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Miami, FL–(EmergingGrowth.com Newswire – March 10, 2019) – EmergingGrowth.com, a leading independent small cap media portal with an extensive history of providing unparalleled content for the Emerging Growth markets and companies, reports on upside potential of Axovant Sciences (NASDAQ: AXGT).
Discussion includes: Novartis (NYSE: NVS), Roche Holdings, (OTC: RHHBY), Biogen, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIIB), Pfizer, Inc. (NYSE: PFE), Spark Therapeutics (NASDAQ: ONCE), GlaxoSmithKlien (NYSE: GSK), Voyager Therapeutics (NASDAQ: VYGR).
Last month, RocheHoldings AG (OTC: RHHBY) offered toacquire Spark Therapeuticsfor $114.50 per share in a deal valued at $4.3 billion or a 120 percent premium despite of Luxturna's relatively weak sales (about $27 million in net sales in 2018) coupled with a small market size estimated to be between 1,000 and 2,000 patients.
Most recently, Biogen Inc. (NASDAQ: BIIB)revealed that it would be acquiring Nightstar Therapeuticsfor $25.50 per share or about $800 million, a 68 percent premium over the prior day's close. The deal saw Biogen getting its hands on two gene therapies – NSR-REP1 for choroideremia currently in Phase 3 clinical testing and NSR-RPGR for X-linked retinitis pigmentosa, which is in Phase 2/3. According to Nightstar's expectations, gross sales could amount to between $415 million and $1.1 billion by 2024.Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE)
Axovant Sciences (NASDAQ: AXGT)topped expectations when it recently released interim results for two of its gene therapies targeting neurodegenerative and a rare disorder. The stock surged 65 percent to about $2 per share before slightly declining to about $1.30 as at the time of writing.
Results from the company's lead drug candidate AXO-Lenti-PD which is in Phase 2 clinical trials showed that it could improve motor function in patients with Parkinson's disease. In addition, data from a study of the company's AXO-AAV-GMT which is being evaluated as a potential treatment for patients with advanced infantile Tay-Sachs disease showed a "clinically important effect".
There has been a rapidly growing frenzy around gene therapies ever since Spark Therapeutics' (NASDAQ: ONCE) Luxturna became the first gene therapy to be approved in the U.S back in 2017 and it doesn't appear that interest is dissipating.
Thanks to a recent string of high profile buyouts targeting key players in the gene therapy space, investors have been able to reap sizeable gains as big pharma has shown its willingness to pay a hefty premium for promising companies.
For instance, last year Novartis AG (NYSE: NVS)paid $218 per share for AveXisin a deal worth $8.7 billion representing an 88 percent premium in spite of the fact that the company's lead drug Zolgensma is yet to receive FDA approval.
Last month, RocheHoldings AG (OTC: RHHBY) offered toacquire Spark Therapeuticsfor $114.50 per share in a deal valued at $4.3 billion or a 120 percent premium despite of Luxturna's relatively weak sales (about $27 million in net sales in 2018) coupled with a small market size estimated to be between 1,000 and 2,000 patients.
Most recently, Biogen Inc. (NASDAQ: BIIB)revealed that it would be acquiring Nightstar Therapeuticsfor $25.50 per share or about $800 million, a 68 percent premium over the prior day's close. The deal saw Biogen getting its hands on two gene therapies – NSR-REP1 for choroideremia currently in Phase 3 clinical testing and NSR-RPGR for X-linked retinitis pigmentosa, which is in Phase 2/3. According to Nightstar's expectations, gross sales could amount to between $415 million and $1.1 billion by 2024.
Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE)recently announced that it would be paying about $51 million for a 15 percent stake in Vivet, a French based biotech with an option attached to buy it out. Vivet's lead drug VTX801 seeks to harness the power of gene therapy to cure Wilson disease, a rare disorder that affects around 10,000 patients in the U.S.
Accordingto Jefferies managing director and equity analyst, Michael Yee there will be continued interest in gene therapy going forward if the first three months of 2019 are anything to go by.
Axovant wasn't always a gene therapy focused biotech. When the company started out, its main strategy hinged on acquiring failed neurological clinical drugs with the intention of modifying them and then getting them through regulatory approval.
In one of the company's recent filings, one key strategy highlighted was: "acquiring or in-licensing late-stage product candidates for the treatment of neurological disorders, in a capital-efficient manner."
In December 2014 Axovant paid $5 million upfront to acquire the worldwide rights to intepirdine from GlaxoSmithKlinePlc (NYSE: GSK) as well as an additional $5 million in June 2016. Interpirdine which was being evaluated as a potential treatment for patients with Alzheimer's disease unfortunately failed to make it past Phase 3 clinical trials with the company stating that results from the study showed there was essentially no difference between interpirdine and placebo.
In October 2015, the company acquired the global rights to nelotanserin, a highly selective inverse agonist of the 5-HT2A receptor from Roivant Sciences. Nelotanserin was under development to address visual hallucinations and REM sleep behavior disorder ("RBD") in patients with Lewy Body Dementia (LBD). However, nelotanserin was also unsuccessful and subsequently the company's share price plunged well below its IPO price.
However, after hiring its new CEO Pavan Cheruvu in 2018, it appears that Axovant shifted strategy and began pursuing early stage gene therapy treatments. The company's lead product candidate AXO-Lenti-PD was licensed from Oxford Biomedica at an upfront cost of $30 million
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As mentioned earlier Axovant's AXO-Lenti-PD intends to treat patients with Parkinson's disease. In order to fully appreciate the excitement surrounding the interim results of AXO-Lenti-PD, here is what investors should know. Parkinson's disease is a chronic neurodegenerative disorder that primarily results in progressive and debilitating motor symptoms. It is characterized by multiple symptoms such as muscle rigidity, slowing of movement, and resting tremor.
Parkinson's disease occurs when neurons that produce a chemical messenger in the brain called dopamine gradually break down or die. When dopamine levels decrease, it causes abnormal brain activity, leading to symptoms of Parkinson's disease. The only available treatment option currently available to patients with this disease is levodopa medication which converted into dopamine by the enzyme AADC in the same way that naturally occurring levodopa is converted to dopamine.
