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  1. And His Mother Called Him Bill

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    I'm thinking for that title at least 30 and possibly 70. Given that many of the people in our audience are also older, the download idea would just baffle them. And I'm not really keen on the MP3 sound, especially for older recordings. No, 2 isn't going to cut it. Back in the day, when these were in stock at the label, they'd offer them to radio at a price around $6.50. We offer them for $75 as a means of supporting the station (some of the music premiums we offer have been given to us, but those are not going to be Ellington or Goodman records). And then we'd see how the audience responds. Happy to say we'll be offering the new Uptown Billie Holiday set as our on air premium tomorrow morning from 7 to 10 and I'm confident, given it's her centennial, too, we'll move some.

  3. Chick Corea, Ornette Coleman on Jazz From Blue Lake

    in Jazz Radio & Podcasts

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    Chick Corea was featured in the first 20 minutes of each hour during Jazz From Blue Lake last evening; then we heard contemporary musicians performing the compositions of Ornette Coleman to honor the musical giant's passing. Late into the program we hear from Ornette Colemanhimself, including the as yet unreleased on CD Impulse! Recordsrecording of "Crisis." Here's a link to the broadcast:http://199.176.235.218/ondemand/17-1-20150611.mp3

  5. And His Mother Called Him Bill

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    Wanted to offer our listeners Duke Ellington's "And His Mother Called Him Bill" as a fall membership premium in honor of Strayhorn's centennial, and it is unavailable from RCA/Legacy or whatever conglomerate controls the RCA catalog now. Or at least that's what the minions there told me.

  10. Xanadu Master Edition Series - Elemental Music

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    From Zev Feldman.

    FRIENDS, I'VE BEEN WAITING TO SHARE SOME NEWS.

    Will you please watch this short video?

    Over the last 3 years I've been involved in a historical preservation effort with ELEMENTAL MUSIC of Barcelona, Spain & THE ORCHARD to restore & reissue The XANADU RECORDS jazz album catalog. The first 6 albums are out June 30th. After Hurricane Sandy hit in 2012, many of the master tape reels were seriously damaged or destroyed (tapes literally unraveled in the floodwater). We had a long road to restore & reissue the recordings. We even lost all the album artwork so I used my personal LP's to have them drum scanned & our designer (Simon Svard) restored & made them look new again.

    This became the perfect opportunity to celebrate one of my heroes, Xanadu's founder Don Schlitten, a man who I consider to be one of the architect's of this music & unjustly under-appreciated. You may not be aware of his name, but Don Schlitten has left one of the largest footprints in this music doing production, photography & design for many labels including Signal Records, Prestige, MPS, Cobblestone, Onyx, Muse, RCA & Xanadu. Xanadu was his brain-child and was a 'mom & pop' record label co-run with his wife Nina. Together they recorded & documented straight-ahead jazz in an era which was heavily influenced by fusion, funk rock, & R&B.

    Over the next year, Elemental Music (in partnership with The Orchard) will reissue 25 key albums from the catalog which my label partner Jordi Soley and I personally selected). We've created definitive re-issue editions with 16-page booklets containing original notes, bonus photographs, & new liners by British jazz journalist legend Mark Gardner, in addition to yours truly. The first 6 releases include Jimmy & Albert 'Tootie' Heath, Al Cohn/Jimmy Rowles, Barry Harris, Sam Most & The Xanadu All-Stars. More releases to come from the likes of Joe Farrell, Bob Berg, Kenny Barron, Dexter Gordon, Cecil Payne plus others.

    This is one of the most important musical projects I've ever been involved with. This was a labor of love & I'm proud of what we've accomplished. I hope you'll join us on this journey as we celebrate this music, and Don's accomplishments. It all starts June 30th.

    OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE HERE:

    http://www.icontactarchive.com/Bp61cp1zavMD8u8e7KtgO4n8le3X…

    Thanks for your interest & support.

    Special thanks to Bret Primack & Zak Shelby-Szyszko for your help co-writing, directing, and producing this video with me.

