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I've been enjoying this recording. This looks like the first record Patric Rushen's made since Mike Clark put her back in a straight ahead context, and whatever she did in the past, on this she's solid; with Helen Sung and Geri she helps lay down a solid foundation on this album, and both Tineke Postma and Ingrid Jensen wail over it. A scattershot affair programatically, but for pulling out pieces individually this has been a kick (Michelle, Mosaic Triad and Insomiac). Esperanza's "Crayola" is one of her original love songs, which have their own vibe to them, only on this one she gets away with saying "shit" as in "I'm not going to put with your sh---" in a relationship song. Still need to read the article in the link above.
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ince first hearing Roswell Rudd (Roswell Rudd)'s former student, trombonist Steve Swell, live from our Blue Lake studios in 2004 with Gebhard Ullmann, Hilliard Green and Barry Altschul, I've been hooked on his penetrating musicality, his range, flexibility and sonic presence as a brass player, and his compositional approach to the improvising ensemble. Tonight on Jazz From Blue Lake we'll hear Swell with Ullman, Rudd, his own Slamming the Infinite band, and, at midnight "Out on Blue Lake," with Adam Rudolph's Go: Organic Orchestra from their new release, Can You Imagine the Sound of a Dream? Creative improvised music all night, 10 p.m. - 3 a.m. via www.bluelake.org/radio
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A listener wrote saying they're heading to Amsterdam this weekend and was wondering if there are any clubs or concerts they should check out. Any help?
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Roy Eldridge and Coleman Hawkins at the Opera House.
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November 11, 2011
The Jazz Datebook:
Regular Hits:
Mondays from 6 to 10 p.m., Fridays 7 – 11 p.m. and Saturdays 6-10 p.m. The What Not Inn features a revolving cast of local musicians each weekend, including vocalist Mary Rademacher Saturday, December 3rd, and Bob VanStee with Kathy LaMar on December 23rd. Every Monday the What Not Inn jam session is open to musicians and vocalists featuring local, regional and international jazz musicians sitting in with the “house” band. No cover charge. For a full schedule see www.whatnotinn.com. The What Not Inn is located at M89 and the Blue Star Highway, 2405 68th Street, Fennville, MI. (269) 543-3341.
Mondays from 8 to 11 p.m. pianist/vocalist John Shea continues at The Republic, 45 South Division, Grand Rapids, with veteran Chicago drummer Greg Sergo in the “first chair.” www.republicgrandrapids.com.
Wednesdays from 7 to 10 p.m. The Tom Hagen Trio with vocalist Rick Reuther at Notos Old World Italian Dining, 6600 28th Street SE, Grand Rapids. (616) 493 – 6686, or www.notosoldworld.com.
Wednesdays 11/16, 11/30, 12/14 and 12/28 from 6:30 – 9:30 pianist John Shea plays Fricanos Muskegon, 1050 W. Western Avenue, Muskegon. See www.hartshornecentre.com or (231) 722 – 2600 ext. 21.
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday live piano jazz is heard from 7 to 10 p.m. at Mangiamo, 1033 Lake Drive S.E., Grand Rapids. Information from (616) 742 – 0600. Wednesday, November 16th, pianist Wally Michaels; Thursday, 11-17, Kevin and Racquel piano and voice; Friday, 11-18, guitarist Gregg Miller; 11-19, saxophonist/pianist Hugh DeWitt; Wednesday, 11-23, pianist Bill Davidson; 11-24, pianist/vocalist Robin Connell; 11-25, pianist/vocalist John Proulx; 11-26, pianist Bill Huyge; 11-30, pianist Stephen Durst. See www.thegilmorecollection.com.
Thursdays, 6 – 9 p.m. Gilly’s at The B.O.B., 20 Monroe Avenue N.W., Grand Rapids, music with pianist John Shea and his trio. (616) 356 – 2627.
