Lazaro Vega

In 1992 Blue Lake broadcast a half hour self produced radio program on the subject of David Cronenberg's film "Naked Lunch" which features recorded phone conversations with movie composer Howard Shore and the great Ornette Coleman. Tonight at midnight we'll rebroadcast that program. After 1 a.m. we'll feature "Sound Grammer" and an interview with Ornette recorded in January, 2007, which first aired on the night he presented at the Grammy Awards. Jazz From Blue Lake begins at 10 p.m. with some of Coleman's more familiar compositons. Meet you in cyberspace, Lazaro www.bluelake.org "Jazz...which comes to you in the best of taste....from Blue Lake." Mercer Ellington.

I can't get it to work. What needs to be entered in the "changes" area? Song titles or chord letters?

We're playing that Micheal Blake tribute to Lucky Thompson on Blue Lake.

Nice internet audience last night -- thanks for tuning in. Rup, did your recording work out?

12 a.m. Out on Blue Lake. Bill Dixon and Chicago's Exploding Star Orchestra (Thrill Jockey). 1 a.m. Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble; Frequency (quartet with Mitchell, Edward Wilkerson) tribute to Light Henry Huff; 8 Bold Souls tribute to Light Henry Huff. After 2 a.m. music by Archie Shepp and the New York Contemporary Five (Bill Dixon's piece "Trio" and Don Cherry's "Consequences") as well as The New York Art Quartet, John Tchicai with Pierre Dorge and NHOP, Tchicai with Charlie Kohlhase, Garrison Fewell. www.bluelake.org/radio.html

Names now amended. What instrument is Tatsu Aoki playing in the "Seekers" section?

They're vacuuming up confetti from my 25th anniversary party upstairs -- March 1, 1983 to March 1, 2008: 25 years of Jazz From Blue Lake. Ehlda Don wrote: "He won't say it & maybe-- really-- doesn't believe it but i suspect, deep down, he knows too NPR is 90% + dogshit AND the whole system from them to FCC worship is vile, venal, demeaning & a fucking emabarassment to man, woman, child alike. " Well, yeah, the FCC is a politicized governmental agency with a terrible history over the last several years; RIAA isn't helping music on the internet with their business first amendations to the DMCA, and NPR news is not what it once was but I would not say it is dogshit. Compared to what? Fox News is dogshit. They set the stink mud in the treads of the sneaker level, but that is probably so far off your radar you don't put NPR in perspective with it. Though Blue Lake should be more daring in classical music programming I'll take exception to the idea that coming to work everyday to program jazz on the radio is something I've sold my soul to do. Duke's entire 1965 Black Brown and Beige tonight at 10. Though you're sure to find something wrong with ending Black History Month with A Tone Parallel to the American Negro, because it is old or not "today's" rap, convince me sticking with the Maestro is a sell out. Yesterday someone who now programs jazz in Atlanta mentioned the first time they ever heard "Ascension" was on Jazz From Blue Lake. That is a good thing (that they heard it at all in mass media). Nothing more to add. Yes the Sat Radio services are offering a more interesting mix of music than nearly all of commercial radio (I know a guy in Denver who does a good show, so the "nearly"). Bomb throwing anarchists away!!!!!

Points taken. However when the sat stations went up and they were given their frequencies part of the deal was that there would be competition between like media. When there's only two such operations and one fails, the original deal is off. They're doing all they can to skirt that now, which is also a big reason why this is being held up.

My point is: get in the game. Stop thowing tomatos and do something. Establish an on-line radio station. That's "easy." Let's see if you're able to do whatever it is you're talking about. Don't write at me, write a grant, pull some Marxist coat-tails. Let's see how well you're able to maintain your edge or "standards" or vision or whatever it is when you're more than 1's and 0's. And, sure, read. Whatever. I'm teaching myself to play trumpet and "read" music in an effort to pony up as a music presenter. That's what I'm doing. What are you doing besides appearing to be above? Are you smart enough to write a grant, get a station on the air, deal with music publishing laws, bandwidth, budgets, people in your audience, a staff (ah! people skills!) and do you have the wind to sustain it? If you can't, after all the shit you've thrown at people who have at least tried, then wear that beanie. I say stop posting here until you invite us all to listen to your station. Spend all the time you'd otherwise dedicate to writing here to writing the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, or the Ford Foundation, or whoever of your Marxist brethern you know and can pitch, to convince them that your vision for better media programming is needed. And then make it real. Be real. Not fictional. And if that is just too much, get yourself on "Air America" or "Pacifica" or whatever media outlet you'd deign appeal to and let's hear that. Because if you're all that you're gonna fuck everyone up. Mary fukin Heart is going to want you on HER show because there's a new flava in the world of media: ideas. Clem is going to bring us Idea Radio. That could be your show. Pitch it. Make a place for yourself. Then come back and put up the link to your thing and we'll see how you do. The world is waiting for the sunrise.

