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U-Skid -- we'll be featuring part of the concert tonight on Jazz From Blue Lake, around 10:30 p.m. And we will be broadcasting the entire concert on Saturday, April 30th at 9 a.m. www.bluelake.org

Chuck, yes. Do you know that work?

Hey, Does it bug you guys that I'm posting program notes regularly here keeping the Blue Lake subject at the top of the list? Our program guide is on-line so maybe this is self indulgent bullshit. Seems other boards think so... Look at me.

Slide Hampton on The Jazz Restrospective. Streaming in 20 minutes, 10 p.m. until 3 a.m. right after the Chicago Symphony (which featured Benny Goodman playing Neilsen's clarient concerto this evening.

Sun Ra's is the first band I ever heard play "Queer Notions." What a knockout that was.

Had the chance to interview NHOP in Denmark, at the Tivoli Gardens Slukhafta (sp) night club, after a performance with Svend Assumsen, Kenny Drew, NHOP and Ed Thigpen. Spoke on tape to all but Thigpen. Great music. Drew was consice, just a couple of pure, perfect choruses then out. He and Pederson hooked up wonderfully. NHOP went to get a beer before the interview and said towards Kenny Drew just before leaving, "I'll be right Black." He was 16 when playing with Dexter, and around that age when he appeared on that not too successful Albert Ayler record. For what it is worth the drummer from that Ayler record, Ronnie Gardiner (sp), has a girlfriend in West Michigan and has been coming into the area fairly regularly. He usually calls the station when he comes in and lays a cd or two on us.... RIP NHOP -- he swung Denmark.

Did anyone catch Bruckmann? Tonight our featured artist on the "Jazz Retrospecitve" is Johnny Griffin. On the web at 10 p.m.

New Artist: Trumpeter Arzo Tureaud II ------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://www.kapcomm.com/arzo/ Here's the guy I'm talking about who's in the Truth in Jazz Orchestra and running the jam session. There are clips of his playing at the web site.

This Monday evening April 18 at 10 p.m. edt (same as New York) please join Blue Lake Public Radio for a special live performance by Kyle Bruckmann's Wrack, a twisted chamber group of improvising musicians from Chicago and the San Fransisco Bay area. See http://www.bayimproviser.com/artistdetail.asp?artist_id=205 for more information about Kyle Bruckman, including links to his home page. The broadcast will be heard in West Michigan over WBLV FM 90.3 and WBLU FM 88.9 and over the Internet via live web stream from www.bluelake.org Lazaro Vega Blue Lake Public Radio 300 East Crystal Lake Road Twin Lake MI 49457 radio@bluelake.org

I'll vouch for Morgan -- he played on Blue Lake with Rob Schepps a year ago and, at 21, is a young musician to watch out for. Hi Keita. Keep up the good work.

Hi Guys, Sorry I haven't been by to check in since the show. That program went way longer than advertised, and the people who left split 1/2 hour after the show should have been over on a school night, and they were old folks: an extended family who were obviously there in support of their grand kids. Ingrid was great -- she came out and played a Stix Hooper chart with the Mona Shores second tier band and about killed me with her Miles-isms -- it was D dorian to E and she rode that Miles vibe for all it was worth. A highlight was hearing "Naima" featuring Mona Shores top tier big band with Ingrid and a student soloist who happened to by the grand daughter of Fritz Stansell, the President of Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp. In that second part Ingrid's quartet integrated into the big band and while the music was odd (a big band with a double rhythm section? Didn't work for Kenny Clarke, so, you know), it was a blast for the kids -- they were right in the thick of the real deal. Did a nice job on a Maria Schneider chart. Ingrid was very supportive, saying she couldn't believe they were high schoolers and that she'd run into college bands with less fire and creativity. Her set was wonderful. Despite folks leaving there was also a nearly 5 minute round of applause that stopped the show completely after that first "set" of music her quartet played. The "Tea and Watercolors" piece was kind of ECM-ish, based mostly on a vamp (Clousey is a good player, three years in New York now from his home in Austrailia). If you know "Twilight Time" (is that it?) on her Project O record, this piece was in that bag for starters, but mutated and eventually developed through several moods -- good writing, tough, heads-up arrangement. At some point the piece became a cadenza for solo trumpet and out of the cadenza the band moved into "The Night Has A Thousand Eyes." A very abstracted variation on "There Is No Greater Love" followed, and then two pieces Jensen wrote while on Honeymoon this last summer with her husband, drummer Jon Wikan (pronounced Wee-kan). The first of those was out, uptempo and free. Nice. I had to split at that point. Was looking forward to broadcasting the concert this Thursday, but may have to wait for artist approval before anything gets on the air, which may take months. I think I need to become charming and see if something could happen more immediately. Don't forget, The Truth in Jazz Big Band this Tuesday night at the West Side Inn on Beidler Street from 7 to 9. Bring your liver: jazz in a neighborhood tavern. It is the BEST hang. Pure Muskegon, that is, unpretentious. There's a kid playing trumpet in that band from Kansas City, a former student of Bobby Watson, and he's one sick mutha. In fact he's running the jam session at The West Side Inn Sunday nights from 7 to 9.