Thursdays and Fridays, from 6 to 9 p.m. live jazz at The Viceroy, 53 Commerce Avenue S.W., Grand Rapids. (616) 774 – VICE.
Fridays from 7 to 10 p.m. John Shea’s trio swings the standards and jazz at the J.W. Marriott, 235 Louis St. N.W., Grand Rapids. See www.jwgr.com or (616) 242 – 1448.
Fridays from 8 p.m. to midnight the John Gist Group plays old school jazz and soul at Love Restaurant and Lounge, 1520 Wealthy St. in Eastown (the former Intersection). (616) 570 – 9994.
Sundays from 7 to 10:30 p.m. a jazz jam session under drummer/harmonica master Randy Marsh’s direction at Hop Cat, 25 Ionia, Grand Rapids. (616) 451-HOPS. This is a great opportunity for young musicians to gain playing experience with a professional level band.
Timely Hits:
Saturday, November 19th at 6 p.m. trumpeter and drummer Max Colley III is presented in the monthly Jazz Vespers service at First United Methodist Church, 227 East Fulton Street, Grand Rapids. See www.grandrapidsfumc.org.
Saturday, November 19th at 7:30 p.m. the New York based jazz pianist/composer/vocalist Deanna Witkowski performs in the Ludington Area Center for the Arts, 107 South Harrison Street, Ludington, with notable sidemen Michael O'Brien, bass and Vince Cherico, drums. See www.deannawitkowski.com or www.ludingtonartscouncil.org or phone (231) 845 – 2787.
Saturday, November 19th at 8:15 p.m. the 29th Annual Tribute to the Great Swing Bands takes place at Dalton Center Recital Hall, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, with the Western Michigan University Jazz Orchestra and Jazz Lab Band performing music by The Duke Ellington Orchestra, The Terry Gibbs Big Band and The Boyd Raeburn Orchestra. Information from (800) 228 – 9858 or www.millerauditorium.com.
Monday, November 21st at 6:30 p.m. pianist Mark Kahny and vocalist Tony Reynolds play the West Michigan Jazz Society’s Jazz Gumbo Showcase at the Kopper Top Guest House, 634 Stocking N.W., Grand Rapids. See www.wmichjazz.org for more information.
Tuesday, November 22nd The Truth in Jazz Orchestra (www.tijo.org) appears in concert at The West Side Inn, 1635 Beidler Street, Muskegon. Fantastic local big band featuring drummer Tim Froncek and trumpeter Max Colley III.
Wednesday, November 30th at 8 p.m. the sultry voice of Jane Monheit will grace the St. Cecilia Music Center’s Royce Auditorium, 24 Ransom Avenue N.E., Grand Rapids. See http://www.scmc-online.org/concerts-events/detail/jane-monheit/
Thursday, December 1st at 7 p.m. David Rucks presents “Jazz From the Heart” at the Muskegon Museum of Art, 296 West Webster Avenue, Muskegon. (231) 720 – 2570 or www.muskegonartmuseum.org.
December 4th at 3 p.m. all of the jazz ensembles at Western Michigan University present Jazz For the Holidays at Miller Auditorium, Kalamazoo. Information from (800) 228 – 9858.
Sunday, December 4th at 5:30 p.m. the Grand Rapids Jazz Orchestra plays a broad spectrum of big band jazz at Founders Brewing Company, 235 Grandville Avenue S.W. Grand Rapids. If you can’t make it to the bar the performance is streamed (both audio and video with a live chat) via www.grjo.com.
Tuesday, December 6th at 7:30 p.m. the Holland Jazz Orchestra and the Hope College Jazz Arts Collective presents The Radiohead Jazz Project at The Dimnent Memorial Chapel, Hope College, Holland. Radiohead is an English alternative rock band deeply influenced by jazz giants Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Charles Mingus. The Radiohead Jazz Project was co-commissioned by the Frankfurt Radio Big Band and the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music and is the first grand scale effort to arrange multiple Radiohead compositions for big band jazz. More information from Brian Coyle at Hope College: (616) 395 – 7653.