Frank Deford is more literate, knowledgeable, communicative, humourous and relevant than Stern's Ed McMan. Deford's essay on bowling the other day would be right up you alley their BooBeck. Face it, we don't live in a world with Malcom X anymore -- the whole country is timid. So somebody has the urge to yell: wish he had something to say before he started in on that. Clem has read so much he's become fictional. A fictional character without a clear ending. As in put up or shut up. Don't plead poverty sho us how you'd be a media mogel by doing it, by developing the mass audience you seem so intent on believing is just waiting to rally around your point of view. Stop the diaper talk about NPR and get your own thing going or just sit down and crawl back into the black sauce bucket you've emerged from to stink up the place. That is, prove you're not fictional. Establish a beach head in the rubble of mass communication, run with it, come to real life. Build it so they will come, and come again. Or slink away.

I don't know, did they agree never to merge? Why would anyone really give a fuck if they did? end quote Well, you know, we could reverse all that consolidation rather than give in to it. Fact is, yes, they agreed they wouldn't merge in order to provide competition in the marketplace. They were allowed in with that caveat. So now that it didn't work out the fuckers should fold their tent and go home, not come crawling for a bail out. Fact is if our radio station goes under, la la la hey hey goodbye. Why not with them? They failed -- see ya, wouldn't want to be ya. The reason local radio stations care is because the radio equivilant of Wal Mart just opened down the street with more bells and whistles and a larger audience base with which to poach what business underwriting we're all trying to court. So, let's give a big warm hug to the brash corporate welfare recipient and a big f.u. to the local guy. "My country tis of thee, sweet land of...."

Jazz From Blue Lake Playlist Thursday, February 7, 2008 Artist—Song Title – Album Title – Record Label 10 p.m. Eastern Time Duke Ellington, Rhapsody In Blue; Complete Reprise; Mosaic. Dizzy Gillespie, Good Bait; Dizzier and Dizzier: RCA. John Coltrane, Good Bait; Soultrane: Prestige. Howard McGhee, Night Mist; Complete Dial: Jazz Classics. Charlie Parker, Relaxin’ at Camarillo; Complete Dial/Savoy: Savoy. Jazz Datebook, www.bluelake.org/datebook.html Hans Glawischnig, Oceanography; Panorama: Sunnyside. Chick Corea/Gary Burton, La Fiesta; the New Crystal Silence: Concord. Pat Metheny, At Last; Day Trip: Nonesuch. 11 p.m. John Coltrane, Soft Lights and Sweet Music; Traning In: Prestige. Billy Eckstine, I Want To Talk About You; I Want To Talk About You: Xanadu. John Coltrane, I Want To Talk About You; Soultrane: Prestige. Jazz Datebook. Frank Kimbrough, Jackie-ing; Air: Palmetto. Jackie McLean, Osyris Returns; Rhythm of the Earth: Verve. Joe Beck/John Abercrombie, The Turnaround; Coincidence; Whaling City. Pater Paulson Sextet, Nefrititi; Change of Scenery: Wahbo. Eric Byrd, Baby, It’s Cold Outside; Brother Ray: Fox Haven. 12 a.m. John Coltrane, You Say You Care; Soultrane: Prestige. John Coltrane, Lush Life; Lush Life: Prestige. Northwoods Improvisers, Zychron/Fosters/Blue Monk; Jamming into the Valley: Entropy. Chris MacGregor’s Brotherhood of Breath, The Bride; Eclipse at Dawn: Cuneniform. Jazz Datebook. 1 a.m. Westchester Jazz Orchestra, Rom 608; All In: WJO. Horace Silver Quintet, The Outlaw; Newport 1958: Blue Note. Charlie Parker, Carvin’ the Bird/Stupendous; Complete Dial/Savoy: Savoy. John Coltrane, Theme For Ernie; Soultrane: Prestige. John Coltrane, Shifting Down; Coltrane Time: Douglas. Pierre Dorge, Café Central/Landscape with Animals; Jazz Is Like A Banana: Steeplechase. 2 a.m. All Star Celebration, Jive Samba; Cannon Re-loaded: Concord. Jae Sinnett, Simple Pleasures; It’s Telling: J-Nett. David Fathead Newman, Star Eyes; Diamond Head: High Note. John Coltrane, Russian Lullaby; Soultrane: Prestige. John Coltrane, Traning In; Traning In: Prestige. Ornette Coleman, The Sphinx; Something Else: Contemporary. Nicole Mitchell’s Black Earth Ensemble, Life Wants You To Live; Black Unstoppable: Delmark. Lazaro Vega Jazz Director Blue Lake Public Radio 300 East Crystal Lake Road Twin Lake MI 49457 WBLV FM 90.3 serving Muskegon and the Lake Michigan shoreline WBLU FM 88.9, Grand Rapids Streaming live from www.bluelake.org.

