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I wanted to include that album with Ella and Ellington, but wasn't sure which pieces integrated Ella's rhythm section into the band. There's a version of "Imagine My Frustration" recorded live in Stockholm that features some Gus Johnson like kicks on the head, but then that Sam Woodyard doo-wop shuffle thing on the theme....glad you check it out!

Last evening' Jazz From Blue Lake, full of great music by Duke Ellington's Famous Orchestra featuring drummer Sam Woodyard, plus "Out on Blue Lake," two hours in, with music by Garrison Fewell and a new recording by Ornette Coleman available today on-demand:http://199.176.235.218/ondemand/17-1-20150107.mp3

Right. He made two organ records, I believe. This one came up on an E-Bay auction from a long time Grand Rapids area rock and roll disc jockey, Aris Hampers, and I picked it up, the original vinyl. Jim's description is right on the money. By the way, I've had several listeners comment on it, too; usually to the tune of, that was the shizznit.

Barry Altschul's recordings are featured in the first 20 minutes of each hour in this version of Jazz From Blue Lake, available today on-demand. We hear several versions of "Be Out S'Cool," as well as music he performed live on Blue Lake Public Radio with Gebhard Ullmann, Steve Swell and Hilliard Greene. We're also checking out new recordings by Akua Dixon Turre with John Blake Jr. and Regina Carter. http://199.176.235.218/ondemand/17-1-20150106.mp3

Last evening's Jazz From Blue Lake featuring Myra Melford available on demand today: http://199.176.235.218/ondemand/18-1-20150105.mp3

http://199.176.235.218/ondemand/17-1-20141230.mp3 Last evening's Jazz From Blue Lake broadcast featuring Barbara Morrison, available throughout today.

Though a bit up-cut, here's last evening's broadcast of Jazz From Blue Lake featuring Joe Lovano. The program begins with a discussion of his new band with trumpeter Dave Douglas. http://199.176.235.218/ondemand/18-1-20141229.mp3

Last evening's Jazz From Blue Lake broadcast featuring the December 1938 and '39 "Sprituals to Swing" concerts, the first time blues, gospel and jazz (‪#‎BAM‬) were presented on the same concert stage; plus holiday music by everyone. Available here all day "on-demand," http://199.176.235.218/ondemand/17-1-20141223.mp3

Should probably write the label via contact information to see about that check out issue..... So, if you buy a flac file you still need to convert it to wave files to burn to CD, right? Noticed they offer it in straight up wave files, too.

For those of you who missed it, or fell asleep, last night's Jazz From Blue Lake program featuring Benny Goodman's Carnegie Hall Concert will be available today on demand from this link: http://199.176.235.218/ondemand/18-1-20141222.mp3

http://199.176.235.218/ondemand/17-1-20141217.mp3 Last evening's Jazz From Blue Lake featuring Sy Oliver and including "Out On Blue Lake" with Roger Arntzen and Ballrogg live from our studios in the Manistee National Forest.

Welcome back.

On December 5th, Ballrogg, a trio of improvising musicians from Norway, stopped by Blue Lake Public Radio’s Dave Myers Performance Studio and recorded a performance we’ll feature tonight at midnight, “Out On Blue Lake.” With Klaus Ellerhusen Holm’s clarinet, bass clarinet and book of compositions; Roger Arntzen’s bass, sometimes played with clothes pins attached to the strings; and Ivar Grydeland’s pedal steel guitar, banjo and loops, Ballrogg plays long tones rocking between comfortable intervals that fill in with ensemble textures or quiet, creative improvisations. Following this session, the band played Hugo Claudin's loft in Grand Rapids, then appeared at Constellation in Chicago. Hope you can join us, streaming live from www.bluelake.org/radio (Blurb): "Ballrogg is now working on new music for their fourth release which can be seen as a natural development from "Cabin Music" (on Hubro 2012). The music is as before, based in open compositions which serve as a framework and guidelines for improvisation. Ballrogg gathers inspiration from many divergent sources - Scandinavian and American folk music, elements from British free improvisation and fragments from European composed music." And here you can find press pictures:http://ballrogg.no/press.html

