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Listening to Brubeck's quartet with Paul Desmond from "Last Time We Saw Paris" where Desmond quotes "Harlem Nocturne" and "Night Train" during his solo on "These Foolish Things." Kicks. Will feature excerpts of an extensive interview with Brubeck tonight on Jazz From Blue Lake. 87.

Jazz From Blue Lake Playlist Thursday, November 29, 2007 (Billy Hart) Artist—Song Title – Album Title – Record Label 10 p.m. Eastern Time Bennie Green, Blow Your Horn; Blow Your Horn: Decca. Jimmy Smith, The Sermon; Europe 1: RTE. Buck Hill, Scope; Scope: Steeplechase. Shirley Horn, I’m Old Fashioned/There’s No You; Lazy Afternoon: Steeplechase. Jazz Datebook, www.bluelake.org/datebook.html. Red Rodney/Charlie Rouse, Social Call; Social Call: Uptown. Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Nica’s Tempo; Hard Bop: Mosaic. Linda Ciofalo, You Took Advantage of Me; Sun Set: Lucky Jazz. Gerald Wilson Orchestra, I Concentrate On You; Monterey Moods: Mack Avenue. 11 p.m. Frank Morgan, Billie’s Bounce; A Night in the Life: Heads Up. Stryker-Slagel Band, Bird Flew; Latest Outlook: Zoho. Tim Armacost, While My Lady Sleeps; Rhythm and Transformation: Artist Share. Fred Hersch Trio, Rhythm Spirit; Night and the Music: Palmetto. Jazz Datebook Kurt Elling, The Waking; Night Moves: Concord. Marvin Stamm, Alone Together; Alone Together: Jazzed Media. 12 a.m. Billy Hart, Lullaby For IMKE; Quartet: Heads Up. Mimi Fox, Salute to the Groove; Pepetually Hip: Favored Nations. Billy Hart, Iverson’s Odyssey; Quartet: Heads Up. Eddie Henderson, Prince of Darkness; So What: Columbia. Bob Leto, Inner Urge; Cheesecake: CAP. Richard Cole, Shade; A Shade of Joe: Origin. Rashied Ali Quintet, Thing For Joe; Judgement Day Vol 2: Survival. Joe Henderson, Isotope; Monterey Sampler: Monterey Records. Jazz Datebook 1 a.m. Herbie Hancock, Tell Me A Bedtime Story; Mawandishi: Warner Bros. Herbie Hancock, Hidden Shadows; Sextant: Columbia. Miles Davis, Jabali; Complete On the Corner: Columbia. Bennie Maupin, Past Present Future/Jewel In the Lotus; Jewel In the Lotus: ECM Jason Lindner Big Band, Song for Amos; Live at the Jazz Gallery: Anzic. 2 a.m. Billy Hart, Confirmation; Quartet: Heads Up Mary Lou Williams Collective, Aires; Zodiac Suite Revisited: Mary Records. Charles Lloyd, Hymn to the Mother; Lift Every Voice: ECM. Randy Weston, Kucheza Blues; Uhuru Afrika: Capital. Gigi Gryce, Rat Race Blues; Rat Race Blues: New Jazz. Peter Lerner, Minority; Cry For Peace: BluJazz. Pierre Dorge, A Minor Disturbance for Mr. Neilson; Jazz Is Like A Banana: Steeplechase. Lazaro Vega Blue Lake Public Radio 300 East Crystal Lake Road Twin Lake MI 49457 WBLV FM 90.3, Twin Lake/Muskegon; WBLU FM 88.9, Grand Rapids www.bluelake.org

Expectations and playing outside of them -- the audience, any audience, likes to hear what it knows. The pure improvisatory musical life is full of such ups and downs musically -- Sonny Rollins, Lee Kontiz -- that few choose the path. Clem -- Barry Guy's music is a bitch, no doubt an "influence" on Tentet.

Decode with Sound Grammar. Playing on changes, playing free: there's oceans of room in the pool for personalized sound identity when playing at the highest level of either approach. Tentet is striving for that as a working ensemble. Their "time" is yet to come, in that sense -- the journey is underway and not, Tiger Rag, over before it began. The "cracks" aren't closed up in improvised music. Still canyon spaces to fill. The point that there are repertory jazz ensembles is not lost, however I'm not hearing the Tentet or the Territory band in that light. Maybe they are. Some of the most beautiful, compelling, WHOLE music heard recently in these parts was by Muhal, Roscoe and Lewis. The level of music they achieved in their improvised performances in Ann Arbor is unmatched in my experience. Time, long working relationships, and active touring all came together for that night. When dealing with a large group, however, there are fewer examples of how to move forward. That realm is not exactly over populated. So it's not "The Magic City" but what is or ever will be again?

The board and the web site has to be sustained by members. That a band is supporting these discussions is wrong, and that they're staying in debt and not going forward with a new cd is completely unacceptable. I'll pry some bread from my wife's purse and lay it on you. Keep a running total of how much needs be made each month, how close the giving has gotten to it, at the top of the page -- like a united way themometer, only jazz. Good luck, Jim. Don't be afraid to ask for money. The people who can afford it will come through. At this point it isn't a choice. That the band's artistic progress, potential financial reward and continuing documentation has been retarded by the forum is a SIN. LV

