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Ah, Ingrid is now teaching part time at the University of Michigan. Heard Organissimo last night at The Alley Door Club in Muskegon. Good crowd, great music. Randy's new drum set and Joe's new guitar are, as Nessa said last night, "Shiny."

Christy sounds a lot like O'Day at this point in her career. The Peggy Lee small band things are a revelation.

He also does "Will You Still Be Mine" by Matt Dennis on "The Freedom Suite."

Will include some of the music from the Carl Allen / Rodney Whitaker project with Joe Gloss on guitar in this evening's program, too.

That's a good one, Paul, which we've featured in the past. This time landed on Chet Baker.

Please join Blue Lake Public Radio tonight from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. for a celebration of Matt Dennis compositions by jazz musicians. Angel Eyes, Violets for Your Furs, Will You Still Be Mine, Let's Get Away From It All, Everything Happens to Me. Then Thursday night Organissimo gets the retrospective treatment in anticipation of their Friday night performance in Muskegon. Including "Live From Blue Lake" recordings with the Big O and Arno Marsh. http://bluelake.ncats.net/

http://www.tangent-audio.com/00003/00011/00050/ Nice video. Then this: http://www.reciva.com

Thanks for dropping by last night folks. Had a nice spike in listeners on line from 11 p.m. to midnight.

If you're up and happen to be near the computer jazz great Howard McGhee's music is featured tonight on Blue Lake Public Radio, including interviews with McGhee, Teddy Edwards, Roy Porter and Earl Coleman from the recently published Charlie Parker box set on ESP, Bird In Time, 1940 to 1947, http://espdisk.com/catalog/Individual%20Ti...es/ESP4050.html The entire 11 p.m. to midnight hour is focused on Maggie's music with Coleman Hawkins, Bird and on his own in the 1940's (plus the interview segments). www.bluelake.org/radio

Kevin Whitehead for NPR's "Fresh Air": http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.p...oryId=100178105

Nice.

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Opera without words. Played a section of that, though need a tutorial from the classical staff on the Italian pronunciations.

19 January 2009 http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=31456

Hey, Maybe he'd like some airplay in Michigan? LV

Written by JazzStage Productions Thursday, 15 January 2009 DETROIT -- The Detroit International Jazz Festival is now accepting submissions from local and regional artists interested in performing at the 30th anniversary event, September 4 --September 7. Detroit Jazz Fest has been hailed as one of the top 5 jazz festivals in the country, and is an exceptional showcase for Detroit-based artists. "There aren't nearly enough slots for all of the qualified musicians, so the competition is fierce," said Terri Pontremoli, executive director of the DJF. "The music legacy in this town is very deep, and to this day strong, young artists are coming through the ranks." Submissions in Jazz, Blues, Latin, Funk, Gospel, R&B and Avant-garde must be received by March 15, 2009. Materials will be reviewed by a committee will make recommendations. Selected artists will be announced in May. For more information, contact info@detroitjazzfest.com. Complete artist packets (cd, bio, photo) should be mailed to: Detroit Jazz Fest 660 Woodward Ave. Suite 13 Detroit, MI 48226 Attn: Festival Director The Detroit International Jazz Festival (DJF) is an independent, non-profit organization that presents jazz and educational workshops throughout the year. With an audience of 850,000, this free event has a $90M impact on the city. It is supported through foundation grants, individual donations, and customized sponsorships for businesses that benefit from exposure to DJF's large, diverse and educated audience. For more information visit www.detroitjazzfest.com . Contact: Terri Koggenhop Detroit International Jazz Festival (248) 360-2455 tkoggenhop@detroitjazzfest.com

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Try the new Benny Golson Jazz'tet; new solo Martial Solal at the Village Vanguard; new one by trumpeter Vinnie Cutro, I believe; Orbert Davis and the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic; the Blue Note 7; Vince Mendoza's Blauklang; a Gary Smulyan disc arranged by Mark Masters called The Jazz Heart (Soul?) of Frankie Laine. Many new ones. Been playing them lately on Jazz From Blue Lake around our retrospective survey of Ray Charles great instrumentalists...Fathead, tonight Hank Crawford, Friday Marcus Belgrave, who also has a new one with his friend Charlie Gabriel including a swinging version of "Bill for Bennie."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1231972921...icle-outset-box

(Forwarded message) Quincy Jones has started a petition to ask President-Elect Obama to appoint a Secretary of the Arts. While many other countries have had Ministers of Art or Culture for centuries, The United States has never created such a position. We in the arts need this and the country needs the arts--now more than ever. Please take a moment to sign this important petition and then pass it on to your friends and colleagues. This petition is really easy to sign. I will take just a minute of your time. http://www.petitiononline.com/esnyc/petition.html

And, of course, there are many other Cherokee solos to compare it to. I mean Diz on "Koko" with Bird live...who is ever going to top that? Brownie's solo with the Max Roach quintet, a staple of young musicians. There comes a point where there are the classics and then there's everything else, which approach the classics yet rarely surpass them. And for what it is worth I heard Bowie playing a full evening of standards after a Chicago Jazz Festival appearance with the Brass Fantasy. He was on for two full sets at the Southend Music Works. Everyone was playing changes. His creativity in that setting -- he was still Bowie, all in -- encompassed more of the the totality of the trumpet tradition than just about anyone I've heard since. Not sequentially a la homage, but creatively, emotionally, melodically and without much self consciousness. As they used to say, he was natural.

During a recent Jeremy Pelt "Before and After" he pointed to Clark Terry's solo on "In A Mist" from the "Happy Horns of Clark Terry" as being one of the key places Wynton comes from. When the WM Quartet played Grand Rapids right after that Blue Note Quartet album was issued, the one with "Free to Be" on it, he played "Cherokee" and used a long verbatim quotation of Clifford Brown's solo on "Cherokee" as the "head" on the end of the tune.

I was on that cruise. Had a chance to interview Clifford Jordan who left us soon after. Also recorded interviews with Milt Hinton, Doc Cheatham, Leonard Feather, Jackie McLean, Charlie Persip and Randy Weston. That was a bittersweat sail.

Across the Tracks on Concord.

Herbie Hancock Statement On The Passing Of Freddie Hubbard Freddie Hubbard was, I believe, the greatest jazz trumpet stylists of my generation. His influence is still being felt in the sound of many young trumpeters today. His warm tone and formidable technique will be considered marvels well into the future. Personally, I was so fortunate in that Freddie played on my very first album as a leader "Takin' Off". He was exactly the person I wanted and his contribution was groundbreaking. On a tune called "One Finger Snap" on a subsequent album of mine, his beginning improvised solo line worked so seamlessly that it became a kind of generic "melody" that most musicians still believe was the composed melody, when in fact it was not. He and I crossed paths musically in several albums. In the group VSOP he was a founding member who's artistry helped propel that project, which began as a one time tour, to a decade of memorable musical inspirational moments for me. His legacy is secure in that he played a seminal role of the shaping of the evolution of America's foremost contribution to the musical arts, jazz. Herbie Hancock