyl affair, the box set includes full length LP versions of Deadringer, "The Horror" EP (first time on vinyl!), Since We Last Spoke, "Tin Foil Hat" EP (a brand new EP of 7 unreleased songs), a hand silk screened, signed and numbered poster, a download card for the box set content, plus a beautifully printed box. Additionally, a space will be left in the box for The Third Hand LP released on XL Recordings in 2007 and a space for The Colossus.
"The Horror" is just one of three reissues to hit stores next month – the other two being 2002's Deadringer, out November 3rd and 2004's Since We Last Spoke, also out on November 17th.
And of course topping it all off is RJD2's new album, The Colossus, to be released on January 19th. Only time will tell what additional prizes he has up his sleeve. Until then, read RJD2's note and enter for a chance to win here.
Akron/Family's Dead Oceans' debut, Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free, arrives May 5, but a free download from the band's third proper LP, "River," is available now. Fans who pre-order Set 'Em Wild now will receive immediate access to an MP3 download of the entire album.
Download the mp3 of "River" here: http://www.scjag.com/mp3/do/river.mp3
To order Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free in North America visit Dead Oceans here: http://www.scdistribution.com/cat/scd_catalognew.php?action=set_site_id&site_id=5
Akron/Family will perform an all ages show at The Bowery Ballroom Wednesday, May 6 to celebrate the album release, with additional album release shows in Boston and Burlington.
Akron/Family will follow up their dates in the Northeast U.S. with performances in the UK, France, Italy, Netherlands and Belgium and a tour of Spain supporting Wilco. The band will then embark on their first headlining tour of Japan in June, which will also include co-headlining shows with Deerhunter. Details of Akron/Family's full North American tour are forthcoming, however, select North American festivals are already in place including All Tomorrow's Parties, Calgary Folk Festival, 10,000 Lakes Music Festival and All Points West Festival.
Akron/Family's Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free album art, plus new and preferred hi-res jpegs featuring the current Akron/Family line-up by Sebastian Mlynarski can be downloaded here: http://deadoceans.com/press/akronfamily/akronfamilypress.php
Akron/Family Tour Dates:05/05/09 - Cambridge, MA @ Middle East05/06/09 - New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom05/07/09 - Burlington, VT @ Metronome05/08/09 - Bennington, VT @ Bennington College05/16/09 - Brussels, Belgium Orangerie 'Nuits Botanique'05/17/09 - Amsterdam, Holland @ Melkweg Old Room05/18/09 - Nijmegen, Holland @ Doornroosje05/19/09 - Paris, France @ Nouveau Casino 'Custom'05/20/09 - London, UK @ ICA05/22/09 - Glasgow, UK @ Captains Rest05/23/09 - Machester, UK @ Ruby Lounge05/24/09 - Bristol, UK @ Fiddlers (with Omar Souleyman and Group Doueh)05/25/09 - Malaga, Spain @ Teatro Cervantes w/ Wilco05/26/09 - Madrid, Spain @ Teatro Calderon w/ Wilco05/27/09 - Granada, Spain @ Congress Palace w/ Wilco05/29/09 - Seville, Spain @ La Cartuja Monastery, Contemporary Arts Museum w/ Wilco (Territorios Fest)05/31/09 - Bologna, Italy @ Locomotiv06/01/09 - Ravenna, Italy @ Hana-bi06/02/09 - Verona, Italy @ Interzona06/03/09 - Milan, Italy @ Casa 13906/04/09 - Torino, Italy @ Spazio 21106/05/09 - Rome, Italy @ Init06/08/09 - Shibuya, Tokyo @ O-West w/ Deerhunter06/09/09 - Osaka, Jyuso @ Fandango w/ Deerhunter06/10/09 - Nagoya, Aichi @ Apollo Theater06/11/09 - Kyoto, Kyoto @ Metro06/12/09 - Shindaita, Tokyo @ Fever07/23/09 - Detroit Lakes, MN @ 10,000 Lakes Music Festival07/25/09 - 07/26/09 - Calgary, AB @ Calgary Folk Festival08/02/09 - Liberty State Park, NJ @ All Points West Festival09/12/09 - Monticello, NY @ All Tomorrow's Parties Festival
Great American Taxi, which features Leftover Salmon frontman Vince Herman is gearing up to release their sophomore effort "Reckless Habits." With the official release date yet to be announced Taxi has decided to offer up a free download of "Unpromised Land" (labeled as "Whiskey" on a lot of Taxi bootlegs from the past couple of years) from their latest studio work, which was recorded in December of 2008 and produced by Railroad Earth's Tim Carbone. The album also boasts guest appearances by Barry Sless on pedal steel for a good chunk of the record, Carbone on fiddle for a few tracks, Matt Flinner plays banjo on the aforementioned free download, the Black Swan Gospel Singers and the Peak to Freak Horns. Phil Nicolo, multi-grammy winning engineer and producer also lent his talents to the mix and mastering of the record at his fabled Studio 4. Needless to say Taxi has swung for the fence on this one and the result is nothing short of pure Americana bliss. Taxi will be playing 3 shows on the Front Range of Colorado this weekend to celebrate the forthcoming release and will be accompanied on stage by the Black Swan Singers and the Peak to Freak horns as well as some great support acts. Thursday March 19th finds the band at Hodi's Half Note in Fort Collins, Friday March 20th is at the Boulder Theater and Saturday the 21st is at the Bluebird Theater in Denver. These are certain to be special shows and tickets are still available. Follow the link below to get a taste of what GAT has in store from their newest release.