Jazz From Blue Lake Playlist Wednesday, November 28, 2007 Artist—Song Title – Album Title – Record Label 10 p.m. Eastern Time Bennie Green, Blow Your Horn; Blow Your Horn: Decca. Clifford Brown, Wail Bait/Hymn of the Orient; Memorial Album: Blue Note. Gigi Gryce/Clifford Brown Quintet, Minority: Paris Collection Vol. 2: Inner City. Donald Byrd/Gigi Gryce, Social Call; Modern Jazz Perspective: Columbia. Jazz Datebook Joshua Redman, East of the Sun; Back East: Nonesuch. Bobby Hutcherson, Don’t Blame Me; For Sentimental Reasons: Kind of Blue. Lennie Tristano, Judy; Lee Konitz: Prestige. Gary Versace, Lennie’s Pennies; Reminiscence: Steeplechase. Clare Fischer Clarinet Choir, Isreal; A Family Affair: Fischer Records. Jim Cooper, This Could Be The Start of Something Big; Itichin To Groove. 11 p.m. Howard McGhee, Futurity; Vol. 2: Blue Note. Gig Gryce, Nica’s Tempo; Signals: Savoy. Art Farmer, A Night At Tony’s; When Farmer Met Gryce: Prestige. Thad Jones, Let’s; The Magnificent Vol. 3: Blue Note. Jazz Datebook Blue Lake Faculty Jazz 6tet, Just Friends, Live 7-2-07. Dena DeRose, Speak Low; Live at the Jazz Standard: Max Jazz. 12 a.m. Out On Blue Lake Coleman Hawkins, Picasso; Ken Burns Jazz: Legacy. Coleman Hawkins, Dali; Dali: Stash. Lennie Tristano, Intuition/Digression; Intuition: Capital. Ornette Coleman, Sleep Talking; Sound Grammar: Sound Grammar. Paul Bley/Jimmy Giuffre/Steve Swallow, The Life of a Trio: Sunday: Owl. Steve Swell/Gebhard Ullmann Quartet, Improvisation; Live in Grand Rapids, 4-7-07. Jazz Datebook 1 a.m. Oscar Pettiford Orchestra, Nica’s Tempo; Deep Passion: Impulse. Oscar Pettiford, Bohemia After Dark; Another One: Bethlehem. Gigi Gryce Orchestra, Brown Skins; Clifford Brown Paris Session V.1: Vogue. Donald Byrd/Gigi Gryce, Satellite; Modern Jazz Perspective: Columbia. Lee Morgan, Mesabi Chant/Tim Toeing; Complete 1950’s Blue Note…: Mosaic. Stacey Kent, I Wish I Could Go Traveling Again; Breakfast on the Morning Tram: Blue Note. Jason Lindner Big Band, Intro: Song for Jason; Live at the Jazz Gallery: Anzic. Drew Gress, Your Favorite Kind; The Irrational Numbers: Premonition. Paul Motian, Whirlpool; This Meets That: ECM. 2 a.m. Steve Lehman Quintet, On Meaning; On Meaning: Pi Records. Nels Cline, McNeil Island/Pumpkin; New Monastery: Cryptogramophone. Myra Melford Trio M, For Bradford; Big Picture: Cryptogramophone. Peter Paulsen, Nefertiti; Change of Scenery: Wahoo. Donald Byrd/Gigi Gryce, Minority; Young Bird: Milestone. Donald Byrd/Gigi Gryce Jazz Lab, Splittin’/Batland; At Newport: Verve. Clifford Brown, Brownie Eyes; Memorial Album: Blue Note. Lazaro Vega Blue Lake Public Radio 300 East Crystal Lake Road Twin Lake MI 49457 WBLV FM 90.3, Twin Lake/Muskegon; WBLU FM 88.9, Grand Rapids www.bluelake.org

Don't know what you're talking about. The realm for "improvement" with this ensemble was their collective, ensemble oriented playing, rather than a string of solos. Not that they were that black and white about it when I heard them several years ago in Kalamazoo -- interludes and transitional instrumental groupings occured through arrangement, it seemed, but the organic collective ecstacies of spontaneous ensemble improvisation wasn't as operative as one might have hoped. Otherwise, as Plankton would say, "Bringth it on knave!" Listening to Brotzmann in full throat is like laying down a bike and relating to the pavement in your leathers for a few hundred meters. The sound turns corn to maze.

Jazz From Blue Lake Playlist Tuesday, November 27, 2007 Artist—Song Title – Album Title – Record Label 10 p.m. Eastern Time Bennie Green, Blow Your Horn; Blow Your Horn: Decca. Maria Schneider Orchestra, Cerulean Skies; Sky Blue: Artist Share. Kurt Elling, The Waking; Night Moves: Concord. Herbie Hancock, Solitude; River: The Joni Letters: Verve. Bennie Maupin, Winds of Change; The Jewel In the Lotus: ECM. Pierre Dorge/New Jungle Orchestra, Forgotten Highway; Jazz Is Like A Bannana: Steeplechase. Drew Gress, Blackbird Backtalk; The Irrational Numbers: Premonition. Dee Dee Bridgewater, Footprints; Red Earth: EmArcy. 11 p.m. Maria Schneider Orchestra, Aires De Lando; Sky Blue: Artist Share. Maria Schneider Orchestra, Dance You Monster To My Soft Song; Evanessence: Enja. Maria Schneider Orchestra, Giant Steps; Coming About: Enja. Scolohofo, Oh!; Oh!: Blue Note. Hank Jones/Joe Lovano, Kids Are Pretty People; Kids: Blue Note. Steve Lehman, Process; On Meaning: Pi. Michael Musillami Trio/Mark Feldman, Stark Beauty; The Treatment: Playscape. 12 a.m. Peter Lerner, Cry For Peace; Cry For Peace: BluJazz. Maria Schneider Orchestra, The Pretty Road; Sky Blue: Artist Share. Nordic Connect, Flurry; Flurry: Artist Share. Gary Versace, Lennie’s Pennies; Reminiscence: Steeplechase. Eric Rasmussen, Marshmallow; School of Tristano: Steeplechase. Lennie Tristano, C Minor Complex; Atlantic Jazz Keyboards: Atlantic. 1 a.m. Lee Konitz, Exposition; Rhapsody II: Evidence. Maria Schneider Orchestra, Rich’s Piece; Sky Blue: Artist Share. Maria Schneider Orchestra, Concert in the Garden; Concert in the Garden: Artist Share. Marcus Printup, Bird of Paradise; Bird of Paradise: Steeplechase. Bob Leto Trio, Four On Six Years; Cheesecake: CAP. Tom Guarna, Half Nelson; Wingspan: Steeplechase. 2 a.m. Von Freeman, Moose the Mooch; Best of.: Premonition. Marvin Stamm, Invitation; Alone Together: Jazzed Media. Maria Schneider Orchestra, Sky Blue; Sky Blue: Artist Share. Ryan Cohen, Checkmate; One Sky: Motema. Antonio Sanchez, Inner Urge; Migration: Cam Jazz. Lazaro Vega Blue Lake Public Radio 300 East Crystal Lake Road Twin Lake MI 49457 WBLV FM 90.3, Twin Lake/Muskegon; WBLU FM 88.9, Grand Rapids www.bluelake.org