Hi Al, Sorry I didn't log on while we were doing the Herbie Hancock program. Here's something for Monday night: This Monday evening at 10 p.m. edt (same as New York) please join Blue Lake Public Radio for a special live performance by Kyle Bruckmann's Wrack, a twisted chamber group of improvising musicians from Chicago and the San Fransisco Bay area. See http://www.bayimproviser.com/artistdetail.asp?artist_id=205 for more information about Kyle Bruckman, including links to his home page. The broadcast will be heard in West Michigan over WBLV FM 90.3 and WBLU FM 88.9 and over the Internet via live web stream from www.bluelake.org Lazaro Vega Blue Lake Public Radio 300 East Crystal Lake Road Twin Lake MI 49457 radio@bluelake.org

Herbie Hancock as featured artist starting in about 10 minutes.....

That trio is also playing at Founders Brew Company on Monroe April 19th. I guess the Grand Rapids Press did a story about the lack of regular jazz in town and Talaga took a copy of it to The B.O.B. and said, Let's do something about this. http://www.thebob.com/

This sounds like a great time, Cats. Thanks for the thread. Who is writing liner notes? (None?)

RARE JAZZ TAPES UNCOVERED AT THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS At a press conference today in Washington, D.C., the Library of Congress announced that historically significant concert tapes, featuring the legendary jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk and iconic saxophonist John Coltrane, had been uncovered in the Library’s recorded sound collection during preparation for preservation. The 1957 tapes were recorded at Carnegie Hall by the Voice of America (VOA) for broadcast overseas but have never been heard in the United States. The VOA concert tapes also include performances that same evening by the late Ray Charles, tenor saxophonist Sonny Rollins, the Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra and the Zoot Sims Quartet with Chet Baker. “These previously unknown tapes are a major find for scholars and collectors of post-war jazz,” said Larry Appelbaum, the Library’s recording engineer and jazz specialist in the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, who found the tapes among material to be digitized as part of the Library’s continuing audio preservation program. “A significant discovery like this reminds us why it’s so important to preserve these unique materials.” The announcement was made as part of a press briefing on Librarian of Congress James H. Billington’s annual selection of 50 sound recordings for the National Recording Registry. Under the terms of the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000, the Librarian is responsible for annually selecting recordings that are “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant.” The list can be found on the Library’s Web site at www.loc.gov. The content of VOA’s original 10-inch mono acetate tapes of the Carnegie Hall concert will be preserved in high-resolution digital files, which will be stored and backed up on the Library’s servers. Along with introductions by VOA program host Willis Conover, the tapes feature approximately 55 minutes of previously unheard Monk and Coltrane and early and late show performances by all of the groups who performed that evening. The Monk Quartet with Coltrane plays “Evidence,” “Monk’s Mood,” “ Crepescule With Nellie,” “Nutty,” “Epistrophy,” “Bye-Ya, Sweet and Lovely” and “Blue Monk.” The Library of Congress holds the nation’s largest public collection of sound recordings (music and spoken word) and radio broadcasts. The collection of nearly 3 million recordings representing almost every sound recording format includes more than 500,000 LPs, 450,000 78-rpm discs, 500,000 unpublished discs, 200,000 compact discs, 175,000 tape reels, 150,000 45-rpm discs and 75,000 cassettes. Among the unusual formats in the collection are wires, instantaneous discs, cylinders, music box discs, rolls, bands, dictabelts and Memovox discs. The Library’s collection includes more than 50,000 VOA tapes and discs of musical events broadcast from 1946-1988. The Library ’s jazz collections include musical scores, manuscripts, photographs and personal recording collections of Ella Fitzgerald, Charles Mingus, Milt Hinton, Carmen McRae, Billy Taylor, Charlie Barnett, Louis Bellson and others. # # # PR 05-90 04/06/05 ISSN 0731-3527

