Lazaro Vega

Heard Saturday morning 5-5-12 7 to 10 a.m. WBLV FM 90.3 / WBLU FM 88.9 http://www.bluelake.org/radio.html Artist/Composition/Album Title 7 a.m. Kurt Elling, I Like the Sunrise, Night Moves Jimmy Giuffre/Lee Konitz, Blues in the Closet, Konitz/Conners/Guiffre/Bley John Lewis, Come Rain or Come Shine, Evolution II Jazz Datebook (concert calendar) John Lewis, Sun Dance, Little David's Fugue Gary Burton, Late Night Sunrise, Common Ground Freddie Hubbard, Here's That Rainy Day, Straight LIfe Tessa Souter, Sun Rise (based on Brahms), Beyond the Blue Paul McCartney, Accentuate the Positive, Kisses on the Bottom Ehud Ashrae, My Blue Heaven, Upper West Side 8 a.m. Modern Jazz Quartet, It Don't Mean A Thing if It Ain't Got That Swing, European Concert Jazz at the Philharmonic, We'll Be Together Again, Seattle 1956 Stan Kenton, Young Blood/Frank Speaking, New Concepts of Artistry in Rhythm Jazz Members Big Band, Hey Jealous Lover, Diggin' In Chico Alverez, Jumpin' with Symphony Sid, Country Roots Arturo Sandoval, Tin Tin Deo, Dear Diz Jazz Datebook John Pizzarelli, Traffic Jam/The Kicker, Double Exposure Gary Smulyan, Little Miss Half Steps, Smul's Paradise Duke Robillard, I Can't Believe You're in Love With Me, Wobble Walkin Kate Reid, Just Squeeze Me, The Love I'm In 9 a.m. Esperanza Spalding, Jazz Ain't Nothin' But Soul, Radio Music Society Joel Harrison, Straight No Chaser (Variations), Urban Myths Terri Lynn Carrington, Unconditional Love, Mosaic Project Geri Allen, Mystic Poets and Dawn, Flying Toward the Sound Jazz Datebook Matt Haimovitz and Ucello, Meeting of the Spirits, Meeting of the Spirits Mads Tolling, Struggle of the Turtle/King Kong, A Tribute to Jean Luc Ponty Miles Davis, So What, Kind of Blue "Remember...Don't rush the time."

http://www.thegilmore.org/events/geri-allen-trio-may-6/

Streaming live on http://www.bluelake.org/radio.html and over an iPhone/iPad or Android device via the Blue Lake Public Radio app Information on our featured artist: http://rudreshm.com/ 5-4-2012 10 p.m. edt Artist/Composition/Album Title Theme: Duke Ellington, Rhapsody in Blue, The Reprise Studio Recordings Rudresh Mahanthappa/Bunky Green, Summit, Apex Rudresh Mahanthappa, Killer, Samdhi Jazz Datebook (concert calendar, Theme: Monk's "Let's Cool One') Eyel Vilner Big Band, Woody N You, Introducing Jimmy Owens, Bright Mississippi (arranged by Eyel Vilner), The Monk Project Alan Rosenthal, Three Wheeler (for Mal Waldron), Just Sayin' Mary Stallings, Soul Eyes, Don't Look Back 11 p.m. Rudresh Mahanthappa/Bunky Green, Soft, Apex Rez Abbasi's Invocations, Thanks for Giving, Suno Suno Jazz Datebook Tony Monaco, Backward Shack, Celebration Stanley Turrentine, Two For T., Don't Mess With Mr. T. Michael Benedict and Bopitude, As Quiet As It's Kept, Four and One Geri Allen, Laila's House, 2008 live broadcast from Blodgett Recital Hall, Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp 12 a.m. Various Arists, Spanish Key, Miles From India Miles Davis, Miles Runs The Voodoo Down, Bitches Brew Live Jack DeJohnette, Indigo Dreamscapes, Sound Travels Karl Berger/Dom Minasi, Prophesy, Syncronicity Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures, Dance Drama Part 3, Both/And Paulo Fresu/Omar Sosa/Jacque Morlenbaum, To Trance, Alma 1 a.m. The Jazz Datebook Rudresh Mahanthappa/Bunky Green, The Journey/Hidden Track, Apex Craig Taborn, Glossalalia/Diamond Turning Dream, Avenging Angel Abby Lincoln, Down Here Below, A Turtle's Dream Modern Jazz Quartet, Sketch, Third Stream Music Phil Dwyer Orchestra, Spring, Changing Seasons Randy Weston, Little Niles, Monterey '66 2 a.m. Vijay Iyer, Aftermath, Tragicomic Rudresh Mahanthappa, D (Dee Dee), Codebook Rez Abbasi, Realities of Chromaticism, Things to Come Pat Metheny/Ornette Coleman, Kathlyn Gray, Song X Dave Liebman Group, Cross Breeding, Turnaround Ornette Coleman, The Fifth of Beethoven, Art of the Improvisors Randy Waldman, Beethoven's 5th Symphony, Wigged Out Arturo Sandoval, Salt Peanuts, Dear Diz Roy Haynes, Tin Tid Deo, Roy-alty