Jazz From Blue Lake Playlist Monday, November 26, 2007 Artist—Song Title – Album Title – Record Label 10 p.m. Eastern Time Bennie Green, Blow Your Horn; Blow Your Horn: Decca. Dave Brubeck/Paul Desmond, Koto Song/Balcony Rock; Duets 1975: A&M. Paul Desmond, Out of Nowhere; Complete RCA Quartets with Jim Hall: Mosaic. Paul Desmond/Modern Jazz Quartet, East of the Sun; Town Hall: Red Baron. Brent Jensen, Birk’s Works; One More Mile; Origin. Carl Sanders Exploration, Ow!; The Lost Bill Holman Charts: Mama. 3 Cohens, Lies and Gossip; Braid: Anzic. Bob Devos, As Me Now; Plays For Keeps: Savant. 11 p.m. Dave Brubeck Quartet, Take 5; Time Out: Columbia. Paul Desmond, Take 10; Complete RCA Quartets with Jim Hall: Mosaic. Dave Brubeck Octet, The Way You Look Tonight; Octet: OJC. Dave Brubeck Quartet, The Way You Look Tonight; Jazz at Oberlin: Fantasy. Kim Richmond Ensemble, Invitation; Live at the Café Metropole: Origin. Mahnattan Jazz Quintet, Fly Me To the Moon; Someday My Prince Will Come: Video Arts Music. Rosemary Clooney, Thanks for the Memory; 70: Concord. Ruby Braff/Flying Pizzarelli’s, I Didn’t Know What Time It Was; C’est Magnifique: Arbors. Lazaro Vega Blue Lake Public Radio 300 East Crystal Lake Road Twin Lake MI 49457 WBLV FM 90.3, Twin Lake/Muskegon; WBLU FM 88.9, Grand Rapids www.bluelake.org

Jazz From Blue Lake Sunday, November 25, 2007 Artist—Song Title – Album Title – Record Label 7 p.m. Jackie Ryan, Let There Be Love; You and the Night and the Music: Open Art. Keith Jarrett Trio, The Song Is You; My Foolish Heart: ECM. Gerald Wilson Orchestra, I Concentrate On You; Monterey Moods: Mack Ave. Cyrus Chestnut, Suspicious Minds; Cyrus Plays Elvis: Koch. John Scofield, Behind Closed Doors; This Meets That: EmArcy. The Bad Plus, This Guy’s In Love With You; Prog: Heads Up. Marvin Stamm, Invitation; Alone Together: Jazzed Media. Stacey Kent, I Wish I Could Go Traveling Again; Breakfast on the Morning Tram: Blue Note. 8 p.m. Andreas Pettersson, The Man I Love; Gershwin On Guitar: EmArcy. Joe Lovano Nonet, Focus; On This Day: Blue Note. Joe Lovano, Raincheck; Billy Strayhorn, Lush Life: Blue Note. Ryan Cohen, Checkmate; Open Sky: Motema. Richard Cole, P.C. Wannabe; Shade: Origin. Carol Sloane, Serenade to Sweden/Mood Indigo; Dedicated to Duke: Arbors. Miles Davis Quintet, Autumn Leaves; Live at Monterey: Monterey Records. 9 p.m. Frank Sinatra: A Voice In Time, one-hour radio special Lazaro Vega Blue Lake Public Radio 300 East Crystal Lake Road Twin Lake MI 49457 WBLV FM 90.3 / WBLU FM 88.9 www.bluelake.org