Ah, heard Schapp shlep this afternoon right before 5. Right. When Sidney Bechet's grand neice is contributing to your station you can say, "Bubber, we're not in Washington anymore." He did a great job, then went into Lady in Satin, all of it -- alternate takes, studio talk. "And Bub, I don't think we're going back." That type of radio IS rare. We've done similar things in that once upon a time a week of broadcasting radio waves that carried all of Bird's Dial Recordings has long since past Neptune in their flight to infinity. In the terrestrial human realm we heard incredulous voices over the telephone, people helping us, nice people calling to say, "Hey, you're playing the same song again." If you can gather a large enough group of people who "get" the alternate take is one more window into an artist's conception of the song as it turns into a commercial artifact, well, then you woke up in New York. And Sunday, Tavern on the Green, what will the people talk about? "Teacher! I know! John Pizzarelli!?" "No, those people were from Connecticut. Anyone else?" And using the author of a jazz book on the air to promote the station is an exciting resonation from New York's jazz aorta where those "Main Vein" taps save another piece of soul. "Call me when you get some money," Amri Baraka said over the coat slung from his shoulder as he walked down the Holiday Inn hallway towards another room after another night. Too bad I blew discretionary cash on the election. Bet on Black. That sounds like a good logo line for a jazz radio station's fund drive. Nightly.

Billie Holiday featured tonight on Jazz From Blue Lake, though the stream will be blocked until 11:30 p.m. edt. Drummer Pete La Roca this Friday night, following a daring program by The New York Philharmonic, and the web stream will be continious -- no blocking this Friday. LV

Randy Weston featured tonight with the web stream beginning at 10 p.m. est (so it just stays on from the classical music). Out On Blue Lake at midnight featuring Kyle Bruckman amongst others.

I see...It would be nice to be a privately funded station, to have as much money as needs be to do live radio with bands that need to fill a night whenever their need arises....working towards that at our end...and yes, if they have to fundraise to stay on the air, then stay on the air -- By all means.

Clem, wa? That they don't fundraise as much as stations who have a reliable audience for survival means that taking a 20 minute break is o.k.? I'm all for phone number, anecdote about music, fone number, anecdote about the station, fewn number, into music. Repeat ad naseum. Shorter breaks and more music don't work for that audience is what you're saying? On a bus to Alban Berg's house....

I could drive just about from Lake Michigan to Grand Rapids in 20 minutes. Point is if I turned on the radio to hear music and heard talk for that length of time, well, there are other stations to turn on for that: they're called Talk Radio. If it is "Jazz Profiles" that's one thing -- a well done mix of talk, info and music, but just reading a book? 5 minutes is plenty, and then at least 2 cuts by Billie so the music is longer than the talking. But that's for a music program. Maybe he does a "Talk Jazz Radio" show.

That's a "new" Delmark. Hey, I'll have "LaRoca" down by Friday. La-ROW-ka.

Randy! Yikes, 45 this time -- I'm nearly to my own mid-century! April 30th, the day after Duke's.....

Isn't that cool, too, that "The Poet of the Piano" as Jordan is called by his Japanese fans just happened to be featured on the first night we heard from a listener in Japan? Thanks Ghost. Man, these late night hours are starting to feel more social already! LV