Monday, December 12th the West Michigan Jazz Society presents “An Old Fashioned Jazz Holiday Season” party at Watermark Banquet Room, 5500 Cascade Road S.E., Grand Rapids. With Tom and Cherie Hagen, Rick Reuther, Mike Lutley and Elgin Vines saluting the holiday music interpretations of Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters. See www.wmichjazz.org for more information and to make reservations.
Saturday, December 17th at 6:30 p.m. the monthly Jazz Vespers service at First United Methodist Church, 227 East Fulton, Grand Rapids, presents Jazz Lessons and Carols with MacNaughton Blvd. See www.grandrapidsfumc.org.
Friday, January 13th at 7:00pm, jazz drummer Keith Hall from Western Michigan University performs at Bethlehem Lutheran Church 250 Commerce Ave. SW Grand Rapids for a concert presented by MAJIC, http://grmajic.org. Information about the drummer from www.keithhallmusic.com.
Saturday, January 28th at 8 p.m. The Bad Plus appears at the Dalton Center Recital Hall, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, as part of the Fontana Chamber Arts jazz series. See
http://tinyurl.com/87vvywz or phone (269) 382 – 7774
Wednesday, February 22 the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis appears at Hill Auditorium, Ann Arbor; followed Saturday, April 14, by the Charles Lloyd Quartet, with Jason Moran, Reuben Rogers, and Eric Harland. See www.ums.org for more information.
Saturday, April 24th at 7:30 and 9:30 first prize winner of the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Vocals Competition, Gretchen Parlato, performs at Wellspring Theater, EPIC Center, Kalamazoo as part of the Fontana Chamber Arts Jazz Series. See: http://tinyurl.com/6ug45v4 or phone (269) 382 – 7774.
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From Kevin Ellington Mingus
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Hello,
As you may know I have been working on the film "Mingus on Mingus" following the legacy of my grandfather Charles Mingus. Filming, researching and keeping it moving have been a challenge in all meanings of the word. A project of this nature is a serious undertaking. Fortunately the jazz and film community have been extremely supportive and motivating. I am beyond excited to make this film it is extremely important for me and all those involved!! I am dedicating my full life to it right now. Unfortunately the financial reality of independently producing a project of this scale has hit.
Since I started the project, people have given support any way they could. Lending a hand on a shoot, letting me crash on the floor-bed-couch, finding inexpensive ways for me to travel, engaging in lengthy conversation and driving me across dangerous borders. Now there is another way for everyone to get involved with the project and it's the website Kickstarter.com. They hosts thousands of projects and have even taken notice of Mingus on Mingus featuring us on the site under "New and Noteworthy." Sites like this give independent projects that would otherwise fall through the cracks a chance and that is exactly what I am asking of you. Together we can give this project a chance to shine!!
Basically there are two ways to help me:
1- Spread the word to everyone: friends, neighbors, facebook, twitter, your dog, EVERYONE
2- Contribute to the project, no amount is too small, all and any support is a step forward. And as I believe this is a collective project,
ALL THE SUPPORTERS WILL SEE THEIR NAMES IN THE CREDITS!!
Here is the Kickstarter page; you will see a video that I did for the campaign, which gives more info on the documentary itself. Our goal is to raise $45000 in 35 days.
For more details and background on the project visit our website:
www.orangethenblue.com
Yours
Kevin Ellington Mingus
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I was really wrong about how Miley made those sounds; was expecting him to be doing the plunger mute thing. At the start of The Mooche it was all lip, tongue and humming in his throat, or a combination, with nary a flick of that rod cone shoved in the bell.
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26. Charlie Haden, Liberation Music Orchestra, Oliver Nelson, More Blues and The Abstract Truth
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They did collaborate in Berlin, remember, released on that giant FMP box.
The rehearsal sequence with the band here is insightful as he orchestrates all the parts from the piano.
