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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.

http://www.billboard.com/news/bass-player-chuck-rainey-suffers-stroke-1005480352.story#/news/bass-player-chuck-rainey-suffers-stroke-1005480352.story

Don't know if this has been presented here before: http://youtu.be/5sfiN9tvcbM

"there's rats scratching in the walls."

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

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.

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?

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

Here's hoping they bring out those solo Earl Hines sessions on CD. http://www.hankoneal.com/index.php?option=com_lyftenbloggie&view=lyftenbloggie&category=bloggies&Itemid=73

http://www.metaljazz.com/2011/10/live_reviews_precious_moments.php

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?

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. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=734576408&ref=ts

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

(begin forwarded message): Connie Crothers solo piano concert Delta College Friday, October 21st, 2011 Lecture Theater G-160 7 PM 10 dollars adults 8 students University Center (near, Bay City and Saginaw) http://www.conniecrothers.net/ she's performed and recorded with; Max Roach, Lee Konitz, Warne Marsh, Anthony Braxton etc. please see her web site for videos and more information

How did it go?

Thanks Brownie. Copped them for my Facebook page.

Drummer "Joe" Harris with Bird and Diz. Correcting for "Bill." Didn't realize there was more of Bird at the Pershing than on the Savoy set of live broadcasts.

So, chances are the Spanish re-issue at the top of the thread is a non-speed corrected direct boot of the Columbia?

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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