Jazz From Blue Lake Playlist Tuesday, February 5, 2008 Artist—Song Title – Album Title – Record Label 10 p.m. Eastern Time Duke Ellington, Rhapsody In Blue; Complete Reprise: Mosaic. Joshua Redman, East of the Sun/Zarafah; Back East: Nonesuch. SF Jazz Collective, Half Full; Vol. 2: Nonesuch. Count Basie/Dizzy Gillespie, Back to the Land; The Gifted Ones: Pablo. Eric Byrd Trio, I’ve Got New For You; Brother Ray: Fox Haven. Catherine Russell, You Better Watch It Bub; Sentimental Streak: World Village. Gregg August Sextet, Nastissimo; One Peace: Iacuessa. 11 p.m. Sam Yahel, Truth and Beauty; Truth and Beauty: Origin. Joshua Redman, Indian Song; Back East: Nonesuch. SF Jazz Collective, 2+2; Vol. 2: Nonesuch. Pat Metheny, Calvin’s Keys; Day Trip: Nonesuch. All Star Celebration, Save Your Love For Me; Cannon Re-loaded: Concord. Chick Corea/Gary Burton, Waltz for Debby; Crystal Silence: Concord Music. Bill Evans, Blue In Green; Keepnews Collection Various: Concord. 12 a.m. Joshua Redman, Surry with the Fringe On Top; Back East: Nonesuch. SF Jazz Collective, Rise and Fall; Vol. 1: Nonesuch. Ornette Coleman, Sleep Talking; Of Human Feelings: Antilles. Ornette Coleman, Sleep Talking; Sound Grammer: Sound Grammer. Ben Allison and Man Sized Safe, Roll Credits; Little Things Mean A Lot: Palmetto Ron Blake, Of Kindred Souls; Shayari: Max Jazz. Fluerine, Love Marks; San Fransisco: Sunnyside. Puppini Sisters, Walk Like An Egyptian; The Rise and Fall of Ruby Woo: Verve. 1 a.m. Joshua Redman, Surrey With the Fringe On Top; Back East: Nonesuch. SF Jazz Collective, Africa; Vol. 2: Nonesuch. Hans Glawischnig, The Orchids; Panorama: Sunnyside. Jason Lindner Big Band, Rumors; Live at Jazz Gallery: Anzic. Frank Kimbrough, Air; Air: Palmetto. Joe Locke, Sword of Whispers; Stick and Strings: Jazz Eyes. 2 a.m. Joshua Redman, Back East; Back East: Nonesuch. Larry Willis, Alter Ego; The Offering: High Note. David Fathead Newman, Diamond Head; Diamond Head: High Note. Stanley Clarke, Come On; The Machines of Men: Heads Up. John Scofield, Stangeness in the Night; This Meets That: EmArcy. 50th Ann. All Stars, Monterey Mist; Live at the 2007 Monterey Jazz Festival: MJF. Cecil Taylor, Enter Evening; Unit Structures: Blue Note. Lazaro Vega Jazz Director Blue Lake Public Radio 300 East Crystal Lake Road Twin Lake MI 49457 WBLV FM 90.3 serving Muskegon and the Lake Michigan shoreline WBLU FM 88.9, Grand Rapids Streaming live from www.bluelake.org.

