saxophonist michael blake hosting wkcr now

[alocispepraluger102]

anyone that opens their program with lucky thompson is worth a listen.

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/wkcr/

http://www.michaelblake.net/

Edited March 5, 2008 by alocispepraluger102

[Guest Bill Barton]

anyone that opens their program with lucky thompson is worth a listen...

Amen to that, aloc!

Have you heard The World Awakes: A Tribute to Lucky Thompson yet? I'm looking forward to it...

Amor de Cosmos is superb!

Edited March 6, 2008 by Bill Barton

[alocispepraluger102]

nyet. :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

let me know if you find it available for purchase by download.

this lucky piece featured a rather long lucky recitation in the middle about the music business.

Edited March 6, 2008 by alocispepraluger102

[Jams_Runt]

I've been threatening to start a thread on Michael Blake. His Lucky Thompson album is killer. So far it's only out on download to my knowledge, but it's one of the few tribute albums from the last fifteen years I'll be spinning frequently as Blake captures a lot of what made Lucky so special. I love Michael Blake's tone--round and full like a tenor player from the '40s and he can play Lucky Thompson as convincingly as he does John Lurie. Quite a talent with quite a range. The song with Lucky talking about the music industry is called "Scratch" and it has a more modern sound than the rest of the album.

Amor de Cosmos is great as well, and don't forget that Palmetto has re-released Slowpoke's first album with two bonus cuts-- their version of Neil Young's "Harvest" is smokin' as folks say around here. (Slowpoke is Blake, Tronzo, Sherr and Wollesen.)

Yeah, this is turning out to be a great season for Michael Blake fans.

[Guest Bill Barton]

Thanks for hipping us to this broadcast, aloc!

I've been listening for about 45 min. now and some commercially unreleased Lounge Lizards is on as I type this.

Yeah, Blake is a fine player. When I heard him with Ben Allison and The Herbie Nichols Project here in Seattle a few years back I pointed out his kinship with Thompson in the review I wrote and later heard back from Ben that Michael really appreciated that little aside as he had never before come across a reviewer who heard the Lucky connection in his playing.

A bit more recently I heard him with Hellbent at Tula's and it was a hell of a show. That band is a kick! Steven Bernstein, tubist Marcus Rojas and Calvin Weston... review

I'm hoping that he plays with Ben Allison's Man Size Safe group when they hit town.

Edited March 6, 2008 by Bill Barton

[alocispepraluger102]

[Guest Bill Barton]

Damn! What a great show! Hawk with Pee Wee Russell on now... Ahhhhhhhh... "Dry wine in a dirty glass." The incomparable Pee Wee

[alocispepraluger102]

pee wee and bean followed by evan. wow!

[Guest Bill Barton]

pee wee and bean followed by evan. wow!

Yes, Michael definitely has some wide-ranging knowledge and very good taste.

[AllenLowe]

good show, but the Feminist "we are the world" Tribute to Valerie Solanis that he's now playing seems inappropriate - even if Hillary Clinton is a fan -

[Lazaro Vega]

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

[alocispepraluger102]

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

[robviti]

The World Awakes: A Tribute to Lucky Thompson was released on cd last month.