AXO-Lenti-PD is an investigational gene therapy that delivers three genes via a single lentiviral vector to encode a set of critical enzymes required for dopamine synthesis, with the goal of reducing variability that leads to dyskinesia and restoring steady levels of dopamine in the brain. The gene therapy aims to provide patient benefit for years after a single administration.
Three-month data from the first dose cohort in the open-label SUNRISE-PD Phase 2 trial showed that AXO-Lenti-PD was generally well-tolerated, and no serious adverse events were reported. The cohort consisted of two patients with advanced Parkinson's disease who received a one-time administration of the lowest dose of AXO-Lenti-PD (4.2×106 TU).
Before going into the details of the results we will explain two things, The Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) Part III and "OFF" period for Parkinson's disease. The UPDRS score is a physician-rated scale assessing motor function, ranging from 0 to 108 with lower scores indicating improvement while the "OFF" period is when the levodopa treatment begins wearing out and the patient begins to suffer the symptoms associated with Parkinson's disease again.
The OFF score is assessed after patients are washed out of their oral levodopa therapy, thereby capturing the benefit of the therapy without the potentially confounding effect of background medical treatment. Patients in the first cohort experienced an average UPDRS Part III (motor) OFF score improvement of 25 points at 3 months after administration of AXO-Lenti-PD, representing an average improvement of 42 percent from baseline. Individual patient improvements at 3 months were 14 points and 36 points, respectively.
Improvements were seen across all subparts of the UPDRS scale, with an average UPDRS Total OFF score improvement of 54.5 points at 3 months after receiving AXO-Lenti-PD, representing an average improvement of 55 percent from baseline.
Similarly, the company's second product candidate AXO-AAV-GMT which aims to treat Tay-Sachs disease reported equally impressive interim results. The study is evaluating a total dose of 1.0x 1014 vg of AXO-AAV-GM2 in a 30-month-old child with advanced infantile Tay-Sachs disease. AXO-AAV-GM2 was administered into the cisterna magna and lumbar spinal canal only and it was shown to be generally well-tolerated with no serious adverse events having been reported as of the three-month visit.
Tay-Sachs is a rare and fatal pediatric neurodegenerative genetic disorder characterized by impaired β-Hexosaminidase A enzyme production. The AXO-AAV-GM2 gene therapy is designed to restore β-Hexosaminidase A enzyme activity in the central nervous system.
β-Hexosaminidase A activity was determined using the 4MUGS assay, the standard assay for assessing activity of the enzyme. At baseline, the patient's enzyme activity in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) was 0.46 percent of normal. At three months, there was an apparent increase in enzyme activity in the CSF to 1.44 percent of normal, an increase surpassing the 0.5 percent threshold that could represent a clinically important effect.
"This is the first time a gene therapy has been administered to a child with Tay-Sachs disease, and it is remarkable that we have not only seen good safety and tolerability to date, but also evidence of functional β-Hexosaminidase A enzyme activity," said Dr. Gavin Corcoran, Executive Vice President of Research and Development at Axovant. "These encouraging early clinical results suggest that AXO-AAV-GM2 may offer a meaningful treatment option for patients who currently have no approved therapies."
Significant opportunity
There are a couple of significant challenges facing the current treatment regimen for Parkinson's disease. First, existing forms of oral levodopa are effective for only up to four hours following a single dose. Furthermore, dosing needs to be highly controlled considering that some levodopa pills must be taken 30 minutes before a meal or 2 to 3 hours after a meal because protein interferes with the absorption of levodopa. Steady levodopa administration can only be achieved through permanent implantation of a tube in the small intestine which is why Axo-Lenti-PD has the potential to revolutionize how Parkinson's disease is treated.
However, investors should note that the drug will be facing competition from a number of other drug makers. Axovant considers its most direct competitor with respect to AXO-Lenti-PD to be Voyager Therapeutic Inc (NASDAQ: VYGR)VY-AADC, which is also a gene therapy product. VY-AADC delivers the AADC gene, one of the three genes contained in AXO-Lenti-PD, via an Adeno-Associated Virus. Voyager is currently conducting Phase 2 clinical trials for a single dose of VY-AADC and interim resultshave been promising so far.
Agilis Biotherapeutics is developing AGIL-AADC, another gene therapy that delivers the AADC gene, for the treatment of AADC deficiency, a rare disorder that involves loss of AADC gene function. In addition, DBS (Deep Brain Stimulation) is approved for treating Parkinson's disease and is marketed by multiple device manufacturers, including Medtronic, Abbott and Boston Scientific. DBS treatment involves permanent placement of hardware in the brain via stereotactic neurosurgery and may require follow-up adjustments or even invasive device replacements. With that being said, the opportunity here is massive.It is estimated that up to 1,000,000 people in the United States and 7,000,000 to 10,000,000 people worldwide suffer from Parkinson's disease. According to research firm Maximize Market Research's recently released report titled 'Global Parkinson's Disease Treatment Market – Industry Analysis and Forecast (2017-2024)' the global Parkinson's disease treatment market is expected to reach $6.48 billion by 2024 from $4.02 billion in 2016 representing a CAGR of 6.15 percent. This clearly illustrates a lucrative opportunity for Axovant if its one-time administration of Axo-Lenti-PD proves its efficacy in the rest of the upcoming data readouts.
On the other hand, the AXO-AAV-GM2 gene therapy also has massive commercial potential considering that there isn't any currently FDA approved treatment for Tay-Sachs disease. However, even without pricing in the success of AXO-AAV-GM2, Axovant is clearly a bargain for investors with a long-term perspective due to the time it will require getting to the commercialization stage of Axo-Lenti-PD.
Financials and price target
Axovant reported second-quarter earnings back in November, posting $21.5 million in research and development expenses and $10.6 million in general and administrative expenses. The net loss for the quarter was $33.8 million, or 28 cents per share. The company also recorded it had $90.7 million in cash, $47.4 million in working capital and $33.3 million in long-term debt as of September 30.
The key challenge facing this stock as with other early stage biotech companies is that it will need lots of cash to further its clinical trials. On December 14, the company announced a public offering of 30 million shares for $1 per share while underwriters were granted a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 4.5 million shares. In addition to this, the company recently announced a $40 million public offeringwhich means that existing and incoming shareholders will have to bear with dilution as Axovant furthers the development of its pipeline.
