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Seemed in good spirits. I tried to ask him about the difference in articulation of stringed instruments in jazz vs horns, pianos, etc. in that you have a loud/soft articulation and most horns will articulate soft/loud. That's in swing playing at least. But the conversation just got away from me. In the end, though, Henry picked up his violin and said, "I want to try something on what you were asking me" and went to town. He asked me how I liked it, which was a first, too. I got to play my trumpet for him some (before we went on the air) and we talked about improvisation. When I heard him in the station with Roy Campbell they were playing free, yet seemed to have an agreed upon in the moment center of sound. So I was trying to get into that with Henry. He basically said you have to play around the center. I was like, "The circle of 4ths?" He said that was part of it. "And the major and minor and modal scales?" That too. He said, with emphasis, "then be ready." Henry was in Chicago, by the way, then came by Blue Lake on his way to the Guelph Jazz Fest. Then a few dates in Buffalo and some stellar hits back in New York with Marilyn Crispell and Andrew Cyrille.

Please join Blue Lake Public Radio tonight from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. edt for a special live performance by Renaissance man Henry Grimes -- solo bass, violin and poetry -- followed by four hours of Jazz From Blue Lake via www.bluelake.org/radio This is Henry Grimes third appearance from Blue Lake's studios. Tonight we'll receive help from John Erskine of the Hope College Sound and Recording Lab and his friend Jean Yves Munch (a relative of the composer).

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How's the festival going?

Max Harrison sure had it in for how hiding the lyrical beauty of Paul Desmond in plain sight of the Dave Brubeck Quartet diminished the alto saxophonist's reputation. Maybe. For sure Desmond said he practically put ear muffs on not to fall to the siren song of Charlie Parker. We'll hear Desmond within and without Brubeck's band tonight, 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. edt on Jazz From Blue Lake, http://www.bluelake.org/radio

Always thought Armstrong's "My Life In New Orleans" would make a good film where the "lead" "character" would be the city of N.O. as much as the actor playing Armstrong.

Cool, hope you enjoyed it. We had a good on-line audience last night.

Tonight on Jazz From Blue Lake the great Count Basie. 10 p.m. - 3 a.m. et via www.bluelake.org/radio Early hits, Spirituals to Swing, Jones-Smith Inc., with Joe Williams, April in Paris and E=MC2, Basie in New Orleans 1969 and a sampling of the Pablo sides.

And the Hemmingway duos in morning and evening "versions."

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An e-mail came in from Tom Abbs saying he's leaving the company. The Spirit Box came in today. What a package.

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Excerpts, which makes possible all kinds of things. In his J.J. Johnson program, for instance, he plays Dorsey, Teagarden and Bill Harris before J.J. in '44 with Jazz at the Phil. That's in a 13 minute segment. To do that with the full recordings would work, too, but takes a long time. He has an audience of 2.5 million and climbing.....

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Been enjoying his new recording with the Seattle Jazz Repertory Orchestra -- a major new suite that sort of sums up the evolution jazz from his perspective. http://www.origin-records.com/recordings/recording.php?TitleID=82565

Arno Marsh with Randy Marsh at The Everyday People Cafe in Douglas, Michigan.

For Immediate release. - CONTACT BRIANGRADY@JAZZLEGACYFILMS.COM - 845 588 2038 Composer Frank Foster Taking Back his "Shiny Stockings" -June 26, 2010 Composer and arranger Frank Foster, who penned one of the Count Basie Band's most popular tunes, "Shiny Stockings," has initiated a contract termination process with the help of faculty and students in the Community law Clinic at Rutgers School of Law–Newark. The Clinic, under the supervision of intellectual property rights attorney Clinical Professor John Kettle, has sent notice on Foster’s behalf to the current holder of copyright that Mr. Foster will be exercising his rights in accordance with a little known provision of The Copyright Act of 1976........ More here: http://JazzLegacyFilms.com/blog/?p=128 and Facebook movie page: http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Shiny-Stockings-the-movie/119021644786703?ref=ts Facebook page for Jazz Legacy Films: http://www.facebook.com/jazzlegacyfilms YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/jazzlegacy And link to Shiny Stockings documentary:

It's hard to believe that Ahmad is not included in the Smithsonian Collection of Classic Jazz Piano...Martin Williams really had it in for him, I guess.....

Percussionist Joe Chambers is our featured artist tonight on Jazz From Blue Lake, 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. eastern time, and we'll also hear music of Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane recorded June 25/26, 1957 and feature interviews with Fred Anderson and Roscoe Mitchell from 2002, as well as an excerpt of their concert together at the Wealthy Theater in Grand Rapids. http://www.bluelake.org/radio.html

John Litweiler's obit from the Sun Times: http://www.suntimes.com/news/obituaries/2430662,fred-anderson-dead-062410.article

Sorry about the loss of your friend, Chuck. 40 years. That's beautiful. Great memories of first encountering his music through Chuck, of going to the old Velvet Lounge after the Chicago Jazz Fest, of bringing him back to Michigan for concerts in Grand Rapids, and for his innate ability as a teacher. http://www.jazzinchicago.org/educates/journal/interviews/conversation-fred-anderson http://www.wnur.org/jazz/artists/vandermark.ken/interview-19980122.html

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