More info about Great American Taxi can be found at www.GreatAmericanTaxi.com and make sure to sign up for their mailing list for updates on the official release date.
To encourage you to vote on election day, Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals is offering up a free download of "People Lead (live in Seattle 2007)" to anyone who completes an online "Pledge to Vote" at www.HeadCount.org. To get the download, all you have to do is go here and make the pledge. History will be made on election day this year. Be a part of it and vote. Make The Pledge Here
While most of the nation is wincing at the gas pump, musical touring act Blue Turtle Seduction is turning to French fries and chicken wings; their fuel solution is waste vegetable oil. Collected from restaurants' dirty grease dumpsters, the oil is heated and filtered, then used immediately as fuel for their 40-foot tour bus. The benefits show up in the pocketbook, the air quality, and even in the smell emitting from the tailpipe.
Adam Navone, drummer for Blue Turtle Seduction, explains: "Waste vegetable oil turns a would-be waste product into a fuel alternative. It gets approximately the same mpg as regular diesel fuel, and sometimes smells like a Chinese buffet, or if you're lucky, a donut shop."
According to Shaun Dolan, manager for Blue Turtle Seduction, waste vegetable oil fuel is critical both to the environment and to the company's bottom line: "The nature of a band is to travel— touring is the major part of our business. This is a great way to reduce the carbon footprint from our bus, as well as help our business survive in a time of skyrocketing gas prices."
Vegetable oil is the main component of biodiesel, which is simply chemically modified vegetable oil. However, as Navone points out, the significant advantage to straight vegetable oil is that it does not require any refining or costly additives— aspects that often times make biodiesel as expensive as conventional gasoline, as well as create more waste products.
Blue Turtle Seduction is a musical entertainment group performing live shows nationwide. They will be performing a free concert at the Whoa Nellie Amphitheater, Lee Vining, CA, on September 4-5th 2008 to promote the use of waste vegetable oil fuel. This event will be presented by Tioga Mobil Gas Station, which regularly donates its used vegetable oil to the band. Blue Turtle Seduction is set to release a new album in Fall 2008 entitled "13 Floors": a sneak preview is available for streaming only at www.myspace.com/blueturtleseduction. Previous recordings can be found on iTunes or on Blue Turtle Seduction's official website.
9/23 – Georgia Tech – Atlanta, GA9/27 – Francis Marion University – Florence, SC9/30 – Villanova University – Villanova, PA10/03 – Penn State University – University Park, PA10/11 – SUNY Purchase College – Harrison, NY10/12 – New York Harvest Festival – Hancock, NY10/30 – LAS TORTUGAS DANCE of the DEAD 3 – Groveland, CA10/31 – LAS TORTUGAS DANCE of the DEAD 3 – Groveland, CA11/01 – LAS TORTUGAS DANCE of the DEAD 3 – Groveland, CA11/02 – LAS TORTUGAS DANCE of the DEAD 3 – Groveland, CA
Here we go...Free Agency has changed the draft dramatically since the beginning of the year. We have a much clearer picture of who wants whom. Here are the first two rounds complete with a couple trades. Hope you all feel this is fair to your team. This won't necessarily be a popular mock, and many of you will think some of these picks are ridiculous, so take it with a grain of salt. Please comment if you think I am an idiot or a genius...Thanks.