Howard Reich's review of the Tentet's 12/1/07 concert: No wonder they call him "Machine Gun." Firing off phenomenally fleet bursts of sound on alto saxophone, articulating piercing high notes fueled by explosive rhythms on clarinet, the German reedist Peter Brotzmann over the weekend easily lived up to his sobriquet (which also happens to be the title of his landmark recording of 1968). But, remarkably, he was far from the most incendiary of musicians who shared the stage Saturday night at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Serving as eminence grise for an ensemble of largely younger artists, Brotzmann set the tone for the night but saw his followers play harder, faster and more furiously than he. Yet that always has been part of the charm of the decidedly unconventional Peter Brotzmann Chicago Tentet, which celebrated its 10th anniversary with this sold-out show. By convening acolytes to build upon the "free jazz" vocabulary Brotzmann long has championed, he magnified the power of his aesthetic several fold. The Chicago Tentet, and its various offshoots, has played often here and across Europe since its inception, and the experience shows. Subtler, more controlled and less frenetic than in 1997, when it practically blew the fixtures off the ceiling at the Empty Bottle in Wicker Park, the tentet today segues almost seamlessly from shattering climaxes to softly stated chorales. If the personnel for this version of the Chicago Tentet weren't precisely the same as when the band first appeared (for starters, this version was staffed by 11 artists), most of the key players were present. Perhaps that explains why these musicians could improvise as a unit without benefit of score, tunes, chord changes, rhythmic beats or you- name-it. The Chicago Tentet long since dispatched with practically all the conventions that define most jazz performances these days. Yet the group proved seductive from the outset, each of the players spinning out long lines at a slow tempo, evoking the spirit of an old New Orleans dirge (though one steeped in 21st Century dissonance). Before long, saxophonist Brotzmann was producing the tough and leathery tone that is his signature, his lines dovetailing elegantly with bowed phrases from cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm and bassist Kent Kessler. Some of the best music of the night emerged when particular members of the band played off of one another. The serene duets between muted trombones, the sharp give-and-take between brass and rhythm players, the fugal counterpoint among several players (with lyric poetry from Joe McPhee's valve trombone and Ken Vandermark's bass clarinet) reminded listeners that free jazz is not necessarily about noise. Not that there wasn't plenty of that -- a slight excess, in fact. But better these artists celebrate their anniversary with too much excitement, rather than too little.

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The Esoteric Circle – Weekly Playlist Contemporary Jazz & New Music 3-D Radio 93.7 FM, Adelaide, South Australia Mondays 9 – 11 pm Presenter & Producer: Matt Krieg mattk@picknowl.com.au C/- The Esoteric Circle, 3 Hughes Court, Trott Park South Australia, 5158, Australia Date: Monday November 26th 2007 Artist Track CD / LP Label Theme: Bobby Previte Across State Lines Empty Suits Gramavision Don Cherry Brown Rice Brown Rice A & M Billy Bang Tanko-Bushi Spirits Gathering CIMP John Stein Green Street Green Street Whaling City Grant Green I Wish You Love Street Of Dreams Blue Note Blow Mcabe’s Trombone Fantasy Blue Sun Red Moon Birdland Jazzgroove Mothership Orchestra Mean MF Dream Wheel Birdland Pablo Aslan Tinta Verde Buenos Aires Jazz Standards Zoho Wolfgang Muthspiel Sextet Dance (4 Prince) Black and Blue Amadeo Jack DeJohnette Miles Music For The Fifth World Manhattan Ralph Towner / Solstice Balance Beam Sound And Shadows ECM Magnetic North Orchestra Moving Carpet Further ECM Keith Jarrett Trio Dancing Changeless ECM Steve Lacy Octet I Do Not Believe Vespers Soul Note James Choice Orchestra Manico Con La Mia Live At Moers Moers Music Theme: Bobby Previte Across State Lines Empty Suits Gramavision --

That date with Bird in Boston is something else, especially "Don't Blame Me."

Jazz a la Carte Saturday, November 24, 2007 Artist—Song Title – Album Title – Record Label 7 a.m. Kurt Elling, I Like the Sunrise; Night Moves: Concord Music. Mark Murphy, Autumn Nocturne; Songbook: 32 Jazz. Lee Konitz, Autumn Nocturne; Tenorlee: Candid. Mark Murphy, My Foolish Heart; Love Is What Stays: Verve. Jazz Datebook, www.bluelake.org/datebook.html. Jim Hall, Whisper Not; By Arrangement: Telarc. Carl Saunders Exploration, Ow!; The Lost Bill Holman Charts: Mama. Carla Bley, One Banana; The Lost Chords Find Paulo Fresu: ECM. Marty Ehrlich/Myra Melford, A Generation Comes, Another Goes; Spark: Palmetto. 8 a.m. Ruby Braff/Flying Pizzarelli’s, As Time Goes By; C’est Magnifique: Arbors. Royce Campbell, Get Happy; Get Happy: Foxhaven. Tierney Sutton, I Want to be Happy; On the Other Side: Telarc. Coleman Hawkins, Bean Stalkin’; With Roy Elridge: Verve. Jazz Datebook, www.bluelake.org/datebook.html. Rosemary Clooney, Thanks for the Memory; 70: Concord. Sonny Rollins, Autumn Nocturne; Silver City: Milestone. Paul Keller Trio, Place St. Henri; To Oscar, With Love: PKO. Duke Ellington, Peanut Brittle Brigade; Three Suites: Columbia. Bobo Moreno/Ernie Wilkins Almost Big Band, Milestones; Out of This World: Sundance. 9 a.m. Hank Jones/Joe Lovano, Budo; Kids: Blue Note. Joe Lovano, Raincheck; Billy Strayhorn Lush Life: Blue Note. Joe Lovano Nonet, Sippin’ at Bells; On This Day: Blue Note. Paul Motian Trio, Light Blue; Time and Time Again: ECM. Jazz Datebook, www.bluelake.org/datebook.html. Organissimo, Tenderly; This Is The Place: Big O. Jim Cooper, This Could Be the Start of Something Big; Itchin’ to Groove. Evidence, Bragdocious; The Message: Smitty. Betty Joplin, Fly Me to the Moon; Vision of the Moment: Preserved Moments. Wonderland Jazz Ensemble, Down to the River to Pray/Lullaby of Forrealville; A Wish: Wonderland. Lazaro Vega Blue Lake Public Radio 300 East Crystal Lake Road Twin Lake MI 49457 WBLV FM 90.3 / WBLU FM 88.9 www.bluelake.org Serving Grand Rapids and all of west Michigan.