At the moment, the market values Axovant's shares at roughly $230 million but we expect that this figure could climb higher over the course of the second half of the year as more updates are delivered. The median 12-month price target from analysts covering Axovant is $5.5 which suggests a 320 percent upside from current levels.
Conclusion There is no doubt that betting on the success of Axovant's gene therapies will have to be a long-term play, but a savvy investor could make sizeable returns even in the short-term. At least two more data read outs are expected before the end of the year and if results are similar to what has been reported recently, the share price will definitely edge higher with the possibility of hitting the analysts' price target, or even a buyout.
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It's been 15 years since the last Tex Murphy adventure, and over a year since we found out a new one was on its way, but at long last there's a first live glimpse of the newly-rebranded Tesla Effect.
Successfully funded through Kickstarter last June under the working title "Project Fedora", there's been little information publicly disclosed to non-backers about the game until now, though the team at Big Finish Games has been hard at work all year. But now we all get to finally see the first substantial evidence of its progress with today's release of a handful of new screenshots and the first live-action trailer for the game.
Details about the plot of Tesla Effect are still sketchy at this point, but the video poses a promising scenario: "What if Lucifer had not been defeated, but lay in wait... preparing for his chance to overthrow heaven? Look at the world around you. Did heaven win the battle? Your role, whether for good or evil, has yet to be determined."
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The death/stealth/maze sections in all 3 of the FMV Tex games absolutely DESTROYED my enjoyment of the games. Well, not ENTIRELY, but pretty damn substantially. There's a lot I liked about the games, but from what I've read, the stuff I DETESTED in the earlier games seem to be pretty much revered by the die-hard fans, so I'm approaching with caution this one.
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Litter not only makes our paths, parks and beaches look untidy, it also causes harm to wildlife and the environment - with plastic waste in particular sticking around for years. Help to keep the planet clean by volunteering your time to take part in an organised beach or river clean.
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So, Laughing Wolf is put in the hands of Felix Taylor, citizen of the 23rd century and is one of the only people left in the world who carries a book around. It's a book about the emperor Spartacus and his war against the Romans. Books in 2231 are mostly in museums now, and food is pretty much growth-powered. One day however, as he's taking the transit, people start dropping dead, everyone is confined to their homes for awhile because of a plague, but the crazy thing is, the descriptions of this plague match a story in Felix's book, and the only cure may be the Laughing Wolf, a lupus ridens flower, an extinct one from centuries ago.
Now, despite its familiar future depictions, this is a thriller without romance. All I have to say to that is: Bout time. And like Ruby Red, it had a very neat way of time travel. Are there particles that travel faster than the speed of light? Perhaps. And what I mean about this being a series is that this book has several time travel elements that really work. I'll never forget that the 71 BC people worshipped cinnamon now. I was wondering in my head as I was reading this how the book would've worked out if it was a trilogy. It could've worked. It seems to work in three or four steps with one of them being short enough for one story. My favourite part of the book was the middle of it, when it takes a mild twist where I was worried the book was going to chicken out on more storytelling and ended up having a reasonable extra topping. There's also a moment involving what I think is the time where eggs were giant which is over very quick and could've had a chapter of its own. Nicholas Maes describes a moment where Felix has to dip his hand into something that feels like boiling tar, and when I thought about it, that was a terrific description when I thought about the air at the moment. While sometimes it feels step-by-step, the writing and brief history lessons bring fascination rather than the need to show and not tell.
In all honest, I think the part I enjoyed the least was the last few chapters, which aren't horrible and have a noble act. They were just sometimes a little shallow in what they could have been like. However, the ending still has a speech I hope the world gives if it ever ends up like how it's depicted in this book. Not bad for an indie.


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Join Antonio Chirumbolo, OD and Tony Clark, OD and CMO of Triangle Vision Optometry at Vision Expo West 2018. As the CMO of a group of nineteen practices across North and South Carolina, Dr. Clark has some tips for scaling your practice to multiple locations!
"We knew we weren't good enough to get bigger and not smart enough to get bigger. We were good clinicians but not really great businessmen yet." Making massive changes to a business can be challenging for anyone, let alone clinicians without business experience. Taking the time to properly prepare for growth will set you up for success. Take business classes, work with business professionals and coaches, read business books, and do what you have to in order to feel confident in your skills as a business owner!
Once you have a more keen business sense, you have to decide how you are looking to grow your practice. You can either continue to grow the existing practice or expand to another. Keep in mind that growing to a second location will include a great deal more planning, including new staff members and a new lab (complete with new technology).
Opening Your Second Location
If you decide that opening a new location for your franchise is your next step, you'll then need to decide whether you'll open a completely new location or acquire an existing practice. While opening a practice cold can give you a great deal of freedom, you can also face the same challenges that always accompany opening a cold practice. Acquisitions, however, come with a slew of other advantages and disadvantages, many of which directly overlap.
If you're ready to begin your business career today, to even begin to prepare, do one thing: recommit to excellence.
- Existing revenue streams
- Existing KPIs and metrics
- Existing systems
- Differences in company culture
- Different hours
- Different systems
Taking over an existing practice will mean that you can hit the ground running, but in order for an acquisition to be successful, the business has to become your own. This will mean replicating your vision, mission, and values through your training processes, even when you're not around and will only be successful if you put "people in place who understand what you're about." Dr. Clark warns that "you'll have to be more committed than you thought possible to that integration process."
Creating a consistent brand for your practice and sustaining that brand across more and more locations can be one of the most challenging aspects of expanding your practice to multiple locations, and you have to prepare to "say no to a good number of practices that don't share [your] philosophy of caring for people." But once you have practice number two in place, there's no reason to stop there! In fact, as more locations are incorporated into your brand, the economies of scale begin to tip in your favor.
Are you ready to start marketing your next location? Here's where you should start!
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For this reason, in many cases, if you're growing to a second practice, you will also need to look ahead and prepare to grow to three practices, then four, and onward. Scaling up can lead to sharing resources, including staff members, across multiple locations, decreased overall costs for product purchases as you can purchase in larger quantities, and allowing your existing team members to specialize in their roles.