Round One
01. Houston—Reggie Bush, RB USC - What can you say? Reggie will add a dimension to this team that every team in the league wants. Houston can pick up OL help in FA and the draft is deep in OL talent that is their biggest need IMO. They could be best served by trading down, but no one will trade that much to move up to #1...though they are playing up the Vince Young is God thing in hopes that they can convince some team that they will take Young and force a trade...but in the end they take Bush
02. New Orleans—Mario Williams, DE UNC - They could still take a QB, but I doubt it till the 3rd or 4th round...they are the team most likely to trade down, I think...they most likely will take Mario Williams or Ferguson...Controversey alert**
03. Tennessee—Jay Cutler, QB Vanderbilt - They are a wild card to me...I can see them taking any of the QB's...They have the Chow/Leinart connection, but I think they are not sold on him...they have worked out Cutler and see him regularly because Vandy is so close...I think they like him a lot and say so...of course we never know what is smoke screen...but from the beginning we had the McNair as tutor to Young connection that seemed very likely when everyone was convinced that the Saints would take Leinart...they could also take Ferguson...or Hawk...or Huff...I think they take Cutler. Controversy Alert number two**
04. NY Jets—AJ Hawk, LB Ohio State - If it goes this way through the first 3, then it is very likely that Mangini and Tannenbaum take Leinart, but if they are really smart, they take AJ Hawk! He goes so far to establishing the Defense Mangini wants...plus, I think he is the best player in the draft, apologies to Reggie...Controversy Alert number three**
05. Green Bay—D'Bricksahw Ferguson, OT Virginia - I think they want Hawk or Williams or Ferguson pretty equally...but they will get tremendous help for their Oline if they get Ferguson...they still need to replace their interior line, but whoever is their QB, he will be psyched...they probably would love to get Huff as well...
06. San Francisco-Michael Huff, CB Texas - They would take Huff here in a second I think...they could take Davis, too...
07. Oakland—Vince Young, QB Texas - They take Vince Young despite having Brooks and Walter...there is so much upside here that Davis will be drooling, and Moss and company will too...
08. Buffalo—Haloti Ngata, DT Oregon - Seems like a no-brainer...they could be tempted to trade down, take a QB, or corner, but Ngata just makes perfect sense. If SF passes on Huff, he would be a Bill...
09. Minnesota-Matt Leinart, QB USC - trade #17 and 48 to Detroit - Speaking of no-brainers, Minnesota won't be the only team vying for this pick, Detroit might want it themselves, the Vikes might need to throw in their extra 3rd rounder to make this deal...I think Leinart is gonna be a bust, though...too bad for me, because I am a Vikings fan
10. Arizona—Vernon Davis, TE Maryland - Denny will have a formidable offense as Davis is a one of a kind...he can do it all...he will help the running game as much as the passing game...
11. St. Louis—Jimmy Williams, CB VA Tech - Perfect pick for St. Louis after picking up Witherspoon and Chavous and Glover, they will get arguably the best corner in the draft...
12. Cleveland—Chad Greenway, LB, Iowa - I think Greenway is Urlacher II...he will be a difference maker...
13. Baltimore—Winston Justice, OT, USC - This is a great pick for the Ravens...Justice is a versatile and athletic tackle...they might like to pick up a more exciting skill guy, but this moves seems almost essential for them
14. Philadelphia—LenDale White, RB USC - They might want an LB or WR, but LenDale is perfect...he came from a system that used two RB's...White as the Power guy and a Westbrook-like versatile receiver type in Bush...plus he is a great blocker...White will be a difference maker in Philly...
15. Denver-Santonio Holmes, WR Ohio State - trade with Atlanta - they are smoke screening that they want a QB...they want Holmes!
16. Miami—Tye Hill, CB Clemson - They picked up old man Allen, but they need their shut down corner, and Hill is showing that he has the speed and hips to be that guy...his "stock" has risen a lot since the Senior Bowl and the Combine
17. Detroit—Ashton Youboty, CB Ohio State - Youboty is going to be a stud...big for a CB, he could have benefitted from his senior year (and so could OSU)...Detroit scores here, plus the extra 2nd rounder (and possibly more?)
18. Dallas—Ko Simpson, FS South Carolina - Dallas gets their Free Safety to balance their defensive backfield...Simpon is another guy who could have used another year of school, but I'd come out too if I were projected to go in the mid first round!
19. San Diego—Chad Jackson, WR Florida - San Diego certainly will pick a WR in the draft, and if Jackson is available, they will certainly take him (or Holmes)
20. Kansas City—Gabe Watson, DT Michigan - I think KC will solidify the Dline first and go for a big WR second...
21. New England—Deangelo Williams, RB Memphis - NE could take an LB, but they also need an RB and Williams is easily the BPA here...
