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Here are today's on demand links to last night's radio program: http://199.176.235.218/ondemand.pl Women's History Month continued on Jazz From Blue Lake last night as we heard the dramatic music of Abbey Lincoln in the first part of each hour, from her early recordings with drummer Max Roach (many lyrics by Oscar Brown Jr.) to her fully formed originals, so striking in their depiction of the human condition. Photo taken at her home in Manhattan in 2002 by Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times.
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Sunday, April 17th at 3 p.m. PERCUSSIONISTS HAMID DRAKE AND ADAM RUDOLPH PRESENT KARUNA, an afternoon of spiritually inspired music at LaFontsee Galleries, Grand Rapids.
After over 40 years of making music together, percussionists Hamid Drake and Adam Rudolph are choosing to share their love for rhythms in the music of the world, and music’s’ relationship to matters of the spirit, by launching their first tour as a duet, called, after the Sanskrit word, Karuna. Karuna reflects an ongoing dialog between the inner life and outward musical expression. Karuna presents the idea of creative action as a gesture of compassion, or creating music as a means of removing harm and suffering from others.
Featuring Adam Rudolph on handrumset (kongos, djembe, tarija, zabumba), thumb pianos, sintir, multiphonic vocal, and percussion; with Hamid Drake on drum kit, vocals, frame drums, udu drums, tabla, and percussion, Karuna is the season finale to www.adventuremusic.orgs ‘s second season of unique musical experiences at LaFontsee Galleries, 833 Lake Drive S.E., Grand Rapids.
Hamid Drake observes, “I have been developing a hand drum concept on the drum-set, while Adam says he is developing a drum-set concept on his hand drums. We understand one another.”
Drake and Rudolph (now both 60 years old) grew up in Chicago and first met at age 14 in a downtown Chicago drum shop. In the mid-1970s they performed and recorded with saxophonist Fred Anderson (a co-founder of Chicago’s Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians). In 1977 they joined Foday Musa Suso in founding Mandingo Griot Society, one of the first groups to combine African and American music. By 1978 they were touring Europe with the Don Cherry and since that time have performed together in projects with Yusef Lateef, Pharaoh Sanders, Hassan Hakmoun, Hu: Vibrational and Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures. Their shared Chicago roots and longtime global music research and performing experience have allowed them to forge a uniquely shared musical understanding and creative outlook.
In collaboration with LaFontsee Galleries and Blue Lake Public Radio’s Lazaro Vega, Adventuremusic.org presents these Sunday afternoon musical experiences as The Underground Series, music at the highest level of creativity in the intimate, listener friendly concert environment of LaFontsee Galleries.
Tickets are $20 in advance, $10 for students with a student I.D. and $25 at the door. Kids ages 12 and under are free. Advance tickets available only from www.adventuremusic.org . Please use the site to inquire about how you can insure the future of this series through a larger financial commitment. The phone number at LaFontsee Galleries is (616) 451 – 9820. LaFontsee Galleries is wheelchair accessible. To find LaFontsee Galleries please see, www.lafontsee.us/.
For more on Adam Rudolph, including videos, http://www.metarecords.com/adam.html . More about Hamid Drake from: http://www.drummerworld.com/drummers/Hamid_Drake.html .
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
St. Cecilia Music Center Presents Grammy Award winner Jack DeJohnette, one of the most Influential Jazz Drummers of the 20th Century & Great Jazz Virtuoso,
in concert with Ravi Coltrane and Matt Garrison on Thursday, April 21st
The concert will feature music from the trio’s brand new album entitled
“In Movement” to be released in May 2016
GRAND RAPIDS, MI (March 23, 2016) – On Thursday, April 21 at 7:30 pm the audience at St. Cecilia Music Center will witness one of the most influential jazz drummers of the 20th Century, Jack DeJohnette in concert with Saxophonist Ravi Coltrane (son of Jazz legend John Coltrane and mother Alice Coltrane) and Electric Bassist Matt Garrison (son of bassist of the classic Coltrane quartet Jimmy Garrison).
This trio has traveled the world for many years performing and finally came together in studio in October 2015 to record their brand new album entitled “In Movement”, produced by Manfred Eicher. “In Movement” that be release in May 2016 features original songs and renditions of classics such Civil Rights Era elegy “Alabama,” “Blue in Green” by Miles Davis and Bill Evans, and “Serpentine Fire” from the hit ’70s R&B songbook of Earth, Wind & Fire. There are also original homages such as “The Two Jimmy’s”, which nods doubly to fellow innovators Jimmy Garrison and Jimi Hendrix, and “Rashied” saluting the late, great Rashied Ali, a key foil on drums during Coltrane’s free-minded late period.
Cathy Holbrook, Executive Director of St. Cecilia Music Center comments,
“Jack DeJohnette alone is a world-class jazz legend who has performed with every known jazz great in his lifetime. To have him at St. Cecilia with this trio, made up of the second generation of jazz legends, when their first album is just coming out is a dream come true for St. Cecilia Music Center’s Jazz Series.”
Jack DeJohnette was responsible for bringing Matt Garrison and Ravi Coltrane together musically, years ago. Ravi Coltrane, 50 and Matt Garrison, 45 are the children of important jazz artists whose lives were entwined: the saxophonist John Coltrane and the bassist Jimmy Garrison, who played in Coltrane’s quartet of the 1960s. DeJohnette, 73, has often recalled the rare privilege he had to sit in with John Coltrane’s quartet, when he was in Chicago.
Concert tickets are $43 and $48 and can be purchased by calling St. Cecilia Music Center at 616-459-2224 or visiting the box office at 24 Ransom Ave. NE. Tickets can also be purchased online at www.scmc-online.org. A post-concert “Meet-the-artists” reception will be offered to all ticket-holders giving the audience the opportunity to meet Jack DeJohnette, Ravi Coltrane and Jimmy Garrison and obtain signed CDs of his releases.
NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship and Grammy award winner Jack DeJohnette has established an unchallenged reputation as one of the greatest drummers in the history of the jazz. His career spans five decades as a performer and as a bandleader and includes work with Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, and Thelonious Monk, to name a few. The longer list of creative associations throughout his career is lengthy and diverse: Ornette Coleman, Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans, Stan Getz, Keith Jarrett, Chet Baker, George Benson, Stanley Turrentine, Herbie Hancock, Dave Holland, Joe Henderson, Freddy Hubbard, Betty Carter and many more. Along the way, he has developed a versatility that allows room for hard bop, R&B, world music, avant-garde, and just about every other style to emerge in the past half-century.
DeJohnette’s Peace Time won a Grammy in 2009 for Best New Age Album. The album consists of an hour-long, continuous piece of music that eMusic described as “flights of flute, soft hand drumming, and the gently percolating chime of cymbal play, moving the piece along a river of meditative delight.” But the 2009 Grammy is just one many awards that DeJohnette has received over the years. He has figured prominently into readers’ polls and critics’ polls conducted by Downbeat and JazzTimes over the past two decades. He was awarded an honorary doctorate of music from Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1991, and was inducted into the Percussive Arts Society’s Hall of Fame in 2010.
DeJohnette has been a bridge between the mainstream and the avant-garde. In 2015 he helped celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, with several acclaimed colleagues. www.jackdejohnette.com
“Jack DeJohnette gave me a deep groove that I just loved to play over.”
- Miles Davis -
Upcoming Concerts at St. Cecilia Music Center
Jazz Series Single tickets (no additional service fees)
Jack DeJohnette
April 21, 2016
A section $48
B section $43
Acoustic Café single tickets (no additional service fees)
Leo Kottke Alejandro Escovedo
April 14, 2016 May 5, 2016
A section $40 A section $35
B section $35 B section $30
Jack DeJohnette’s Bio (from his website www.jackdejohnette.com)
In a career that spans five decades and includes collaborations with some of the most iconic figures in modern jazz, Grammy winner Jack DeJohnette has established an unchallenged reputation as one of the greatest drummers in the history of the genre. The list of creative associations throughout his career is lengthy and diverse: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans, Stan Getz, Keith Jarrett, Chet Baker, George Benson, Stanley Turrentine, Herbie Hancock, Dave Holland, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Betty Carter and so many more. Along the way, he has developed a versatility that allows room for hard bop, R&B, world music, avant-garde, and just about every other style to emerge in the past half-century.
Born in Chicago in 1942, DeJohnette grew up in a family where music and music appreciation was a high priority. Beginning at age four, he studied classical piano privately and later at the Chicago Conservatory of Music, then added the drums to his repertoire when he joined his high school concert band at age 14.
“As a child, I listened to all kinds of music and I never put them into categories,” he recalls. “I had formal lessons on piano and listened to opera, country and western music, rhythm and blues, swing, jazz, whatever. To me, it was all music and all great. I’ve kept that integrated feeling about music, all types of music, and just carried it with me. I’ve maintained that belief and feeling in spite of the ongoing trend to try and compartmentalize people and music.”
By the mid-1960s, DeJohnette had entered the Chicago jazz scene – not just as a leader of his own fledgling groups but also as a sideman on both piano and drums. He experimented with rhythm, melody and harmony as part of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians during the group’s early days, and later drummed alongside Rashied Ali in the John Coltrane Quintet. He garnered international recognition during his tenure with the Charles Lloyd Quartet, one of the first jazz groups to receive crossover attention.
In 1968, DeJohnette joined Miles Davis’s group just prior to the recording of Bitches Brew, an album that triggered a seismic shift in jazz and permanently changed the direction of the music. Miles later wrote in his autobiography: “Jack DeJohnette gave me a deep groove that I just loved to play over.” DeJohnette stayed with Davis for three years, making important contributions to prominent Davis recordings like Live-Evil and A Tribute to Jack Johnson (both in 1971) and On the Corner (1972).
During this same period, DeJohnette also recorded his first albums as a leader, beginning with The DeJohnette Complex in 1968 on Milestone. He followed up with Have You Heard in 1970, then switched to Prestige, where he released Sorcery in 1974 and Cosmic Chicken in 1975.
The mid 1970s were marked by a series of groups and projects – many leaning toward the experimental side of jazz, including The Gateway Trio (featuring Dave Holland and John Abercrombie), Directions (with Abercrombie and saxophonist Alex Foster), and New Directions (Abercrombie, with Eddie Gomez on bass). Special Edition – which helped launch the careers of little known musicians like David Murray, Arthur Blythe, Chico Freeman, John Purcell and Rufus Reid – remained active into the 1990s, although the project was frequently interrupted by DeJohnette’s various other collaborative ventures, especially recordings and tours with Keith Jarrett.
DeJohnette has worked extensively with Jarrett as part of a longstanding trio with Gary Peacock. The threesome will celebrate its 30th anniversary in 2013.
Another of DeJohnette’s high-profile projects in the early 1990s was a touring quartet he led consisting of himself, Holland, Herbie Hancock and Pat Metheny, the results were then captured on the landmark recording Parallel Realities. In 1992, he released Music for a Fifth World, an album inspired by Native American culture that also included appearances by Vernon Reid and John Scofield. Given the diversity of players and styles that he had embraced by this point, DeJohnette was already describing his music in the ‘90s as “multidimensional.”
In 2004, DeJohnette recorded and toured with two Grammy nominated projects – Out of Towners, with Jarrett and Peacock (aka the Standards Trio); and Ivey Divey, which featured Don Byron and Jason Moran. He continued to work with Jarrett and Peacock in 2005, but also launched numerous additional ventures that same year, the first of which was the Latin Project – a combo that consisted of percussionists Giovanni Hidalgo and Luisito Quintero, reedman Don Byron, pianist Edsel Gomez, and bassist Jerome Harris. Other projects in 2005 included The Jack DeJohnette Quartet, featuring Danilo Perez, John Patitucci and Harris; and the Trio Beyond, a group that celebrated the music of drummer Tony Williams, featuring John Scofield and Larry Goldings.