One key thing to be wary of during this expansion is the location of your new practices. The last thing you want is to poach patients from one of your existing locations. That said, distances will vary wildly based on your location and the population of your city. For example, Triangle Vision Optometry currently has two practices within 4.5mi of one another in a major urban area, but Dr. Clark says that "in a more rural area, I wouldn't [put two locations] within fifteen miles of each other." Ideally, nearby locations can share administration, marketing efforts, and some staff members if need be, so be selective with where you decide to plant down next.
Check out this video for more on leading a large practice:
Through your journey from optometrist to businessperson, you will quickly discover that managing a business can become a job all its own. With the rapid growth of Triangle Vision Optometry, Dr. Clark realized that he couldn't run the business from the exam room, and he had to step away. If you establish strong systems early in your growth phase, when it comes time for you to focus on business development, you can trust that your individual practices will remain successful. But what do those systems look like?
The first step to setting management systems in place is to begin the construction of an organizational chart. Outline who does what at your current practice and what you would need to replicate that at scale. Then consider who each of those individuals would report to. You won't be able to handle customer questions from 19 practices at once!
From here, you have to find the right people for the job. One position that Dr. Clark recommends filling is a CEO role; hire someone that knows business, and knows business well, to help guide you in your growth. A major roadblock to growth can arise when it comes to hiring the right doctors to represent your brand. Your best bet for finding great ODs can be going directly to schools, Clark says. "If you wait until they've graduated, gotten their degrees, and passed their boards then most of the really good ones have already gotten jobs." Here are a few tips for getting the attention of young ODs:
- Treat your employees well! That can mean pay and benefits but also extends to creating a great environment for them. Value them. Give them a voice.
- Build your existing team up! Create a space where they feel like they're really a part of something.
- Let students follow you and your doctors in the exam room and build that trust early.
Looking for more tips for building up your practice? Here's what we learned helping 4,022 practices to hire optometrists.
What to do today
If you're ready to begin your business career today, to even begin to prepare, do one thing: recommit to excellence. You have to commit to learning more and working harder than you ever have. You have to know what resources you have at your disposal, so read, read, read! Dr. Clark recommends a few pieces including Category of One, E-Myth Revisited, and Good to Great.
Take even a single day off from patient care and dedicate that time to set yourself up for success. Schedule meetings with business professionals and colleagues. Set aside time to dive into your new library of business development books written by people that know what they're doing. Understand that there's someone out there smarter than you and ask them for help.
You have an entire career ahead of you as a successful business owner, so get out and get started!


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Victor Chandler's Spanish online gambling operator Mister Apuestas has locked up yet another sports sponsorship by signing an agreement with professional basketball club DKV Joventut. North Americans know that team only as the team who Ricky Rubio, the Spanish sensation who snubbed the NBA, plays for.
The deal is surrounded by hype and gala with a presentation ceremony to be held Thursday at the Palacio Municipal de Badalona to officially announce Mister Apuestas as the team's sponsor. It's the third sports sponsorship signed by Mister Apuestas with the most recent being the sponsorship agreement with La Liga football club Levante UD.
DKV Joventut is a popular club that plays in the top division of the Spanish ABC league and Mister Apuestas joins Li Ning, San Miguel and Mercedes Benz as the club's official sponsors.
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TEHRAN – A senior Pakistani defense analyst says Iran must rest assured that Pakistan would take all the necessary measures to stop recurrence of terrorist attacks in common borders.
On October 16, terrorists kidnapped over ten Iranian forces, including local Basij forces and border guards, and took them to Pakistan. The incident happened near the Mirjaveh border post.
In an interview with IRNA published on Tuesday, retired Lieutenant General Amjad Shoaib said that there should be greater security cooperation and understanding between Iran and Pakistan to resolve such issues.


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As an employment lawyer, I have an obligation to explain the concept of mitigation to my clients who have been wrongfully dismissed. The suddenly unemployed cannot just sit out the notice period and collect severance. They must try to reduce their losses by seeking a new source of income. The income earned during the notice period is usually deducted from the severance pay they were entitled to. But what does the obligation to mitigate entail? Must the unemployed accept a minimum wage job or can they hold out for a job that is commensurate with their experience and education? Can the unemployed retrain for a different type of job by going back to school? Can they start their own business? With respect to mitigating by establishing a business, the law appears to favour the employee's right to do so, and this despite the start-up costs and turn-around period for profitability. In some cases, the courts have made the former employer pay for the business start up costs. This blog post explores caselaw dealing with the employee's right to mitigate by starting a business
An employee may reasonably mitigate wrongful or constructive dismissal damages by establishing a new business. What is reasonable depends on what other options are available to the dismissed employee at the relevant time. This can include his or her age and expertise, attempts to secure other employment, suitable alternative employment, and market conditions.
It has been stated that self-employment should be viewed as a "last resort" means of mitigation. Justice Whitten in Allan v Westinghouse Canada Inc. stated that self-employment is problematic because of the start up costs and the employee is unlikely to earn the income he or she earned at termination until the business becomes established. However, the view that establishing a new business as a "last resort" means of mitigation is not a view held unanimously. In Brdlik v Comtech Group International Ltd., the court concluded that there is no obligation upon a dismissed employee to first conduct an unsuccessful search for new employment prior to establish his or her own business.
Previous cases indicate that it is now well established that an individual can properly start his or her own business in order to mitigate damages when dismissed from employment. A case that supports this position is Hillhouse v Alexander Consulting Group Ltd. The plaintiff was terminated as a pension consultant and four months later, the plaintiff concluded that there was no suitable alternative employment. The plaintiff then established his own business and operated at a loss for the first six months, and the Ontario Court of Appeal found there was no failure to mitigate his damages. More recently, in Peet v Babcock & Wilcox Industries Ltd., the employer argued that an employee had failed to mitigate when he established a new business. The Ontario Court of Appeal rejected this argument and stated:
The respondent's establishment of a new consulting business was clearly a means of mitigation. The fact that the early years of the respondent's self-employment did not live up to his monetary expectations does not mean that this was an unreasonable attempt at mitigation. An employee who has been terminated is entitled to consider his or her own long-term interests when seeking another way of earning a living.