Jazz From Blue Lake Playlist Wednesday, November 21, 2007 Artist—Song Title – Album Title – Record Label 10 p.m. Eastern Time Bennie Green, Blow Your Horn; Blow Your Horn: Decca. Coleman Hawkins, Indian Summer/Out of Nowhere; Wrapped Tight: Impulse. Coleman Hawkins/Pee Wee Russell, Tin Tin Deo; Jazz Reunion: Candid. Jazz Datebook, www.bluelake.org/datebook.html. Dina DeRose, Speak Low; Live at the Jazz Standard: Max Jazz. John Scofield, Trio Blues; This Meets That: EmArcy. Tierney Sutton, Get Happy; On the Other Side: Telarc. Richard Cole, P.C. Wannabe; Shade: Origin. Joe Lovano/Hank Jones, Four In One; Kids: Blue Note. 11 p.m. Coleman Hawkins, Picasso; Ken Burns Jazz: Legacy. Coleman Hawkins, Dali; Dali: Stash. Coleman Hawkins/Milt Jackson, Get Happy; Bean Bags: Atlantic. Duke Ellington/Coleman Hawkins, Self Portrait of the Bean: Impulse. Cole Cole All Stars, Thru For the Night; Complete Hawkins Keynote: Mercury. Jazz Datebook, www.bluelake.org/datebook.html. Patricia Barber, You and the Night and the Music; Modern Cool: Premonition. Maria Schneider Orchestra, The Pretty Road; Sky Blue: Artist Share. Ingrid Jensen, Flurry; Nordic Connect: Artist Share. 12 a.m. (Out On Blue Lake) Re-broadcast of a special live performance by bassist James Ilgenfritz and bass clarinetist Jason Stein from September 6, 2007. 1 a.m. Jazz Datebook, www.bluelake.org/datebook.html. Benny Wallace, Bean and the Boys; Disorder at the Border: Justin Time. Sonny Rollins, Just Friends/Lover Man; All the Things You Are: Blue Bird. Calabria Foti, I Wanna Be Loved; Lovely Way to Spend an Evening: MoCo. Bobby Hutcherson, What Are You Doing The Rest of Your Life?; For Sentimental Reasons: Kind of Blue. Benny Golson, Park Avenue Petit; Terminal 1: Concord. Freddie Cole, My Ideal; Music Maestro Please: High Note. Ruby Braff/Flying Pizzarelli’s, I Can’t Get Started; C’est Magnifique: Arbors. 2 a.m. Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, Sugar Foot Stomp/Hocus Pocus; Study in Frustration: Columbia. Red Allen/Coleman Hawkins Band, Ain’t Ya Got Music/Stringin’ Along on a Shore String; 1929-33: Classics. Red Allen, I Cover the Waterfront; World On A String: RCA. Fletcher Henderson All Stars, 100 Years From Today/Honeysuckle Rose; The Big Reunion: Fresh Sounds. Coleman Hawkins/Ben Webster, Rosita; Hawkins Encounters Webster: Verve. Coleman Hawkins/Eddie Davis, In A Mellowtone; Best of: Prestige. Coleman Hawkins, Soul Blues; Plays the Blues: Prestige. Lazaro Vega Blue Lake Public Radio 300 East Crystal Lake Road Twin Lake MI 49457 WBLV FM 90.3, Twin Lake/Muskegon; WBLU FM 88.9, Grand Rapids www.bluelake.org

Jazz From Blue Lake Playlist Tuesday, November 20, 2007 Artist—Song Title – Album Title – Record Label 10 p.m. Eastern Time Bennie Green, Blow Your Horn; Blow Your Horn: Decca. The Dorsey Brothers Band, My Melancholy Baby/Mean to Me; Sentimental Gentleman of Swing: RCA. Eddie Lang, It’s Right Here For You; Sentimental Gentleman of Swing: RCA. Mildred Bailey/Dorsey Bros. Orchestra, Shoutin’ In That Amen Corner; Sentimental Gentleman of Swing: RCA. Carl Fontana/Frank Rosolino, Just Friends; Trombone Heaven: Uptown. Buddy DeFranco, By Myself; Hark!: Pablo. Von Freeman, An Affair To Remember; Good Forever: Premonition. 11 p.m. Jack Bland and His Rhythmakers, Who Stole the Lock..; Sentimental Gentleman: RCA. Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, Stardust/Liebestram/East of the Sun; Sentimental Gentleman: RCA. Tommy Dorsey, Well All Right Then/Swanee River; Yes Indeed!: Blue Bird. Jed Levy, Race; Mood Ellington: Steeplechase. Gerald Wilson Orchestra, Jazz Swing Waltz; Monterey Moods: Mack Avenue. Freddie Cole, Music Maestro Please; Music Maestro Please: High Note. Deep Blue Organ Trio, The Chant: Folk Music: Origin. 12 a.m. Special program Part 1: Interview with Peter J. Levinson author of “Livin’ In a Great Big Way,” a biography of Tommy Dorsey. Music from Sentimental Gentleman of Swing, RCA. 1 a.m. Special program Part 2: Interview with Peter J. Levinson author of “Livin’ In a Great Big Way,” a biography of Tommy Dorsey. Music from Sentimental Gentleman of Swing, RCA. 2 a.m. Joe Lovano, Raincheck; Lush Life: Billy Strayhorn: Blue Note. Paul Motian Trio, Light Blue; Time and Time Again: ECM. McCoy Tyner, Sama Layuca; Quartet: Tyner Music. Drew Gress, Bell Weather/Chevelle; The Irrational Numbers: Premonition. Michael Musilliami, Mezz Money; The Treatment: Playscape. Stanley Clarke, Back in the Woods/Badasses/Chateauvallon 1972; The Toys of Men: Heads Up. Lazaro Vega Blue Lake Public Radio 300 East Crystal Lake Road Twin Lake MI 49457 WBLV FM 90.3, Twin Lake/Muskegon; WBLU FM 88.9, Grand Rapids www.bluelake.org

