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November 15, 1971. Thelonious Monk ends an 8 week tour with the Giants of Jazz. During a 36 hour stop over in London, he records a solo and trio session (with bassist Al McKibbon and drummer Art Blakey) for Black Lion Records. His first trio album in 15 years ends up being his final studio recording, and the entire date is a sort of summation of his career, from "My Melancholy Baby" to "Trinkle Tinkle." Please join Blue Lake Public Radio when we feature these historic recordings in the first part of each hour, 10 p.m. - 3 a.m. eastern, WBLV FM 90.3 / WBLU FM 88.9, www.bluelake.org/radio

Available today only on demand under "Jazz From Blue Lake" at www.bluelake.org/ondemand

30 years ago today saxophonist Benny Carter and pianist Oscar Peterson reunited in the recording studio for this album. Carter, at the time 79 years old and a veteran of recording with Art Tatum, said, "I think that today Oscar has pushed the piano a little further past Art. I've heard him do things that I believe extended the frontiers of jazz piano." Hear for yourself tonight between 10 p.m. and midnight eastern time over WBLV FM 90.3/WBLU FM 88.9 or streaming live from www.bluelake.org/radio

Was Wilburn Campbell part of that Illinois Drug Abuse Program?

Thanks. The Jazz From Blue Lake files are under "Programs" and will be replaced by tonight's program on Mark Turner. So, if you want to hear Russell's program, now's the time. He recently came through with Rodney Whitaker's Bebop Spartans. Here's a link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWpWmGHuHsI

Last night Blue Lake Public Radio was celebrating the birthday of guitarist Russell Malone in the first part of each hour, 10 p.m. - 3 a.m. with an emphasis on two recent quartet recordings. In addition to his stellar, straight ahead guitar playing on jazz standards and originals, we also heard Malone with Diana Krall, Paul Keller, and Benny Green. I can't believe you missed this swinging program! What were you doing? Not to worry, it's available again, today only, here: www.bluelake.org/ondemand

Last week, Gebhard Ullmann dropped by Blue Lake Public Radio for his 4th appearance live from our studios. This time the Berlin-based tenor saxophonist/bass clarinetist brought with him a band he's played with for 20 years, Conference Call, with Michael Jefry Stevens, piano; Joe Fonda, bass, and Dieter Ulrich on drums. The hour long program is now available under "Studio Performances" at www.bluelake.org/ondemand.

We've been playing "Short Stories" on Blue Lake. Thanks for sharing this. Yes, Antje Hubner of Hubtone PR sent it to us.

Waiting for permission to put it up on demand. Will advise.

Celestial Weather Midwest Duets opened in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Sunday, October 23rd at LaFontsee Galleries. Please join Blue Lake Public Radio this Sunday night from 8 to 10 p.m. for the entire concert by trumpeter/composer/bandleader Wadada Leo Smith Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith and bassist/composer John Lindberg . WBLV FM 90.3 / WBLU FM 88.9 and streaming live from www.bluelake.org/radio

Celestial Weather Midwest Duets opened in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Sunday, October 23rd at LaFontsee Galleries. Please join Blue Lake Public Radio this Sunday night from 8 to 10 p.m. for the entire concert by trumpeter/composer/bandleader Wadada Leo Smith Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith and bassist/composer John Lindberg . WBLV FM 90.3 / WBLU FM 88.9 and streaming live from www.bluelake.org/radio

Last May, pianist Marcus Roberts played Gershwin's "Concerto in F" with conductor Scott Speck and the West Michigan Symphony Orchestra, followed the next night by a solo concert at The Block in Muskegon. It was a stunning concert, including virtuoso renditions of "Cherokee" and "The St. Louis Blues," not to mention music of Jelly Roll Morton, "King Porter Stomp." Coming up Sunday evening at 8, please join Blue Lake Public Radio for an exclusive broadcast of Marcus Robert's solo performance recorded at The Block in Muskegon. Heard only over WBLV FM 90.3/WBLU FM 88.9 and www.bluelake.org/radio

http://bombmagazine.org/article/891969/wadada-leo-smith

All That Meat, I've Got A Feeling I'm Falling, and Black and Blue were the only original masters on the lp re-issue; everything else an alternate take

Thank you for checking it out.

http://artsearth.org/events-2/wadada-leo-smith/

Proportional rhythms, Louis Armstrong as both a vertical and horizontal trumpet player, the difference between improvised music and creative music....thought some of Smith's ideas expressed in this interview would stir some conversation.....

Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith spoke to Blue Lake Public Radio about his music and Sunday afternoon's duet concert with bassist John Lindberg at LaFontsee Galleries in Grand Rapids (see www.adventuremusic.org). The conversation is available here, under "Interviews": www.bluelake.org/ondemand

"Out" today. Wadada Leo Smith and John Lindberg open their "Celestial Weather Midwest Duets" in Grand Rapids this Sunday at LaFontsee Galleries, 3 p.m. www.adventuremusic.org to purchase discounted advance tickets. https://soundcloud.com/bk-music-pr/new-orleans

Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith and bassist John Lindberg open their “Celestial Weather Midwest Duets” in Grand Rapids on Sunday, October 23rd at 3 p.m. as part of The Underground Series at LaFontsee Galleries in Grand Rapids, presented by www.adventuremusic.org. Please hear Smith’s music during “Jazz From Blue Lake” available on-demand here: www.bluelake.org/ondemand .

Do you have your tickets yet?

Is it conceivable (advisable) to hybridize creative improvised music with punk? Jazz celebrates a high level of creativity, usually expressed through a hard earned virtuosity. Punkers? “I’m not practicing scales in my room!” So where is the intersection? Perhaps in the recordings of the band Throttle Elevator Music, inspired by producer/composer Gregory Howe and featuring saxophonist Kamasi Washington. Their take on it is heard in the first part of each hour of Jazz From Blue Lake found here:www.bluelake.org/ondemand

Ken Dryden, "Stay beautiful!" lol Slowest version every of "Just For A Thrill."

Chicago celebrated with Ravi Coltrane at the Jazz Showcase. New York acknowledged with “Coltrane Revisited” at Birdland all week (Steve Kuhn and an all-star band). From Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in the Manistee National Forest, Jazz From Blue Lake remembered John Coltrane, too, on the 90th anniversary of his birth, with his recordings played on the radio, and recordings by Jack DeJohnette, Gary Bartz and Steve Davis of Coltrane’s music. Joe McPhee was at the Village Vanguard when Coltrane recorded “At the Village Vanguard Again!” and he suggested that version of “Naima.” Intrigued? You can hear that Jazz From Blue Lake today under “Programs”:www.bluelake.org/ondemand

This summer, I kept calling trumpeter Keyon Harrold’s name on the radio, he seemed everywhere: on the Miles Ahead Sound track; on many of those Don Was productions coming out on Blue Note. No idea he recorded with Common, or LL Cool J, or Beyonce. We have his trumpet with the Charles Tolliver Big Band, and saxophonist Billy Harper’s interpretation of John Coltrane’s “Africa,” a version featuring the poetry of Amiri Baraka. Keyon Harrold’s jazz records on the radio, under “Jazz From Blue Lake” here: www.bluelake.org/ondemand