Incorporation costs associated to starting a new business may also be recoverable as mitigation expenses, as seen in the case of Leduc v Canadian Erector Ltd. The court stated that in an era when the competition for jobs is ferocious, the plaintiff should not be faulted for doing anything that might reasonably be viewed as an attempt to improve his competitive position in the marketplace. The Ontario court agreed with Alberta's Court of Appeal in Christianson v North Hill News Inc. where the appeal court stated:
All that the plaintiff need do is to make what at the time is an objectively reasonable decision; he or she need not make the best possible decision.
Furthermore, losses incurred by setting up a new business may also be recoverable. In Rooney v Reed Ltd., Justice Southey stated:
As a result of the steps taken by the plaintiff, all of which seemed to me to be reasonable, to mitigate his loss upon the termination of his employment, the plaintiff sustained a loss in the operation of his newly-formed consultancy firm of $320.00. This loss includes nothing for remuneration to the plaintiff during the period, but rather was a loss in expenses incurred by him in setting up the company and promoting it. In my judgment the plaintiff was under an obligation to take steps to mitigate his damages, and if those steps, even though reasonable, resulted in further loss to him, he is entitled to recovery.
If the courts are bound by the decision in Rooney, then the plaintiff is entitled to be compensated for losses incurred by incorporating a new business.
Establishing a new business also applies to opening and operating a franchise. In the recent 2015 case of Leeming v IBM Canada Ltd., the plaintiff worked for a company called DWL Incorporated ("DWL") ever since April 25, 2005. Shortly after, DWL was acquired by IBM on August 15, 2005. After eight years of employment, IBM terminated her position. The plaintiff then decided to open a franchise business, which was not profitable. Despite this, the court accepted the plaintiff's evidence that she mitigated her damages by making reasonable and diligent efforts to find new employment, and that training herself for her new career as a franchisee was reasonable.
To reach the author of this blog, Jean-Francois Lalonde, email [email protected] or call 613.232.5773 x 246.
Jean-Francois Lalonde is an Ottawa, Ontario employment lawyer and wrongful dismissal lawyer practicing with Vice & Hunter LLP. He has extensive experience practicing in the areas of employment law and is a part-time professor at La Cité Collégiale teaching Employment Law for Paralegals.


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Friday, January 3, 2014
USSR again?
This is not a nostalgic return to the old regime, but a real operation of a possible unification of all countries and regions of Russia, on the assumption that Ukraine is the mother of all the Russias. In this condition you can see plainly that the modern Russian nation wants to make the territory under its jurisdiction Ukrainian, Kazakh, Armenian and Uzbeki in order to create a unique nation on the U.S. model, as in the days of Theodore Roosevelt. In this case, futuristic-not the least, the political geography of tomorrow here in the article mentioned in 2025, would have only three great Geopolitical Entities: EUR-USA-USSR, which we consider unlikely, at least for that date so close!
Atyrau, 03/01/2014 - INC News
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Weather diabolic all over!
If Europe continues unabated in the bad weather conditions that are battering the coast of England, and not only that, in the USA do not fare any better! Thousands of flights canceled for the conditions in which airports are finding themselves with intense snowfall for several hours is affecting many American States. Several deaths caused both by very low temperatures as well accidents that occurred during security operations in progress everywhere.
Atyrau, 03/01/2014
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Oh, Sydney
As always, when we arrive at midnight at the end of a year, we think of the fireworks and especially those of Australia, which are considered the most famous in the world, for colors, shapes and light quality devised. So, also this year, does not disavow the beautiful Sydney, where the fireworks were held a few days ago. Enjoy in peace this 12-minutes of images very beautiful and imaginative, dreaming that maybe you too could be the next to that city in December 2014.
Atyrau, 03/1/2014
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First want to say THANK YOU LORD for everything you do for and with me!
Dear Heavenly Father, I need you in so many ways.
I feel lost, scared, unwanted, unloved, hated, confused.
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please father help me…
Father please forgive me for my sins, I want to do better, live a better life and be a successful woman.
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Karmana album release, Simon Thacker and Justyna Jablonska
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December sees the release of Karmana, the debut album by guitarist and composer Simon Thacker in duo with the Polish cellist Justyna Jablonska, supported by Creative Scotland, the first album to consist entirely of Simon's music. The centrepiece is the epic six movement Karmana suite for guitar and cello, inspired by the belief in music as a medium of transcendence. A new frontier for Scottish music is heralded by a monumental Scottish trilogy, beautifully sung by the incomparable Karine Polwart and featuring huge textures and sonic detail, extending the backwards recording technique pioneered by Jimi Hendrix with up to 25 simultaneous guitars and 7 cellos. Other special guests include tabla master Sarvar Sabri in an explosive trio and one of the finest exponents of the Roma tradition, Masha Natanson, in a lineup which made its acclaimed debut for Made in Scotland in 2016. Karmana can be ordered at http://www.simonthacker.com/shop.html


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27 : The Rise Of A Falling Star
Music, Book and Lyrics by Sam Cassidy
Music by Matt Willis
Out, Out Damn Spotlight
27, a new musical by a 20 something writing team of Sam Cassidy and Matt Willis, follows a now traditional route. Jason and the Argonauts is a rock combo making the rounds of the music world looking for a contract, fame and fortune. Made up of Gerry (Ryan Gibb), aka Jason, Max (Jack Donnelly) and lead singer and lyricist Jimmy (Greg Oliver) who calls himself Orpheus.
The title gives away the strength and flaws of this piece. 27, fine. The 27 (year old) club underlined by a foyer gallery of rock stars who died thrown into the excesses of the rock 'n roll world. But then someone had to add "The Rise Of A Falling Star". Ho, hum.
Nevertheless, it's directed with a pleasing fluency by founder of Hot Gossip and former Strictly Come Dancing judge Arlene Phillips and the writer Sam Cassidy and unsurprisingly has some great silhouettes and dance routines (choreography Ryan-Lee Seager and Lucy Martin). This is still a raw and rough musical with a sometimes clumsy script that needs scything and perhaps the addition of a few more songs. But it's not a series of sketches - there is a strong, archetypal story at its core with energy and touches of humour, even if it needs more work.
