Lazaro Vega

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.'"

Ken Burns is about to launch a 5 1/2 hour program on Prohibition, and I'd bet there's novelty #'s from the era in the video clips available here: http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/upcoming/

The Jean Goldkette organization, which was a large management company running serveral bands, came out of Detroit in this era. Don't know about specific songs, but the success of Goldkette was directly affected by prohibition's money in Detroit.

David, Have you read this? http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/23/books/review/Oshinsky-t.html http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704342604575222132698695108.html

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

Cool.

Legacy features a couple of variations on classical music themes, notably Nessun Dorma as a vehicle for Sean Jones and maybe Gary Smulyan (the soloists, unfortunately, are not listed). There's also a variation of Stravinsky's The Firebird. All of these swing and are not "third stream." Then there's another approach at writing a suite for Chicago, which includes shorter movements than the previous State Street Suite (Sweet). Nice record -- his orchestral chords are very much his own. So many bands in their last stage lose their identity when the leader isn't a composer as well as "bandleader." This one sounds like a Gerald Wilson recording.

Hi Lazaro, I hope this finds you well. I will have a release on Cadence Jazz Records of my large ensemble Nation Of We this coming Fall, 2011. Its a live performance of a concert done at Roulette. I just launched a Kickstarter site to raise some money to pay the musicians as the label will release and distribute but not pay the musicians. The CD sounds absolutely great. The playing and sound quality for a live gig is really good. Please take a moment to check out the below link. There is a 5 minute video with sound clips from the gig that will be released and incentives if you would like to support the project. If we do not make the goal we get nothing, but the CD will still be released. Here's the link: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1312889152/steve-swells-nation-of-we-recording-the-business-o We have 18 days to raise $3,000. Thank you for your time and consideration. Best wishes, Steve P.S.................If you know someone who might be interested in supporting our project could you please forward this to them. Thank you. Steve Swell 31 Union Square West #2C NY, NY 10003 USA 212-206-8672 sdswell2001@verizon.net SOUND CLIPS and additional info at: http://www.steveswell.com http://www.myspace.com/steveswell