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Jazz From Blue Lake Playlist Monday, January 28, 2008 Artist—Song Title – Album Title – Record Label 10 p.m. Eastern Time Duke Ellington, Rhapsody In Blue; Complete…: Mosaic. Bobby Hutcherson, The Coaster; Skyline: Verve. Eric Dolphy, Straight Up and Down; Out To Lunch: Blue Note. Bobby Hutcherson, Ode to Angela; For Sentimental Reasons: Kind of Blue. Auguscik/Garcia, Bala Con Bala; Andanca: GMA. Pamela Hines, Ojos De Rojo; Return: Spice Rack. Stacey Kent, La Suison des Pluies; Breakfast on the Morning Tram: Blue Note. Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra, Reverie; In South America Vol. 2: CAP. Horace Silver, The Outlaw; Live at Newport ’58: Blue Note. 11 p.m. Bobby Hutcherson, Don’t Blame Me; For Sentimental Reasons: Kind of Blue. Kenny Garrett, Now; Beyond the Wall: Nonesuch. SF Jazz Collective, Naima; Vol 2: Nonesuch. Archie Shepp, The Mac Man; On This Night: Impulse. Bobby Hutcherson, Dialogue; Dialogue: Blue Note. Joe Henderson, Caribbean Fire Dance; Mode For Joe: Blue Note. Jackie McLean, Love and Hate; One Step Beyond: Blue Note. Lazaro Vega Jazz Director Blue Lake Public Radio 300 East Crystal Lake Road Twin Lake MI 49457 WBLV FM 90.3 serving Muskegon and the Lake Michigan shoreline WBLU FM 88.9, Grand Rapids Streaming live from www.bluelake.org.

Jazz From Blue Lake Sunday, January 27, 2008 Artist—Song Title – Album Title – Record Label 7 p.m. Jim Snidero, Tippin; Tippin: Savant. Holly Cole, Charade; Holly Cole: Koch. Horace Silver, Que Pasa; Song For My Father: Blue Note. Groove Holmes, Song For My Father; Jazz Giants Play Horace Silver: OJC. Coung Vu, Never, Ever, Ever; Vu Tet: Artist Share. Steve Lehman, Process; On Meaning: Pi Records. John Scofield, The Low Road; This Meets That: Verve. Wes Montgomery, Polka Dots and Moonbeams/Four On Six; Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery: OJC. 8 p.m. Henry Johnson, It’s About Time; Organic: A441. Bobby Hutcherson, Don’t Blame Me; Sentimental Mood: Kind of Blue. SF Jazz Collective, Naima; Vol 2: Nonesuch. Joe Henderson, Mode For Joe; Mode For Joe: Blue Note. Freddie Hubbard, Red Clay; Red Clay: CTI. Gene Ammons, Ol’ Man River; Jazz Giants Play Kern: OJC. Charlie Haden, The Folks Who Live on the Hill; Art of the Song: Verve. 9 p.m. A special broadcast featuring the music of and an extended conversation with vocalist Stacey Kent. Lazaro Vega Jazz Director Blue Lake Public Radio 300 East Crystal Lake Road Twin Lake MI 49457 WBLV FM 90.3 serving Muskegon and the Lake Michigan shoreline WBLU FM 88.9, Grand Rapids Streaming live from www.bluelake.org.

