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Great on-line audience last night, thank you. The Bird show is going to be intense -- from '42 to '45 will take up the first hour and a half (at least) of the program. Tonight after 10 edt.

Kirk Lightsey came to Spring Lake, Michigan, on Wayne Shorter's birthday, to visit with friends who threw him a dinner party. The hosts were flailing around trying to find a neighbors piano for him to play an informal bit on. I stepped in and had the whole dinner party come over to my daughter's Montessori school where they have a 1914 (?) era Steinway which Kirk worked out on for an hour. Will write more about this incredible evening when I have some time to sit and write.

Pres tonight on Jazz From Blue Lake, 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. Bird on Friday. LV

From Greg Murphy: MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR JAZZ DRUMMER RASHIED ALI WILL BE HELD SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5TH - 11am AT RIVERSIDE CHURCH 490 Riverside Drive New York City 212-870-6700 http://www.theriversidechurchny.org/ http://rashiedali.org

-Transformations- : Vernice "Bunky" Green (as) Al Dailey (p) Billy Butler, Carl Lynch (g) Wilbur Bascomb (b) Jimmy Johnson (d) Al Chalk (perc) Jeff Bova (ARP STRING ENSEMBLE AND ARP 2600) + guest: Clark Terry (tp-Interlude figure of "Feelings") New York, November 1976

In the liner notes to Joachim Kuhn's album "Piano Works I / Allegro Vivace" on ACT records he claims to know "a substaintial repertoire of 'over 150 pieces' by the alto saxophonist, many of which haven't appeared on CD releases." On that album Kuhn records "She and he Is Who Fenn Love" and "Allotropes, Elements Different Forms or Same" by Coleman. Additionally, Kuhn taught one of those unrecorded Coleman melodies to Bobo Stenson who recorded it on the recent trio album "Cantando" (ECM). It's called "A Fixed Goal." Interesting that previously unrecorded, or undocumented, Coleman compositions are entering the world as piano repertoire.

http://freejazz-stef.blogspot.com/2009/06/...dejohnette.html

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=32820

So "Visions" comes between "Transformations" and "Places We've Never Been." In Love Again (Mark mjs 57623) June 27, 28 1987 Mark Studios with Vince Morette, Fred Betschen and Mike Nally recording engineers. Bunky Green, alto saxophone Willie Thomas, trumpet Bobby Jones, piano Bill Staebell, bass Lou Marino, drums You Stepped Out of a Dream (Gus Kahn/Nacio Herb Brown) In Love Again (Bunky Green/Willie Thomas) Yo Hablow (Willie Thomas) Dancing in the Wind (Bunky Green) Green's Blues (Bunky Green)

Visions was released in 1978 and the album notes "Recorded at Vanguard 23rd St. Studio" Engineered by Mark Berry; Produced by Ed Bland. Bunky Green, alto saxophone Wilbur Bascomb, bass Angel Allende, percussion Mark Gray, electric and acoustic piano and synthesizers Jeff Bova, synthesizer Hiram Bullock, guitar Steve Jordan, drums Michael Carvin, drums (Visions only) Bob Cranshaw, bass (Visions ony) Alone Again, Naturally (Raymond O'Sullivan) What I Do For Love (Hamlisch-Kleban) The Greatest Love of All (Masser-Creed) Never Can Say Goodbye (Clifton Davis) (arr. by Ed Bland) Ali Theme/I Write the Songs (Michael Masser/B.Johnson) The Entertainer (Scott Joplin) (adapted by Bunky Green and Ed Bland) Visions (Stevie Wonder)

Nonaah was one of the great re-issues of 2008. I added it as a write-in in the historical catagory; as well as Organissimo as favorite band! They wrap it up today. http://www.downbeat.com/

http://www.downbeat.com/default.asp?sect=n...il&nid=1426

9/27/09 Digital Primitives :Cooper Moore, Chad Taylor and Assif Tsahar 10/16/09 Percussion and Electronics with Matt Weston All shows all ages 10$ at 8 PM Mexicains Sans Frontieres 120 Southh Division Ave#226 Grand Rapids MI 49503 e-mail tlaquachito@hotmail.com 616-706-7963

Ramsey Lewis responds: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405...0291383166.html

I want that picture of Roscoe Mitchell as a screen saver!

Shearing quoted in his All Music Guide bio: "Why should a man work when he has the health and strength to lie in bed? I believe his last recording was "Like Fine Wine" for Mack Avenue in 2004 (?)

Man, that is sad! Have been enjoying that quintet he's led for the past few years as recorded in Survival Records.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090804/ap_en_..._herbie_hancock

The re-mastering of the solo pieces, even from the box set, on the Roscoe is fairly amazing. If you compare the original lp versions, with all that tape bleed through, especially on the solo saxophone piece, to this new version -- it puts the attention back on the music which, like a few of the performances on Nonaah, are great examples of Mitchell taking a simple theme and abstracting it to overblown proportions and then returning to ground, with a purity and control that belies the chop stretching, non-standard techniques which just tumbled by.

Oh yes, http://bluelake.ncats.net/

Early in the evening mostly newer recordings. Wish we had the new duo performance of DeJohnette with Wadadda Leo Smith. Do have the new John Surman on the air though.....

Fred Anderson Trio in Evanston (Dawes Park, 8/11). http://www.cityofevanston.org/departments/...starlight.shtml

http://www.jazzinchicago.org/educates/podc...ing-iii-podcast

Ruby could play in the low register like no other cornet player I've heard. Though Berigan tended to the mid-and low range overall, Braff could hit the low G like dropping an apple in a bag, before twirling it around his head and throwing it, like David at Goliath, towards the head of some giant melodic idea. His use of low notes was humorous. His tribute to Louis Armstrong on Concord, Cornet Chop Suey, is another for the list, too.

During one of Clarke's sojourns to Whitehall we did an interview that resulted in a lengthy article in the Grand Rapids Press, and several segments on Jazz From Blue Lake. The topic was his work on the Penguin Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Have the tear sheet around here somewhere, but was unable to locate that one in digital form. Donald did an interactive CD Rom, too.