Great Lakes passenger steamers Lakes) and a high-speed catamaran running between Milwaukee, Wisconsin and Muskegon, Michigan. An international ferry ran on Lake Ontario from Rochester, New York to Toronto from 2004 to 2005, but it was plagued with high operating costs and low demand. The privately owned company was taken over by the City of Rochester, and the ship was sold overseas where it operated across the Strait of Gibraltar. Cruise ship traffic on the Great Lakes increased in the early-21st century, with ships like the MS Hamburg, the MS Saint Laurent and the smaller ships of the Great Lakes Cruise Company offering multi-day
The Great Lakes Suites meditation on the "restrained, yet explosive" formation of North America's five Great Lakes isn't as grand in scope as 2013's "Occupy the World" (with a 22-piece orchestra) or 2012's four-disc, 19-part Civil Rights miniseries "Ten Freedom Summers" — but the 90-minute bustle of his stripped-down all-star quartet still stands as 2014's jazz epic." Disc 1 Disk 2 The Great Lakes Suites The Great Lakes Suites is a two-disc studio album by American jazz trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith. The album was released on September 16, 2014 via Finnish TUM Records label. The album includes six original jazz compositions written by Smith,