Lazaro Vega

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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

Though he arrived with the "young lions" of the 1980's, alto saxophonist/composer Greg Osby remains an independently minded improvisor and bandleader. Early experiences in the bands of Jack DeJohnette, Andrew Hill and Jim Hall are heard tonight alongside his considerable list of recordings under his own name during Jazz From Blue Lake, 10 p.m. - 3 a.m. edt via www.bluelake.org/radio. He lists Andrew HIll, Muhal Richard Abrams and Von Freeman and "my mentors."Hope you can join us.

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"How I Spent the Night" on his Blue Note debut, and again on Pepper Adams "The Adams Effect." Beautiful ballad. Will never be as famous a those stockings, but...then there's "Skankarooney."

Bill Cosby spent a long time building a funny, heartbreaking, hilarious, anxious, loving story about Frank at a recent performance in Grand Rapids. A personal, public way of dealing with his friend's stroke.

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Is this on Delmark?

T.K., is that a snark at the conventional radio model?

Sonny Rollins "Freedom Suite" kicks off Jazz From Blue Lake tonight at 10 p.m. edt; later we'll hear his "Alfie's Theme," "Oleo" with Don Cherry and "East Broadway Rundown" with Freddie Hubbard. Five hours of the finest in recorded jazz, with the spotlight on Sonny Rollins, plus "Out On Blue Lake" at 12 a.m., www.blulake.org/radio, wblv fm 90.3/ wblu fm 88.9.

Yes, we've been playing that on Blue Lake. The first number is a swinger, despite the album's title. The arrangement of Someday My Prince is based on Miles version, I believe.

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On Sunday Detroit jazz trumpeter and educator Marcus Belgrave celebrated his 75th birthday. Tonight on Jazz From Blue Lake we'll celebrate, too, with recordings by Belgrave with Pete Siers, the Generations band, Geri Allen, Tommy Flanagan, Charles Mingus, and under his own name live at Kerrytown Concert House in Ann Arbor. Hope you'll join us, 10 p.m. - 3 a.m. edt, http://www.bluelake.org/radio (many new releases, too).

Thought the deValk biography was helpful. He points to Chet Baker in Tokoyo (Evidence ECD 22158-2), a 1987 concert recording, as being one of Baker's great late period performances caught on record.

Yesterday I was checking out Fireball and noticed that Paul Brewer is listed as trombonist and co-composer with Bolton on a few of the pieces by the Tulsa prison band. Paul teaches at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids and is the father of jazz bassist Matt Brewer. Here's his response from his Facebook page: "I remember him well. We composed a song together ("Chano"). He was brilliant, but an incorrigible con. When I taught at the Joseph Harp Correctional Center where Dupree was incarcerated for about a year, he told me that I was the only person he could talk to. His musical gifts were so strong and his knowledge so deep that he kept me engaged for hours on end in conversations about music and other subjects that interested him (the prison officials let me visit him in his cell). His life was tragic, however. He never overcame the type of madness that kept in prison for so many years of his life. Drugs ruled him and his formidable intelligence was no match for his insatiable cravings for narcotics. Dupree was an existentialist in the deepest sense of the word and could articulate his philosophical postions in that regard as well as any professor I ever heard. And yet, there were so many times during rehearsals that I saw him smile with delight at something meaningful that I had played on the horn. So, in music at least, Dupree's existentialist leanings disappeared, yielding a deeply felt passion for the sublime in jazz. I played with him last in 1983 after he had been paroled. We were at jazz club on the black side of Oklahoma City (the east side). He played beautifully. And then I never saw him again. He died alone in 1993, I think. And no one claimed the body. Sad."

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Happy 80th birthday to jazz trumpeter Louis Smith who's called MI home since the 1960's after he came in off the road with Horace Silver. Balancing the technical fire of Clifford Brown and Fats Navarro with lyricism of Miles Davis, Smith developed his own sound and concept as you'll hear tonight on Jazz From Blue Lake, 10p-3a, www.bluelake.org/radio and WBLV FM 90.3 / WBLU FM 88.9. Hope you can join us.

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Recently Jazz From Blue Lake checked out the early New Orleans clarinetists Johnny Dodds and Jimmy Noone.Tonight and tomorrow we continue the thread with recordings by Edmond Hall tonight (mostly from the 1940's on Blue Note, yet also including an Esquire All Star Session with Coleman Hakins and Art Tatum, as well as Louis Armstrong's All Stars Live in Grand Rapids, and the Eddie Condon Town Hall Concerts) and Sidney Bechet tomorrow, 10 p.m.-3 a.m. edt www.bluelake.org/radio

Have had the pleasure of working with Gebhard a number of times "Live From Blue Lake" and recording him in performance in Grand Rapids. Thought this might be an article about his life as a "surf-sailor," those surf boards with sails on them. He loves that kind of stuff, and his son is involved in the skater/surf type sports as well.

Wheel of Fortune. Yes, Rare Genius on Concord. And yes to the quote being lifted from Bob Blumenthal's 2003 RVG series "Let Freedom Ring" liner notes. Thanks for listening, David. I think we're going to put another program on in the hour right before yours Sunday nights. It comes out of Nashville and is called "Jazz on the Side."

Alto saxophonist/bandleader/composer Jackie McLean is featured in the first 20 minutes of each hour tonight during Jazz From Blue Lake ( www.bluelake.org/radio ). For this broadcast his apprenticeship period with Miles Davis, Art Blakey, Charles Mingus and Prestige Records is by passed so as to focus on the recordings he made as a leader for Blue Note Records between 1959 and 1967. We'll hear some music from his second great period, including "Round Midnight" recorded in Belgium in 1991 and "Little Melonae" with Japanese pianist Junko Onishi in 1995, but the main focus of tonight's broadcast will be on J-Mac's transition from Charlie Parker protege/hard bop master to explorer as improvisor aware of developments from Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane. New records, too, in the other 40 to 30 minutes of each hour. From the liner note to "Let Freedom Ring," McLean is quoted talking about his controversial sound: "Whenever I get with Hank Jones and ask him to tune me up, he'll always hit B flat rather than A," McLean joked wile discussing his tone in 1997 [with Bob Blumenthal], then continued in a more serious vein. "Some people would prefer music to be a kingdom, with someone at the helm defining what to do; but jazz is a the perfect example of democracy. You could line me up with Phil Woods, Lee Konitz, Gary Bartz and Kenny Garrett, tell us to hit C, and get five different spins on the same note. We all have our own perceptions. My life has been sweet and sour, bittersweet, and I'm interpreting my experience. I'm a sugar free saxophonist."

Very well done. Haven't heard that J.J. Johnson recording.