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This month on Jazz From Blue Lake

American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington (1899-1974), wearing a pinstripe suit, holding long-playing records in each hand, as he stands over a radio DJ's turntables and microphone, United States, circa 1945. (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images)
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American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington (1899-1974), wearing a pinstripe suit, holding long-playing records in each hand, as he stands over a radio DJ's turntables and microphone, United States, circa 1945. (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images)

Jazz From Blue Lake airs Monday through Friday starting at 10 p.m EDT. In the first twenty minutes of each hour we focus on a particular artist or recording. In April we'll bring you retrospective features on jazz greats Billie Holiday, Charles Mingus, Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington among others. And now each program is available the following day on the Jazz From Blue Lake web stream. Here are April's featured artists:

April 2025

1 Booker Little, trumpet

2 Coleman Hawkins in Essen Germany, 1960

3 Jeremy Pelt, trumpet

4 Benny Green, piano

7 Billie Holiday, voice

8 Freddie Hubbard, trumpet

9 Ehud Asherie, piano

10 Harry Allen, tenor saxophone

11 Herbie Hancock, keyboards

14 Aubrey Johnson, voice

15 Richard Davis, bass

16 Buster Williams, bass

17 Orrin Evans, piano

18 Hal Galper, piano

21 Joe Farnsworth, drums

22 Charles Mingus, bassist/bandleader/composer

23 Joe Henderson, tenor saxophone

24 Johnny Griffin, tenor saxophone

25 Ella Fitzgerald, voice

Blue Lake Public Radio’s “Jazz Director” Lazaro Vega started at Blue Lake in March of 1983, 8 months after Bob Hope spoke the first station I.D. ever heard on the air from Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp. In 2018, Lazaro was nominated for the The Bobby Jackson Award by JazzWeek.com as Programmer of the Year. This honor is voted on by people who promote jazz record airplay and keep Blue Lake in new releases. For more about Lazaro, see his recent interview with Local Spins.