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ah, April 11th at Founders....

May 11th at Founders? It was on their calendar.

His new record is a bitch. He revisits "Bill for Bennie" from the Ray Charles days and nails it; there's also a tribute to Clifford Brown, I believe, called "Brown's Town" that shows his chops are in fine shape. Last summer he recorded with a band called "Generations" an album called "Tough Guys" where he is fabulous on "So What." I mean, he nods in the first half chorus to Miles solo, and in the last half chorus nods again, but in between -- original. Eric Alexander on tenor and Andrew Speight on alto are more inclined to the outlines of the classic solos.

Niko, thanks for the link!

Let's see...Bruyninckx lists him as arranger with: King Carter and his Royal Orchestra : Wardell Jones, Shelton Hemphill, Ed Anderson (tp) Harry White, Henry Hicks (tb) Charlie Holmes (cl,as) Theodore McCord, Castor McCord (ts) Edgar Hayes (p) Benny James (bj) Hayes Alvis (b) Willie Lynch (d) Dick Rogers (Dick Robertson) (vcl) unknown scat vcl-1 New York, March 23, 1931 For "Low Down on the Bayou" and "Blue Rhythm." Leslie contributed his arrangement of "Radio Rhythm" to Henderson, as Connie's Inn Orchestra, for a July '31 session. Then "Blue Rhythm" and "Low Down On the Bayou" for Henderson, again as Connie's Inn Orchestra, in August of '31. The Mills Blue Rhythm Band (as The Blue Rhythm Boys) recorded "Blue Rhythm" and "Lowdown on the Bayou" in April of '31, then Leslie's arrangement on "Heat Wave" in February '32.

Buried deep. Towards the end. Ah, the Saugatuck/Douglas Jazz Festival. That's morphed from what was the Idlewild Jazz Festival. Produced out of Detroit, it lasted a few years in Idlewild, though that former African-American resort town -- Clifford Jordan told me he took his first steps there; and for years Lillian Armstrong had a cabin there with her phone listed in the local directory -- is located in one of the poorest counties in Michigan. So this is the first attempt at moving it down to Saugatuck, which is a beautiful little resort town a reasonable drive from Chicago. The Art Institute of Chicago has an extension program there at the Oxbow school, and there's a large gay population as well as throngs of tourists. Looking forward to M.C.ing a night of that fest when the time comes.....

Where was the Johnny O listing? Thursday, April 16th at 7:30 p.m. the Branford Marsalis Quartet, behind the release of their new CD “Metamorphosen,” celebrates a decade of playing together at the VanSingel Fine Arts Center, 8500 Burlingame S.W. Byron Center, MI, 49315. Information about the band from www.marsalismusic.com and more about the concert from www.vsfac.com. Box office phone, (616) 878 – 8600.