It's a well-worn tale - the meteoric rise of a lead singer (Oliver, who viscerally manages to layer an amalgam of recogniable lead singers on top of Jimmy's personality) who after signing with a label, has his talent smothered by drugs on demand and neglects his first love (a superb Cassie Compton making the most of an underwritten role) until ... Well, we've got the real life stories of Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain, Janis Joplin, Jimmy Hendrix and Amy Winehouse exhibited in the foyer and in the media and coroner's courts archives to give a clue to the trajectory. But there's the potential to spike the story with a few real details juxtaposed with the clichés.
Yep, because in this case, an age-old simplified story does almost work. The sound levels of the first act left something to be desired, a lot of the linking dialogue is heavy handed. It's almost certainly been over-workshopped with bits of story grabbed from the current theatrical roundabout. It also needs cleverer structuring, especially to make the ending with the Blood Brothers-style song Hardest Happy Ending seem less of a bathetic postscript.
But there's almost a wisdom in this musical which goes beyond the years of the creators. Yes, the dialogue is clunky. But it also brings out the callowness and boyishness of Jimmy aka Orpheus and if it were more honed, it would massively raise the soundness of the story.
The songs (once the mic levels settled down) for the most part push the story forward. There are also a few lines in the links which beg to be songs and there's the possibility of a quicker moving sung-through script. While the TV interview at the end is cheesey, there's real potential for a more collage effect of video, talking heads, the process of real lives metamorphisized into cliché.
The set, metal girders on several levels, works well. The lighting sometimes seems outsize for the venue but, all designed by Nick Eve, gives a taste of what could be achieved on a bigger stage, along with the different colour filters.
OK at the moment it feels as if nearly every musical theatre team on, at least, the London circuit is doing The Faustian Rag. But there's a neat subversion here with the impressario Hades (an equally strong Ryan Molloy) which makes it far more psychologically convincing, even if the Orpheus tale feels more integrated. The use of a Macbeth thread through the piece does add depth but could do with more consideration - the three female fates cum witches (powerful if over-miked performances by Maisey Bawden, Eloise Davies and Jodie Jacobs) would maybe work better if they doubled eventually as characters outside the supernatural world.
And the Shakespeare story could bolster up the underwritten roles of the fellow group members, Gerry and Max, and especially girlfriend Amy whose sudden life U-turn feels totally implausible
But the single-mindedness of a star making engine where the group and its lead becomes a product which Ms M (a viperously sexy Lucy Martin) delivers to the business is a shorthand for the industry's shenanigans which has the intended effect.
So this is very much a musical-in-progress but it certainly has potential for a large scale production with spectacular special effects as long as the believability of the story which beats at its heart is retained. At the moment it's an amber (star) light from your own independent label theatre reviewer and her moderately heavy metal automotive groupie.


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Friday, June 26.
The bus ride across was uneventful but for the drops I had prearranged (caches at stops that cross the trail). The smaller the community, the easier the exchange "no problem my ducky" was what I most often heard. I did pick up a couple of topo maps in Springdale Junction. There I was met by Gilbert Penney and Harvey Rice, two avid hikers in their sixties who had, the night before I left, suggested I get something with more details than the 1:250 000 I had for the Gaff Topsails. On that same phone call they asked the weight of my pack and the distances I would be travelling. I felt a silence when I said day one was 28km. "We usually ease into it", they said. After I hung up I thought, I'm going to start walking a day early. It's wise to follow the advice of those who've done this before. I arrive in the largeness of the West Coast, pack and repack my bag, ready for the change that I knew made sense. I would set off tomorrow instead.
Saturday, June 27
Doing only 12.8 km today was a really solid idea. I still arrive at J.T. Cheeseman Provincial Park tired but not spent. The pack weight will take time to adjust to as will trusting myself. The frogs made me jump, I am nervous at every turn to begin. The unknown looms large ahead of me. The walk was phenomenal, gorgeous beaches, long stretches of heaven, birds, flowers, beauty. The first standing humans I met were people I knew! The world is small, smaller than we ever imagine. I set up my tent, lit the Dragonfly that I borrowed at the last minute and had my first meal on my own (Steve* thank you! happy and honoured to have your stove). I'm proud of myself. Baby steps.
Sunday, June 28
Oh blessed sun you shine. I am awake at 5am. Black coffee will take some getting used to and so will being excited at lighting the stove every time! I take my time packing my whole life up. I am off to St. Andrew's (18km). I made contact with Na Creige Golf Course who's owner said I could camp on his land...here I come.
I did 25 km in the end today. My feet/body are killing me. The winds are predicted at 110km tomorrow. I stumble up to the golf course (on a steep incline of course). I will be blown off the land he says. Quick change of plans. The owner's daughter and fiancé drive me to Codroy Valley Campgrounds, four km away. Safety in proximity to humans. I feel vulnerable at every turn. But my supper of beans and bread is delicious. I sleep hard.
Monday, June 29
Vicious wind and rain. In a group you debate moving. I am learning to depend on me, myself and I, my group. I am lucky to be able to consult Randy on the other side of the island. I have no choice but to stay put. I practice putting up a tarp (I suck) and I pull some facsimile together. This is how I bide the time waiting for the system to pass. I feel behind. This is the part of me I have to manage, my need to be affixed to the schedule and on time. It's hardly even dirty under my nails. The garbage buckets are rolling around like leaves.
Tuesday, June 30
I awake stiff and weary. I make eggs and coffee and pack my bag to walk the 17km to South Branch today. I have lots of energy and gusto all the same. It is drizzly and I will be walking in the rain today. The walk is lovely. I am full of adrenaline, waiting for the woods to jump out at me. I settle into a rhythm. The walk comes alive at The Overfalls, a famous salmon fishing spot near my destination but after five hours of rain I begin to grow weary knowing setting up a tent will be hell. It's pouring as I stumble into what I think is South Branch (nothing is marked on the trail - developing pet peeve). I walk up to an outfitter's lodge (Sooner Be Cottage) and there are eight men in Camp. This is the awkward period entering people's personal lives. Within minutes I am sitting inside and my clothes are hanging above the fireplace. There's a turkey dinner on and I am staying the night on the pull out couch. These strangers take me in. Their kindness and generosity overwhelms me. They take me fly fishing in an exquisite setting sun. I am humbled. I am thankful.