And if that weren’t enough to make for a busy year, 2005 also marked the launch of DeJohnette’s own imprint, Golden Beams Productions. His first two projects on the new label were Music from the Hearts of the Masters, a duet recording with Gambian kora player Foday Musa Suso, and a relaxation and meditation album entitled Music in the Key of Om, featuring DeJohnette on synthesizer and resonating bells. The latter recording was nominated for a Grammy in the Best New Age Album category. He closed 2005 with the release of Hybrids, a seamless weave of African jazz, reggae and dance music that featured Foday Musa Suso and an international cast representing musical styles from around the world.
Two live recordings emerged in 2006: The Elephant Sleeps But Still Remembers (Golden Beams), which captured his first musical encounter with guitarist Bill Frisell at the Earshot Festival in Seattle in 2001; and Saudades (ECM), a 2004 London concert celebrating the music of Tony Williams. DeJohnette and Frisell reunited in the fall of 2006 – along with multi-instrumentalist Jerome Harris and mix master Ben Surman – for a tour to promote The Elephant Sleeps.
DeJohnette continued to explore African music in 2007 via the Intercontinental project, a partnership with South African singer Sibongile Khumalo that included a successful European tour and culminated in a performance at the Capetown Jazz Festival in South Africa. Other projects in 2007 included studio gigs and tour dates with Bruce Hornsby, Christian McBride, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and Ron Carter. DeJohnette also appeared on Michael Brecker’s posthumously released Grammy Award winning final album, Pilgrimage.
Extensive touring continued in 2008, along with the recording of a trio album with Patitucci and Perez during a snow storm near DeJohnette’s home in upstate New York. The sessions resulted in Music We Are, released in April 2009 with a bonus DVD that provided a rare look at the trio’s friendship, their creative relationship and their approach to the recording process.
DeJohnette’s Peace Time won a Grammy in 2009 for Best New Age Album. The album consists of an hour-long, continuous piece of music that eMusic described as “flights of flute, soft hand drumming, and the gently percolating chime of cymbal play, moving the piece along a river of meditative delight.” But the 2009 Grammy is just one many awards that DeJohnette has received over the years, beginning in 1979 with the French Grand Prix Disc and Charles Cros awards. He has figured prominently into readers polls and critics polls conducted by Downbeat and JazzTimes over the past two decades. He was awarded an honorary doctorate of music from Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1991, and was inducted into the Percussive Arts Society’s Hall of Fame in 2010.
In 2011, he was chosen to perform at the Kennedy Center in tribute to his longtime friend and musical inspiration, Sonny Rollins. Marking his 70s birthday in 2012, he received a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master Fellowship – the highest U.S. honor for jazz musicians – in recognition of his extraordinary life achievements, contributions to advancing the jazz art form, and for serving as a mentor for a new generation of aspiring young jazz musicians. The year-long birthday celebration included performances at the Monterey and Newport Jazz festivals, a tour of Europe with The Jack DeJohnette Group (a quintet he formed in 2010) and several concerts with Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke.
Despite all the awards and accolades, though, DeJohnette continues to make the creative process his highest priority. To that end, his most recent recording is Sound Travels, a nine-song, genre-spanning album that includes Latin rhythms and West Indian energy, meditative pieces and straightahead jazz. Included in the long list of guest players is Esperanza Spalding, Bobby McFerrin, Bruce Hornsby and Jason Moran.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
St. Cecilia Music Center Presents Grammy Award winner Jack DeJohnette, one of the most Influential Jazz Drummers of the 20th Century & Great Jazz Virtuoso,
in concert with Ravi Coltrane and Matt Garrison on Thursday, April 21st
The concert will feature music from the trio’s brand new album entitled
“In Movement” to be released in May 2016
GRAND RAPIDS, MI (March 23, 2016) – On Thursday, April 21 at 7:30 pm the audience at St. Cecilia Music Center will witness one of the most influential jazz drummers of the 20th Century, Jack DeJohnette in concert with Saxophonist Ravi Coltrane (son of Jazz legend John Coltrane and mother Alice Coltrane) and Electric Bassist Matt Garrison (son of bassist of the classic Coltrane quartet Jimmy Garrison).
This trio has traveled the world for many years performing and finally came together in studio in October 2015 to record their brand new album entitled “In Movement”, produced by Manfred Eicher. “In Movement” that be release in May 2016 features original songs and renditions of classics such Civil Rights Era elegy “Alabama,” “Blue in Green” by Miles Davis and Bill Evans, and “Serpentine Fire” from the hit ’70s R&B songbook of Earth, Wind & Fire. There are also original homages such as “The Two Jimmy’s”, which nods doubly to fellow innovators Jimmy Garrison and Jimi Hendrix, and “Rashied” saluting the late, great Rashied Ali, a key foil on drums during Coltrane’s free-minded late period.
Cathy Holbrook, Executive Director of St. Cecilia Music Center comments,
“Jack DeJohnette alone is a world-class jazz legend who has performed with every known jazz great in his lifetime. To have him at St. Cecilia with this trio, made up of the second generation of jazz legends, when their first album is just coming out is a dream come true for St. Cecilia Music Center’s Jazz Series.”
Jack DeJohnette was responsible for bringing Matt Garrison and Ravi Coltrane together musically, years ago. Ravi Coltrane, 50 and Matt Garrison, 45 are the children of important jazz artists whose lives were entwined: the saxophonist John Coltrane and the bassist Jimmy Garrison, who played in Coltrane’s quartet of the 1960s. DeJohnette, 73, has often recalled the rare privilege he had to sit in with John Coltrane’s quartet, when he was in Chicago.