Last night Jazz From Blue Lake featured drummer Danny Richmond on "The Jazz Retrospective" element of our 5 hour program. Richmond was Charles Mingus's partner in time for over 20 years. We hear their music, as well as Richmond's sideman appearances with Zoot Sims, Herbie Nichols and others, plus Holiday tuneage (dolphin free). That program is available throughout today from our web site: http://199.176.235.218/ondemand/17-1-20141216.mp3

Last evening's Jazz From Blue Lake featuring Stan Kenton (upcut a bit at the start). http://199.176.235.218/ondemand/18-1-20141215.mp3

Yes, it was same time as NYC. We have listeners all over the world. Maybe www.bluelake.org/radio.html ?you then click "Listen"

"Is That All There Is? The Strange Life of Peggy Lee," the new biography by James Gavin is the starting point for a special three hour radio program tonight, 7- 10 p.m. est on Blue Lake Public Radio. For three hours we'll listen to the music of Peggy Lee and an interview with her biographer James Gavin streaming live from www.bluelake.org/radio . From her early 1940's recordings with Benny Goodman, to her first hit records with husband Dave Barbour, to the mega-hit "Fever," Blue Lake celebrates the music of one of the 20th Century's most enduring popular singers and songwriters

Thank you, Jim. Very much. We are now going to make available our previous evening's jazz program on line for 24 hours after it broadcasts. The program airs live Monday through Friday, 10 p.m. - 3 a.m. eastern standard time. I record Saturday morning, 7-10 a.m. and Sunday night 7-10 p.m. Here's last night's broadcast, starting about 2:30, featuring vocalist Catherine Russell: http://199.176.235.218/ondemand/17-1-20141212.mp3

Nessa came on Jazz From Blue Lake in the 1980's and shared some of his considerable Blue Note lp library with us. Today, he dropped by to be interviewed by the BBC about "A Love Supreme." Tonight, late, we'll play an 18 minute piece from his phenomenal Bobby Bradford album recorded in March. That has Ingebracht Haker Flaten playing bass, who appeared at Edge Fest in Ann Arbor this October. Last week a trio of Norwegien improvisers called Ballrogg -- bass, clarinets and slide guitar, more or less, and not about Tolkein, it's a variation on Norwegian's prononounciation of Roger...you'll have to tune in -- came by the station and recorded a live performance that will air next week. The day before this incredible singer/pianist Jesus freak named Ashely Gonzalez Daneman came in with a quartet and recorded an hour of her "Beauty Indestructable" original music with trumpet, electric bass and drums (20 and 30 something's) which airs Saturday morning at about 8:45, and includes a ball your eyes out improvisation on "Silent Night" (really, I have to say something in front of God and everyone after that?). And Sunday night from 7 to 10 I just put together a three hour program on the music of Peggy Lee featuring 15 edited talk parts with Lee biographer James Gavin. So, thats part of a week on the radio, especially for our local audience, our primary audience. Tonight we'll celebrate McCoy Tyner's birthday in the first 20 minutes of each hour, but feeling fuzzy on it as he played the Gilmore Keyboard Festival in Kalamazoo and St. Cecilia Music Center in Grand Rapids within the past two years and we went way, way into his thing....tonight's going to be a ramble...starts at 10, goes to 3 a.m. And if it works will be available on our web site during the day tomorrow. So,yes, I love playing jazz on the radio...

It is phenomenal.

The program is only available for about 24 hours, then the on-demand refreshes with a new program.

This link is good until tonight, then the program refreshes: Last evening's broadcast of Jazz From Blue Lake with the music of Duke Ellington in the 1950's available today "on demand."http://199.176.235.218/ondemand/17-1-20141210.mp3

Last night's Jazz From Blue Lake broadcast is available today on-demand. The program features music by organist Jimmy Smith:http://199.176.235.218/ondemand/18-1-20141208.mp3

Here is an overview of Carolyn Heines participation in producing those concerts: http://www.westmichmusichystericalsociety.com/fsc/

With Dave Brubeck coming up tonight on Jazz From Blue Lake, it's a good time to look back on the pianist/composer/bandleader's historic performances in Grand Rapids. There were others, including a broadcast on Buck Matthews WOOD television program with Chris Brubeck and Danny Brubeck, as well as a Grand Rapids Symphony pops concert later in his career, but the appearances at Fountain Street Church changed the music's image in the city. Here is an overview of Carolyn Heines participation in producing those concerts :http://www.westmichmusichystericalsociety.com/fsc/