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https://www.newmusicusa.org/projects/john-lindberg-wadada-leo-smith-celestial-weather- midwest-duets/

Upcoming from Wadada Leo Smith: http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=news&subsect=news_detail&nid=3423

Since re-invigorating international interest in the sound of the Hammond organ in the 1980's, Joey Defrancesco grew from prodigy to standard bearer, and we featured a wide variety of his celebrated music (including his trumpet playing) Friday night during Jazz From Blue Lake, which you'll find here: www.bluelake.org/ondemand

Since re-invigorating international interest in the sound of the Hammond organ in the 1980's, Joey Defrancesco grew from prodigy to standard bearer, and we featured a wide variety of his celebrated music (including his trumpet playing) Friday night during Jazz From Blue Lake, which you'll find here: www.bluelake.org/radio

August 26, 2016 The Adventure Music Series returns to the LaFontsee Galleries on Sunday, October 23rd at 3 p.m. with “Celestial Weather,” the duo of Wadada Leo Smith and John Lindberg, trumpet and double bass. Says Bill Meyer of visionary composer and trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, he “uses his magisterial instrumental voice, his inspirational leadership and his command of classical, jazz, and blues forms to remind us of what has gone down and what’s still happening.” For 38 years, bassist John Lindberg has performed with Smith, in Smith’s Pulitzer Prize nominated “Ten Freedom Summers” suite, with his Golden Quartet, and in duet, producing a deep knowledge and understanding of each other’s artistic voices, sharing a dedication to creating vital musical structures and systems that provide compelling starting points for spontaneous development and improvisational journeys. Together they released “Celestial Weather” on TUM Records in 2015, an album of vigor and daring, imagining, with inventive scores and stunning improvisations, the weather of the cosmos. The album also celebrates the great bassist from the Art Ensemble of Chicago with a suite called “Malachi Favors Maghostut – A Monarch of Creative Music,” and includes John Lindberg’s two part composition “Feathers and Earth.” The “Underground Series” presents a season of 4 concerts, one in October, February, March and April, on Sunday afternoons at 3. Dedicated to the exploration of unique live music, this concert series thrives with you. Tickets are $20 in advance, $10 for students with a student I.D. and $25 at the door. Advance tickets available only from www.adventuremusic.org. The phone number at the LaFontsee Galleries is (616) 451 – 9820. The LaFontsee Galleries are wheel chair accessible. To find LaFontsee Galleries please see, www.lafontsee.us/. John Lindberg & Wadada Leo Smith: Celestial Weather Midwest Duets is supported by New Music USA, through a generous contribution from Joseph A. and Nancy Meli Walker.

People know Harvey Mason -- he's the drummer on Herbie Hancock's "Chameleon," a regular for 25 years in "Fourplay," among hundreds of records. He loves playing with an organ trio, which goes down in Holland, MI, Saturday at Hope College with organist Tony Monaco and guitarist Chuck Loeb at the Jack Miller Theater, then after hours at Windows on the Waterfront. For a preview please see www.bluelake.org/ondemand under "Interviews." To hear Tony Monaco's music, please click on Jazz From Blue Lake under "Programs."

Lansing-area Hammond organist Jim Alfredson joins Tony Monaco with the great Harvey Mason, drums, and Chuck Loeb, guitar, this weekend for the Hope College Jazz Organ Summit. In 2000, Alfredson founded Organissimo, and the trio featuring Randy Scott Marsh appeared live from our studios with guests Paul Brewer and Arno Marsh through the years. Please listen to Jim Alfredson on demand today only under Jazz From Blue Lake viawww.bluelake.org/ondemand

10 years in the making....

But....the Duke Pearson program is now replaced by the Mal Waldron show, which will be replaced after tonight by a program on Jimmy Rowles, which will stay up until next Tuesday morning......

Please join us for 5 hours of the finest in recorded jazz, with an emphasis on the music of pianist/composer Mal Waldon. Described by Jazz critic Francis Davis as making music that's, "Crowded, low-ceilinged, and invariably fixated on a cluster of notes near middle C..." and that, "Waldron’s music as he plays it tends to be about tension and release—but sometimes just tension." You'll find his music under the files labeled "Jazz From Blue Lake," here: www.bluelake.org/ondemand

Sorry: there are 5 hours to each program each night.