Concert tickets are $43 and $48 and can be purchased by calling St. Cecilia Music Center at 616-459-2224 or visiting the box office at 24 Ransom Ave. NE. Tickets can also be purchased online at www.scmc-online.org. A post-concert “Meet-the-artists” reception will be offered to all ticket-holders giving the audience the opportunity to meet Jack DeJohnette, Ravi Coltrane and Jimmy Garrison and obtain signed CDs of his releases.
NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship and Grammy award winner Jack DeJohnette has established an unchallenged reputation as one of the greatest drummers in the history of the jazz. His career spans five decades as a performer and as a bandleader and includes work with Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, and Thelonious Monk, to name a few. The longer list of creative associations throughout his career is lengthy and diverse: Ornette Coleman, Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans, Stan Getz, Keith Jarrett, Chet Baker, George Benson, Stanley Turrentine, Herbie Hancock, Dave Holland, Joe Henderson, Freddy Hubbard, Betty Carter and many more. Along the way, he has developed a versatility that allows room for hard bop, R&B, world music, avant-garde, and just about every other style to emerge in the past half-century.
DeJohnette’s Peace Time won a Grammy in 2009 for Best New Age Album. The album consists of an hour-long, continuous piece of music that eMusic described as “flights of flute, soft hand drumming, and the gently percolating chime of cymbal play, moving the piece along a river of meditative delight.” But the 2009 Grammy is just one many awards that DeJohnette has received over the years. He has figured prominently into readers’ polls and critics’ polls conducted by Downbeat and JazzTimes over the past two decades. He was awarded an honorary doctorate of music from Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1991, and was inducted into the Percussive Arts Society’s Hall of Fame in 2010.
DeJohnette has been a bridge between the mainstream and the avant-garde. In 2015 he helped celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, with several acclaimed colleagues. www.jackdejohnette.com
“Jack DeJohnette gave me a deep groove that I just loved to play over.”
- Miles Davis -
Upcoming Concerts at St. Cecilia Music Center
Jazz Series Single tickets (no additional service fees)
Jack DeJohnette
April 21, 2016
A section $48
B section $43
Acoustic Café single tickets (no additional service fees)
Leo Kottke Alejandro Escovedo
April 14, 2016 May 5, 2016
A section $40 A section $35
B section $35 B section $30
Jack DeJohnette’s Bio (from his website www.jackdejohnette.com)
In a career that spans five decades and includes collaborations with some of the most iconic figures in modern jazz, Grammy winner Jack DeJohnette has established an unchallenged reputation as one of the greatest drummers in the history of the genre. The list of creative associations throughout his career is lengthy and diverse: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk, Bill Evans, Stan Getz, Keith Jarrett, Chet Baker, George Benson, Stanley Turrentine, Herbie Hancock, Dave Holland, Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Betty Carter and so many more. Along the way, he has developed a versatility that allows room for hard bop, R&B, world music, avant-garde, and just about every other style to emerge in the past half-century.
Born in Chicago in 1942, DeJohnette grew up in a family where music and music appreciation was a high priority. Beginning at age four, he studied classical piano privately and later at the Chicago Conservatory of Music, then added the drums to his repertoire when he joined his high school concert band at age 14.
“As a child, I listened to all kinds of music and I never put them into categories,” he recalls. “I had formal lessons on piano and listened to opera, country and western music, rhythm and blues, swing, jazz, whatever. To me, it was all music and all great. I’ve kept that integrated feeling about music, all types of music, and just carried it with me. I’ve maintained that belief and feeling in spite of the ongoing trend to try and compartmentalize people and music.”
By the mid-1960s, DeJohnette had entered the Chicago jazz scene – not just as a leader of his own fledgling groups but also as a sideman on both piano and drums. He experimented with rhythm, melody and harmony as part of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians during the group’s early days, and later drummed alongside Rashied Ali in the John Coltrane Quintet. He garnered international recognition during his tenure with the Charles Lloyd Quartet, one of the first jazz groups to receive crossover attention.
In 1968, DeJohnette joined Miles Davis’s group just prior to the recording of Bitches Brew, an album that triggered a seismic shift in jazz and permanently changed the direction of the music. Miles later wrote in his autobiography: “Jack DeJohnette gave me a deep groove that I just loved to play over.” DeJohnette stayed with Davis for three years, making important contributions to prominent Davis recordings like Live-Evil and A Tribute to Jack Johnson (both in 1971) and On the Corner (1972).
During this same period, DeJohnette also recorded his first albums as a leader, beginning with The DeJohnette Complex in 1968 on Milestone. He followed up with Have You Heard in 1970, then switched to Prestige, where he released Sorcery in 1974 and Cosmic Chicken in 1975.
The mid 1970s were marked by a series of groups and projects – many leaning toward the experimental side of jazz, including The Gateway Trio (featuring Dave Holland and John Abercrombie), Directions (with Abercrombie and saxophonist Alex Foster), and New Directions (Abercrombie, with Eddie Gomez on bass). Special Edition – which helped launch the careers of little known musicians like David Murray, Arthur Blythe, Chico Freeman, John Purcell and Rufus Reid – remained active into the 1990s, although the project was frequently interrupted by DeJohnette’s various other collaborative ventures, especially recordings and tours with Keith Jarrett.
DeJohnette has worked extensively with Jarrett as part of a longstanding trio with Gary Peacock. The threesome will celebrate its 30th anniversary in 2013.
Another of DeJohnette’s high-profile projects in the early 1990s was a touring quartet he led consisting of himself, Holland, Herbie Hancock and Pat Metheny, the results were then captured on the landmark recording Parallel Realities. In 1992, he released Music for a Fifth World, an album inspired by Native American culture that also included appearances by Vernon Reid and John Scofield. Given the diversity of players and styles that he had embraced by this point, DeJohnette was already describing his music in the ‘90s as “multidimensional.”
