Live From Blue Lake

[Jim Alfredson]

Lazaro asked me to post this for him:

Looks cool!

[ghost of miles]

How's their signal doing? I've got my fingers crossed for them, as I think their fund-drive begins today.

[Dan Gould]

Wes Anderson in a trio sounds cool!

[Lazaro Vega]

The grant from the Holland Area Arts Council is designed to promote Michigan based jazz artists. Rodney Whitaker runs the jazz area at Michigan State. As a school age musician from Detroit he toured Europe via The Blue Lake International Exchange Program. Wessell is now on the faculty at MSU.

Looking forward to meeting Ronnie Gardiner, who plays on "My Name is Albert Ayler," but who's better known as an advocate for jazz in Sweden where he helped establish the Stockholm Jazz Festival. Gardiner played in house rhythm sections at Jazzhuis Monmartre in Copenhagen, and was heard on the European tour circut with Clark Kerry, Tommy Flanagan, Johnny Griffen, Chet Baker, Dexter Gordon and other American masters. His development of a music therapy method for brain trama victums led to workshops at medical centers in Grand Rapids and near Lansing. This October he married a woman from Grand Rapids and they keep a trans-Atlantic life style.

Gardiner is "sitting in" with trumpeter Sweet Willie Singleon's band. Willie Singleton (from the LOUISIANA REPERTORY JAZZ ENSEMBLE OF NEW ORLEANS web site): "cornet, trumpet; A Baton Rouge native, "Sweet Willie" performed with the Count Basie and Duke Ellington Orchestras and appears frequently on Mississippi River boats)." He does a good Ray Nance ("Squeeze Me") and is a former understudy of Clark Terry. Singleton, too, re-located to Grand Rapids and is playing three nights a week in restaurants owned by the Gilmore Collective. He's also a frequent guest with the Grand Rapids Symphony....

It is Living Legends Week on Jazz From Blue Lake (M-F 10 p.m. - 3 a.m. est). Tonight, Dave Brubeck; Nov. 8, drummer Roy Haynes; Nov. 9th, Von Freeman; Nov. 10th, Paul Motion.

"Out on Blue Lake" Wednesday night at midnight features Living Legends Muhal Richard Abrams, Roscoe Mitchell and George Lewis from their new recording of open improvisations, "Streaming" (Pi Records).

[Dan Gould]

I hope people are listening because this is a fine show. Warmdaddy sounds particularly fine in this context.

[Lazaro Vega]

The Wess Anderson Trio performance will be re-broadcast this Saturday morning, December 30th, between 7 and 10 a.m. est over Blue Lake Public Radio. The first hour and a half of the program will casually review jazz recordings from 2006, with Anderson's live hour with us kicking off about 8:45 a.m.

We'll feature more from "The Best of 2006" Sunday evening from 7 to 10 p.m.

[Lazaro Vega]

Up for this Thursday, Dr. John Hair's New Connections at 10 p.m.

[randissimo]

Up for this Thursday, Dr. John Hair's New Connections at 10 p.m.

Give Dr. John & Co my "Best Regards"..

[Lazaro Vega]

Black History Month Jazz Retrospecitves. Jazz From Blue Lake is heard Monday through Friday, 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. est via www.bluelake.org

February 2007

1 James P. Johnson, piano/composer

2 Willie “The Lion” Smith, piano

5 Fats Waller, piano/composer/bandleader

6 Earl Hines, piano/bandleader

7 Duke Ellington, piano/bandleader/composer

8 Live From Blue Lake with Phil DeGreg, Paul Keller, Tim Froncek then later Thelonious Monk,

piano/bandleader/composer

9 Cecil Taylor, piano/bandleader

12 Sonny Stitt, tenor and alto saxophones

13 Buck Hill, tenor saxophone

14 The Deep Blue Organ Trio

15 Kirk Lightsey, piano

16 Henry Threadgill, saxophone/flute/bandleader

19 David Murray, tenor saxophone/bass clarinet

20 Nancy Wilson, voice

21 Tadd Dameron, piano/arranger/bandleader

22 Nina Simone, piano/voice

23 Rex Stewart, trumpet

26 James Moody, tenor saxophone/flute

27 Dexter Gordon, tenor saxophone

28 Ben Webster, tenor saxophone

Edited February 1, 2007 by Lazaro Vega

[Lazaro Vega]

This Thursday's "Live From Blue Lake" will be delayed until Friday night at 10 p.m. due to the effect of weather on travel.

Please join us this Sunday from 7 to 10 p.m. for a recorded interview with Ornette Coleman.

[ghost of miles]

Please join us this Sunday from 7 to 10 p.m. for a recorded interview with Ornette Coleman.

Thanks, I will!

[ghost of miles]

Lazaro interviewing Ornette coming up in just a few minutes on Blue Lake.

Edited February 12, 2007 by ghost of miles

[ghost of miles]

Hey, just heard you quote Sangrey... I quote him in the Cal Massey show that follows, too! Jim, you gotta start charging...

[ghost of miles]

Beautiful to hear the audio of that, Lazaro. You had a great rapport with him.

My wife just called me in to see Ornette presenting the "Best New Artist" award on the Grammys, so great timing. Ornette at the Grammys--it's like a holy man entering the temple of Babylon.

[Chuck Nessa]

and the shots of folks in the audience looking like WTF! really sad.

[ghost of miles]

and the shots of folks in the audience looking like WTF! really sad.

Exactly... my wife & I both commented on that as we were watching. I think Ornette was a "new artist" to them as well.

[Lazaro Vega]

and the shots of folks in the audience looking like WTF! really sad.

Exactly... my wife & I both commented on that as we were watching. I think Ornette was a "new artist" to them as well.

Thanks for tuning in Ghost.

Hey, Flea and the Red Hot Chili Peppers gave up for Ornette. By looking at it you could imagine they were like, "Ornette? We gotta make a sign!!!"

[alocispepraluger102]

Please join us this Sunday from 7 to 10 p.m. for a recorded interview with Ornette Coleman.

Thanks, I will!

beautifully edited with stunning music. it was a 'ghostworthy' effort, if you get my drift.

Edited February 12, 2007 by alocispepraluger102

[Lazaro Vega]

Up for this Wednesday

[Uncle Skid]

Thanks for the reminder!

[Lazaro Vega]

Up for tonight, the grand finale of Live From Blue Lake: Sweet Willie Singleton's Quintet with special guest Ronnie Gardiner, the American ex-pat drummer (Sweden) who appears on "My Name Is Albert Ayler" among many others. Mel Dalton, tenor saxophone; Paul Lizinski, piano; Dave Hay, bass. Singleton is from Baton Rouge, LA, originally, and moved into Grand Rapids in the 1990's following a series of concerts there with the Louisiana Repertory Jazz Ensemble. He was an understudy of Clark Terry and played in both the Ellington and Basie "ghost" bands.