22. Denver-Broderick Bunkley, DT FSU - Steal! Bunkley is a perfect fit on the Denver D-line...it is a need and maybe BPA...
23. Tampa Bay—Marcus McNeil, OT Auburn - maybe we're looking at another steal here...Dallas needs Oline help, so he could be gone...but he will be a major help for Simms and Cadilac if they get him...
24. Cincinnati—Tamba Hali, DE Penn State - Hali is not their biggest need, but he may be BPA here and will be an excellent addition to their Dline...
25. NY Giants—Ernie Sims, LB FSU - Sims is going to be a great LB...think Derrick Brooks II
26. Chicago—Leonard Pope, TE Georgia - Seems like a no brainer...Pope will be better than adding another WR...he will be a huge addition to Da Bears Offense...
27. Carolina—Lawrence Maroney, RB Minnesota - mild steal here...only question is this nagging Hamstring issue, but he has shown he can catch the ball in his workout, and we know about his ability to run and block...Carolina could be back in the Super Bowl...
28. Jacksonville—DeMeco Ryans, LB Alabama - This could change if the Jags get Arrington...but Ryans is gonna be great...
29. NY Jets-Antonio Cromartie, CB FSU - from Denver via Atlanta - If Cromartie played last year, he would be the top corner, IMO...he has checked out medically and will be a difference maker for the Jets D...they need to replace Law
30. Indianapolis—Brian Calhoun, RB Wisconsin - Edgerin who?
31. Seattle-Mathias Kiwanuka, DE BC - Abraham what?
32. Pittsburgh—Sinorice Moss, WR Miami - Randle El which?
Round Two


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Mushroom Spinach Dip Recipe
This thick creamy mixture is easy to stir up and gets its fresh flavor from mushrooms, spinach and green onions. Serve it in the fun Easter Bunny bread (below) or in a bowl with a platter of crackers or crunchy vegetables.
- 1 package (10 ounces) frozen chopped spinach, thawed and squeezed dry
- 1-1/2 cups (12 ounces) sour cream
- 1 cup mayonnaise
- 1 package vegetable soup mix
- 1 cup chopped fresh mushrooms
- 3 green onions, finely chopped
- Raw vegetables or crackers
- In a bowl, combine the spinach, sour cream, mayonnaise, soup mix, mushrooms and onions; mix well. Cover and refrigerate for 2 hours. Serve with vegetables or crackers. Yield: 3 cups.
Originally published as Mushroom Spinach Dip in Quick Cooking March/April 2001, p13
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The University of Nevada Wolf Shop was crowded Monday as the next semester of college students collected what they'll need for classes that start Tuesday. And health officials say they may want to add flu shots and extra Kleenex to those lists.
"We've seen this year's strain of the flu before," says UNR's Medical Director for Student Health, Cheryl Hug-English. "It's H1N1. But last time we saw it it was concern for the very young and the elderly. This time it seems to be hitting younger folks in their college years or 30 and even 40's."
There have been six deaths in Washoe County so far this flu season and five of those deaths were to younger, what you'd consider as stronger people.
"Classrooms add their own complications," Hug-English says. "Not only are students kept indoors but they are in pretty close quarters and that can just make it easier for viruses to spread."
If you haven't had a flu shot and want one, there are still plenty of shots here and available through clinics, primary care physicians. and campus clinics. Officials also say that keeping Kleenex on hand to contain germs, keeping hands washed and clean and staying home if you feel ill, can help keep from spreading the flu.
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28 Spotlight Kids Auditions!
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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28 Wordier Than Thou storytelling and prose open mic
6:30 pm
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10 Lend Me a Tenor
7:30 pm - 2:00 pm
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13 A Taste of Downtown Food & Wine Festival
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Sarasota resident Sol Carson celebrated his 100th birthday Aug. 15, at the Jewish Family and Children's Services of Sarasota Inc. The birthday party included cake, singing and family. Carson, a South Philadelphia native, lives in Sarasota with his son, Charles.
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The St. Boniface Youth Group held an ice cream social for families Sunday, Aug. 17, in Siesta Key Village.
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Roses, diamonds, and pearls may be known as a girl's best friend come February 14th, but it's time to surprise her with a gift that truly shows you care for her – and her vision: Women's Safety Glasses! Sure, they may not shine, but our oh-so girly and tough (just like her!) safety glasses feature comfortable designs with attractive frames, such as our pink framed and gray lensed Encon Veratti Safety Glasses. Oh and guys – be sure to pair them with a bouquet of roses and some chocolate morsels, it is still Valentine's Day, after all.