In 2004, DeJohnette recorded and toured with two Grammy nominated projects – Out of Towners, with Jarrett and Peacock (aka the Standards Trio); and Ivey Divey, which featured Don Byron and Jason Moran. He continued to work with Jarrett and Peacock in 2005, but also launched numerous additional ventures that same year, the first of which was the Latin Project – a combo that consisted of percussionists Giovanni Hidalgo and Luisito Quintero, reedman Don Byron, pianist Edsel Gomez, and bassist Jerome Harris. Other projects in 2005 included The Jack DeJohnette Quartet, featuring Danilo Perez, John Patitucci and Harris; and the Trio Beyond, a group that celebrated the music of drummer Tony Williams, featuring John Scofield and Larry Goldings.
And if that weren’t enough to make for a busy year, 2005 also marked the launch of DeJohnette’s own imprint, Golden Beams Productions. His first two projects on the new label were Music from the Hearts of the Masters, a duet recording with Gambian kora player Foday Musa Suso, and a relaxation and meditation album entitled Music in the Key of Om, featuring DeJohnette on synthesizer and resonating bells. The latter recording was nominated for a Grammy in the Best New Age Album category. He closed 2005 with the release of Hybrids, a seamless weave of African jazz, reggae and dance music that featured Foday Musa Suso and an international cast representing musical styles from around the world.
Two live recordings emerged in 2006: The Elephant Sleeps But Still Remembers (Golden Beams), which captured his first musical encounter with guitarist Bill Frisell at the Earshot Festival in Seattle in 2001; and Saudades (ECM), a 2004 London concert celebrating the music of Tony Williams. DeJohnette and Frisell reunited in the fall of 2006 – along with multi-instrumentalist Jerome Harris and mix master Ben Surman – for a tour to promote The Elephant Sleeps.
DeJohnette continued to explore African music in 2007 via the Intercontinental project, a partnership with South African singer Sibongile Khumalo that included a successful European tour and culminated in a performance at the Capetown Jazz Festival in South Africa. Other projects in 2007 included studio gigs and tour dates with Bruce Hornsby, Christian McBride, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter and Ron Carter. DeJohnette also appeared on Michael Brecker’s posthumously released Grammy Award winning final album, Pilgrimage.
Extensive touring continued in 2008, along with the recording of a trio album with Patitucci and Perez during a snow storm near DeJohnette’s home in upstate New York. The sessions resulted in Music We Are, released in April 2009 with a bonus DVD that provided a rare look at the trio’s friendship, their creative relationship and their approach to the recording process.
DeJohnette’s Peace Time won a Grammy in 2009 for Best New Age Album. The album consists of an hour-long, continuous piece of music that eMusic described as “flights of flute, soft hand drumming, and the gently percolating chime of cymbal play, moving the piece along a river of meditative delight.” But the 2009 Grammy is just one many awards that DeJohnette has received over the years, beginning in 1979 with the French Grand Prix Disc and Charles Cros awards. He has figured prominently into readers polls and critics polls conducted by Downbeat and JazzTimes over the past two decades. He was awarded an honorary doctorate of music from Berklee College of Music in Boston in 1991, and was inducted into the Percussive Arts Society’s Hall of Fame in 2010.
In 2011, he was chosen to perform at the Kennedy Center in tribute to his longtime friend and musical inspiration, Sonny Rollins. Marking his 70s birthday in 2012, he received a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master Fellowship – the highest U.S. honor for jazz musicians – in recognition of his extraordinary life achievements, contributions to advancing the jazz art form, and for serving as a mentor for a new generation of aspiring young jazz musicians. The year-long birthday celebration included performances at the Monterey and Newport Jazz festivals, a tour of Europe with The Jack DeJohnette Group (a quintet he formed in 2010) and several concerts with Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke.
Despite all the awards and accolades, though, DeJohnette continues to make the creative process his highest priority. To that end, his most recent recording is Sound Travels, a nine-song, genre-spanning album that includes Latin rhythms and West Indian energy, meditative pieces and straightahead jazz. Included in the long list of guest players is Esperanza Spalding, Bobby McFerrin, Bruce Hornsby and Jason Moran.
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In 2006 John Litweiler observed "Fred Anderson has finally become recognized as a major figure in the free-jazz, free-improvisation world." The tenor saxophonist, talent nurturer was featured in the first part of each hour last night on Jazz From Blue Lake, including performances with Adam Rudolph, Ken Vandermark, Timothy Daisy, Harrison Bankhead and others. We also included Roscoe Mitchell's brilliant tribute to Anderson on Chuck Nessa's label. You can listen to Jazz From Blue Lake today only, here: http://199.176.235.218/ondemand.pl
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I'm sorry Alankin -- Jazz From Blue Lake. The links are good for a day and then are replace by the next night's broadcast.
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Have you noticed how different Zoltan sounds without Elvin?
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Bassist John Lindberg has moved back to Michigan, and in celebration Blue Lake Public Radio featured his recordings last night on Jazz From Blue Lake. Thanks to Ann Braithwaite and Javier Diaz we brought you his recent music with Wadada Leo Smith, as well as his newest LP, a duo with cellist Anil Eraslan caled "Juggling Kukla." Here's hoping you'll check out the program via these links: http://199.176.235.218/ondemand.pl
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Tonight in Kalamazoo (from Tom Knific): Presenting one of the sweetest events of our WMU Jazz Series Wednesday 7:30pm, Dalton Center Recital Hall. European guitar legend Philip Catherine, in duo with one of my favorite bassists, Martin Wind, performing music from their new CD, Duo Art.
This is Catherine's Michigan debut. His splendid career spans work with Stephane Grappelli to Dexter Gordon, and many of the young lions of the past two decades. Not to miss!http://www.philipcatherine.com/
http://martinwind.com/
Hope to see you tonight!Tom Knific
Professor of Music
Director of Jazz Studies
Western Michigan University
Past President, International Society of Bassists
www.TomKnificMusic.com
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Sweet. Maybe watch the remake of "The Secret Life of Walter Middy" to set the scene.
