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Ingrid Laubrock and Tom Rainey join Eivind Opsvik in the Kris Davis Quartet this Monday, Feb. 18th at 7:30 for a guest artist recital at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan (as opposed to Kalamazoo somewhere else). No charge.

Hi Lazaro, I'm Paul Bloom, the current pianist at the Brubeck Institute in Stockton California. We've set up a benefit concert (http://jazzfoundation.org/DaynaStephens) to try to help cover some of Dayna Stephens' huge medical costs. The benefit is at the Piedmont Piano Company in Oakland on February 17th. I was wondering whether you might be able to spread awareness about Dayna Stephens and the concert. Thanks a lot! Paul

Yes!

Thanks Ken!

Sounds like you're playing the head to Patterson's People with a few subtle shifts of rhythm accent from the way you played it live on Blue Lake with Paul Brewer? Randiculous fo' sho'!

Is there a story behind Daugherty and Herb Albert? A Blue Lake Public Radio listener is trying to find this one. JACK DAUGHERTY JACK DAUGHERTY AND THE CLASS OF NINETEEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY ONE SP3038 (Released 1971) Vinyl, Cassette and 8 Track Produced, Arranged & Composed by Jack Daugherty Engineered by Ray Gerhardt Assistant Engineer Robert Appére Mastered by Bernie Grundman Orchestra Manager Jules Chaikin Album Coordinator Noel Woodman Art Direction by: Roland Young Album Design Chuck Beeson Front Cover Illustration by: Lanning Stern Cover Photo by Jim McCrary Interior photos by Jim McCrary Composer/Arranger/Producer and Piano: Jack Daugherty Additional Musicians: Info Coming Soon! Track Listing: Getting Up (Daugherty) 3:55 Someone To Love (Daugherty) 3:28 Feel So Good (Daugherty) 3:50 (I Fell In Love With You) The Day We Met (Daugherty) 4:00 Brothers And Sisters (Daugherty) 3:32 Number Nine (Daugherty) 3:07 The Strip (Daugherty) 4:23 La Costa Drive (Daugherty) 3:00 You Got It (Daugherty) 3:00 Theme For Susan (Daugherty) 2:36

http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/21/us/dave-brubeck-appreciation/index.html

Ellington's Sacred Music Concerts (people talking about God; as opposed to religious music, people talking to God -- Duke's def.) Dave Brubeck wrote sacred music, too. A mass, several other large scale works, "Light in the Wilderness."

The recordings from the 2000's with the European big bands...except "Celebration," which was written as a sort of concerto for Gerry Mulligan...showed how moving large instrumental forces can happen without assembling a string of solos. John Hollenbeck blows up on those. That deconstruction of King Porter Stomp, "K.P. '94" is wild. Also, played an lp the other day from 1981 recorded at Columbia's 30th St. studio that included a multi-track valve-trombone/rhythm section track called "Mirrors." Playing contrapuntal parts was a big thing with him. His relationship on record with Getz, including that mid-1960's Columbia album with Herbie Hancock and Gary Burton, yielded some lovely stuff. (edited the year to 1981).

Wadada Leo Smith's "Ten Freedom Summers" is near the top.

Faruq Z. Bey. Some hard core post-Coltrane Motown spiritual music went down in his honor at Kerrytown Concert House in October during Edge Fest. Blew away several of the young New Yorkers in the audience, Andrew Drury, Taylor Ho Bynum, who had no idea. Authentic Detroit lay out. Anthony Holland's post-Roscoe lyricism; David McMurray's forgedeaboutit sonic flights; Jaribu Shahid, basses and calling the rehearsals, cracking; and a drummer who did a great job deputizing for Tani Tabbal.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/the-recording-academy-announces-2013-grammy-hall-of-fame-inductees-180334091.html

http://www.artforum.com/inprint/id=37456

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Sad news: Dear Friends and Family, Jazz Drummer Pete LaRoca Sims is in his final days. If anyone would like to see him before his passing, you may do so at: Kateri Residence 150 Riverside Drive, at 87th St., Room 216B New York NY 10024 646 505 3602 There will be a Celebration of Life Concert in his honor FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28TH AT 8 PM at: the Jazz Church, St. Peter's Church 619 Lexington Avenue at 54th Street New York NY 10022 212 935 2200 Please spread the word around. Todd B. Weeks Senior Business Representative, Jazz Associated Musicians of Greater New York

Will be seeing a tribute to Faruq this Saturday at Edge Fest in Ann Arbor.

Interview by Vijay Iyer with Muhal Richard Abrams: http://www.midatlanticarts.org/funding/artists_programs/living_legacy/2012_MJLL_Interview_Muhal_Abrams.mp3

From Michael Johnston: everyone on our zwoods mailing list, Since Faruq passed away last spring we've received a lot of email sent through our web site from friends and fans of Faruq. The most obvious thing is how deeply Faruq touched peoples lives through his uncompromising personality and musical path. In all of the exchanges with different people a few videos of performances turned up. We wanted to share a couple of pieces that feature Faruq in top form. We also selected pieces that we have quality multitrack recordings of. We mixed the pieces to stereo and Tim O'Brien synchronized them with the videos and prepared them for you tube. The sound quality is excellent on these. "Memories" is from a concert in 2003 at Central Michigan University Library Auditorium. The version is different than the released version on "Asharai Pattern". Faruq subtly quotes a couple of Tranes lines from a Love Supreme in his solo. Nate Grambeau filmed this tune with a friend using 3 cameras and painstakingly edited it together. Faruq Z. Bey - tenor Mike Carey- tenor Mike Gilmore- vibes Mike Johnston- bass Nick Ashton- drums "Vines" was filmed in the fall of 2003 at Delta College. Tim O'Brien was recording the concert live and set up a small cam corder in the balcony and captured a few pieces. We seldom ever determined solo order for our performances and recordings. Faruq takes 3 solos (counting the intro) during this version of "Vines" ( a different version than was released on "Auzar"). It was rare for anyone to ever take more than 1 solo on a piece. Faruq Z. Bey- tenor (right) Mike Carey- tenor (center) Skeeter C. R. Shelton- tenor (left) Mike Gilmore- marimba Mike Johnston- bass Nick Ashton- drums We hope you enjoy these, Mike Johnston Northwoods Improvisers

Tonight on Jazz From Blue Lake, the 54 year old drummer Lewis Nash (http://www.lewisnash.com/) who's recently released The Highest Mountain recorded live at Cory Weeds Cellar Jazz Club in Vancouver, B.C. That recording prompted this evening's broadcast, where, in the first 20 minutes of each hour from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. edt, we'll hear Nash's debut album as a leader from 1993, his music with Betty Carter, Horace Silver, and McCoy Tyner, plus several recordings with the great Tommy Flanagan Trio (with Peter Washington and Nash). Looking forward to a good night of jazz, Jazz From Blue Lake, streaming live fromhttp://www.bluelake.org/radio and heard locally on WBLV FM 90.3 and in Grand Rapids on WBLU FM 88.9 (come on second shifters!).

Thanks to Loren Schoenberg for posting this on Facebook: http://www.egta.co.uk/content/hadjinikos

There's this one: Ronnie Cuber on bari.

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Coming up today, a radio interview with saxophonist Ted Brown. Thursday Sept. 13, 2012, Brown writes, "I will be interviewed by Mark Weber on his weekly jazz radio program over Station KUNM 89.9 FM Albuquerque, NM, USA. Also streaming on the web: KUNM.org 2:30 – 3:00 PM (East Coast Time)." See link for more info: http://markweber.free-jazz.net/2012/09/11/ted-brown-the-man-who-plays-cherokee/