Jazz a la Carte Playlist Saturday, January 26, 2008 Artist—Song Title – Album Title – Record Label 7 a.m. Eastern Time Turtle Island Quartet, Naima; A Love Supreme: Telarc. Django Reinhardt, I Can’t Get You Anything But Love/Nuits de Saint-Germain des Pres; Retrospective 1934-53: Saga. Berelli LaGrene/WDR Big Band Cologne, Anouman; Djangology: Dreyfus. Modern Jazz Quartet, Django; Django: OJC. Jazz Datebook, www.bluelake.org/datebook.html. Stan Kenton, Intermission Riff; Horns of Plenty Vol 3: Tantra. Frank Rosalino/Carl Fontana, Laura/Embraceable You; Trombone Heaven: Uptown. James Silbertsein, From This Moment On; Express Lane: CAP. Stephan Riley, All of You; Once Upon A Dream: Steeplechase. 8 a.m. Jimmy Amadie, The Gospel as We Know It; The Gospel as We Know It: TRP. Gerald Wilson Orchestra, Allegro; Monterey Memories: Mack Avenue. Joe Lock, The Sixth Sense; Sticks and Strings: Jazzeyes. Jazz Datebook, www.bluelake.org/datebook.html. Freddy Cole, If I Love Again; Music, Maestro, Please: High Note. Paul Desmond, Look for the Silver Lining: Jazz Giants Play Kern: OJC. Johnny Hartman, They Didn’t Believe Me; Songs from the Heart: Bethlehem. Lucky Thompson, They Didn’t Belive Me; Jazz Giants Play Kern: OJC. Keith Jarrett Trio, The Song Is You; My Foolish Heart: ECM. Ted Brown, Cherokee; Shades of Brown: Steeplechase. 9 a.m. Manu Katche, Clubbing; Playground: ECM. John Scofield, Heck of a Job; This Meets That: EmArcy. Pierre Dorge New Jungle Orchestra, Café Central; Jazz is Like a Banana; Steeplechase. Diane Reeves, My Little Brown Book; Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life: Blue Note. Joe Lovano/Hank Jones, Four In One; Kids: Blue Note. Jazz Datebook, www.bluelake.org/datebook.html. Phil Woods/Carl Saunders, Pink Panther; Play Henri Mancini: Jazzed Media. Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Moon River; Buhaina’s Delight: Blue Note. Holly Cole, Charade; Holly Cole: Koch. Duke Ellington, Morning Mood; Three Suites: Columbia Lazaro Vega Jazz Director Blue Lake Public Radio 300 East Crystal Lake Road Twin Lake MI 49457 WBLV FM 90.3 serving Muskegon and the Lake Michigan shoreline WBLU FM 88.9, Grand Rapids. Streaming live from www.bluelake.org.

Jazz From Blue Lake Playlist Friday, January 25, 2008 Artist—Song Title – Album Title – Record Label 10 p.m. Eastern Time Duke Ellington, Rhapsody In Blue; Complete…: Mosaic. Jimmy Amadie, The Gospel as We Know It/Warm and Gentle Ben; The Gospel as We Know It: TPR. Benny Golson, Killer Joe; Terminal 1: Concord. Jazz Datebook. Miles Davis Quintet, Stablemates; Complete Quintet: Prestige. Bobby Hutcherson, Along Came Betty; For Sentimental Reasons: Kind of Blue. Mark Masters Ensemble, I Remember Clifford; Clifford Brown Project: Capri. Ginny Dusseau/Dave Colle Quartet, Whisper Not; I Thought About You: Dusseau. Benny Golson, My Heart Belongs to Daddy; Pick A Number: Chess. 11 p.m. The Jazztet, Killer Joe; Best of Chess Jazz: Chess. Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Blues March: Blue Note Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Along Came Betty;The Art of Jazz: In & Out. Jazz Datebook. Stacey Kent, The Ice Hotel; Breakfast on the Morning Tram: Blue Note. James Silberstein, You Don’t Know What Love Is; Expressing Lane: CAP. Hans Glawischnig, Oceanography; Panorama: Sunnyside. Johnny Hartman, In the Wee Small Hours; Greatest Hits: Hippo. Gerald Wilson Orchestra, I Concentrate On You; Monterey Memories: Mack Avenue. Freddie Cole, You Leave Me Breathless; Music, Maestro, Please: High Note. 12 a.m. Curtis Fuller, Five Spot After Dark; Bluesette: Savoy. Curtis Fuller, I Walk Alone; All Star Sextets: Savoy. Art Farmer, Fair Weather; Work of Art: Blue Note. The Jazztet, Back to the City; Back to the City: Contemoporary. Wynton Kelly, Keep It Movin’; Kelly Blue: OJC. John Lewis, Afternoon in Paris; Wonderful World of Jazz: Atlantic. Benny Golson, Park Avenue Petite; Terminal 1: Concord. Jazz Datebook. 1 a.m. Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra, Stablemates; Birks Works: Verve. Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra, Night In Tunisia; In South America Vol 1: CAP. Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra, I Remember Clifford; Birks Works: Verve. Tadd Dameron Orchestra, Philly J.J./Dial B for Beauty; Clifford Brown Memorial: OJC. Lee Morgan, Latin Hangover/Whisper Not; Complete Blue Note 1950’s: Mosaic. Lee Morgan, City Lights; Complete Blue Note 1950’s: Mosaic. 2 a.m. Benny Golson, Terminal 1; Terminal 1: Concord. Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Blues March/Moanin’; Nuite at the Club St. Germain: Blue Bird. Benny Golson, Along Came Betty/I Remember Clifford; Live: Dreyfus. Jimmy Amadie, Marching With G; The Gospel as We Know It: TRP. Lazaro Vega Jazz Director Blue Lake Public Radio 300 East Crystal Lake Road Twin Lake MI 49457 WBLV FM 90.3 serving Muskegon and the Lake Michigan shoreline WBLU FM 88.9, Grand Rapids Streaming live from www.bluelake.org.