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Please click Blue Lake Public Radio's on-demand page to hear Jazz From Blue Lake featuring saxophonist Sonny Stitt as well as Lazaro Vega's interview with pianist Marcus Roberts who appears Saturday with the Grand Rapids Symphony at DeVos Hall. http://199.176.235.218/ondemand.pl
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Thank you Mr. Ubu.
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A few years ago the docent at the Doris Duke Mansion in Newport mentioned during a tour that Doris Duke made some jazz recordings. At the time wasn't able to find anything, but low and behold, the docent was correct: http://www.joecastrojazz.com/
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Corey J Wilkes music came to attention outside of Chicago through appearances the young trumpeter made with Roscoe Mitchell or Kahil El Zabar. Last night on Jazz From Blue Lake we checked out music under his own name, some beautiful playing with Dee Alexander and a few others. Plenty of new records, too, and a nod to Buddy Tate and Rex Stewart. Here are temporary links to the radio program: http://199.176.235.218/ondemand.pl
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Pianist/arranger Mary Lou Williams caught a break in 1931 when Andy Kirk's Clouds of Joy pianist didn't show for a recording session. She became one of the band's featured soloists, then eventually wrote music for Benny Goodman (she introduced him to Charlie Christian, he invited her to play his 40th anniversary Carnegie Hall concert). There's more on Mary Lou Williams here, during Jazz From Blue Lake: http://199.176.235.218/ondemand.pl
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February 15, 2016
The Jazz Datebook:
Timely Hits:
Tuesday, February 16th at 7:30 p.m. The Truth in Jazz Orchestra plays big band jazz at 920 Watermark, 930 Washington Ave, Muskegon. Cash bar, fresh sandwiches. Phone: (231) 727-0805. See www.tijo.org.
Thursday, February 18th at 8 p.m. the Mack Avenue Superband is on tour at the Motor City Casino Hotel 1,500 seat club called The Sound Board. With Gary Burton, Tia Fuller, Sean Jones and the Christian McBride Trio. See: http://www.motorcitycasino.com/Schedules.aspx
Friday, February 19th at 6 p.m. a weekly jazz series debuts at The Waldron Public House, 58 Ionia Avenue SW, Grand Rapids. Drummer Randy Marsh leads Marshland Express with Caleb Elzinga, saxophones; Steve Talaga, piano; Warren Jones, bass and Marsh on drums. (616) 965 – 9780.
Friday, February 19that 8 p.m. one of the greatest tap dancers alive today, Savion Glover, is joined by jazz giant Jack DeJohnette on drums for a two set concert in Cobb Great Hall at The Wharton Center For the Performing Arts, 750 E. Shaw LN, East Lansing. Tickets from (517) 353-1982 or www.whartoncenter.com.
Saturday, February 20th at 7 p.m., saxophonist Mike Frost leads his “Project,” with Bill Boris on guitar, Dave Rosin, bass and David Hilliker, drums, at the J.W. Marriott, 235 Louis Street N.W., Grand Rapids. (616) 242 – 1448.
Saturday, February 20th the Keith Hall Drum Choir Experience is held, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., at Byron Center High School, 8500 Burlingame Ave SW, Byron Center. Tuition for this day long workshop is $75. Bring your drum set. Sign up at www.keithhallmusic.com or phone (201) 406 – 5059.
Sunday, February 21st at 3 p.m. the Beer City Saxophone Ensemble plays a concert as part of the Underground Series presented by www.adventuremusic.org and curated by Blue Lake Public Radio’s own Lazaro Vega. The “Super Sax” style group includes saxophones by Gary MCourry, Jim Hayward, Mike Lutley, Tom Lockwood, Tom Stansell, Greg Marsden and Bob Nixon with a rhythm section of pianist Steve Talaga, bassist Joe Oprea and drummer Tim Froncek. The concerts are held in LaFontsee Galleries, 833 Lake Drive S.E., Grand Rapids. (616) 451 – 9820.
Sunday, February21st the River Rogues traditional jazz band (see www.theriverrogues.org ) play the New Harmony Hall, 401 Stocking Ave NW, Grand Rapids. Phone: (616) 233-9186, or on the web, www.harmonybeer.com.
Tuesday, February 23rd at 8 p.m. guitarist Ed Stone plays at the New Vintage Jazz Series at New Vintage Place, 889 Broadway Avenue NW, Grand Rapids. Cocktails at 7, music from 8-10. As a youth, Ed Stone played guitar in numerous soul, orchestra and jazz bands. Ed Stone is a medical doctor who returned to music and is now part of the Detroit scene, including the release of 3 CD's, the latest "King Of Hearts" and playing in local clubs (Baker's keyboard Lounge, Harbor House Restaurant) as well as The New Center Park Summer Music Series, Idlewild Music Festival, Belle Isle Jazz Concert Series, Campus Martus Park Jazz Series and the Fox 2 Morning News Weekend Show on WJKB-TV. See www.wmichjazz.org or phone (616) 498-0855.
Wednesday, February 24th at 7:30 p.m.in the Dalton Center Recital Hall, Western Michigan University, the Western Michigan Jazz Program with the Frostic School of Art collaborate in “Climate Changes,” a live and interactive program featuring the Advanced Jazz Ensemble directed by Dr. Andrew Rathbun and installation/video by Prof Patrick Wilson and students form the Frostic School. Tickets from (800) 228 – 9858.
Saturday, February 27that 8 p.m. the Grand Rapids Symphony’s “Symphony With Soul” welcomes renowned pianist Marcus Roberts Trio to this 15th annual celebration of of African-American musical expression. David Lockington is on the podium, and the program features performances by the Grand Rapids Symphony Chorus (Duane Shields Davis, director) and Creative Connections (Jill Collier Warne, director). Roberts will be featured in George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue.” The concert takes place at DeVos Performance Hall, 303 Monroe Avenue NW, Grand Rapids. See www.grsymphony.org for more.
