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Thanks fellas -- have the Columbia double lp, but was wondering about these other things, if they're from the same hit, or filler from somewhere else, etc....

Is this a carefully produced "package"? http://www.allmusic.com/album/complete-live-at-birdland-may-17-1950-r1510503

Thanks ep1str0phy for that recollection. The Tatum through Tristano movement Nessa alludes to from that Ann Arbor show needs be heard. Our interview from 2007 was tough and educational. Wish his voice echoed more frequently through the chambers of "jazz media."

Dorian Gray?

New York City this coming Friday, Sept. 23rd, 8 p.m: Muhal Richard Abrams w/ Vincent Chancey, Adam Rudolph, and Stomu Takeishi; Matana Roberts w/ Angelica Sanchez, Liberty Ellman, & Mike Pride, Community Church of NY, 40 East 35th St. betw. Madison & Park Ave’s, $30 ($15 students & elders), 212-594-7149, http://www.aacm-newyork.com/ AACM New York Chapter, Inc. www.aacm-newyork.com

Muhal Richard Abrams is our featured artist on The Jazz Retrospective tonight, a difficult proposition for the short Monday night 10 p.m. to midnight edition of Jazz From Blue Lake. I mean, he's played so many different roles in his career, from sideman to soloist, in duet, in an amazing array of combinations, big bands, and written orchestral works. And his best work is in long form. We'll give it a shot, though. Hope you'll join us for the individualist ascending, http://www.bluelake.org/radio

Baritone saxophonist Hamiet Bluiett http://hamietbluiett.com/ arrived in St. Louis in the mid-60's, in time to join Lester Bowie, Oliver Lake, and Julius Hemphill in the Black Artist's Group. Since 1976 his amazing 5 octave range is heard in the World Saxophone Quartet. Tonight on Jazz From Blue Lake we'll hear Bluiett solo in the 1970's, playing "The Hard Blues" with Hemphill, "The Great Pretender" with Bowie, and many other captivating recordings, 10 p.m. - 3 a.m., http://www.bluelake.org/radio

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Yes, that works better. Tonight a turn around: Blue Lake celebrates saxophonist Oliver Lake tonight, 10 p.m. -3 a.m. edt with his recordings in The World Saxophone Quartet, in duet w/ saxophonist Julius Hemphill, his Organ Quartet, the band Tar Baby, Mark Master's Ensemble tribute to Dewey Redman, a quintet with Bakida Carroll, & 2 different big band recordings, one featuring an 18 minute tribute to Eric Dolphy. A bold, swirling, strident sound from multi-instrumentalist, composer, bandleader Oliver Lake tonight. www.bluelake.org/radio Also, we'll be playing the new Sonny Rollins recording of "Road Shows Vol. 2" including that guest appearance by Ornette with Sonny on Sonnymoon for Two, a quintessential blues. It's a strange, unorganized performance that has several high points, including Sonny sort of mimicking Ornette's concept in one of three solos he takes on the number. Cool to hear Sonny challenged like that. With Christian McBride and Roy Haynes motoring along for 20 minutes. Part of it reminds me of "Blessing in Disguise."

Tonight on Jazz From Blue Lake, 10 p.m. - 3 a.m., the marvelous swing era tenor saxophonist Chu Berry, who admired the great Coleman Hawkins, eventually playing in Hawkin's chair with the Fletcher Henderson orchestra. Known for bringing up the musical level of the Cab Calloway band, Berry could manage fast tempos with ease and eventually mastered the ballad (his version of "(I Don't Stand) A Ghost of a Chance With You" leads the program at 10. Barry paired up w/great trumpeters, too: Red Allen, Roy Eldridge and Dizzy Gillespie. Included in tonight's program the 1941 club recordings featuring Berry with Charlie Ventura on "All of Me" and "Blue Lou." Hope you join us, www.bluelake.org/radio

Isn't there a Chronological Classics volume on him? Have often heard of his influence on the great Earl Hines, so have wondered about his life. Didn't Buck Clayton play with him in China? Thought I asked Willie Ruff about that. I remember him exclaiming, "With a sign on the door that said, 'No N.....s or Dogs allowed.'"

Did a quick search and didn't see this pop up here, though you might already have discussed this. http://loureed.com/guilty/

That would be cool.

Did you catch the set with Organissimo and Arno live from the studio in 2005?

There you go. I know ALOC records the program every night and listens to his MP3 of it the next day.... p.s. same time zone as NYC.

Tenor saxophonist Arno Marsh tonight on Blue Lake Public Radio's Jazz Retrospective, a regular feature of Jazz From Blue Lake. We'll hear the Grand Rapids native with Woody Herman's Third Herd, trombonist Carl Fontana, leading a quintet at The Lighthouse, live on BLPR in 2005, and performing in my back yard in 2010 (50th b-day present). 10 p.m. - 3 a.m., plus music by Randy Scott Marsh, Fareed Haque, The Deep Blue Organ Trio, more: www.bluelake.org/radio

The New York Contemporary Five's recording Consequences was, in part, recorded on 8-23-63. Shepp's quote of "We're in the Money" on the title track cracks a grin.

I haven't tried those FLAC's -- how well do they work? Easy/hard to download, etc.?

Pianist Mal Waldron. After earning a degree in composition he broke in with Charles Mingus, was Billie Holiday's accompanist, house pianist at Prestige records, long time collaborator with Steve Lacy and an exploratory, open minded, "freedom seeker." Tonight on Jazz From Blue Lake we'll focus on his studio recording "The Quest" and the famous 1961 Five Spot recordings with Eric Dolphy. 10pm-3am edt www.bluelake.org/radio

That's tough -- all the harmonic series of an open horn with none of the raising or lowering of tones with the valves. Lip can only take it so far, and at the speed of jazz......

In his "New History of Jazz" Shipton uses quotes from Roscoe Mitchell, Archie Shepp and Paul Bley to introduce Ayler and, especially, to underscore Ayler's importance to other musicians in the era. On page 580 he gets into a specific historical overview of Ayler's music, with a concentration on "Ghosts," and how Ayler's sound influenced or was influenced by the musical inter-relationships of Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, the AACM and the "noise-based playing of of the European avant-garde saxophonist Peter Brotzmann." Though this might not have come up over the BBC, Shipton is thorough in this history. Radio and print, two very different worlds with very different "editorial" approaches.

So, is this new material on Charlie Christian or previously available or known of recordings?

I can't find the blurb the Detroit Jazz Fest. sent out -- it was up on my Facebook page at some point. From what I recall it mentioned Brubeck's doctors are advising him not to take long car rides or to travel too much. You'll notice his upcoming scheduled appearances are all East Coast affairs (nearer his home). Dave's an ol' guy!

What a groove on Jesus Children of America. The pockets they find throughout the album are striving for originality, a nice change of pace on a recent "straight ahead" jazz organ record.

Recordings by Charles Lloyd, Wayne Shorter and Miles Davis featuring drummer/pianist/bandleader Jack DeJohnette start Jazz From Blue Lake tonight @ 10p.m. His bands New Directions, Special Edition, Trio Beyond are featured in the high energy night, and duets featuring DeJohnette with John Surman or Wadada Leo Smith, plus many new records (sets of compositions by Ornette Coleman and Stevie Wonder by a variety of musicians, among others) until 3a.m. edt. Hope you'll join us, www.bluelake.org/radio