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...23/AR2007112300 487.html Outside the Boxes: A History of Modern Music That Does Not Respect Convention By Stephen Walsh Professor of music at Cardiff University, Wales, a music critic for the London Independent and author of a two-volume biography of Stravinsky Sunday, November 25, 2007; M04 THE REST IS NOISE Listening to the Twentieth Century By Alex Ross Farrar Straus Giroux. 624 Pp. $30. The shelves of music libraries groan under the accumulation of histories of 20th-century music. But they are a dispiriting collection, partly because their implicit claim -- even if they dodge the actual term -- to be "history" is obvious nonsense. How can you write a history of something that is still going on? The answer has usually been to stick to a set of preordained categories, often decreed by composers or academics, with unappealing titles like modernism, neoclassicism, serialism, etc., and let anything and anyone that doesn't fit them (jazz, Sibelius, Gershwin, film music) go hang. Happily, Alex Ross, who writes about music for the New Yorker and maintains one of the best-informed music blogs on the Web, has avoided this trap. The most striking thing about "The Rest Is Noise" is its refusal to conform to the standard headings and judgments beloved of historians of modern music and its energetic mixing of technical, stylistic and even chronological categories. Ross clearly realizes that music doesn't evolve in rigid boxes. And there's no doubt that pigeonholing has been the evil genius of the music of the last century. It was pigeonholing that produced Arnold Schoenberg's repetitive or "serial" technique -- which he famously claimed would prolong German musical supremacy for 100 years. It was pigeonholing that temporarily sidelined Strauss, Rachmaninoff, Sibelius and others (because they didn't go serial or atonal). And it was pigeonholing that gave birth to the politicization of musical styles in postwar Europe (Pierre Boulez announcing that non-serial composers were "useless") and America, where the left-leaning Aaron Copland went populist in such works as "Billy the Kid" and "Rodeo," and after the war was investigated by Sen. Joseph McCarthy for his pains. All along, of course, this restrictive impulse has given us jazz, pop, world music, classical and all the other entrenched categories of the Google age, to the paradoxical point where "music" now means anything but Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Bartok and company (which is probably why Ross has carefully excluded the word from his title). "The Rest Is Noise" explores all these various boxes and -isms in an evenhanded and approachable way, with the absence of dogmatism that is the mark of a true enthusiast. The conventional picture of so-called modern music, in which various figures of admitted stature gradually drop off the train of progress as it proceeds on its not particularly merry way, is quietly abandoned in favor of something closer to what happens in an actual station -- a constant, unpredictable to and fro of people and incident, unexpected meetings, conversation and argument, pushing and shoving: a sort of perpetual postmodernism (another word that, significantly, Ross does not use). I exaggerate, of course. No history can wholly avoid categories. But Ross's starting point is novel all the same. In Paul Griffiths's "Concise History of Modern Music" (1978), modern music begins with the delicious flute solo that opens Claude Debussy's "Pr¿lude ¿ l'apr¿s-midi d'un faune" (1894), just as for Griffiths the theories of Boulez (who first touted the idea of Debussy as founding father of modernism) are the key to music since World War II. But Ross makes light, not to say fun, of the "pseudoscientific mentality" of the Darmstadt summer schools in Germany, where Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen held court in the early '50s, "researching" ever more cerebral ways of writing music. Instead of Debussy, he opens 20th-century music with the Austrian premiere in Graz in 1906 of Richard Strauss's "Salome," a work subsequently admired for its daring and also hated for its vulgarity. >From there Ross tracks through the next 100 years with a strong eye to cultural and political, as well as aesthetic, currents. After "Salome" he passes logically to the disintegration of traditional tonality in Debussy and Schoenberg (a pair not commonly wedded), a chapter that links the violent folksiness of Igor Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" with '20s jazz, another on the line of American music from the experimentalist Charles Ives to the jazz master Duke Ellington, and a whole chapter on Jean Sibelius, a composer routinely despised by right-thinking modernists but treated here as a radical who happened to prefer a transparent tonal language at a time when atonality was the essential style in progressive circles. Later, a chunk of the book is devoted to the politics of music before, during and after World War II in Russia, Germany and -- not much less chilling -- the United States. Finally, a brilliantly eclectic study of music since the war debouches in a survey of bebop, rock and minimalism, provocatively titled (after John Cage) "Beethoven Was Wrong." Thus Ross declines to approve any of the doctrinaire positions of a century riven by battles of style and system. He discounts nothing on principle. So Stockhausen is here, but so are Benjamin Britten and bebop, Miles Davis as well as Olivier Messiaen. Behind all this, I suspect, is a reluctance to see the history of something whose outcomes are as yet unclear in any but an objective light. But, equally, the approach is fed by taste, experience and, to some extent, locale. As a New York critic, Ross is in a strong position to sample and assess every kind of music; at the same time there is an automatic American bias that is no doubt more apparent to a European like me. So such composers as Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, Henri Dutilleux, Hans Werner Henze and one or two others who might be expected to figure in a revisionist history of the last century are more or less ignored in favor of Americans such as Virgil Thomson and Carl Ruggles, who, from this side of the ocean, may now seem irretrievably minor. Ross is not scoring parochial points. He's writing a history whose American focus becomes more significant the more one inclines to ridicule the aesthetic infighting that has plagued European music since the last world war. After all, the intellectual gridlock in France and Germany was loosened by Cage and broken finally by American minimalists such as Steve Reich, Terry Riley and Philip Glass. Whatever one thinks of these composers' music, its contemporary influence is impossible to deny, its future significance an open book which, to his credit, Ross doesn't attempt to close. This is the best general study of a complex history too often claimed by academic specialists on the one hand and candid populists on the other. Ross plows his own broad furrow, beholden to neither side, drawing on both. It's an impressive, invigorating achievement. --

