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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/

Nice piece! Sounds like Sunday's going to be a special night -- on Horace Silver's birthday, no less.

Blue Lake Public Radio celebrates the anniversary of Count Basie's birth with a special program tonight from 10 p.m. 3 a.m.Unlike previous retrospective programs on Basie, tonight's broadcast starts with the mid-1950's break out album "Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings," and in the first 20 minutes of each hour we'll zoom in on the albums that followed: "April In Paris," the Basie/Williams standards album, "E=MC2...," the Williams/Lambert, Hendricks and Ross plus Basie Band recording, and the 1957 Newport Jazz Festival recording. Add to that Von Freeman interpreting music associated with the Basie band (Every Tub, Blue Prez, Swingin' the Blues and Lester Leaps In), and you can see what kind of August evening you're in for. Please join us on WBLV FM 90.3/WBLU FM 88.9 or streaming live from the Blue Lake Public Radio free app for iPhone or Android devices, and via http://www.bluelake.org/radio.html

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New England Public Radio's Tom Reney remembers: http://www.nepr.net/blog/von-freeman-rip Photo tribute from Lauren Deutsch: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150970898520925.411115.554125924&type=1

Von Freeman with Pat Patrick, Andrew Hill:

http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/14466939-421/chicago-jazz-icon-von-freeman-dead-at-88-walked-tuff-to-the-end.html

Caption contest? "Oh Elvis...take off that capo...." She looks NOT like the mother of twins.

Too bad a couple of those You Tube videos were yanked. Nice stuff. Yes, you have to follow copyright; it was good to hear them, though.

Thanks for the heads up.

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