Jazz From Blue Lake Playlist Thursday, January 24, 2008 Artist—Song Title – Album Title – Record Label 10 p.m. Eastern Time Duke Ellington, Rhapsody In Blue; Complete…: Mosaic. Jimmy Forrest, Bolo Blues; Out of the Forrest: OJC. Jimmy Forrest, Dexter’s Deck; Forrest Fire: OJC. Count Basie Orchestra, Body and Soul; Fun Time: Pablo. Jazz Datebook. Joe Lock Quartet, The Rosario Material; Sticks and Strings: Jazz Eyes. Steve Davis Quartet, United; Alone Together: Mapleshade. Holly Cole, Life Is Just A Bowl Of Cherries; Holly Cole: Koch. Woody Herman, Apple Honey; Live at Club 15. Freddie Cole, If I Love Again; Music, Maestro, Please: High Note. 11 p.m. Jimmy Forrest, I Cried For You; Out of the Forrest: OJC. Harry “Sweets” Edison, Nasty; The Swinger and Mr. Swing: Verve. Count Basie Orchestra, Basie Power/Blues In Hoss’s Flat; Santa Monica Civic 1972: Pablo. Jazz Datebook. Deep Blue Organ Trio, Ceora; Folk Songs: Origin. Freddie Hubbard, Life Flight; Melting Pot: Blue Note. Joe Beck/John Abercrombie, Things Ain’t What They Used To Be; Coincidence: Whaling City. Norah Jones, Sinking Soon; Not Too Late: Blue Note. 12 a.m. Jack McDuff, The Honey Dripper; The Honey Dripper: OJC. Jimmy Forrest, All The Gin Is Gone/Laura; All the Gin is Gone: Delmark. Mainstream Sextet, Bedroom Eyes; Mainstream Jazz: Camden. Dewey Jackson, Tishamingo; Live at the Barrell 1952: Delmark. Jim Robinson, Atlanta Blues; Economy Hall Breakdown: Delmark. Louis Armstrong, Blueberry Hill; 1958 Monterey Jazz Festival: MJF Records. Ruby Braff/The Flying Pizzarellis, Was I To Blame For Falling In Love With You?; C’est Magnifique: Arbors. Jazz Datebook. 1 a.m. Nicole Mitchell’s Black Earth Ensemble, Cause and Effect; Black Unstoppable: Delmark. Ben Allison/Man Sized Safe, Blow Back; Little Things Run the World: Palmetto. Cuong Vu, Accelerated Thoughts; Vu Tet: Artist Share. Miroslav Vitous, Opera; Universal Syncopations: ECM. Paul Motian Trio, Time and Time Again; Time and Time Again: ECM. Jimmy Forrest, Remember; Forrest Fire: OJC. Jimmy Forrest, Night Train/Blue Groove/Big Dip; Night Train: Delmark. 2 a.m. Count Basie Big Band, Prime Time/Sweet Georgia Brown; Prime Time: Pablo. Count Basie Big Band, The Heat’s On; Prime Time: Pablo. Jimmy Forrest, Blues and Tonic; Out of the Forrest: OJC. Jack McDuff, I Want A Little Girl; The Honeydripper: OJC. Jimmy Forrest, Caravan; All The Gin Is Gone: Delmark. Phil Woods/Carl Saunders, Pink Panther; Play Henry Mancini: Jazzed Media. Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Moon River; Buhaina’s Delight: Blue Note. Holly Cole, Charade; Holly Cole: Koch. Turlte Island Quartet, So What; A Love Supreme: Telarc. Lazaro Vega Jazz Director Blue Lake Public Radio 300 East Crystal Lake Road Twin Lake MI 49457 WBLV FM 90.3 serving Muskegon and the Lake Michigan shoreline WBLU FM 88.9, Grand Rapids Streaming live from www.bluelake.org.