Tuesday, March 1st at 6:30 p.m., At Prize winning vibraphonist Jim Cooper leads his trio at The North Muskegon “Walker Memorial” Library, 1522 Ruddiman Dr, North Muskegon. Phone:(231) 744-6080.
Tuesday, March 1st at 7:30 Tango sensation from Argentina, J.P. Jofre, bandoneon, and Paublo Cafici, piano, are joined by the Western Michigan University String Orchestra in a free performance at Dalton Center Recital Hall, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo. See www.wmujazz.com .
Thursday, March 3rd at 7 p.m. saxophonist Tim Warfield appears with the Michigan State University Bebop Spartans, also known as The MSU Jazz Orchestra 1, in the Michigan State University Federal Credit Union concert tour coming to Spring Lake high School Auditorium, 16140 148th Ave, Spring Lake. See www.timwarfieldmusic.com or phone the school at (616) 846-5501.
Friday, March 4th at 7:30 p.m. in the Interlochen Arts Academy Dendrinos Chapel, Interlochen (15 miles southwest of Traverse City), Bill Sears leads the Interlochen Arts Academy Jazz Ensemble and Combos in concert with special guests trombonist Marshall Gilkes (nominated for 2 Grammy Awards this year); Michigan State University professor of jazz, trumpeter Etienne Charles; director of jazz studies at Oberlin Conservatory of Music, guitarist Bobby Ferrazza; bassist Marion Hayden; and drummer Sean Dobbins. See: www.interlochen.org for information.
Saturday, March 5th at 7:30 p.m. at Interlochen Arts Academy’s Dendrinos Chapel, pianist Xavier Davis joins Bill Sears and the musicians performing on the 4th for a free faculty jazz recital. See www.interlochen.org for information.
Thursday, March 10that 7:30 p.m. French vocalist Cyrille Aimee brings her blend of Gypsy jazz, Brazilian music and the straight ahead to St. Cecilia Music Center’s historic Royce Auditorium, 24 Ransom Avenue N.E., Grand Rapids. A finalist in the French version of American Idol, and went on to win the Montreux Jazz Festival Competition in 2007, was a finalist in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition in 2010, and won the Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Competition in 2012. Today she records for Mack Avenue Records. See http://www.cyrillemusic.com. For information, www.scmc-online.org or (616) 459 – 2224.
Friday, March 11th at 8 p.m. the 35th Annual Western Invitational Jazz Festival features a performance by pianist Edward Simon and the Western Jazz Quartet at the Dalton Center Recital Hall, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo. (800) 228 – 9858.
Saturday, March 12th at 7 p.m. Alexander Zonjic’s Shoreline Jazz Festival Preview Concert at the Frauenthal Center for the Performing Arts, 425 W Western Ave #200, Muskegon, features Zonjic’s flute, Swiss pianist Alex Bugnon; saxophonist Eric Darius; guitarist Nick Colionne and vocalist Thornetta Davis. See www.shorelinejazzfestival.com, www.startickets.com or (800) 585 – 3737.
Saturday, March 12th at 7:30 p.m., concluding a day of performances by high school and college jazz bands, pianist Edward Simon is guest soloist with the Western Michigan University Jazz Orchestra at Dalton Center Recital Hall, Kalamazoo. Tickets from (800) 228 – 9858.
Wednesday, March 16th at 7:30 p.m. the famed Belgian jazz guitarist Philip Catherine and bassist Martin Wind appear at the Dalton Center Recital Hall, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo. See www.philipcatherine.com or phone (800) 228 – 9858.
Sunday, March 20that 3 p.m. bassist Matt Ulery presents an all-star edition of his band “LOOM” at LaFontsee Galleries, 833 Lake Drive S.E., Grand Rapids, as part of the Underground Series presented by www.adventuremusic.org. With Rob Clearfield on keyboards; Jon Dietemyer, drums; Russ Johnson, who performed in the Underground Series with the Charlie Kohlhase’s Explorers Club in March of 2015, trumpet; Geof Bradfield bass clarinet and Matt Ulery offering double bass, tuba and compositions. For directions see www.latontsee.us and for more on millennial jazz musician Matt Ulery, www.mattulery.com/wordpress .
Monday, March 21st from 6:30 to 8:30 the West Michigan Jazz Society presents their Monday Night Jazz Series at The Guest House 634 Stocking Ave. NW, Grand Rapids, with Muskegon-area guitarist Rick Hicks, who’s penchant for jazz, gospel and blues has found him traveling to Italy with vocalist Betty Joplin, opening for Spyro Gyra, Bobby Blues Band, James Brown and L.L. Cool j. With Mark Hicks on bass and Mark Weymouth on drums. See www.wmichjazz.org.
Monday, March 28th at 7:30 p.m. the University Jazz Lab Band directed by Tom Knific appears in a free concert at the Dalton Center Recital Hall, 1903 W. Michigan Avenue Kalamazoo, MI 49008. Phone: 269-387-4681.
Tuesday, March 29th at 7:30 p.m. saxophonist Lucan Pino collaborates with professor/pianist Jeremy Siskind and the WMU Advanced Jazz Ensemble at the Dalton Center Recital Hall, 1903 W. Michigan Avenue Kalamazoo, MI 49008. Phone: 269-387-4681. Or see www.wmich.edu/jazz.
Regular Hits:
Mondays from 8 to 11 p.m. pianist/vocalist John Shea swings downtown Grand Rapids from the front window of The Republic, 45 South Division, Grand Rapids. With bassist Warren Jones III and drummer Fred Knapp, John presents a wide variety of jazz and songbook standards. www.republicgrandrapids.com.