http://www.bluelake.org/datebook.html

ADAM RUDOLPH & RALPH JONES DUET present YEYI (yay-yee) World Premiere A Wordless Psalm of Prototypical Vibrations Adam Rudolph: Membranophones and Idiophones: handrumset (congas, djembe, tarija), frame drum, thumb pianos, gongs, percussion and mulitphonic singing, sintir, piano Ralph Jones: Aerophones: alto & C flutes, bass clarinet, tenor & soprano saxophone, ney, hichiriki, bagpipes, bamboo flutes and piano "The evening was transformed into an extraordinary and lyrical happening with music of ethereal light" IL GIORNALE Adam Rudolph’s and Ralph Jones first performed together in 1974 at the Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival. They have collaborated together in numerous projects including their collective quartet Eternal Wind (1980 – 1990) Kenne Cox’s Guerrilla Jam Band, De Candombe, Wadada Leo Smith, and Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures. In 1988 they began their association with Yusef Lateef with whom they have performed and recorded in Trio Quartet, Octet and as featured soloists in Dr. Lateefs “The African American Epic Suite” with the Koln, Atlanta, and Detroit Symphony Orchestras. Their music is grounded in the American improvisational tradition while embracing music forms, languages, instrumentation, and cosmologies of Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and the African Diaspora. Decades of performance and research into these music cultures have given the artists the background and experience to create a unique and unprecedented improvisational art form. Since 1991 they performed at many concert venues in both Europe and the United States, including Verona, Istanbul and Tampere festivals. Their concert repertoire consists of original compositions by Mr. Rudolph that serve as a basis for improvisational dialogue. About Yeyi: Yeyi is Mbuti yodeling - a wordless offering in thanks to the forest for …..Compositional forms serve as thematic material to provide an orchestrated context for improvisational dialogue. Music materials consist, among other things, of original melodies, textural gestures, sound languages, tone rows, traditional and synthetic scales, diadic and intervallicaly generated harmonies, call and response, polyphony, dynamics, and the coloration of silences. Unique forms are generated through the concept of “Cyclic Verticalism”, whereby polyrhythms, as used in African music, are combined with rhythm cycles, as used in Indian music. When combined with the above-described tonal materials, larger forms can be generated. In the compositions these materials are utilized to serve emotional coloration; what in India is called Rasa. Performers are given the freedom to use their imagination and listening ability to develop the compositions within their own individual motion and timing, while still relating to the overall form and to the aesthetic and musical functions. The concept is to generate unusual relationships of sound against sound, form against form, and rhythm against rhythm in a non-linear, ever shifting kaleidoscope of music images. BIOGRAPHIES: Born in 1955, handrummer, percussionist, composer, multi instrumentalist and improviser ADAM RUDOLPH has been hailed as “a pioneer in world music” by the NY times. Currently he composes for his groups Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures quartet and octet, Hu: Vibrational trio, and Go: Organic Orchestra, a 15 – 50 piece ensemble for which he has developed an original music notation and conducting system. He has taught and conducted hundreds of musicians in the Go: Organic Orchestra concept in both North America and Europe. Rudolph recently premiered his opera The Dreamer, based on the text of Friedreich Nietzsche's "The Birth of Tragedy". Rudolph has recently had his rhythm repository and methodology book, Pure Rhythm published by Advance Music, Germany. He has performed at festivals and concerts throughout North & South America, Europe, Africa, and Japan, appeared on numerous albums and released over twenty recordings as a leader. Over the past 25 years Rudolph has developed a unique syncretic approach to hand drumming in creative collaborations with outstanding artists of cross-cultural and improvised music, including Jon Hassel, L. Shankar, Joseph Bowie, Fred Anderson, Hassan Hakmoun and Wadada Leo Smith among others. He has released over a dozen recordings on his own Meta Records label documenting his compositions for various size ensembles as well as his collaborations with artists such as Sam Rivers, Omar Sosa, and Pharaoh Sanders. In 1988 Rudolph began his association with Yusef Lateef, with whom he has recorded over 15 albums including several of their large ensemble collaborations. Rudolph still performs worldwide with Dr. Lateef in ensembles ranging from their acclaimed duo concerts to appearances as guest soloist with the Koln, Atlanta and Detroit symphony orchestras. He has been on the faculty of Esalen Institute, California Institute of the Arts and the Danish Jazz Federation Summer Institute. Rudolph has received grants and compositional commissions from the Rockefeller Foundation, Chamber Music America, Meet the Composer, Mary Flagler Cary Trust, the NEA, Arts International, Durfee Foundation and American Composers Forum. RALPH M. JONES has been active as a performing artist in the African-American Improvisational tradition for over 30 years. As an internationally recognized performing artist, he has recorded and performed throughout the U.S., Europe, Africa and Asia with Dr. Yusef Lateef, Pharaoh Sanders, Ahmed­Abdul Malik, Ella Fitzgerald, Wadada Leo Smith, Ken Cox the MC5, Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures, Go: Organic Orchestra and his group, The Seekers of Truth Revolutionary Ensemble( SOTRE). Ralph has been a featured soloist with the WDR Radio Orchestra of Koln, Germany, and the Atlanta and Detroit Symphonies in the premiers and performances of Dr. Lateef's "African American Epic Suite" for quintet and orchestra. He is also a founding member of the internationally acclaimed world music ensemble, Eternal Wind. Ralph has recently composed original music for the award-winning documentary film, "Tell Me, Cuba" and provided original music for a new production of the critically acclaimed play "Death of a Salesman" featuring Avery Brooks. His most CD recent release is "Yusef Lateef & Ralph M. Jones III: Woodwinds" on YAL records. He has earned his Masters degree in African- American Studies and his B.A. in Ethnomusicology from UCLA, where he also studied the hichiriki with Japanese Gagaku master Togi. As an educator, he is in his 16th year on the music faculty of the California State Summer School for the Arts and is presently Faculty in Residence at Oberlin College's Afrika Heritage House. For more about Adam Rudolph and Ralph Jones Duet please visit: www.metarecords.com http://www.myspace.com/movingpicturesquartet http://www.youtube.com/adamtabl http://www.metarecords.com ADAM RUDOLPH AND RALPH JONES PRESS REVIEWS: "The evening was transformed into an extraordinary and lyrical happening with music of ethereal light" IL GIORNALE "A pioneer in world music." NEW YORK TIMES "They managed to create a magical and enchanted atmosphere." MUSICA JAZZ "Their set was the best of the (Verona Jazz) festival" LA CRONACA "A masterful blending of jazz styling and instrumental prowess." -Variety "World jazz of the highest caliber." -Boston Globe "Percussionist Adam Rudolph has been fusing jazz and world music for decades, to the point where the two coexist as a seamless whole." -The Philadelphia Daily News "A project of haunting power and beauty. Captivating and profoundly beautiful." -Earshot Jazz "Adam Rudolph is percussion master...Dream Garden [is] a career achievement for Rudolph, one that should finally make the jazz world sit up and take notice." -All Music Guide "Adam Rudolph's music embraces a wide tonal and timbral palette to create cinematic, evocative music." -Soundslope.com "A worldwide jazz that looks for wide open vistas of music for its inspiration." - Jazz and Blues Music Reviews "A vibrant collage that's soulful, edgy and refreshingly spiritual." - Jazzwax.com

April 1st is the anniversary of his birth (passed in 2006). Have always had a soft spot for his playing.

