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Loved this version of Ten Freedom Summers, too. The blend of strings with the quartet worked beautifully, and the visual art element was arresting. The Ann Arbor concert was able to include a finale blow out for Smith that he seemed building towards in Chicago, but the time got away from him. So he played more trumpet at the Edge Fest, though the trade out of hearing the more complete work was worth it in Chi. What a great way to memorialize the anniversary of King's "Dream" speech.

Pianist/educator Ran Blake was a waiter at the Jazz Gallery starting in October, 1960, about the time Max Roach and Abbey Lincoln were preparing material to record on the albums "We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite," "Straight Ahead," and "Percussion Bitter Sweet" by performing live there every night. When Blake appeared at the 2012 Gilmore Keyboard Festival in Kalamazoo, and met several of Lincoln's family and high school classmates, he included a 9 page program essay called "Nostalgia Noir: Abbey's Influence on Ran." We'll cull from his notes during Jazz From Blue Lake Tonight and feature Abbey Lincoln, as well as the recording of Blake's Kalamazoo concert. Streaming live 10 p.m. - 3 a.m. eastern www.bluelake.org/radio.html

Informative interview. Blue Lake recently broadcast The Maze and L-R-G in celebration of the anniversary of their recording.

Historic. Enjoying the 11 minute version of "Nomad," as well as Brubeck's announcements and his sense of place. The Brubeck Trio plus Bennett is an unrehearsed segment, and it's a fun, one off, good for kicks. Nothing like the Real Ambassadors or One Night With Carmen but that's o.k.

July 27, 1978. Anything was possible. Including 8 percussionists unloading and setting up at the famous CBS 30th Street Studio to record a Roscoe Mitchell piece based on "groups of sounds," instruments grouped by texture and pitch, interacting in composed/improvisation, appropriately titled "The Maze." Tonight at midnight, "Out On Blue Lake," with Roscoe Mitchell's "The Maze" and "L-R-G," released by Chuck Nessa. Jazz from Blue Lake starts at 10 p.m. with the music of guitarist Kenny Burrell on The Jazz Retrospective. Hope you'll join us: www.bluelake.org/radio.html

Been enjoying it. Great sounds.

Coming up Sunday on Jazz From Blue Lake, 7 p.m., an interview with author Gary Carner about jazz great Pepper Adams, the former crowned king of the baritone saxophone. Meantime, looking ahead to November and a concert of Pepper's music for big band played by Scott Gwinnell at the Detroit Institute of Arts, here's a kickstarter: Very rare live audience recording of Pepper Adams and Elvin Jones at the Village Vanguard! 2 CDs + 2 surprise CDs for pledge of $35 or more at Kickstarter. The campaign seeks to release history's first big band CD of Pepper Adams tunes. 11 days left. Link: http://kck.st/12JDNVI Pepperadams.com

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Please join Blue Lake Public Radio this Sunday evening, August 4th from 7 to 10 p.m. eastern time for the music of baritone saxophone great Pepper Adams and local host Lazaro Vega interviewing Adams' biographer Gary Carner about "Joy Road," Carner's annotated discography of Pepper Adams' music just released in paperback. Streaming live from www.bluelake.org/radio.html and through Blue Lake Public Radio's app for iPhone and Android devices.

Is this appropriate for Organissimo? Detroit's involved! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/333143376/the-compositions-of-pepper-adams-big-band-cd-and-t

Clifford: how do you pronounce his first name?

I'd be there, too, except I have to be on the board for a live broadcast. Arno is sounding great. Caught him on Wednesday. Did a phoner with him today, too: one of the last 3 surviving members of the 3rd Herd. Happy 85th Arno! Congratulations on the big 5-0 to both of you: You're a lucky man!

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Jodie Christian's comfort range is broader than you'd expect, especially as he's not stylistically a "post-Cecil Taylor" pianist, and finds his own voice in those Roscoe Mitchell albums. Christian attended the initial meetings of the AACM, fwiw, too. Love the interplay between Ira and Wilbur Campbell on The Girl from Ipanema.