    Zev

  16. Roscoe Mitchell on last night's Jazz From Blue Lake

    in Jazz Radio & Podcasts

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    Happy birthday Chuck Nessa.

    Last night's Jazz From Blue Lake celebrated the music of Roscoe Mitchell, including several recordings on Nessa Records then veering off into recordings with Jack DeJohnette, Tyshawn Sorey, Famoudou Don Moye,Nicole M. Mitchell and The Art Ensemble of Chicago. Here's a link to last night's program, active until the end of today:http://199.176.235.218/ondemand/17-1-20150520.mp3

  20. Trumpeter Shunzo Ohno on demand

    in Jazz Radio & Podcasts

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    He came to America in the 1970's to play with Art Blakey and was taken under the wing of Gil Evans. Trumpeter Shunzo Ohno kicks of Jazz Appreciation Month on Blue Lake. Avant garde fans will want to go two hours into the file for "Out on Blue Lake" featuring new releases by Milford Graves and Bill Laswell, William Parker and Andrew Cyrille on Tum Records, plus Jack DeJohnette's "Made in Chicago". http://199.176.235.218/ondemand/17-1-20150401.mp3

  21. Harrison Bankhead in Grand Rapids, May 3rd

    in Live Shows & Festivals

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    “The Chicago-based jazz bassist Harrison Bankhead is an avant-garde-leaning musician with a journeyman's ability to fit within an array of jazz styles from straight-ahead to free jazz.” Matt Collar, The All Music Guide.

    Grand Rapids celebrates the 50th Anniversary of Chicago’s Association For the Advancement of Creative Musicians with a performance by Harrison Bankhead’s Quartet on Sunday, May 3rd at 3 p.m. in The Underground Series, presented in the unique surroundings of the LaFontsee Galleries, 833 Lake Drive S.E., Grand Rapids, in association with www.adventuremusic.org.

    Bankhead’s quartet presents a high energy two saxophone front line with proven bass/drums rhythm section reaching heights familiar to John Coltrane’s late period -- highly spiritualized, ecstatic hosannas seeking the universal tone – while able, sometimes within the same piece, of introspectively delving into traditional African musical instruments and cultures.

    Bassist Harrison Bankhead and drummer Avreeayl Ra are a Chicago rhythm section of enormous range and stylistic flexibility, able to lay down a straight ahead groove as they did at The Wealthy Theatre with trumpeter Malachi Thompson and poet Amiri Baraka in 1999, or push the music into free range as you heard at the Wealthy Theatre when Bankhead joined the Roscoe Mitchell/Fred Anderson Quintet in 2003.

    Appearing in Grand Rapids powering Harrison Bankhead’s Quartet on Sunday, May 3rd at 3 p.m. they’ll reinforce the multi-directional musical possibilities of saxophonists Mars Williams and Edward Wilkerson Jr., two musicians firmly in the post-John Coltrane/Archie Shepp/Albert Ayler/Roscoe Mitchell saxophone continuum who, as A.A.C.M. artists, play a wide range of woodwinds (including Didgeridoo) and African percussion.

    With Chicago’s Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians celebrating its 50th Anniversary on April 26th, this is a perfect time to experience the spectacular heights of fire and thunder some of the most creative musicians on the planet improvise in the moment.

    With this concert, The Underground Series seeks to, in the words of Tum Records, “promote more experienced musicians whose work is not favored by the commercial trends of our time.”

    As series curator Lazaro Vega said prior to the Charlie Kohlhase Explorers Club concert, “The corptocracy will not give you this music: to find it you have to go underground. Thanks for digging.”

    Bankhead’s long association with Fred Anderson on the bandstand at Anderson’s The Velvet Lounge in Chicago seasoned the bassist to be ready for anything, and to always groove. He plays beautiful, precise, swinging lines on vocalist Dee Alexander’s new release “Songs My Mother Loves,” and ably takes his working quartet through the sonicsphere on the new album “Velvet Blue.”

    Ticket 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/ .

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