Lazaro Vega

Retrospective features for April 2026 Named artist's music is heard in the first 20 minutes or so of each hour. Wednesdays at midnight to 1 a.m. Thursday morning, "Out On Blue Lake." Then all stream the next day from www.bluelakeradio.org 1. Booker Little, trumpet/composition 2. WFMT 3. Coleman Hawkins with Oscar Pettiford Trio live in Essen, Germany 6. Paul Keller, bass 7. Billie Holiday, voice 8. Organissimo, band 9. Steve Talaga, piano/composition 10. Freddie Hubbard, trumpet 13. Bud Freeman, tenor saxophone 14. Aubrey Johnson, voice 15. Alice Coltrane, piano/harp 16. Klas Lindquist, alto saxophone 17. Miles Davis, trumpet/bandleader 20. Nicole Zuraitis, voice 21. Dave Douglas, trumpet 22 Charles Mingus, bass/piano 23. Dave Slonaker Big Band 24 Ella Fitzgerald, voice 27 Scott Robinson, multi-instrumentalist 28 Supersax, band 29 Duke Ellington, composer/bandleader/pianist 30 Herbie Hancock, keyboards/bandleader

https://chicagoreader.com/music/the-secret-history-of-chicago-music/edward-wilkerson-aacm-bold-souls-shadow-vignettes-extraordinary-popular/

Each evening Monday through Friday, we feature an artist or recording in the first 20 minutes of each hour (except Wednesday at midnight edt which is given to "Out On Blue Lake"). Here is the list of "retrospective" features for this month. And, again, the program then streams the following day: March 2026 2 Miles Davis, Kind of Blue 3 Emmet Cohen, piano 4 Jan Garbarek, saxophones 5 Jeremy Pelt, trumpet 6 Ken Peplowski, clarinet/tenor saxophone 9 George Coleman, saxophones 10 Bix Beiderbecke, cornet 11 Adam O’Farrill, trumpet 12 Kenny Drew, piano 13 Branford Marsalis, saxophones 16 Tommy Flanagan, piano 17 Nat “King” Cole, piano/voice 18 Bill Frisell, guitar 19 Keith Jarrett, piano 20 Wynton Marsalis, trumpet 23 WFMT 24 WFMT 25 WFMT 26 WFMT 27 WFMT 30 Marilyn Crispell, piano 31 Joel Ross, vibes

Sad indeed.

You bet, appreciate you checking it out. The Arno Marsh at the very bottom is from 1983, shortly after I started here at Blue Lake. It's a live hit from a club in Grand Rapids called "Pier 28" and was one hour out of entire weekend that Arno had at the club, including a 3 or 4 tenor melee to end it all. Randy plays drums, the wonderful soul brother Eddie Russ is on piano and the bassist is Jeff Beavan, a Grand Rapids guy. Check out Arno playing like 5 choruses on "Body and Soul." Also down there is the Blue Lake Faculty at The White Sands which included trumpeter Louis Smith. His feature on "Oleo" opens the second hour of that, I believe. The Louis Bellson Explosion and Blue Lake Monster with Marcus Belgrave are also highlight the archive.

And for an archive of past performances and interviews from our studios please see: https://bluelake.ncats.net/ondemand.pl

From 3-08-2005, including a brief interview with both Marshall Allan and Henry Grimes, but otherwise mostly they're playing: https://bluelake.ncats.net/ondemand/Studio Performances-Henry Grimes and Marshall Allen-0-20050308.mp3

I love his book, too. Easily Slip Into Another World. His new compositional system is well explained there.

https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/Speakeasies-to-Symphonies

Last year we set up a separate stream for Jazz From Blue Lake that allows those of you who can't stay up until 3 a.m. to hear the program the next day. Last night we celebrated Henry Threadgill's 82nd birthday by playing his recordings in the first 20 minutes of each hour and, man, was that enlightening. "I can't think of anything more mainstream than what I do," he told the crowd in 2014, which was quoted again on Jazz Night In America which we aired on Sunday. I couldn't agree more! Tonight we're featuring Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble. They're playing tomorrow in Greenwich Village at NuBlu and then on the 21st at The MET Museum (800 plus, sold out). And tonight's program repeats throughout the day tomorrow. Etc. In any case, please join us on-line for Jazz From Blue Lake, which airs Monday through Friday from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. and Saturday mornings from 7-10 a.m. All of that programming repeats on the jazz stream. Ah, to get to the jazz stream. Map. https://www.bluelakeradio.org You'll see the blue bar showing what's streaming live. If you're on a computer there should be a tile on the right of that blue bar that says "All Streams." Click that and then click the Jazz From Blue Lake stream. If you're on a smart phone there will be a star like icon on the right side of that blue bar. Click that and then click the Jazz From Blue Lake stream. If you use the Blue Lake Public Radio mobile app there's a tile that says "All Streams." Click that and then the Jazz From Blue Lake stream. And for our playlist there's this page: https://www.bluelakeradio.org/show/jazz-from-blue-lake Thanks! Lazaro Vega Blue Lake Public Radio The broadcast service of Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp www.bluelake.org