Jazz From Blue Lake Playlist Monday, November 19, 2007 (Johnny Mercer) Artist—Song Title – Album Title – Record Label 10 p.m. Eastern Time Bennie Green, Blow Your Horn; Blow Your Horn: Decca. Duke Ellington/Ella Fitzgerald, Satin Doll; Live in Stockholm: Pablo. J.J. Johnson, Satin Doll; 1969 All Star White House Tribute to Duke Ellington: Blue Note. Tony Bennett, That Old Black Magic; Ultimate American Songbook: Sony. Andre Previn, That Old Black Magic; Plays Harold Arlen: Contemporary. Ray Charles, Come Rain or Come Shine; Berlin 1962. Natalie Cole, Autumn Leaves; Unforgettable: Elektra. Carmen McRae, Skylark; Classics Hoagy Charmichael: Smithsonian. Bill Charlap, Skylark; Stardust: Blue Note. Sonny Criss, Skylark; This is Criss!: Prestige. Chet Baker, I Remember You; Best of Chet Baker Sings: Pacific Jazz. Charlie Parker, I Remember You; Now’s The Time: Verve. Susannah McCorkle, Hit the Road to Dreamland; Broadway to Brazil: Concord. 11 p.m. Mel Torme, On the Swing Shift; Velvet Brass: Concord. Mel Torme/George Shearing, Ac-cen-tchu-ate the Positive; Mel and George Do WWII: Concord. Chris Connor, Laura; Classic: Contemporary. Dexter Gordon, Laura; Sophisticated Giant: Columbia. Rosemary Clooney, The Days of Wine and Roses; Sings Ballads: Concord. Bobo Moreno/Ernie Wilkins Almost Big Band, Out of This World; Out of This World: Sundance. J.J. Johnson/Kai Winding, Out of This World; Nuf Said: Bethlehem. Harry Connick Jr., The Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe; 25: Columbia. Frank Sinatra, Blues in the Night; For Only the Lonely: Capital. Art Hodes, Blues in the Night; Blues in the Night: Sackville. Ella Fitzgerald, Midnight Sun; Best of the Song Books: Verve. Lazaro Vega Blue Lake Public Radio 300 East Crystal Lake Road Twin Lake MI 49457 WBLV FM 90.3, Twin Lake/Muskegon; WBLU FM 88.9, Grand Rapids

1-2-3, Magic. A book about raising children.

The driving 65 in the snow... While not the same reminds me of a time when Nessa was driving me to his house around 9 at night sometime in cold February and as he made the right turn into his street it was all black ice and the rear end of the car started to sail towards the front. Chuck has a cigarette in his right hand, driving with his left, and deftly stops the chaos with a quick combination of manic steering and sensible acceleration. We're straight again. He puts the cigarette back in his mouth and laughs, "One handed!" I so measure distance by time: it's a three hour drive to Chicago or Detroit, etc. And, yes, this Halloween we designed the costumes to be worn over winter coats. It was cold, rainy, windy, nasty. When Ellie was little we dressed her as a chocolate chip cookie: made out of this brown wool like material, with vinyl "chips" sewn on, you just unzipped an edge and put her in. Cozy. Since the days of global warming, though, this place just gets completely cloudy with no leaves and temperatures right around 32 to 38 for weeks on end. The first few winters I came to Blue Lake, 150 inches of snow, 120 inches of snow, 110 inches of snow, and cold like it used to be. If you read any of the shipping histories of the Great Lakes it was just insane on the lakes in November -- had to get in before you were frozen in place and had to walk to shore.

Are you aware that Jeff Foxworthy is now picking on Michigan? Read on. (pretty funny and acurate) 1. If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 18 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim by, you might live in Michigan. 2. If you're proud that your region makes the national news 96 nights each year because Pellston is the coldest spot in the nation, you might live in Michigan. 3. If your local Dairy Queen is closed from November through March, you might live in Michigan. 4. If you instinctively walk like a penguin for five months out of the year, you might live in Michigan. 5. If someone in a store offers you assistance, and they don't work there, you might live in Michigan. 6. If your dad's suntan stops at a line curving around the middle of his forehead, you might live in Michigan. 7. If you have worn shorts and a coat at the same time, you might & nbsp;live in Michigan. 8. If your town has an equal number of bars and churches, you might live in Michigan. 9. If you have had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you might live in Michigan. Part 2 - You know you're a true MICHIGANDER when . . . 1. "Vacation" means going up north on I-75 2. You measure distance in hours. 3. You know several people who have hit a deer more than once. 4. You often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day. 5. You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinching. 6. You see people wearing camouflage at social events (including weddings). 7. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked. 8. You carry jumper cables in your car and your girlfriend knows how to use them. 9. You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit. 10. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow. 11. You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction. 12. You can identify a southern or eastern accent. 13. Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a deer next to your blue spruce. 14. You were unaware that there is a legal drinking age. 15. Down South to you means Ohio. 16. A brat is something you eat. 17. Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new pole barn. 18. You go out to fish fry every Friday. 19. Your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost. 20. You have more miles on your snow blower than your car. 21. You find 0 degrees "a little chilly." 22. You drink pop and bake with soda. 23. Your doctor tells you to drink Vernors and you know it's not medicine. 24. You can actually drink Vernors without coughing. 25. You know what a Yooper is. 26. You think owning a Honda is Un-American. 27. You know that UP is a place, not a direction. 28. You know it's possible to live in a thumb. 29. You understand that when visiting Detroit, the best thing to wear is a Kevlar vest. 30. You actually understand these jokes, and you forward them to all your Michigan friends.