"He is probably the only truly major bandleader of the jazz tradition whose tunes are almost never covered by anyone else." Thank you Steve Lacy for making that "almost."

Thanks all: was a good day. Chuck Nessa and I drove to Kalamazoo to hear Ran Blake.

I'm going. It's my birthday, so, I'm going. $12. Are you kidding? More on Ran and Abbey Lincoln: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/28/arts/music/28abbey.html

http://www.thegilmore.org/events/ran-blake-apr-30/ Blue Lake Public Radio will work with WFMT to aquire a copy of this performance for broadcast.

Kicker, from his web site: April 30 — Ran performs a solo tribute to Abbey Lincoln in Kalamazoo, Michigan — her hometown — as part of the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival. Read more about the festival here http://www.thegilmore.org I've written Mr. Blake to see if any provisions have been made to record Monday's performance.

I still am trying to figure out how to get there....

Was looking through the schedule of the Gilmore Keyboard Festival, which will be featuring Geri Allen, Brad Meldhau, Diana Krall and Gary Burton... and then saw this and about fell off my chair.... Ran Blake, 2 p.m. April 30; Wellspring Theater , 359 S. Kalamazoo Mall, Suite 204, Kalamazoo; $12. http://www.thegilmore.org

That's no question, it's the statement of a Maine-streamer....

Grand Rapids. Ottawa Tavern, Pearl and Ottawa in the Waters Building, downtown Grand Rapids. CONCERT: The Phil Markowitz/Zach Brock Quartet April 26 @ 7:30pm - 10:30pm The Ottawa Tavern is pleased to host the Phil Markowitz/Zach Brock Quartet, a powerful new band based in New York City. Along with legendary pianist Phil Markowitz and modern jazz virtuoso violinist Zach Brock, this version of the group feature...s a Chicago-based rhythm section of Matt Ulery on bass and Jon Deitemyer on drums. Tonight's concert-style performance will include two sets, at 7:30pm and 9:30pm. Admission $20 per set. Tickets available at the door only. "Phil is one of the best musicians I have ever known...a skilled improviser, composer and arranger, and a great asset." -- David Liebman "Phil is one of the most sensitive, lyrical and inventive piano players of all time." -- Chet Baker �I called the great French violinist Jean-Luc Ponty and I said �So, who�s the new cat? Who�s got the stuff? And he said Zach Brock.� -- Stanley Clarke

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-herbie-hancock-20120425,0,896832.story

The library is digging up Ringolevio for me to read: apparently Ringolevio is a type of tag game played on the streets of New York. "Final Score" is staying with me: quick, terse, consice writing; effective noire metaphore and similie, and a plot that's actually more effective, emotionally and evocatively, than the movie "Heat," which this story is in the most general way similar to. https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/emmett-grogan/final-score/#review

Anyone picked this up yet? Blue Lake Public Radio is offering this as a premium for contributing to the radio station during Jazz a la Carte, this Saturday morning, 7 to 10 a.m.

"I'm Checkin' Out, Goombye" is my fave from this.