Hello thedwork, Not live, unfortunately, but records. Hope you can join us. Yes, I still have your CD. LV

10 p.m. to 3 a.m. est http://www.bluelake.org/radio

I thought he died of aids. Corea's "Gotta Match?" is dedicated to him. Aren't there a few of his solos with the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis band, too?

Mexicans San Frontiers is teaming up with Blue Lake to present the Adam Rudolph/Ralph Jones duo over Easter Weekend: Saturday, April 11th at 8 p.m. the Adam Rudolph/Ralph Jones duo perform a wordless psalm called “YEYI” (yay-yee) At Mexicains Sans Frontieres, 120 South Division Ave, #226, Grand Rapids, MI, 49503. Special Guests: Corey Eno Ruffin & End Times Quartet also perform. Featuring Adam Rudolph: Membranophones and Idiophones: handrumset (congas, djembe, tarija), frame drum, thumb pianos, gongs, percussion and mulitphonic singing, sintir, piano. And Ralph Jones: Aerophones: alto & C flutes, bass clarinet, tenor & soprano saxophone, ney, hichiriki, bagpipes, bamboo flutes and piano. Information from www.metarecords.com/adam.html.

I believe that's a photo of Roscoe in Bath, Michigan, outside of East Lansing.

http://www.bombsite.com/issues/97/articles/2857

$1,050 is a joke?

Maybe Ted will shoot an animal on stage as part of the act.

Because he waited a long, long time to take his music "public" I'd bet he left the "sound alike" part of his development in the 'shed. In those interviews where he talks about learning from the early greats he often says, "Not to copy them," but as an aid in helping him raise his own musical standards.

Thanks for putting this up, Jim!

March 18, 2009 For immediate release Grand Valley trumpet student wins first place at national competition ALLENDALE, Mich. -- Grand Valley State University senior Hunter Eberly won first prize at the 2009 National Trumpet Competition College Solo Division. The competition was held last weekend at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. Hunter is the first Grand Valley student to win the top prize in the college solo competition. Grand Valley’s Trumpet Ensemble “A,” which includes Eberly, Mark Peterson, Adam Cuthbert, Alex Wilson, and Neal Andrews, won 3rd prize in the Trumpet Ensemble Competition. Juilliard and Northwestern University won first and second prizes respectively. “It was a lot of fun, and it was an awesome experience for me,” said Eberly. “I performed the first movement of Eino Tamberg’s “Concerto for Trumpet,” which has a pretty dark mood, a lot of odd interval jumps and a lot of fast technical sections, but those are contrasted by a few lyrical flowing sections, that give the piece sort of a feeling of hope.” Eberly started playing piano when he was three, and started trumpet in third grade. The Muskegon native is a graduate of Calvary Christian High School and the son of Cheri and Sam Eberly. “My mom is a band director at Calvary Christian Schools in Fruitport and a trumpet player, and I became interested in music through her,” said Eberly, who has studied at Grand Valley with Richard Stoelzel, associate professor of trumpet and the brass department coordinator. “This competition is the most notable national competition for trumpet players,” said Stoelzel. “I am extremely proud of Hunter’s outstanding accomplishment. His first place win is a milestone for the trumpet studio and the music department.” Success has come steadily for Eberly. He was a member of Grand Valley’s trumpet ensemble last year, which took first prize at the competition. He also won an International Trumpet Guild scholarship last year, has performed with the GVSU trumpet ensemble at one ITG conference, and will perform again at this year’s conference. Eberly was also a rare student member of the GVSU Faculty Brass Quintet last year, was principle trumpet of the GVSU Orchestra last semester and is currently principle trumpet of the Symphonic Wind Ensemble. Eberly will graduate this spring and plans to pursue a master’s degree in music. He has been accepted to Rice University’s Shepherd School of Music, and is in the finals for The Colburn School in Los Angeles. “These are my two top choices, so I will be studying in either Houston or Los Angeles next year,” said Eberly. “My ultimate goal is to be a professional trumpet player and teacher. I want to play in a major symphony orchestra, as well as be a trumpet professor at a university.”

Caught Mose Allison at that icon of a Detroit jazz club.

Just a couple of minutes of it....thanks for digging it up....

Wednesday night at 9 pm Ran Blake will do a live solo piano performance. You can listen online at www.wgbh.org/jazz. Click on the link that says "Listen Live" Eric Jackson Mon - Thurs 8 pm - mid. 89.7 FM WGBH Boston www.wgbh.org/jazz

Digital Buddha Jin Hi Kim, Komungo & Electric Komungo Gerry Hemingway, Percussion Detroit Institute of the Arts Friday, April 24, 7 pm & 8:30 pm Info: 313-833-7900 Midwest premiere of Digital Buddha featuring Kim's esoteric Korean Komungo and internationally acclaimed percussionist Hemingway with video by Benton C Bainbridge and Joel Cadman. http://www.dia.org/calendar/programs_and_e...?webitemid=1815 http://www.jinhikim.com -- Jin Hi Kim www.jinhikim.com