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We've been hittin' it, too!

Tommy acknowledged the Detroit legend Earl Van Riper as a major influence on his touch at the keyboard.

What do you think of Blue Lake's sound? After nearly 30 years we've upgraded our processors (now using the optimod 8300). Still tweaking it, but interested to hear if you've noticed a change.

Happy Birthday to the great pianist Cecil Taylor, our featured artist tonight on Jazz From Blue Lake. We'll focus from 10 p.m. to 12 a.m. on Tayor's recordings from 1956 through 1962, the early period. Including "Of What" and "Cindy's Main Mood," early examples of entirely free jazz. Hope you can join us. Eastern DAYLIGHT time. www.bluelake.org/radio (MAC users please try "shoutcast" which opens in I-tunes; otherwise there's a Windows Media Player). I see other sources point to March 25th as his birthday. Oh well, let's get the party started early!

I've been saying "doo-zhyay"...thanks for the correction to my phonetics.

The New Orleans tenor player Derek Douget. Do-j-aa or Dug-it ?

Trumpets this week. Tonight, Monday, Bakida Carroll. Tomorrow, Charles Tolliver. Then Bix on Wednesday; Roy Campbell on Thursday; and we'll wrap up the week with a tribute to the great living master, drummer Roy Haynes. www.bluelake.org/radio 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. M-F.

This is the work she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for. It's dedicated to Cecil Taylor, McCoy Tyner and Herbie Hancock. She'll be giving a public performance of it Monday night in Ann Arbor (I think I put something up under Live Shows and Festivals). Her solo "Live From Blue Lake" performance from the Spring of '08 was one of the great moments in radio history as far as our station is concerned. There are some solo things on her last Telarc recording, including "La Strada." The version she played of Bird's "Ah Leu Cha" in the spirit of Ornette Coleman during "Live From Blue Lake" is just dynamite. The first third of the piece is in the low register. Ask ALOC, he's probably heard it a dozen times. Here's the shizzle http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=5339543&id=650686557

Nice audience for the Barney Bigard program last night, as well as "Out On Blue Lake" after midnight. Tonight we're featuring pianist Rene Rosnes. http://www.reneerosnes.com/

Anyone going to Rudresh Mahanthappa's Indo-Pak Coalition concert Wednesday, March 10th, at Hope College in Holland? http://www.hope.edu/gps/0910/indo_pak_coalition.html

Thanks Chuck.

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Blub here: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?ref=name&id=681211331#!/photo.php?pid=5339543&id=650686557

Tonight's plug: Drummer Peter Erskine, of Weather Report and Steps Ahead fame, graduated in 1971 from the Interlochen Arts Academy near Traverse City. Last April he returned to Interlochen with pianist Alan Pasqua and bassist Derek Oles and the recording of that concert will be featured throughout all five hours of Jazz From Blue Lake tonight from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. Hope you can join us.

Thanks guys. Alan, yup: I was 23 years old and came directly here from college. That Nessa pulled in shortly after was a godsend. Graduate studies in Nessa's basement.

March 1, 1983. Arrived at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp from Michigan State University by bus and commenced hosting Jazz From Blue Lake by playing the Henry Threadgill Sextet's "When Was That?" (original title, "Fanfare and Celebration") and music of the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra. Please join Blue Lake tonight for my 27th anniversary celebration, after 10 p.m. We're featuring a fellow graduate from East Grand Rapids High School, bassist Paul Keller. http://www.bluelake.org/radio

Just checking. Hamp looks like he's enjoying Muskegon's hospitality.

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(Blurb) Edge Monday, Feb 22, 8 pm PETER BRÖTZMANN, saxophone FRED LONBERG-HOLM, cello Tonight! Fred Lonberg-Holm and Peter Brötzmann team up for an evening of experimental jazz. Collaborators in the group Chicago 10tet, tonight they form a dynamic duo - a rare opportunity to hear these two in concert. Check out the preview in the Michigan Daily: http://www.michigandaily.com/content/kch-improv-performance Peter Brötzmann Brötzmann was first a visual artist, attending the Art Academy of Wuppertal. A self-taught saxophonist, he began playing with Dixieland bands beginning in 1959. In the early '60s he became involved with the avant-garde Fluxus movement. He began playing free jazz around 1964; in 1965 he played in a group with the virtuoso bassist Peter Kowald and the Swedish drummer Sven-Åke Johansson. The next year he played with Michael Mantler and Carla Bley's band and became associated with Alexander Schlippenbach's Globe Unity Orchestra. In 1969 Brötzmann helped form FMP, a long-lived free jazz label and presenter that issues recordings and sponsors live performances. In the '70s, Brötzmann played and recorded with pianist Fred van Hove, drummer Han Bennink, trumpeter Don Cherry, and trombonist Albert Mangelsdorff, among others. His circle of associates would continue to widen; in 1986 he would play (with drummer Ronald Shannon Jackson, guitarist Sonny Sharrock, and electric bassist/producer Bill Laswell) in Last Exit, a metal/free jazz group that enjoyed brief success. By the late '90s one would be hard-pressed to name a prominent free jazz musician with whom Brötzmann had not played. Fred Lonberg-Holm Chicago based cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm has played and studied music in a variety of situations from the Juilliard School to the gutter. A former student of Anthony Braxton, Morton Feldman, Bunita Marcus and Pauline Oliveros, his primary projects are his Valentine Trio and The Lightbox Orchestra. He is also a member of a number of ongoing collective projects (The Boxhead Ensemble, The Friction Brothers with Michaels Zerang and Colligan, The Flatlands Collective, Keefe Jackson's Fast Citizens) as well as participating in numerous one off "ad-hoc" or in frequently convening ensembles.

Heard him a couple of times with Dizzy in the 1980's - don't know what's happened since then.

Oh frownie! "may have been." There are musicians from many stylistic approaches who appreciate Shelly Manne on a deep and abiding level, and he wouldn't have kept a club running for 14 years if he didn't have a public to love him, yet these days how often are we hearing from the fans about Shelly Manne? One of the most creative drummers ever, yet how often is he spoken about in the grand lineage of musicians on his instrument? That was the thinking, any who....

Drummer, bandleader, night club owner, horse breeder....