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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

She's played everything, starting at NYC's "Fame" high school and the Manhattan School of Music with symphonic and chamber ensembles, to the merry-go-round of talent at the Apollo Theater to Max Roach's Double Quartet, and her own Quartette Indigo. Cellist/arranger/bandleader Akua Dixon Turre is in a tradition which includes Oscar Pettiford, Fred Katz, Ron Carter, Abdul Wadud and the young Tomeka Reid as players who want to use "the language of jazz on the cello." Here's a link to last night's Jazz From Blue Lake broadcast featuring her music, www.bluelake.org/ondemand

Tony Monaco presents a Jazz Organ Summit at Hope College September 9th and 10th as a precursor to the Jazz Organ Major at Hope College. Seewww.hope.edu/jazzsummit for details. Friday night's Jazz From Blue Lake featuring Tony Monaco is available on demand this weekend, all 5 hours, from www.bluelake.org/ondemand, including an interview the Columbus-based grease-meister. Does anyone know of another jazz organ major?

It’s fitting, isn’t it, that Joe Zawinul, the pianist/keyboardist/bandleader born in Vienna, the epicenter of classical music, became a soul brother? Thank Cannonball Adderley. Zawinul’s 9 years with Adderley changed him. From the creative improvised spontaneity of early Weather Report to the groove based African and Middle Eastern influenced music of their later versions, Zawinul helped popularize jazz fusion, too. Say, “Birdland.” Or you can listen to it as part of Jazz From Blue Lake, here: www.bluelake.org/ondemand

Yes, Ear Inn. Image by Ben Guthrie. Jon plays a variety of horns on record.

Trumpeter Jon-Erik Kellso is heard in the soundtrack to HBO’s hit series “Boardwalk Empire” as a member of Vince Giordano’s Nighthawks. He moved to NYC from Michigan to play with that band in 1989 after years of playing with James Dapogny’s Chicago Jazz Band. In his young life, Kellso was a member of Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp’s International Youth Symphony. As Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp celebrated its 50th Anniversary (July 5, 1966), Jazz From Blue Lake brought you music by this esteemed former camper, available to listen to here: www.bluelake.org/ondemand

The fireworks in New York wrapped up on t.v. at 10. Here on the far side of the eastern time zone, they hadn't begun (wasn't dark enough). Blue Lake Public Radio provided a Louis Armstrong soundtrack to the festivities, remembering Pops on the birthday he celebrated throughout his life. Here's hoping you'll listen today via www.bluelake.org/ondemand (Image by Jack Bradley).

Stanley Clarke is still taking the bass to another place. Musically, he's put the bass on top. Checking out his recordings again last night and couldn't help smile at his sense of humor, usually expressed through virtuosity, or his sense of musical drama and, yes, speed. 5 hours of the finest in recorded jazz here, under Jazz From Blue Lake:www.bluelake.org/ondemand

The musically diverse, highly creative professional playing career of trombonist Julian Priester underscores the importance of early music education, in the case of Priester and so many others in Chicago, at the hands of Captain Walter Dyett at DuSable High School. From Chicago blues legends to Sun Ra's Arkestra, to Lionel Hampton, Dinah Washington, and the cauldron of change emblazoned across the mid-20th century's discography, Julian Priester was part of it all. Here's last night's broadcast so you can take his word for it: www.bluelake.org/ondemand