Wednesday, July 1
There are fireworks tonight but I will be staying in Codroy Pond 24km away. My pack is too heavy. The boys offer to drive it over and I can meet it there. It is very hard to leave the security of these men, not to mention my nap sack. It contains all of my worldly possessions and is the key to my food and shelter. They feed me again and we hug goodbyes all around. The walk takes me through the valley of the Codroy, one of the richest, most beautiful sections of the island. I am in the backcountry. I jump out of my skin at the sounds of the frogs but the beauty around me settles the nerves. I'm going along all dandy when I suddenly find myself on the highway. Somewhere I missed the tunnel. I walk backwards in the heat of the day but I cannot find the tunnel. I begin to panic. For the first time I turn on the GPS and I see a way but I am unnerved. This takes me a good half hour to manoeuver around. The last five km to Codroy Pond are heinous because the people of Codroy Pond are starving their black flies. I am chewed to death. It must be 30 degrees. Sticky and exhausted I find my bag at the place they said it would be and I collapse. Moments later I meet Theresa and Gerry the only residents of this place. They invite me in, feed me, and again I am humbled and amazed by the kindness of strangers. Tomorrow is 29km. Gulp. I nurse my feet with ointment before falling asleep. Tomorrow weighs heavy on my mind but Theresa and Gerry will bring my bag to Robinson's. The thought that I'm cheating enters my mind. Cheating who?
Thursday, July 2
The walk to Robinson's is beautiful. I feel more settled in my skin, in my capacity to be all right. No animals have eaten me, no close encounters with anything at all in fact. The birds shrill and sing. I am talking to them and singing songs as I go along. Still the whole "trust" thing is my struggle. I am afraid of what might go bump. I thank the Gods for my walking stick and my boots. Even with blisters I'm doing ok. It takes a while to get used to the vastness. The tressles open up to staggering views and before I know it I arrive at the Pirate's Haven in Robinson's. 31 km on these legs today. The bag has not yet arrived. Have faith woman, all is well.
Friday, July 3
33km ahead today. The longest day I have planned. The planning part was easy - look at distance "a" to "b" and write it down. I spent a while picking the brain of Paul and Ruth Gale last night. They travel the T'Railway all the time and much of their business comes from its users. I still ask questions that reveal my fears and inexperience. These gracious people reassure me that all is good. Paul reminds me that I may see animals but we have no predators and "you're in the back country my dear". "Nothing but alders from Flat Bay to St. George's". The first third of the hike is glorious and I reach Fischell's Brook at noon. Just two days previous I'm so skittish that I won't even take my boots off at the river. Today I amble down over a deep embankment and sit by the water's edge taking in the view of the gypsum wall and a rattling river 100 feet wide. I am finding my own. I am ever conscious of the 21 km still to go so after an egg and an apple, I skedaddle. I'm loathing to rest along the way as I have been told to do. I have this drive to keep moving despite my aching feet (this I am learning is my inexperience). "Listen to your body" but no, I trudge on. The stone on the railbed twists and buckles beneath you. One minute you are skipping along, the next you're almost ankle deep in pebble. It is grueling and demands concentration and stamina. I tell myself its close, just another half hour but maps don't lie like my mind. I literally stumble (my end of day go to) into St. George's at 6pm, nine hours after I set out. My longest day complete. Rick and Louise White greet me with food and beverage, a warm bed, a hot shower and more loving kindness. My feet are tattered but I have 138km complete. Rick, Louise and Ashley see me off but not without lightening my load. Ashley will take some things to Corner Brook. If I miss them, they'll be there in four days. If not, on to Deer lake.
Saturday July 4
I needed to listen. My tired feet spoke loudly but the mind overruled. 22km today. A leisurely walk I said to myself. 12 k to Stephenville Crossing and then on to Black Duck, 10 more. Every day up until today mounted in accomplishments and descended in fears. The numbers kept rising too. But damn I am tired. My feet screamed as I taped them and slipped them into my boots. I had clean clothes, a full belly, my stick and my sack and it should've been easy. But I had nothing or not much anyway. I played the psychological game of the flip side but the only flip side I was interested in was rest. So I detoured at the Crossing and took refuge at Aunt Terri Dunphy's (Not my aunt, Toni's!). There for tea, I still had myself convinced I'd get a ride to Black Duck and walk back but finally the inexperienced hiker listen to her body screaming enough (and the sensible people around me) and there I stayed. Actually here I am. After a bath, a meal and an afternoon off I am somewhat rejuvenated. Walking is hard. I can attest to such after 8 days and 150 km.
A word about the contents of my bag:
I carry too much food
I don't need a speaker, even if it is only 1/2 a pound
let go dear, let go of the things that weigh you down
counting on those you meet along the way will fill in the dodgy spots
I don't need a sweater but can't imagine this walk without a down coat, hat and camp shoes
the water in western Newfoundland is pristine
I want a Sherpa
Til Corner Brook my friends.


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Published: 25 June 2006 The Sunday Independent Copyright (c) 2006 The The Sunday Independent - Sholto Byrnes
Stan Tracey: The godfather of British Jazz
At Ronnie Scott's in the Sixties, Stan Tracey was playing with the greats one moment, and nursing his addiction to heroin the next. These days, the 79-year-old keeps his awards under the bed and lets his piano do the talking. Sholto Byrnes meets the quiet man of British jazz
Stan Tracey is soon to lead a large band and choir through Duke Ellington's Sacred Concert at St Paul's Cathedral. There's just one thing, he tells me. He's not awfully fond of churches. "I can't hack them," he says. "They're all so... doomy. From the outside they look doomy, and when you get inside it's all" - he raises his hands and crinkles his face - "fwooooh". "What about the priests' outfits?" calls Stan's wife Jackie from across the room. "You know," says Stan, "if I put on that same gear and walked down St Albans high street, I'd be laughed away. You put on this material cut in a certain way, and a funny shaped hat, and you look serious enough. But underneath, you know they're wearing Y-fronts or jockey shorts. That's what I see."
Seventy-nine-year-old Tracey is sometimes known as "the Godfather of British jazz", and has a string of honours, from doctorates to the OBE, to his name. He's a reluctant don, though, who keeps his many awards in a drawer under the bed rather than on the walls of his St Albans flat. "When you've been through a thousand awards ceremonies, they don't mean much, really," he says.