George Lewis writes that Sun Ra "explicitly connects his music with projects of identity, philosophy, historical recovery, and mysticism. He explored the role of black people in the creation of civilization, and maintained that music could both change individual moral values and the affect the fate of the world." Musically, coming out of the Fletcher Henderson band and Bronzeville floor shows, embracing gospel music, bop and the large ensemble explorations of Duke Ellington and Tadd Dameron, the Sun Ra Arkestra presents it all, as you'll hear tonight on Blue Lake Public Radio, 10 p.m. - 3 a.m. eastern, with "Out on Blue Lake" at midnight including a 2005 live broadcast from our studios by Henry Grimes and Sun Ra's principle alto saxophonist Marshall Allen. Streaming live fromwww.bluelake.org/radio.html

(blurb) WADADA LEO SMITH & TUMO Occupy The World TUM CD 037-2 CD-1: 01 Queen Hatshepsut / 02 The Bell - 2 / 03 Mount Kilimanjaro (Love And Compassion For John Lindberg) CD-2: 04 Crossing On A Southern Road (A Memorial For Marion Brown) / 05 Occupy The World For Life, Liberty And Justice Wadada Leo Smith conductor, trumpet (soloist on 01, 02, 04 and 05) John Lindberg double bass (soloist on 03) with TUMO International release: June 18, 2013 TUMO: Verneri Pohjola trumpet and electronics; Jari Hongisto trombone; Kalle Hassinen horn; Kenneth Ojutkangas tuba; Juhani Aaltonen flute, alto flute, bass flute and piccolo; Fredrik Ljungqvist tenor and sopranino saxophones, clarinet and bass clarinet; Mikko Innanen alto, soprano and baritone saxophones; Seppo Kantonen piano; Iro Haarla harp; Mikko Iivanainen electric guitar; Kalle Kalima electric guitar; Veli Kujala quarter-tone accordion; Terhi Pylkkänen violin; Niels Thorkild Levinsen violin; Barbora Hilpo viola; Iida-Vilhelmiina Laine cello; Ulf Krokfors double bass; John Lindberg double bass; Janne Tuomi drums and marimba; Mika Kallio drums; Stefan Pasborg drums Occupy The World is an instant classic of creative orchestral music. Over five extended compositions, a total of almost two hours of music, composer and trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith leads a new large ensemble, TUMO, to a unique sound world where composed elements meet with strong soloists and group improvisation. Occupy The World features the legendary composer and trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith with TUMO in its first appearance. The 21-member TUMO, a new improvising orchestra that was assembled specifically for each project, performs five extended compositions by Smith, including "Occupy The World For Life, Liberty and Justice," perhaps his most ambitious recorded composition to date. The four other compositions were also recorded for the first time for this double-CD and include "Queen Hatshepsut," that was inspired by this ancient ruler of Egypt, the first female leader of a major civilization in history; "The Bell - 2," which took Smith's first recorded composition, "The Bell" (included on Anthony Braxton's 3 compositions of new jazz in 1968), as its starting point; "Mount Kilimanjaro," a concerto for double bass and a large ensemble that Smith dedicated to its soloist John Lindberg; and "Crossing On A Southern Road," Smith's moving dedication to the late saxophonist Marion Brown. In addition to the principal soloists, Wadada Leo Smith on four compositions and John Lindberg on one, Occupy The World features trumpeter Verneri Pohjola, trombonist Jari Hongisto, saxophonists Mikko Innanen and Fredrik Ljungkvist, flutist Juhani Aaltonen, pianist Seppo Kantonen, harpist Iro Haarla, accordionist Veli Kujala, guitarists Kalle Kalima and Mikko Iivanainen and drummers Mika Kallio, Stefan Pasborg and Janne Tuomi, among others. Wadada Leo Smith (b. 1941), whose roots are in the Delta blues and who was part of the first generation of musicians to come out of Chicago's AACM, has established himself as one of the leading composers and performers of creative contemporary music. Already in the late 1960s, Smith formed the Creative Construction Company together with saxophonist Anthony Braxton and violinist Leroy Jenkins and, since the early 1970s, he has mostly performed and recorded with his own groups. He currently leads four principal ensembles: the Golden Quartet, Mbira, Organic and the Silver Orchestra. In May 2012, Smith released his most extensive recording to date: Ten Freedom Summers, a four-CD collection of 19 compositions inspired by the civil rights movement in the United States, which was recently a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Music and has garnered wide praise and accolades. TUMO, or Todella Uuden Musiikin Orkesteri (in English, the Really New Music Orchestra), is a new large ensemble that performed for the first time at TUMfest12 in Helsinki, Finland, in February 2012 under the leadership of Wadada Leo Smith. TUMO is not intended to become an institutionalized orchestra. Instead, it is a loose aggregation of musicians with a shared interest in creative improvised music, many of them among the leading improvisers in the Nordic region. The musicians performing in this first incarnation of TUMO come from different generations, different backgrounds and even different countries, but are all brought together by their interest in creative improvised music, with most coming from a background in jazz and improvised music and others from a background in classical music. Altogether, in this first appearance, TUMO is a unique, one-time-only meeting of a diverse group of high-caliber musicians.

