Lazaro Vega

Ah! loca in the hoos-a. Snow melted? Lines up? BillF thank you for the word on Humph. Was looking over "The Other Parlophones 1951-54" on Sackville records recently, and in another place saw his name associated with mentoring Stacey Kent. Long live the Humphrey.

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Jimmy McPartland

This came across the desk. Quote: Dear Friends, As you may have heard, the brilliantly swinging bassist and beautiful human being, Dennis Irwin, died yesterday (March 10, 2008). I went to school with Dennis at North Texas State in the early 1970s. And after those days, I saw him from time to time over the years. And each time, without fail, he'd always be so warm and friendly. When my, son, Matt Brewer (bassist now with Greg Osby, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, and others) began his journey as a jazz musician, Dennis became one of his most supportive elders. This meant a lot to me as I had always loved the kind of person Dennis was (along with the way he played the bass with such heart and soul). And Matt, too, loved the way Dennis played. He got a private lesson from Dennis one time. And Dennis later told me that he had a hard time accepting money from us for the lesson because of Matt's already superb ability. But, Matt would never have accepted that. His one lesson with Dennis meant so much to him - more than I think Dennis ever really knew, even though I told him so. But, that's how it is with the great ones, isn't it? They mean so much to us and yet seem so surprised when we tell them how much we honor and appreciate them. So, I'll say it again: Thank you forever and ever, Dennis Irwin. Thank you for inspiring my son, Matt, and for encouraging him to live his dream. He really IS living it now, Dennis - thanks to people like you. With deepest respect and gratitude, Paul P. S. To see a tribute to Dennis go here: -- Dr. Paul Brewer Director of Bands Aquinas College Grand Rapids, Michigan http://www.aquinas.edu/music/faculty.html (end quote)

Jazz From Blue Lake WBLV FM 90.3/WBLU FM 88.9 www.bluelake.org Friday February 8, 2008 10 p.m. Duke Ellington, Rhapsody In Blue; Complete Reprise: Mosaic. Lonnie Johnson, Crowing Rooster Blues; How Blue Can You Get?: Bluebird. Louis Armstrong Hot Five, I’m Not Rough/Hotter Than That/Savoy Blues; Complete Hot Fives and Hot Sevens: Legacy. Lonnie Johnson/Blind Willie Dunn, Two Tone Stomp/Have To Change Key to Play These Blues; Eddie Lang/ Joe Venuti, New York Sessions 1926-35: JSP Records. Jazz Datebook. Harry Connick Jr. Big Band, Someday You’ll Be Sorry/Ash Wednesday; Chason du Vieux Carre: Marsalis Music. Nine Pianists, Today’s Blues; Out Town, Our Time: Megawave. Catherine Russell, You Better Watch It, Bub/I’ve Got That Thing; Sentimental Streak: World Village. 11 p.m. Louis Armstrong, Mahogany Hall Stomp; Complete Hot 5’s and 7’s: Legacy. Duke Ellington, The Mooche/Move Over/Hot and Bothered; Okeh Ellington: Legacy. The Chocolate Dandies, Paducah/Stardust; 1928-33: Swing. Texas Alexander, Work Ox Blues/The Risin’ Sun; Eddie Lang/ Joe Venuti, New York Sessions 1926-35: JSP Records. Jazz Datebook. Gene DiNovi’s Generation Trio, Jump For Joy; The Three Optimists: Sackville. Benny Carter Centennial Project, I’m In the Mood For Swing/All of Me; Centennial Project: Evening Star. Pupini Sisters, It Don’t Mean A Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing); The Rise and Fall of Ruby Woo: Verve. 12 a.m. Johnny Dodds, Gravier St. Blues; 1940: Decca. Albert Ammons Rhythm Kings, Bedroom Blues/Buzz Me; 1944-45: Classics. Lonnie Johnson/Blind Willie Dunn, Jet Black Blues/Blue Blood Blues/Guitar Blues: Eddie Lang/ Joe Venuti, New York Sessions 1926-35: JSP Records. Nagel-Hayer All Stars, Jungle Nights in Harlem/Harlem Speaks; Uptown Lowdown: Nagel-Hayer. Wycliffe Gordon, It Don’t Mean A Thing; Slidin’ Home: Nagel-Hayer. Maria Mulduar, Down Home Blues/Up the Country Blues; Naughty Bawdy and Blue: Stoney Plain Music. Howard Alden/Ken Peplowski, Panama; Pow Wow: Arbors. Jazz Datebook. 1 a.m. Duke Ellington, Morning Mist; Okeh Ellington: Legacy. Lonnie Johnson/Blind Willie Dunn, A Handful of Riffs/Blue Guitars/Bull Frog Blues; Eddie Lang/ Joe Venuti, New York Sessions 1926-35: JSP Records. Ruby Braff/Flying Pizzarellis, You’re A Lucky Guy; C’est Magnifique : Arbors. Gerald Wilson, I Concentrate On You; Monterey Moods: Mack Avenue. Lester Young, A Foggy Day; Live at Birdland: ESP. Horace Silver, Senior Blues; Newport 1958: Blue Note. Weschester Jazz Orchestra, Peace; All In: WJO. 2 a.m. Lonnie Johnson/Blind Willie Dunn, Deep Minor Rhythm/Midnight Oil/Hot Fingers/Blue Room; Eddie Lang/ Joe Venuti, New York Sessions 1926-35: JSP Records. Hot Club of Detroit, Stompin’ at Decca/Nuage; Hot Club of Detroit: Mack Avenue. Dave Bennett, Avalon; Remembering Benny: PKO. Ari Brown, Richard’s Tune; Live at the Green Mill: 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.

"I Am A Swan" is cool. Playing that tonight during our Bix program on Jazz From Blue Lake. LV

The first time Nessa played for me "Impressions" with Coltrane and Haynes, the one which boils down to a tenor/drum duet, sealed the deal on Roy Haynes.

Sounds good. He spent a lot of time in Sarah Vaughn's trio, too. What a career. Happy to have heard him with Alice Coltrane and Charlie Haden, Ravi on tenor.

Thanks Joe. What's the symbol with "B" and a triangle mean? Major? And if it is a triad, what letters consitute the B triad?

George is on a new one with his organ playing wife on Doodlin' records. Nice stanky version of "Confirmation" and Calvin Keys funkin up "Impressions."

Thank you Rastissimo! P.S. I'm advocating with the Intersection for a show featuring Cuong Vu's band with Organasstissimo as "opener." We'll see we'll see.....

Yeah, something along those lines -- that one note is standing in a place that could be occupied by another 11; or that there are similarities between the existing note and it's "cousins" in other cleffs. The interview was transcribed and posted here (I think in Jazz In Print) as "Getting Schooled: An Interview With Ornette Coleman." You can Google that to find it at All About Jazz, too. His theory is way above my head, though. LV

Cool. The 1992 program was done without benefit of a computer -- it was all tape, just dubbing and cutting. Sure can tell. Yet, there it is: Naked Lunch. There will be comparison versions of "Sleep Talk" from "Of Human Feelings" and "Sleep Talking" from "Sound Grammer" as well as "Mob Job" from "Of Human Feelings," "Hidden Man" and "Song X" plus "Feet Music" from "In All Languages" (two versions) and a version of "Feet Music" from Ken Vandermark's Sound In Action Trio, two drummers and a tenor saxophone.

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.