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[Lazaro Vega]

Slide Hampton on The Jazz Restrospective. Streaming in 20 minutes, 10 p.m. until 3 a.m. right after the Chicago Symphony (which featured Benny Goodman playing Neilsen's clarient concerto this evening.

[Chuck Nessa]

Neilsen's clarient concerto

Might you mean Nielsen and clarinet?

[Lazaro Vega]

Hey,

Does it bug you guys that I'm posting program notes regularly here keeping the Blue Lake subject at the top of the list? Our program guide is on-line so maybe this is self indulgent bullshit. Seems other boards think so...

Look at me.

[Lazaro Vega]

Chuck, yes. Do you know that work?

[Chuck Nessa]

Chuck, yes. Do you know that work?

For about 30 years.

[Lazaro Vega]

Listening to that recording in the car and would never have guessed it was Goodman. Goodman had a strong sense of the blues and though his sound leaned towards Jimmy Noone's "cleaner" approach than the old New Orleans guys, hearing him play classical music was really different.

Progam notes: Ingrid Jensen Concert this Saturday morning

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Our funder ends Friday and it is back to "normal."

Ingrid Jensen's Quartet with Geoff Keezer piano and rhodes, Matt Closey on bass, and John Wikan on drums as recorded on April 18th in Muskegon will be heard this Saturday morning from about 8:45 to 9:55 a.m. The performance includes a Keezer piece called "Tea and Watercolor," plus "The Night Has A Thousand Eyes," a ballad feature for Closey which is based on a standard, can you guess which one? And two numbers Ingrid wrote on her honeymoon cruise in Alaska, one of which, "Captian John," features Wikan at length. Hope you can join us.

Followed by Joey Calderazzo on "Piano Jazz" at 10 a.m.

And by the way, guitarist Jim Hall is the featured artist on this week's "Jazz Profiles" from NPR which airs on Blue Lake Sunday night at 10 p.m.

www.bluelake.org

[Lazaro Vega]

Pianist Steve Talaga will give a solo performance tonight live on Blue Lake Public Radio from 10 to 11 p.m.

[Lazaro Vega]

Scott Sherman’s article “Good Gray NPR” published in the essential May 23, 2005 edition of The Nation, an issue titled “Radio Waves/New Sounds of Unmanaged Democracy,” cites several critics of National Public Radio.

He writes, “A third group of critics takes issue not so much with NPR’s political orientation but with its monotonal sound quality; its often bland and homogeneous programming; its lack of aural experimentation; and its diminished cultural coverage – which, they note, was an integral part of NPR’s founding mission. These critics, many of whom work in the world of public radio, lament that on the road to becoming a ‘primary news provider’ NPR has neglected its original mission to provide a wide array of top-notch, eclectic cultural programming….”

This, no doubt, is met with a chorus of “well look here”'s from local affiliates.

Robert Krulwich is quoted in the article as issuing “ a blunt critique of NPR’s programming – and by implication, its audience – at a staff retreat” where he bullet points the following:

“Scared of Audience. The habits of your audience shouldn’t be your habit. NPR writes too much for our expected listeners. We should disturb the audience occasionally. Tell them what they don’t already know and what they don’t want to hear.”

As it relates to jazz, Blue Lake’s answer is to agree with Krulwich and provide a place for live music by such artists as guitarist Bruce Eisenbeil and solo musician Tom Abbs, both of whom are heard Wednesday in two special live performances from our woodland studios.

From 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. Wednesday, May 18th please join www.bluelake.org as we take part in guitarist Bruce Eisenbeil’s “Into the Sun” tour by broadcasting a live performance of his collective, improvisational music with Katsu Itakura from Japan on keyboards and Brian Osborne on drums. Into the Sun next radiates at the Kerrytown Concert House in Ann Arbor on May 19th.

At midnight, our second live performance take us “Out On Blue Lake” venturing into realms of music inspired by Nada Yoga and the paintings of Michael Landis as Tom Abbs second annual “Multifarious Solo Tour” hits the airwaves and the heliocentric world of cyber space. Primarily a bassist frequently heard in New York’s Greenwich Village this time Abbs is playing bass, didgeridoo, tuba and tambourine…often simultaneously...

Lazaro Vega

Blue Lake Public Radio

WBLV FM 90.3 / WBLU FM 88.9

300 East Crystal Lake Road

Twin Lake MI 49457

www.bluelake.org

radio@bluelake.org

Edited May 18, 2005 by Lazaro Vega

[randissimo]

Scott Sherman’s article “Good Gray NPR” published in the essential May 23, 2005 edition of The Nation, an issue titled “Radio Waves/New Sounds of Unmanaged Democracy,” cites several critics of National Public Radio.

He writes, “A third group of critics takes issue not so much with NPR’s political orientation but with its monotonal sound quality; its often bland and homogeneous programming; its lack of aural experimentation; and its diminished cultural coverage – which, they note, was an integral part of NPR’s founding mission. These critics, many of whom work in the world of public radio, lament that on the road to becoming a ‘primary news provider’ NPR has neglected its original mission to provide a wide array of top-notch, eclectic cultural programming….”

This, no doubt, is met with a chorus of “well look here”'s from local affiliates.

Robert Krulwich is quoted in the article as issuing “ a blunt critique of NPR’s programming – and by implication, its audience – at a staff retreat” where he bullet points the following:

“Scared of Audience. The habits of your audience shouldn’t be your habit. NPR writes too much for our expected listeners. We should disturb the audience occasionally. Tell them what they don’t already know and what they don’t want to hear.”

As it relates to jazz, Blue Lake’s answer is to agree with Krulwich and provide a place for live music by such artists as guitarist Bruce Eisenbeil and solo musician Tom Abbs, both of whom are heard Wednesday in two special live performances from our woodland studios.

From 10 p.m. to 11 p.m. Wednesday, May 18th please join www.bluelake.org as we take part in guitarist Bruce Eisenbeil’s “Into the Sun” tour by broadcasting a live performance of his collective, improvisational music with Katsu Itakura from Japan on keyboards and Brian Osborne on drums. Into the Sun next radiates at the Kerrytown Concert House in Ann Arbor on May 19th.

At midnight, our second live performance take us “Out On Blue Lake” venturing into realms of music inspired by Nada Yoga and the paintings of Michael Landis as Tom Abbs second annual “Multifarious Solo Tour” hits the airwaves and the heliocentric world of cyber space. Primarily a bassist frequently heard in New York’s Greenwich Village this time Abbs is playing bass, didgeridoo, tuba and tambourine…often simultaneously...

Lazaro Vega

Blue Lake Public Radio

WBLV FM 90.3 / WBLU FM 88.9

300 East Crystal Lake Road

Twin Lake MI 49457

www.bluelake.org

radio@bluelake.org

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Lazaro, I caught some of Tom Abbs's set last night and thought, "Man, his "abs" certainly are getting a workout!"

[Lazaro Vega]

Aha, very funny.

Well, you know, you do a couple of interesting bands live on the air and think everything is all that and the next day open up a new interpretation of John Coltrane's masterwork called "Electric Ascension" by Rova: OrkestraRova (Atavistic) and see it was recorded live by Jefferson Wilson for KFJC-FM and you realize there are miles to go...