Jazz From Blue Lake Playlist Wednesday, January 23, 2008 Artist—Song Title – Album Title – Record Label 10 p.m. Eastern Time Duke Ellington, Rhapsody In Blue; Complete…: Mosaic. Stryker/Slagle Band, Bird Flew; Latest Outlook: Zoho. Joe Lovano Interview, 1-10-08 Marc Johnson, Blue Nefertiti; Shades of Jade: ECM. Joe Lovano Interview, 1-10-08 Paul Motian Trio, Wednesday; Time and Time Again: ECM. Hot Club of Detroit, Stompin’ at Decca; Hot Club of Detroit: Mack Avenue. Django Reinhardt, St. Louis Blues/Minor Swing/My Serenade/Night and Day; Retrospective 1934-53: Saga. Coleman Hawkins All Star Jam Band, Out of Nowhere/Sweet Georgia Brown; 1937-39: Swing. 11 p.m. Joe Lovano, Chelsea Bridge; Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life: Blue Note. Hank Jones/Joe Lovano, Lady Luck; Kids: Blue Note. Joe Lovano Interview, 1-10-08. Joe Lovano Quartet, Bird’s Eye View; Joyous Encounter: Blue Note. Charlie Parker, Confirmation; Now’s The Time: Verve. John Coltrane, Giant Steps; Giant Steps: Atlantic. Gary Burton, Soon; For Hamp, Red, Bags & Cal: GRP. Django Reinhardt, Honeysuckle Rose/Appel Direct/Improvisation No. 2; Retrospective 1934-53: Saga. James Carter, Nuages; Chasing the Gypsy: Atlantic. 12 a.m. (Out On Blue Lake) Joe Lovano/Greg Osby, Broadway Blues; Friendly Fire: Blue Note. Joe Lovano, New York Fascination; Fascination Trio: Blue Note. Joe Lovano Interview, 1-10-08. Joe Lovano, Sanctuary Park; Trio Fascination: Blue Note. Joe Lovano, Entternro; Sounds of Joe: ENJA. Saxophone Summit, Alexander the Great; Gathering of Spirits: Telarc. Joe Lovano Interview, 1-10-08. Saxophone Summit, Tricycle; Gathering of Spirits: Telarc. 1 a.m. Django Reinhardt, I’ll See You In My Dreams/Douce Ambience/Manoir de mes Reves/Blues Clair/I Can’t Give You Anything But Love; Retrospective 1034-53: Saga. Hot Club of Detroit, Troublant Bolero; Hot Club of Detroit: Mack Avenue. Dave Bennett, I Can’t Give You Anything But Love; Remembering Benny: WJS. James Carter, Manior de mes Reves/Heavy Artillery; Chasing the Gypsy: Atlantic. Gary Burton, Django; For Hamp. Red, Bags and Cal: GRP. 2 a.m. Von Freeman, Moose the Mooch; Best of: Premonition. Nicole Mitchell’s Black Earth Ensemble, Cause and Effect; Black Unstoppable: Delmark. Don Cherry Quintet, Free Improvisation/Music Now; Live at Café Monmartre: ESP. Keefe Jackson’s Project Project, The Grass is Greener; Just Like This: Delmark. Joe Lovano Ensemble, Birth of the Cool Suite; Streams of Expression: Blue Note. Lazaro Vega Jazz Director Blue Lake Public Radio 300 East Crystal Lake Road Twin Lake MI 49457 WBLV FM 90.3 serving Muskegon and the Lake Michigan shoreline WBLU FM 88.9, Grand Rapids Streaming live from www.bluelake.org.