Longer version of the interview: http://www.wbgo.org/thecheckout/raw-tape-wadada-leo-smith-ten-freedom-summers

That's nice. Thanks for hipping me to him. Porter's forthcoming sideman hit with David Murray sounds right in his wheel house:

http://www.saunderssermons.com/ Very different musician than Gregory Porter.

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Deadline for musicians to enter Art Prize, June 6th: MUSIC RETURNS TO ARTPRIZE AND $10,000 OF MUSIC PRIZES WILL BE GIVEN BY ST. CECILIA MUSIC CENTER IN FIVE GENRE CATEGORIES DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION IS June 6, 2013 St. Cecilia Music Center continues as ArtPrize Music Hub in 2013 with five special music prizes to be presented GRAND RAPIDS, MI (May 2013) – St. Cecilia Music Center will continue its role as the music hub during ArtPrize 2013 and will once again award $10,000 in prize money specifically to musical entries. St. Cecilia Music Center will be presenting five $2,000 awards in the categories of pop/electronic, rock/blues, folk/country, jazz and classical. The winners will be chosen by the popular vote on the ArtPrize website. New this year will be the addition of official ArtPrize “busking stations” in five different locations throughout Grand Rapids during the first two weeks of the event. SCMC will schedule entered musicians for these various performance areas where they may perform live for the public at large. Musicians may display their voting number and perform multiple times if desired, based on time availability. Non-ArtPrize performances will not be permitted at these sites. There will also be performance opportunities at St. Cecilia Music Center and on Wood TV 8. Listening stations will be available during the entire three weeks of ArtPrize (September 18-October 6) featuring musical entries and music will be featured on the ArtPrize website. The grand prize given by ArtPrize is $200,000 and all music will be eligible for the performance/time-based juried award of $20,000. FACT SHEET for entering a musical/performance piece: • The song or piece must be an original piece of music written within the last three years. • You must register on the ArtPrize website and create an artist profile by June 6. Enter at www.artprize.org. VERY IMPORTANT: List your form as “Performance” and your medium as “Music.” • There must be a recording of the piece embedded on the ArtPrize website by the time ArtPrize begins. A recording of the piece must be provided to SCMC by September 1. You will need to use a media player from another website such as YouTube.com or Vimeo.com for video and SoundCloud.com for audio. You can create a free account on one of those type of sites and then paste the embed code in the space provided on the Work Entry form. Questions regarding embedding can be answered at artists@artprize.org. • Once you create your profile musicians should “connect” to St. Cecilia Music Center so requests can be seen. • You must pay the registration fee as needed. $50 for solo artist and $25 per additional collaborators. • One musician may not have multiple chances to win through various projects so an artist may only enter once, either as a solo artist or part of a band or group. • All groups will have the opportunity to perform live during the first two weeks at various official busking stations throughout the Grand Rapids area. St. Cecilia Music Center will also have visual art in our Terryberry Gallery. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Cathy Holbrook Executive Director (616) 459-2224 cathy@scmc-online.org