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- According to the American Academy of Ophthalmology, 44.7% of eye injuries occur at home. So, even if she doesn't work in an industrial or laboratory setting where safety glasses are the norm, she can still reap the benefits of eye safety in every day home tasks.
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ARLINGTON -- Another day fell off the calendar without the arrival of Joe Saunders' baby girl. As a result, Saunders made his scheduled start Tuesday.
Saunders and his wife, Shanel, were expecting their first child, Mattea, to be born Monday, but she did not arrive then, which put Saunders at risk of missing his start at Rangers Ballpark in Arlington on Tuesday.
However, as of the Angels' pregame stretching routine on Tuesday, Saunders had yet to receive any news from his wife.
"He's good to pitch tonight," manager Mike Scioscia said during Tuesday's stretch. "But the baby could come at any time. It could be tonight, it could be three days."
Even if the baby doesn't come on Tuesday, Saunders said he would probably leave the team after the game to be with his wife. If Shanel goes into labor during the game, Saunders said she has all the phone numbers she needs to contact him.
In the meantime, Saunders will have to focus on earning his Major League-leading 13th victory of the season. Scioscia is confident that Saunders will be able to do just that -- focus -- despite the imminent birth of his first child.
"This game has a way of drawing you in," said Scioscia. "So no matter what's going on outside, you're able to keep your focus on what's going on on the field."
Saunders enters Tuesday's start with a 12-4 record, which ties him for the Major League lead in victories with Brandon Webb. His 3.04 ERA is seventh-best in the American League.
Saunders has yet to face Texas this season, and is 2-2 in his career against the Rangers, with a 6.08 ERA. The lefty is 0-2 with a 16.43 ERA in two starts at Rangers Ballpark.
Shawn Shroyer is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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The fighting game community desperately wants a new image, but the bigots have the loudest voice
For the last year, the fighting game community has been struggling with a reputation problem. Ever since the dreaded Cross Assault sexual harrassment scandal became one of the FGC's most public moments, the members of gaming's most fascinating community have been faced with a problem: how to show people why they love the community they hold dear when most of the public-facing news items are embarrassments.
There's a good reason why the FGC has a bad reputation in the wider video game industry. It's based in truth, even if the extent to which it is extended to the entire FGC is unfair. Now, after more high-profile problems, many within the community are acknowledging the problem and looking for solutions.
Hate speech
"[Name unclear] sucks dick, I seen it, he said he wanted to suck my dick, I said 'yo B, I don't swing that way,' he's like 'I like the way you say my name,' and I'm like 'ahhh man you a fruitcake' I don't swing that way. And I pushed him down some stairs," said a commentator during the pre-match mic-check of an episode of Cross Counter Live that I tuned in to last week. The commentator's face wasn't on screen at the time so I wasn't able to definitively identify who was speaking.
The video is still up on the Twitch stream (this part begins just 50 seconds into the show.) The episode hadn't started yet and someone had turned on the microphone on the Twitch stream by mistake and the stream's several hundred early-arriving viewers were unfortunate enough to have to listen one of the casters spouting a "joke" about pushing a gay person down a flight of stairs followed by his partner making jerk-off jokes.
Many a "O.O" appeared in the chat log simultaneously. It can't really all be chalked up to a mistake though. Later on during a segment on Injustice the casters were commentating a match between Solomon Grundy and the female character Raven, and from that same voice spouted a stream of: "bitch," "bitch," "bitch," "hoe," "slap that hoe," "get outta here hoe" all in a span of minutes.
Later on that week, another stream ran into trouble offending viewers again.
"It was coming from a show that I choose to not name because I do not want to draw any attention to its contents," said Jon Chinnery, a crew member of the Ultimate Fighting Game Tournament series, and a moderator for several prominent fighting game streams. "They played an exceptionally vile music video slandering the tournament organizer of The Ultimate Fighting Game Tournament 9: Guts by making exceptionally hateful comparisons toward the homosexual and transsexual communities. A few of us who are trying to lead the community toward a more unified and welcoming atmosphere found the video disgusting and publicly denounced the video and the show."
Several prominent FGC members did not respond to interview requests, and two other interviews were canceled.
The brighter side of the community
When I emailed with Chinnery he was adamant that these events like the ones described above are exceptions in the fighting game scene and do not represent the experience he has had over the past fifteen years.
"We've had players lose their homes, community members die, players' pets need surgery, and young people need scholarships," he said. "We as a community have funded all of these things on our own because we want our own to grow and survive."