Jazz From Blue Lake Playlist Monday, January 21, 2008 Artist—Song Title – Album Title – Record Label 10 p.m. Eastern Time Duke Ellington, Rhapsody In Blue; Complete…: Mosaic. Charles Mingus, Better Get Hit In You Soul; Mingus Ah Um: Columbia. Horace Parlan, Wadin’; Us Three: Blue Note. Horace Parlan, Little Ester; My Little Brown Book: Stunt/Sundance. Dexter Gordon, It’s You Or No One; Doin’ All Right: Blue Note. Trudy Pitts, Amazing Grace; Live at the Great American Music Hall: Doodlin’. Dr. Billy Taylor, His Name Was Martin; It’s A Matter of Pride: GRP. Joe Lovano interview, 1-10-08 Joe Lovano, Monk’s Mood; I’m All For You: Blue Note. 11 p.m. Archie Shepp/Horace Parlan, Swing Low Sweet Chariot; Goin’ Home: Steeplechase. Archie Shepp/Horace Parlan, Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out/Careless Love Blues/How Long Blues; Trouble In Mind: Steeplechase. Charles Mingus, Boogie Stop Shuffle; Mingus Ah Um: Columbia. Nicole Mitchell’s Black Earth Ensemble, The Creator Has Other Plans For Me; Black Unstoppable: Delmark. Cuong Vu, Just A Memory; Vu Tet: Artist Share.’ Lazaro Vega Jazz Director Blue Lake Public Radio 300 East Crystal Lake Road Twin Lake MI 49457 WBLV FM 90.3 serving Muskegon and the Lake Michigan shoreline WBLU FM 88.9, Grand Rapids Streaming live from www.bluelake.org.

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Leslie Johnson wrote: The Mississippi Rag, now in its 35th year as "The Voice of Traditional Jazz and Ragtime," is now free on its website, www.mississippirag.com, in a very user friendly format. The latest transformation of the RAG took place in January 2008. For the year prior to that, the RAG was online but in a PDF format available only to subscribers. Now it's free to anyone who logs onto www.mississippirag.com. Readers are encouraged to write to editor@mississippirag.com if they want to be notified each month when the new issue is available. Both the latest change and the previous change (from a printed tabloid which was mailed to 26 countries), were precipitated by the need to lessen the workload of editor/publisher Leslie Johnson, who has been fighting a rare form of cancer since mid-2005. Until her editorials announced the various changes, many readers weren't aware that the RAG actually is produced by a one-person editorial staff (Leslie) with occasional help from her sister, Jody. Articles, reviews and columns are written by freelancers, not a resident staff. The health challenges, coupled with with increased printing prices, two-digit hikes in second-class postal rates and the elimination of surface mail to destinations outside the U.S., led to dropping the print RAG altogether, but the move to an online RAG allowed for extensive use of color and other innovative techniques. An online distributor was used for the PDF version of the RAG but isn't necessary anymore now that the RAG is free off its website.. The new free RAG includes many of the same kind of historical articles, festival coverage, interviews, photos, columns, and listings that were featured in both the printed and PDF-online RAGs. The look and feel of the previous RAGs has been retained, but, with the new web-based format, it's easier to read and print, thanks to the efforts of webmaster Jeff Holman and Dave Lindquist of Protype Design. Ad revenue is expected to cover the costs of producing the RAG. Each page includes ads which are hyperlinked to websites. The ads also can be enlarged to their own separate pages as a convenience for printing them out to make reservations for the various events. The response to the new RAG has been very positive, and traffic to the website has been heavy, with more than 6500 visitors checking out the January RAG within its first three weeks online -- good news for advertisers. (That issue is still available for viewing.) The February RAG was released Feb. 10, and 2500 visitors have already checked it out in just the first five days, so the RAG's future looks bright. `````` --end--

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