Trumpeter Gilbert Castellanos recorded it on his 2022 album Esperama En El Cielo with bassist John Murray holding it down soulfully.

Our interview with Chapman: https://bluelake.ncats.net/ondemand/Interviews-Don Byas biographer Con Chapman speaks with Lazaro Vega-0-20250512.mp3

The jazz stream is a new feature.

Last night's Jazz From Blue Lake broadcast featuring the music of composer/instrumentalist Tyshawn Sorey is currently streaming from our new web site, www.bluelakeradio.org . You'll see the blue bar that shows what is streaming on the air live and on the right side of that bar is a tile that reads "All Streams," or, if you're listening with a smart phone, a star like icon. Either way, click it, see the Jazz From Blue Lake stream, click it, and we're listening. Wednesday is our "progressive" night, so the third hour is "Out On Blue Lake" including John Coltrane "Live in Japan." Lazaro Vega, producer and host.

Fun read. Pulled out the 8 Bold Souls record after reading this. Had the pleasure of presenting them in Grand Rapids around the time they recorded "Black Herman."

This is an unbelievably intense performance by Jack DeJohnette, and with the recent passing of Roy Haynes, that influence couldn't be more top of mind listening to him wail and assail, converse and breath through the nearly half hour long blowing tunes here. In-freaking-credible. I brought the advance download CDR burn to a local record store, they couldn't believe what they were hearing, ordered 4 of the vinyl version and sold them before they arrived. And they can't get any more. They all went to young buyers.

He's in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with Kahil El Zabar on June 2nd. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/kahil-elzabar-and-david-murray-jazz-duo-tickets-896623814967?aff=oddtdtcreator&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR10kBZJqPKPTgJrlz0POpriS6kPPkJBaNexaG8y4ZagIrll1_84nMHjIx8_aem_AQA4ldEZcnuAWzK86JqmiTKr9vvrOlrrO8BkiZvppEC0Tuq6Y8FZp9MbF1ENOBTETz88Xij7QZOzxitmdMoOYCU8

I read the Chick Webb bio this summer, "Rhythm Man," that did a great job on her early career, too.

Thanks!

I don't know. The lp boxes were donated to the radio station.

In the CD liner notes for Body Meta Ornette writes that "Body Meta is the first Prime Time recording. The Dancing In Your Head release came from these sessions." And the booklet to the CD lists "Barclay Studio, Paris, 1975" as the recording date for Body Meta. Little help? WIKI lists different dates for Dancing In Your Head and Body Meta, with Dancing In Your Head from 1975, and Body Meta from December 19, 1976.

Blue Lake is featuring this music on the radio tonight in the first 20 minutes of the 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. hours eastern time streaming from www.bluelake.org/listen

It came out in the gimambo Commodore Set from Mosaic.

Payne's attack as a member of Dizzy's big band was hard and he kept that as a signature of his approach -- like Pepper Adams or Nick Brignola and even Serge, he hit it hard. Have yet to own or listen to his Zodiac Suite album. The "Birdology" release your wife found for you was probably a concert recording of Bird's tunes and one original from a tribute given in France in 1989 with Jackie Mac, Johnny Griffin, Payne, Duke Jordan, Roy Carter, Roy Haynes and Don Sickler. Came out on CD in 2002 on Dreyfus.

Thanks for the link about The Ear Regulars on Fresh Air. That's what go me started on this as they quote "Sweet Sue" during their performance of "Vignette" on the new album "Live at the Ear Inn," on Arbors. Jon-Erik went to Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp back in the 1970's. Just missed him coming to Blue Lake Public Radio with James Dapogny's Chicago Jazz Band (his replacement was good but I've yet to hear Kellso live. Someday!).