Chinnery said that the side of the FGC that doesn't get reported on is exceedingly kind, and diverse. At least, diverse compared to other competitive video game scenes.
"Newsflash for anyone who doesn't know," he said. "One of the top Street Fighter players is gay, one of the top Soul Calibur players is a woman, and one of the top Guilty Gear players is a transsexual. What other community has that kind of diversity? We shouldn't be running from it. We should be celebrating it! Shout it from the very depths of our organized community to the very pillars of the corporate atmosphere that is eSports."
Back to the darker side
The double hate speech events weren't the only public problems for the FGC last week. Player Miranda Pakozdi, the Street Fighter X Tekken fighter who was the subject of the infamous Cross Assault harassment, posted a short article detailing some of the things she has to put up with on a daily basis as a prominent woman in the FGC.
"Some examples are: people who message me every day on Facebook despite me NEVER RESPONDING (take a hint), people messaging me with inappropriate/personal requests or questions, and (a recent thing) dick pictures," she wrote.
A couple days later, IPlayWinner.com writer Paul Dzuiba posted a scathing piece lambasting the fighting game community for being hostile to new players and restricting the growth of their own scene.
"We largely shunned new players who did not immediately 'get' what the community was about, brushing them off if not treating them with downright hostility for not knowing things like 'footsies' and neutral game," wrote Dziuba. "These players saw people not too much older than them and looked for help, and we shit on them. In doing so we did a great disservice to ourselves and the scene."
Back to the brighter side
The bright spot of this torrent of bad news is that it has brought a number of voices in the community to call for an increase in professionalism and maturity. The crises started a conversation among several prominent people in the FGC vocalizing a desire to move things forward and get beyond the childish attacks and name-calling.
"Basically, what it all amounts to is that for our scene to grow, people need to realize we all NEED TO GROW THE F UP," wrote James Chen, a prominent caster, on Twitter.
"The only way we can be a proper scene is if we start realizing that mature adults are needed to accomplish that," he continued.
And a chorus of others chimed in as well, including long-time competitor Alex Valle and co-founder of the popular Level|Up fighting game stream Andy Jay Papa among others, in a wide-ranging debate (warning: next two links are vulgar) that lasted for days on end. The encouraging consensus was that all of this was completely unacceptable, and these sorts of problems are precisely what has kept fighting games from joining the ranks of StarCraft 2, Dota 2, and League of Legends among the most popular competitive video games.
"There's still a prevalent culture of racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia in all gaming communities," said Chinnery. "While fighting games tend to be the most racially diverse and tolerant communities in gaming, we still have glaring issues with sexism, homophobia, and transphobia. As we continue to grow in numbers and popularity, we are seeing more women and LGBT members enter our fold. While they may tolerate the culture as going with the territory, many of us find that we must be more welcoming to them in order to further grow as a community."
Can change wait?
Unfortunately, the conversation on this issue appears to have died out without any consensus about how to attack this issue. It's great to have respected community leaders say in unequivocal terms that certain behaviors are unacceptable. It sets the right precedent for the next generation. But can change wait for the next generation?
The fighting game community has a derisive term for the sorts of people who act out and give their community a bad name, "09ers." It refers to 2009, the year that Street Fighter 4 was released and introduced tens of thousands of new faces and personalities to the scene. The idea is that the FGC progresses in stages and people need time to mature and appreciate the community. The trouble is that one of the largest sub-segments of players hasn't made it there yet.
Many of the veterans have though, and therein lies the hope for the FGC. Experienced leaders like Valle are calling for a more business-like approach to organizing the FGC, and casters James Chen and David "UltraDavid" Graham have reportedly banned the word "rape" as a verb in their casts. The Guilty Gear player Adelheid Stark called for the community to stop using slurs.
This week, after the dust had settled from the big debate, I got to witness the bright side of the FGC first hand. Chinnery's cat needed an operation to fix an infection. Out of options for paying for the surgery after losing his job, he took to Twitter to ask the community for help. Chinnery is not a big name in the FGC, but it didn't matter. Within hours he'd raised the hundreds of dollars needed for the operation.
If the FGC is going to thrive, this is the face it needs to show to the outside world, one of unity and blind friendship, rather than waiting for another bigot to hijack the message.


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What were these parts sold for, pull tractors or farming. I know they made pistons and governors. Would a farmer be concerned with HP. Also I have saw aluminum trans tops for m's and h's. What are these for. Thanks Brandon.