Rick Lopez of Erie was cleaning house, sent out a note about "free" books. Who wouldn't? I did. This one, "Final Score," came with a bunch of others. Grogan wrote "Ringolevio," too, which I hadn't heard of or read but now feel I must. Are you hip to this author? Ever read "Final Score"?

Click the "schedule" for full listings of this weekend's grand opening events featuring the one and only Randy Marsh! http://www.thegilmorecollection.com/ot.php

Yes, that's the link I posted at the top of the thread. Heard that live today and kept waiting for the name Babby Dodds to come up. It didn't, but his spirit is all over that desktop concert.

http://www.npr.org/2012/04/17/146592560/the-jazz-drummer-who-makes-music-out-of-everything

Headhunters did it for me as a 13 year old, and listened to Chameleon again last night and still love Harvey Mason's beat and his manipulations of it. Herb's Rhodes solo on "Sly," too. Mike Clark, subsequently. Damn. Headhunters got to me more than Mahavishnu or Weather Report. It was an open door. Then came Maiden Voyage......

"It's just like a Lester Bowie solo," said Dave Flexingburgstein of Jism Magazine. He said it brightly. ROTFL Our hero.

Back to work tonight on Blue Lake Public Radio and looking forward to featuring the music of the great New Orleans clarinetist Johnny Dodds. Understanding the role in music of the early jazz greats is the most critical step in appreciating the entire genre. Dodds, who passed away before the "New Orleans Revival" was underway in the 1940's, helped define small band jazz of the 1920's, and did so next to the pioneering leaders in the music: King Oliver, Jelly Morton and Louis Armstrong. Not only that, recordings sessions under his own name capture on record many otherwise undocumented south side Chicago players from the 1920's. Johnny "Dots" in the first 20 minutes of each hour, 10 p.m. - 3 a.m. edt tonight via http://www.bluelake.org/radio.html Jelly ROLL Morton

http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/culture/2012/03/5490332/trouble-jazz-ahead-weekend-jazz-gallery-henry-threadgill-talks-about

Pianist Simon Nabatov is quoted by Stuart Broomer in the notes to "Spinning Songs of Herbie Nichols" (Leo CD LR 632), "Knowing too well how little Nichols' music enjoyed the awareness and presence even in the narrow jazz circles, my main dilemma was this: Do I assume the role of 'educator,' keeper of the Urtext, and restrain my own thoughts and feelings about the material? Or do I allow myself to add a bit more, assuming the pre-existing knonwledge of the music, so that I could feel free to dispense with the straight academic approach and let my imagination run wild...Well, that evening I definitely decided for the latter." This recording fascinates me, and demands patience. Nichols' "Wildflowers" shows up on the new Vijay Iyer Trio recording "Accelerando" (ACT 9524-2), but it's Iyer's ability to manage and then excell within the polyrhythms of Henry Threadgill's composition "Little Pocket Sized Demons" that blows me away on this one. With Stephan Crump, bass, and Marcus Gilmore, drums. Wayne Escoffery's sound is just huge. Have tasted, uncritically, a bit of his new one "The Son Of One," and just opened The Ben Riley Quartet featuring Wayne Escoffery, "Grown Folks Music." Yes, Monk: Friday the 13th and Teo. Interested to hear Escoffery on Without a Song from that one. There's a new Kenny Wheeler big band on CamJazz: The Long Waiting. (CAM 5044). Liner notes by Evan Parker. Trumpeter Tim Hagan's "The Moon Is Waiting" is OUT! Have heard him often with big bands, and his big band writing, so here, for me at least, to catch him in a small group is something else. With Vic Juris and Rufus Reid. (Palmetto). Matt Brewer, the bassist, joins Damion Reid, the drummer, in support of alto saxophonist Steve Lehman on "Dialect Fluorescent," which includes the "originalist" Lehman playing Trane, Duke Pearson and Jackie McLean, as well as originals. The groove on Jeannine...I fixed my back!(Pi Recordings). David Ades, an alto player from Austrailia, with Tony Malaby, tenor, Mark Helias, bass, and Gerald Cleaver, drums, just in today (http://www.davidadesmusic.com)