Lazaro Vega

It's a Carla Bley marathon tonight on Jazz From Blue Lake, 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. All Carla all the time! www.bluelake.org/radio

He's our featured artist tonight on Jazz From Blue Lake, 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. edt via www.bluelake.org/radio

Thanks everyone, the big 5-0 has been good! Thanks to Chuck and Ann for stopping by the station tonight as we wrap up the funder. (Yes, I'm working on my 50th b-day, but plans are in the works for a big party this summer with a big band and Arno Marsh in our back yard).

Yeah man! They had me at the downbeat. Loved what you wrote with the photos, too. Ralph's patience is an important part of making this music work -- figuring out how to fit into the complexity of Adam's rhythms. He'll take his time, play a long tone. Rest. Repeat it. Rest, repeat it, then sound a second note maybe a 3rd away (or a 4th or 5th, whatever worked). And, eventually, he'll decorate those tonal areas with virtuosostic improvisation. But it isn't up there first -- it's waiting to find out where to use it best. As Adam said when I mentioned this observation, "That's why he has the gig!"

Lazaro Vega Yeyi this Saturday in Grand Rapids, at Mexicains San Frontieres, and Sunday in Ann Arbor at Kerritown Concert House. Adam Rudolph, percussion; Ralph Jones, woodwinds. http://www.michigandaily.com/content/yeyi-kerrytown-concert-house-brad-sanders

Tonight on Jazz From Blue Lake we speak with producer Chuck Nessa about bassist/bandleader/composer Charles Mingus (from a 2001 interview re: "Charles 'Baron' Mingus, West Coast, 1945-1949" on Uptown Records). The great Charles Mingus tonight on Blue Lake, 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. via www.bluelake.org/radio

Thanks Randissimo!

Hope so. Great record, nice review.

Cuban pianist/composer Omar Sosa is playing in Cleveland tonight and at the Detroit Institute of Arts on Friday. Sosa's many recordings are featured tonight on Jazz From Blue Lake, especially his duo recording with Adam Rudolph who plays Grand Rapids this Saturday. Many Afro-Cuban influenced jazz recordings from Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway to Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker are also heard. 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. via http://www.bluelake.org/radio and for info on Sosa http://www.omarsosa.com/ __________________

Yesterday All Things Considered featured a review of Von Freeman's "Vonski Speaks" (Nessa Records) by Peter Margasak. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126136047

A year ago Easter Sunday this duo played live on Blue Lake (Nessa was there) and the current CD was recorded during that tour. They'll be back in Grand Rapids this Saturday at Hugo Claudin's loft on South Division. Jones is now on the faculty at Oberlin. A former student of Yusef Lateef, he has an amazing flute sound, a sublime approach to the bass clarinet, and an arsenal of 'ethnic' flutes to choose from (our studio was PACKED full of instruments for this duo). Highly recommended.

Ammons was last Friday. Tonight, Bud Freeman.

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/oscars/2010/04/treme-recap-just-one-episode-and-already-more-jazz-than-that-whole-ken-burns-documentary.html

http://www.spinner.com/2010/04/15/nels-cline-initiate/

Blue Lake Public Radio will feature this suite on Sunday evening from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. (when Night Lights starts) edt. http://www.bluelake.org/radio

Blue Lake is featuring the music of Horace Tapscott this evening from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. www.bluelake.org/radio

Are you going to catch them again at The Hideout? http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/Event?oid=1612190

Celebrating the music of Herbie Hancock tonight at 10 p.m. and then the Gebhard Ullmann Clarinet Trio "Live From Blue Lake" at 11 p.m. Hope you can join us, http://www.bluelake.org/radio

Very good. They were in Seattle, flew to Chicago, drove to Michigan and recorded at Blue Lake. Today they're in Ann Arbor; Monday night at 11 p.m. edt "Live From Blue Lake;" Tuesday at noon at the Chicago Cultural Center and Wednesday night at The Hideout in Chicago. Their ability to improvise with written material amazes me. That is, there are scored sections which are played in an improvised cannon form; scored parts which can be accessed randomly; and points within the performance where the written parts are played specifically. Gebhard has a very distinct and recognizable way of phrasing the blues in his compositions, and one of them, in quarter tones, that they'll play on Monday takes his work in this area to another level.

http://www.gebhard-ullmann.com/frame.htm

Tonight we're recording the Gebhard Ullmann clarinet trio from Berlin in our studios for broadcast on Monday evening at 11 p.m. http://www.leorecords.com/?m=select&id=CD_LR_415 http://www.bucknell.edu/x60902.xml

"Darn That Dream" is worth the price of admission alone.....

When I heard Charlie Rouse play "Monk's Mood" with Kenny Barron and Buster Williams at the Village Vanguard it was like hearing the tune for the first time: the overtone series on that melody with that voicing created an unimaginably rich sound. Tonight Blue Lake celebrates the beauty of Charlie Rouse's tenor saxophone sound on the Jazz Retrospective, with many new recordings, too, from 10 p.m. via www.bluelake.org/radio

http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2010/04/brad_mehldau_trio_mezmerizes_a.html

there's this: http://billyhartmusic.com/interview_part_3.htm