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M&W made a lot of parts and accessories, first as improvements for farming, and later also added parts for pullers. yes, many farmeres wanted more horsepower. they didn't normally put in different pistons just to get the power, but when an overhaul was needed it made sense to increase power while doing it.
such Items as aluminum transmission tops, are for the pullers to lighten their tractors to get them in a lighter class.
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DeSousa Named #ASunMSoc Player of the Week After Game-Winning Goal, Assist
MACON, Ga. – Following a weekend in which he scored the game-winning goal on Friday against the University of Pennsylvania and issued the game-winning assist Sunday at Princeton, sophomore Felipe DeSousa has been named the Atlantic Sun Men's Soccer Player of the Week after leading the Eagles to a pair of wins to close the non-conference schedule.
DeSousa (Tampa, Fla./Wharton HS) tallied his team-leading fifth goal of the campaign and sixth game-winning strike of his young career at the 99:03 mark after Santiago Echeverri (Kissimmee, Fla./Celebration HS) issued a pass at the top of the box to the Brazil native, who deked a couple of defenders to create some room and finished his shot low and inside the left post.
The forward's strike tied him atop the program's all-time game-winning goals chart with 2011 graduate Christian Raudales. Now with 12 career goals, the sophomore is already tied for second in that category with 2011 grad Scott Harrison, and his 26 points are sixth all-time.
His 26th point came just more than three minutes into overtime Sunday against Princeton. DeSousa flipped a ball over the heads of several Princeton defenders and onto the foot of Will Suedois (Miami Shores, Fla./Florida Virtual School), who gave the Eagles a 1-0 overtime win to complete a perfect 2-0 Northeast roadtrip.
The communications major now currently sits in second place in the A-Sun for points with 11. The Player of the Week honor is the second of his career and first this year by an FGCU performer. DeSousa earned his first recognition on Oct. 22 last year after scoring two goals against Jacksonville.
The meetings with Penn and Princeton were the first all-time and capped a long, lengthy 8,780-mile roadtrip over the past two weekends which took the Eagles from SWFL to the Northwest, back to Fort Myers and then to the Northeast.
The game with the Tigers on ESPNU marked the second consecutive weekend that the Eagles were on national TV. Last week opposite now-No. 5 Washington they were showcased on the Pac-12 Network, and their season opener at USF was shown as the NSCAATV National Game of the Week.
The victories over Penn and Princeton also concluded an overall dominant weekend by the FGCU's men's and women's soccer and volleyball teams as the trio collectively went a perfect 6-0.
FGCU now begins its Atlantic Sun Conference Championship title defense as the Eagles commence league play at the FGCU Soccer Complex. The Green and Blue begin the weekend with a 7 p.m. kickoff against Lipscomb on Friday before entertaining Northern Kentucky in its lone afternoon home match of the season on Sunday at 1.
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On Oct. 15, there is a Special Town Meeting in Ipswich, not to be confused with the annual Town Meeting when the budget and finances are on the agenda.
This year the Special Town Meeting has on its agenda the spending of taxpayers' dollars. Why? Usually the fall Special Town Meeting is called to deal with a particular function or unique purpose, like changes in zoning, something unusual that doesn't generally draw the same interest from the community.
This year, the special meeting will be asking you to break from this tradition and spend approximately $1.7 million of your free cash (look up free cash and its available use on the state website).
Free cash is the taxpayers' money. Where did it come from? Why do taxpayers have to approve its use? Where has it been for the last 30 to 40 years? Why have your taxes gone up 27 percent the last 10 years, while property values have gone down 20 percent? Why is the stabilization fund so low? The state suggests free cash should go to the stabilization fund or returned to taxpayers for tax relief. Read it on the state website.
If you are not in the 20 percent who are not struggling to get by, show up and vote or ask questions. It is your money; where has it gone and where is it going? Who is looking out and advocating for the taxpayer?
Let the town officials know that continued spending of your tax dollars is not sustainable. When your taxes go up, can you go in to your employer and say you need a raise because your taxes have gone up? They may show you the door or explain they have had to cut expenses to survive and you should cut your own expenses or tell your town officials to cut expenses.
Ipswich has had very little population growth, but taxes continue to go up. Why? Are you being taken for granted because you don't question the spending and accountability?
Go to the Special Town Meeting. Don't be intimidated or misled. Show up and make your voices heard.
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HERMISTON, OR - The Umatilla County Sheriff's Office says deputies now know who they're looking for after a deadly shooting near Hermiston.
Deputies say 22-year-old Timothy Allen Kelly of Irrigon shot and killed 25-year-old Daniel Dechand on Tuesday.
Deputies say Dechand and 51-year-old David Wayne Newton picked up Kelly while he was walking along West Highland Avenue in a 1992 Chevrolet Blazer.