Being a bit laconic is one thing. One aspect of his self-effacement astonishes me, though. Tracey is one of the foremost interpreters of Duke Ellington's music (as well as of Thelonius Monk's), so I ask him how he felt when he first met the Duke. "I didn't." What? "I never met him," says Stan, his no-nonsense tone not varying in the least. "I had the opportunity a couple of times. But what do you say? Hello? He says, 'Hello'. I say, 'I play piano too'. He'll say, 'How wonderful. Bye bye.'"
"It was like that with Monk," adds Jackie. "Monk was there at the bar, and Stan was there with Clark [their son, a well-known drummer and leader in his own right]. But Stan never approaches anyone. If there's a party, he'd rather not be there. And if he is there, he's in the corner where no one will see him." "It's because I don't have the eloquence," says Stan. "Not true," says Jackie, "It's because of your bloodymindedness. You can't be bothered with it all." Stan acquiesces. "It's all like the bishop's hat to me," he sighs.
Instead, for 60-odd years, Stan Tracey has done his speaking from behind the piano, a position from which there has never been any doubting his eloquence. After spells as a pianist, vibraphonist and arranger with the likes of Cab Calloway and the Ted Heath Orchestra, Tracey became the house pianist for the newly-opened Ronnie Scott's Club in 1960. He stayed for eight years, accompanying all the great American visitors such as Stan Getz, Zoot Sims and Ben Webster. Sonny Rollins, with whom he worked on the soundtrack to the film Alfie, was so impressed by Tracey that he famously asked: "Does anybody here know how good he is?" In 1964, Tracey's quartet recorded a suite based on Dylan Thomas's Under Milk Wood; it is still regularly performed today, and is regarded as a high point of British jazz composition.
As successful as Tracey was musically, his health suffered during his time at Scott's. Not only was he often required to play double sets - with the name act, and then leading his own group - but he was also addicted to heroin. "I kept it from the kids when he was going cold turkey," Jackie tells me. "It was a hard time, because he didn't earn anything for a while." So hard that Tracey seriously thought about giving up the jazz life in the early Seventies, and retraining as a postman instead. His addiction is long in the past, though, and the couple can look back on that period now without rancour. "My grandson knows all about naughty granddad," says Jackie fondly.
Given that Tracey will turn 80 this December, his playing is simply astounding. Listening to recent recordings on the Trio label, one would imagine the pianist to be a man 30 or 40 years younger. Tracey's trademark pugnacity ("when he thumps down an open fifth in the left hand he issues a challenge, and the jut of the Tracey profile tells you it's not one to be taken up lightly," I observed at his 75th birthday concert) is undimmed; nor is his clattering yet tender approach to ballads, such as his recent recording of Monk's "Pannonica". I ask him where his energy comes from. "From the music," he replies. "You don't see it indoors," interjects Jackie; and it's true that Stan has not appeared exactly full of beans during our conversation. "But you see his stamina on stage." She tells me that at a recent festival in Vicenza, Tracey performed 10 sets in three days, a schedule which would tire a man half his age. "He was still going at one in the morning. That's the way he works."
I ask Tracey how he feels about being considered a grand old man of jazz. What's it like, for instance, playing with musicians so much younger than he is? "It's hardly surprising, given my age," he says dryly. "No, I don't think about it. I don't consider age at all. I think about what's coming out of a guy's horn."
His own playing was not always universally applauded. In 1969, Benny Green described Tracey as: "One of the most controversial of all British musicians, a player whose work is characterised by jagged rhythmic effects and the calculated dissonance of the devoted harmonic adventurer". He chortles. "You see, I couldn't say that if I tried," he says. "Is that the piece where he said that my music often went to the precipice of ugliness, and sometimes fell over it? That's my favourite Benny Green quote." It is from the same article, so I ask Tracey what he made of it when he first read it. "What I think about any criticism I had: Hey-ho. What are you going to do? It's not going to stop me."
Stan Tracey seems to be one of the most stoical people I've ever met. Nothing is important to him, really, apart from music. It's his wife Jackie who has fought the inevitable financial battles on his behalf (amazingly, Tracey has only briefly ever been represented by a major label, when he was on Blue Note in the early 1990s). Stan has just played his music. I ask him why it was the Ellington band, rather than, say, Count Basie's orchestra, that grabbed him so forcefully early on. "I first saw him at the Apollo in Harlem in the early Fifties," he remembers. "I can still see the picture of the band in my mind. They were all on swivel chairs. It was quite a boot." He smiles at the memory. "Count Basie's band was a tremendous swing band, they had great tight arrangements, but with Ellington you had the swing plus the depth of music. It was a little bit more profound than most other bands."
What about the Sacred Concert that he is soon to perform at St Paul's, I ask. By this point I'm hardly surprised when Tracey tells me that he's never seen it. "They televised it live from Coventry Cathedral in the days of black-and-white television," he explains, "and I settled down to watch it. But my daughter, who was about five, wound me up and wound me up. So in the end I stormed out of the room and stayed out until it was over."
He has, however, performed it many times, even if the first occasion, when Tracey was called in at a day's notice, was something of a disaster. "It was littered with celebs, that was what was wrong with it," says Stan of the 1982 performance, also in St Paul's. "There was Rod Steiger, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Tony Bennett, the Swingle Sisters, Jacques Loussier. It just didn't fit. And Rod Steiger kept on referring to Duke Wellington." He shakes his head again.
No such A-list names will mar next month's concert, which will be the first time Tracey has performed the music on its own, as opposed to it being part of a church service. This time it will be, as Stan puts it, without the "religious verbals".
In conversation, Tracey's somewhat terse responses could be taken as evidence of grumpiness. When I ask him if he had Ellington's religious music in mind when he wrote his Genesis Suite, for instance, he cuts me off. "Finishing it was what I had in mind," he says. But I think he's just not too hot on small talk, and that the most natural medium of expression for him is through music. "It's something wonderful to be involved with, it gives me great pleasure," he explains, when I ask him why he chose to be a jazz musician. "It's my only interest, really. It's one long voyage of discovery, if you look at it in those terms and don't just settle for the view that looks fine from here.
"There's no end to it," he says simply. "There's always something new." That's as full an account as Tracey needs to give verbally. The proof and the eloquence come, as they always have, from behind the piano.
Copyright (c) 2006 The The Sunday Independent - Sholto Byrnes


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