Mondays from 6 to 10 p.m., Fridays 7 – 11 p.m. and Saturdays 6-10 p.m. The What Not Inn features a revolving cast of local musicians each weekend and Mondays hosts a jam session open to musicians and vocalists. See the full schedule here: www.whatnotinn.com. The What Not Inn is located at M89 and the Blue Star Highway, 2405 68th Street, Fennville, MI. (269) 543-3341.
Tuesdays, 7:30 – 10:30, there’s an open mic jazz jam session at The Grand, 22 Washington, Grand Haven, MI. (616) 847 – 8944.
Tuesdays, vocalist Kathy Lamar performs with pianist Dutcher Snedeker and Mario Copeland, 7- 10 p.m., at Bar Divani, 15 Ionia Avenue S.W., Grand Rapids. (616) 774 – 9463.
Wednesdays from 7 to 10 p.m. The Tom Hagen Trio with vocalist Rick Reuther have been appearing at Noto’s Old World Italian Dining, 6600 28th Street SE, Grand Rapids for more than 13 years, the longest continuous jazz hang in west Michigan. (616) 493 – 6686, or www.notosoldworld.com.
Wednesdays from 8 to 10, a new jazz concert series features the Robin Connell Trio and special guests. The Harris Building Jazz Series is held at 111 S. Division Avenue, Grand Rapids, www.theharrisbuilding.com. Here’s the schedule of guests: February 17th, Michigan State University Professor of Jazz, saxophonist Diego Rivera; 2-24, Grand Rapids Jazz Orchestra soloist and renowned jazz educator, trumpeter James Sawyer.
Wednesdays, House of Music Entertainment at The B.O.B., 20 Monroe Ave. NW, Grand Rapids, 49503, occasionally features jazz and blues. More from www.thebob.com/houseofmusic .
Thursdays at 7 p.m. a variety of jazz bands rotate the schedule at The Book Nook and Java Shop, 8744 Ferry Street in Montague. See www.thebooknookjavashop.com and click on the calendar for Thursday night.
Thursdays through May 2016, The Jeff Haas Quartet with saxophonist/flutist Laurie Sears, pianist Haas, bassist Jack Dryden and drummer Randy Marsh performs from 7 – 9:30 at West Bay Beach Resort, 615 E Front St, Traverse City. Phone (231) 947-3700.
Fridays, 7 p.m. the John Shea Trio plays at the J.W. Marriot Hotel, 235 Louis Street N.W., Grand Rapids. (616) 242 – 1448.
Saturdays at 7:30, pianist John Shea leads his trio at Noto’s Old World Italian Dining, 6600 28th Street S.E., Grand Rapids. See www.notosoldworld.com or call (616) 493 – 6686.
Sundays from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. guitarist Greg Miller brings his 6-1-6 guitar concept to the J.W. Marriot Hotel, 235 Louis Street N.W., Grand Rapids. (616) 242 – 1448.
Sundays at 7 p.m. Randy Marsh’s Sunday Night Jazz Hang at The Speak EZ Lounge, 600 Monroe Avenue N.W., Grand Rapids (616) 458 – 2689. A fun jam session celebrating a 3rd year anniversary Oct 18. Student jazz musicians under 21 with a parent or legal guardian have a chance to play from 8:15 until 9:00 p.m. Anyone under 21 has to leave at 9 pm. The host trio plays from 7:00 - 8:00. www.speakezlounge.com.
First Sunday of every month from 5 to 7 p.m. the Grand Rapids Jazz Orchestra plays Founders Brewing Company, 235 Grandville Avenue S.W., downtown Grand Rapids. The GRJO is the region’s premier professional jazz orchestra. Information from www.grjo.com.
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Since 2012, the Mack Avenue Superband highlighted Labor Day weekend at the Detroit Jazz Festival. This past weekend they started, for the first time, to tour. Blue Lake Public Radio featured recordings by the band, with Gary Burton, Christian McBride, Tia Fuller, Warren Wolf, Rodney Whitaker, Evan Perri and many others in the first part of each hour here:http://199.176.235.218/ondemand.pl
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70 years ago yesterday, Norman Granz presented one of his most sublime Jazz at the Philharmonic line-ups ever as Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker, who were playing at Billy Berg's in Los Angeles, joined the concert alongside jazz giant Lester Young. Parker's solo on "Lady Be Good" is one for the ages. We heard the concert, as well as many new records in a variety of settings, last night on Jazz From Blue Lake, available here today only: http://199.176.235.218/ondemand.pl
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Coming up Sunday night on Blue Lake Public Radio....
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Earlier this month on Jazz From Blue Lake we talked about the 4 mallet technique and the jazz-rock influence in the music of Gary Burton. Last night, we continued hearing musicians who changed the way the vibes "fit" into the jazz ensemble by spotlighting Bobby Hutcherson on the occasion of his 75th birthday. Here's hoping you'll check out the program today, temporarily on-demand: http://199.176.235.218/ondemand.pl
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Including such hit compositions as "Dementia, My Darling"?
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Truman Capote snarked on jazz violin in "Breakfast At Tiffany's." "As out of place as a violin in a jazz band." That bugs me. Hey Truman, put down the pen and put on some Joe Venuti records, or Eddie South. In the meantime, Blue Lake Public Radio celebrates the third great early jazz violinist who helped internationalize the music, the late Stephane Grappelli. And included in the radio broadcast are several contemporary practitioners of music more real than fictional! Here are the temporary links to the broadcast: http://199.176.235.218/ondemand.pl
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Yesterday Blue Lake Public Radio celebrated the music of saxophonist/composer Benny Golson during the first part of each hour, opening with Arron Diehl's new recording featuring the master. Here's hoping you'll check out the program via these temporary links:http://199.176.235.218/ondemand.pl
Herbie Hancock on Jazz From Blue Lake
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Please join Blue Lake Public Radio for a trip through the multi-dimensional musical world of Herbie Hancock as part of Jazz From Blue Lake’s 76th birthday celebration of the exceptional artist, available here: http://199.176.235.218/ondemand.pl