Deputies say the three men drove through Hermiston and out to Sunshine Lane, where Kelly shot Dechand and then ran off. Deputies say Newton drove Dechand to the hospital where he later died.
The sheriff's office says it still has a lot of evidence to go through and people to talk to.
If you have any information about the shooting or the whereabouts of Timothy Kelly, please call the Umatilla County Sheriff's Office at 541-966-3651.


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This is a fun braided hairstyle we have used for a few years now, a hairdo which my girls creatively call Loony Braids. This particular one uses a 3-strand technique, but there is also a 4-strand version which is very cute (posted on our Facebook Page by a fun mom name Julie about a month ago). I am hoping to post a video tutorial of that braid very soon…
This is one of those braided hairstyles that is perfect for a teenager as well because the style is unique enough not be seen as little Laura Ingalls-ish. The braid needs to be done fairly tight (although popular braid styles today are worn fairly loose) because if it is not, the smaller strands cannot grip the larger one… causing you to lose the creative bends throughout the day.
Items Needed: Spray bottle, rat-tail comb, 2 hairbands, accessories (as desired).
Time Requirement: 5-10 Minutes
Skill Level: Medium
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I had promised a few 4th of July hairstyles, but I just have not had as much time as I need to get them filmed. I did get this one on today.
Many of you will recognize the base hairstyle as one featured on Good Things Utah in June. The base hairstyle is called Holiday Twists, but the variation I demonstrate below uses about 1/3 of each ponytail to draw the lines of a star on top of the head.
Items Needed: Rat-tail comb, spray bottle, 10 hairbands, pomade, ribbon or pipe cleaners (if desired as accents).
Time Requirement: 10-15 minutes
Skill Level: Hard
Happy Hairdoing!
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We received a request for "Bunny Ears" on Facebook after we posted the Egg Tails Hairstyle the other day. I laughed it off for a second, but this morning decided to give it an honest try! I have seen people do this hair style with braids, so I decided to more for a pixie-like bunny look (smaller ears)…
Items Needed: 4 ponytail rubber bands, two small rubber bands, 4 "large" bobby pins, Got2be blasting freeze spray, 2 Easter colored ribbons.
Time Requirement: 5-7 minutes
Skill Level: Easy
You can make the ears longer so that they flop down more, as desired, so that there is not much loose hair hanging down. If you do this, you will certainly want to braid the hair so that the loop will hold. Here is the video tutorial.
Happy Easter!
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This past Monday was Crazy Hair Day at the kids' charter school. You can see a picture of the hairstyles we came up with above. I have some pretty good ones on this site, but wanted to try some new hair styles. They were pretty CRAZY, alright! One DD even won first place in her grade! (Warning: Crazy Hair Day always requires the use of tons of gel and hairspray!!!)
Our oldest daughter wanted a hairdo like a Who from Whoville. I saw this style at a community play of "Horton Hears a Who" and recently received a photo from a loyal follower, Julie, with a very similar look. Here is what we came up with…
Our second daughter found this crazy picture online and wanted something similar. It was impossible to recreate, so here's what we came up with…
Our daughter #3, my little one who loves the "Bun Hawk" so much, wanted a mohawk with spikes! Here is what her hairstyle looked like…
So there you have this year's versions for Crazy Hair Day! Please click Crazy Hair Day to see hairdo's from past years.
Happy Hairdoing!
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Here is my last Valentine's Day hairstyle for 2010, and it requires a little bit of "creativity" to see it! It is a little out there… so I did this on my #3 daughter last week as a test to see if people at school could figure it out, and everyone did. In fact, some of her teachers took pictures. It took a bit of practice to get it, so I explain some of what I learned in the video tutorial below. Here it is…
XO (Hug & Kiss) Hairstyle
Items Needed: Brush, comb, spray bottle, 5 elastic bands, and 3 ribbons
Time Requirement: 20 minutes
Skill Level: Hard
Also, don't forget our other Valentine's Day Hairdo's! Be sure to email photos of your V-Day do's or simply post them to our Facebook page!
Enjoy, and Happy Hairdoing!
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One person is in critical condition after shots were fired at local motel.
The shooting happened at the Travel Inn Motel on Dort Highway near Lippincott Boulevard in Flint around 8 p.m. Monday.
When police arrived, they found 32-year-old Kenyatta Robinson suffering from a gunshot wound.
Robinson was taken to Hurley Medical Center and is listed in critical condition. No suspects have been arrested and there's no word on a motive.
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