Especially for the Coleman Hawkins Jam Band with Benny Carter, Stephan and Django!

Jazz From Blue Lake Sunday, November 18, 2007 Artist—Song Title – Album Title – Record Label 7 p.m. Dena DeRose, Speak Low; Live at the Jazz Standard: Max Jazz. Bobby Hutcherson, Don’t Blame Me; For Sentimental Reasons: Kind of Blue. Joe Cohen, Diffusion of Beauty; Restless: Arbors. Royce Campbell, Get Happy; Get Happy(A tribute to Joe Kennedy):Fox Haven. Calabria Foti, The Touch of Your Lips; Lovely Way to Spend An Evening: MoCo Records. Peter Lerner, Lerner Burner; Cry For Peace: Blu Jazz. Wayne Escoffery/Carolyn Leonhart, Angel Eyes; If Dreams Come True: Nagel Heyer. John McLean, Ready For the War; Better Angels: Origin. 8 p.m. 3 Cohens, Navad; Braid: Anzic. Michael Musillami Trio, Stark Beauty; The Treatment: Playscape. Manu Katche, Morning Joy; Playground: ECM. Leni Stern, Bamake; Africa: Artist Share. Wallace Roney, Fela’s Shrine; Jazz: High Note. Dee Dee Bridgewater, Footprints; Red Earth: EmArcy. Either/Orchestra, Yezemed yebada; In Addis: Buda Musique. Frank Rosolino/Carl Fontana, All Blues: Trombone Heaven: Uptown. 9 p.m. The Carl Saunders Exploration, Ow!; The Lost Bill Holman Charts: Mama. Kim Richmond Ensemble, Invitation; Live at Café Metropol: Origin. Choro Ensemble, Naïve; Nosso Tempo: Anzic. Bill Mays Inventions Trio, Fantasy #3; Fantasy: Palmetto. Oregon, 1000 Kilometers; 1000 Kilometers: Cam Jazz. Abby Lincoln, Throw It Away; Abby Sings Abby: Verve. Paul Motian Trio, K.T.; Time and Time Again: ECM. Lee Konitz/Ohad Talmor String Project, Pretty Peace; Inventions: Omni Tone. Lazaro Vega Blue Lake Public Radio 300 East Crystal Lake Road Twin Lake MI 49457 WBLV FM 90.3 / WBLU FM 88.9 www.bluelake.org

Jazz a la Carte Saturday, November 17, 2007 Artist—Song Title – Album Title – Record Label 7 a.m. Kurt Elling, I Like the Sunrise; Night Moves: Concord Music. Rhyan Cohan, Into Being (Part 2) ;One Sky: Mometa. Orbert Davis, Back In the Day; Blue Notes: 3 Sixteen. Jazz Datebook, www.bluelake.org/datebook.html. Carla Bley, One Banana; The Lost Chords find Paolo Fresu: ECM. Steve Swallow/Robert Creeley, from Wellington, New Zealand/from Eight Plus; So There: ECM. Paul Motian Trio, Whirlpool; Time and Time Again: ECM. Hank Jones/Joe Lovano, Charlie Chan; Kids/Live at Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola: Blue Note. Abby Lincoln, The Music Is the Magic; Abby Sings Abby: Verve. 8 a.m. Kurt Elling, Waking; Night Moves: Concord. Mark Murphy, Autumn Nocturn; Songbook: 32 Jazz. Kenny Barron, Autumn In New York; New York Attitude: Uptown. Satima Bea Benjamin, Indian Summer; Song Spirit: Ekapa. Coleman Hawkins, Indian Summer; Wrapped Tight: Impulse. Duke Ellington, Autumn Leaves; Ellington Indigos: Columbia. John Coltrane/Johnny Hartman, Autumn Serenade; Coltrane/Hartman: Impulse. Jazz Datebook, www.bluelake.org/datebook.html. Paul Keller Trio, People; To Oscar With Love: PKO. Royce Campbell, Get Happy; Get Happy: Foxhaven. 9 a.m. Peter Lerner, Minority; Cry for Peace: BluJazz. Tony Bennet, Anything Goes; Sings the Ultimate American Songbook: Sony. Harry Connick Jr., Someday You’ll Be Sorry; Chanson du Vieux Carre; Marsalis Music. Duke Ellington, Peanut Brittle Brigade; Three Suites: Columbia. Stefon Harris, Portrait of Wellman Braud; African Tarantella: Blue Note. Jazz Datebook, www.bluelake.org/datebook.html. Sidney Bechet, Way Down Younder In New Orleans; Best of: Blue Note. The Albert Nicholas-Art Hodes Quintet, Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives to Me/Lover Come Back To Me; The New Orleans-Chicago Connection: Delmark. Ruby Braff/Flying Pizzarellis, C’est Magnifique: Arbors. Bill Charlap Trio, Autumn Leaves; Live at the Village Vanguard: Blue Note. Lazaro Vega Blue Lake Public Radio 300 East Crystal Lake Road Twin Lake MI 49457 WBLV FM 90.3 / WBLU FM 88.9 www.bluelake.org