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Just watched all of it: enough aphoristic quotes to fill a book. He seemed especially proud of what Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane had to say about his music.
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"there's rats scratching in the walls."
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One of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time, Lester Bowie, is our featured artist tonight on Jazz From Blue Lake, http://www.bluelake.org/radio. Please check out this thread in the Organissimo jazz forum that starts in 2005 and includes a transcription of a conversation Blue Lake Public Radio conducted with Bowie prior to a concert at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts in Grand Rapids. We'll hear him play do-wop, hard bop and free jazz, solo up to his Brass Fantasy, and spend the midnight hour listening to Bowie with The Art Ensemble of Chicago. Hope you tune in. http://www.organissimo.org/forum/index.php?%2Ftopic%2F22537-lester-bowie%2F
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Hey England! That's great. Had played a Giants of Jazz performance of Night In Tunisia from Monterey earlier in the night. Long solo by Blakey. As well as Misterioso from the 1971 Black Lion session.
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There're 3 Forrester recordings on Koch from the mid to late 1990's. The solo one called "Stop the Music," then a quartet with Claire Daly on bari and Denis Charles on drums called "People Like Us In Heaven," and "pre-Microscopic music circa 1980" on a recording called "Joel Forrester and the Illustrious Others.
Gassing to the un-unison head of "Gallop's Gallop" from the Micros Play Monk album, and the sort of Steve Lacy meets Ed Blackwell soprano/drum duo that followed it. Has any one noticed the piano sounds kind of electronic on this one?
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Drummer Art Blakey was ideally suited to the music of pianist/composer/bandleader Thelonious Monk as we'll hear during tonight's broadcast of Jazz From Blue Lake from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. edt. Knowing when to push, when to lay out, and when to obdurately insist on a musical dialogue with the pianist created some startling recordings from the late 1940's and early 50's on Blue Note; to a series of trio and quintet recordings on Prestige; to the famous mid-50's Riverside recordings with Coleman Hawkins and John Coltrane, to the Giants of Jazz touring band of the 1970's and the simultaneous great London trio recording sessions from 1971. Great music tonight, http://www.bluelake.org/radio
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Here's hoping they bring out those solo Earl Hines sessions on CD.
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It's the difference between being an essayist where you have a story to tell and a predetermined beginning, middle and end, and a journalist, where the story's course follows the truth as it is revealed through research and assimilation, wouldn't you agree?
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I'm surprised by this. Yes, Jeff Haas is a pianist and composer from the Traverse City area who's father, Karl Haas, was a renowned classical music producer. Jeff's program, which I've only caught parts of, is aired locally on WGVU. He's been a conscientious historian in the music, a big fan of Jazz From Blue Lake. So it surprises me that he wouldn't open up his planned narrative to invite in direct source opinions that varied from his own. Journalism is not an easy climb for some -- the work at rethinking and retelling and rewriting, changing the emotional emphasis of a story line, can be tough for someone who's made up their mind they want to take it one way, a celebration of John Hammond, and don't have the ability to deal with the nuances of reality. All it would take, though, is a simple intro and let Chris speak. Allowing that in would give the program another layer.
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Like Pops Foster, the New Orleans born bassist Wellman Braud help popularize the string bass in jazz, especially during his 1927-35 association with Duke Ellington where his drive, swing and big sound found a solid setting; and because, like Foster, he lived into the New Orleans revival and was documented with Jelly Roll Morton, Sidney Bechet and Bunk Johnson. Braud's recordings tonight, as well as a first listen to the 1965 Roscoe Mitchell Quartet recording Before There Was Sound, and a celebration of Chicago tenor sax giant Von Freeman. Hope you'll join us for Jazz From Blue Lake, 10 p.m. - 3 a.m. via http://www.bluelake.org/radio
Budd Johnson
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Budd Johnson is featured tonight on Jazz From Blue Lake in celebration of his 101st birthday. Wish we had all the material discussed in this thread!