Michael Cuscuna describes Duke Pearson as, "Pianist, composer, arranger, producer, talent scout and trend setter." Jazz From Blue Lake featured Pearson's recordings last evening, especially this previously un-issued big band (Baltimore, 1969) concert featuring Donald Byrd, Pepper Adams and Mickey Roker. In the 3rd hour we took it "Out on Blue Lake" with recordings by Perry Robinson as well as Wadada Leo Smith. Find Jazz From Blue Lake under "Programs" here: www.bluelake.org/ondemand

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Bill Evans music was heard last night on Jazz From Blue Lake, using some of this essay in explaining his significance to the music, https://www.allaboutjazz.com/bill-evans-1929-1980-bill-evans-by-aaj-staff.php. We also featured interviews with Paul Vornhagen and Steve Hilger as we get ready for this weekend's GRandJazzFest. If you missed last night's broadcast, you can still catch it today from www.bluelake.org/ondemand . Under "programs" click Jazz From Blue Lake, all 5 hours.

Since the 1960's, multi-instrumentalist Roscoe Mitchell stayed at the forefront of creative music by following the principals of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, an artist-based non-profit dedicated to presenting concerts of original music, among other arts activities. Last evening we listened to some of this remarkable artist's multi-dimensional recording career, and now you can too by clicking "Jazz From Blue Lake" under "Programs" found here: www.bluelake.org/ondemand(Image by Joseph Blough)

Alto saxophonist, composer, record producer, sideman, leader, David Binney regularly plays at 55 Bar in NYC. In fact, he put together the band that David Bowie heard and drafted to appear on his swan song "Blackstar." Binney appeared live on Blue Lake Public Radio in 2006 with guitarist Joel Harrison's band. You'll find his music under Programs, then Jazz From Blue Lake, today only, right here: www.bluelake.org/ondemand

Tomorrow is Tony Bennett's 90th. We jumped the celebration last night during Jazz From Blue Lake. Missed it? Available here today: www.bluelake.org/ondemand

Over the weekend Blue Lake Public Radio remembered pianist Hank Jones and celebrated the birthday of guitarist Kenny Burrell. Burrell grew up in Detroit, made New York by the mid-1950's and since the late 1970's is deeply involved in music education through UCLA. Click on the links to Jazz From Blue Lake found here and you'll catch his blues drenched improvised music in the first part of each hour,www.bluelake.org/ondemand

The Clayton Brothers music (bassist John, saxophonist Jeff) was heard in the first part of each hour of Jazz From Blue Lake Friday night. Mainstays of mainstream jazz since the late 1970's, the brothers are featured with their quintet and the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra. Just a reminder the program is up for on-line listening via www.bluelake.org/ondemand .

Oh no! No man, I'm sorry: it's gone. Damn! No, what I'll have to do now is make another program on his music.

Jazz From Blue Lake brought you one of the best male vocalists ever last evening as our Jazz Retrospective feature fell on the recordings of Johnny Hartman, a bass/baritone balladeer. To hear the program please click www.bluelake.org/ondemand and then under Programs click Jazz From Blue Lake. Hartman has a gift of singing story songs, especially "Lush Life."

Yes. We turn it over after 24 hours. I'm on 5 hours a night, starting at 10 p.m. The on-demand feature is available so people who aren't up until 3 a.m. can hear the program, so the Jazz From Blue Lake links have the previous evening's broadcast available until the next evening's broadcast replaces it, except Friday's show, which stays up until Monday night's program replaces it. It's not an archive, it's more of a time shift.

Duke Ellington said, "I was born at Newport." Jazz From Blue Lake brought you Duke's recordings featuring tenor saxophonist Paul Gonsalves last night, including that epic Newport concert, in the first part of each hour. For all five hours, including "Out On Blue Lake" with Anthony Braxton at Montreux in the third hour, please listen at www.bluelake.org/ondemand.

Oh crap: sorry, this was on demand yesterday from the links for Jazz From Blue Lake. It's always under Programs, then Jazz From Blue Lake. Those change every day (you can see by the date next to the files) except the Friday night broadcast says up until Tuesday.

The music of Arturo O'Farrill filled the airwaves of west Michigan last evening, including his Grammy Award winning Afro-Latin Jazz Suite. We included the original Afro-Latin Jazz Suite with Bird, too, the one written by his Dad, Chico O'Farrill; plus Duke Ellington's Degas Suite, and some long performances by Carla Bley and Bobby Bradford. Hear last night's Jazz From Blue Lake today from www.bluelake.org/ondemand