Small Labels and Private Press Jazz Vinyl with Kendo

 

A live mix of some small label and private press albums in my collection by some pretty big names like Art Blakey, Gil Evans, Charles Earland, Victor Feldman; and we start off with a whole side of some brilliant Jerry Coker! Vibrant, straight-ahead material originally live streamed on Friday 3-29-2024. Hope you enjoy! - Kendo

Jerry Coker - "Un Poco Loco" - A Re-Emergence (1983)

Jerry Coker - "Lush Life" - A Re-Emergence (1983)

Jerry Coker - "Primal Prayer" - A Re-Emergence (1983)

Nat Adderley - "Book's Bossa" - Blue Autumn (1986)

Billy Mitchell - "Wonderful" - Now's the Time (1976)

Charles Earland - "Freedom Jazz Dance" - Live at the Lighthouse (1972)

Charles Earland - "Moontrane" - Live at the Lighthouse (1972)

Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers - "Soulful Mister Timmons" - Live at Bubba's (1980)

Victor Feldman - "By Myself" - Plays Everything in Sight (1967)

Victor Feldman - "Sunshine Superman" - Plays Everything in Sight (1967)

Gene Bertoncini - "You Are a Story" - Evolution! (1969)

Gary Wofsey - "New York Scuffle" - Kef's Pool (1980)

Gil Evans Orchestra - "Dr. Jeckyll (Jackie)" - Little Wing (1978)

Jazz DiVinyl with DJ Kendo

 

Fall in love with jazz all over again with light and fun tracks blended with deeper, mysterious selections! Mixed live from vinyl on 3-26-2024 by yours truly. Listen in the player below!

Michel Legrand - "Rosetta" - Legrand Jazz (1958) 

Dave Liebman - "Dark Lady" - Sweet Hands (1975)

three minutes of silence...

Branford Marsalis - "Yes and No" - Random Abstract (1987)

Thelonious Monk - "Mysterioso" - Greatest Hits (196?)

Blue Mitchell - "Try Not to Forget" - Summer Soft (1978)"

Gerry Mulligan - "Bernie's Tune" - Presenting The Gerry Mulligan Sextet (1955)

Hugh Masekela - "Grazing in the Grass" - The Promise of a Future (1968)

Hubert Laws - "Where Is the Love" - Morning Star (1972)

Jack McDuff - "Mini Pads" - Sophisticated Funk (1976)

Lee Morgan - "Kin Folks" - City Lights (1957)

Pat Metheny Group - "Lone Jack" - Pat Metheny Group (1978)

The Modern Jazz Quartet/Jimmy Giuffre Three - "Fine" - Third Stream Music (1960)

image by Andrea Piacquadio.

me chatting away with the mic off ...

Anything Goes with DJ Kendo

Soul jazz and downtempo followed by a launch into outer space where we float for a while with some surf rock, radio broadcasts and ambient, then back for some more jazz, lounge and trip hop. Listen in the player below. Thanks for hangin'! - Kendo

Ron Carter - "Anything Goes" - Anything Goes (1975)

Chick Corea - "Trinkle Tinkle" - Piano Improvisations Vol. 2 (1971)

Wild Bill Davis & Johnny Hodges - "Lil' Darlin'" - Con-Soul & Sax (1965)

King Kooba - "Fooling Myself" - Om Lounge 4 (2001)

Perez Prado - "In The Mood" - Voodoo Suite (1955)

Wilton Felder featuring Bobby Womack - "The Truth Song" - Secrets (1985)

Dave Bailey - "Comin' Home Baby" - 2 Feet In the Gutter (1961)

Godley & Creme - "I Pity Inatimate Objects" - Freeze Frame (1979)

The Marketts - "Love 1985" - Out of Limits! (1963)

Orson Welles - "War of the Worlds - Part One (excerpt)" - (1938)

Tomita - "Dawn Chorus (Bachianas Brasileiras No. 4: Preludio)" - Canon of the Three  Stars (1984) 

Jose Feliciano - "Hi-Heel Sneakers" - Souled (1968)

Calvin Keys - "Gee-Gee" - Shaw-Neeq (1971)

Herbie Mann - "The Joker" - Plays The Roar of the Greasepaint (1965)

Jesse Crawford - "Kiss of Fire" - Melodies and Moods (1952)

Don Sebesky - "Moon Dreams" - The Rape of El Morro (1975)

Joe Farrell - "Is It Asking Too Much" - La Catedral y El Toro (1977)

DJ Shadow - "Forever Changed" - Action Adventure (2023) 

Dakota Staton - "The Late, Late Show" - The Late, Late Show (1957)

Zoot Sims (& Bucky Pizzarelli) - "Watch What Happens" - Zoot Sims and Friend (1976)

Morton Gould - "Blues In the Night" - Blues In the Night (1957) 

Mixed live on 3-23-24 on Mixcloud.

Soul Jazz Tuesday XV with DJ Kendo

 

It's been a while since a full blown soul jazz show! We hit up the 'G' through 'K' crates with cuts from Grant Green, Bunky Green, Woody Herman, Johnny Hartman, Rahsaan Roland Kirk and lots more! You can listen in the player below (or if you really want to help me out go to mixcloud and give the show a like). Have a wonderful day/night! - Kendo

Grant Green - "More Today Than Yesterday" - Live at Club Mozambique (1971)

Joe Henderson - "My Cherie Amour" - Black Miracle (1975)

Woody Herman - "Hush" - Light My Fire (1968)

Freddie Hubbard - "Betcha By Golly Wow" - Polar AC (1972)

Bunky Green - "Yesterday" - Playin' for Keeps (1966)

Johnny Hartman - "We've Only Just Begun" - Today! (1972)

Paul Horn - "Chelsea Morning" - Visions (1974)

Grant Green - "Besame Mucho" - The Latin Bit (1962)

Freddie Hubbard - "Ride Like the Wind" - Ride Like the Wind (1981)

Vince Guaraldi - "The Beat Goes On" - The Eclectic Vince Guaraldi (1969)

Rahsaan Roland Kirk - "This Masquerade" - Kirk-a-tron (1976)

Dick Hyman - "Autumn Leaves" - Provocative Piano (1960)

Frank Sinatra - "Dancing In the Dark" - Come Dance With Me (1958)

Grant Green - "Never My Love" - Shades of Green (1971)

Johnny Hammond - "It's Too Late" - Breakout (1971)

Images from the livestream - mixed live and broadcast on 3-19-2024

Chillified! 03 Relaxing Jazz with DJ Kendo

A fresh set of relaxing jazz to ease you back into a positive frame of mind. Cuts from Stan Getz, Miles Davis, Eric Gale, Herb Ellis, Chick Corea and lots more with no announcing. Mixed live from vinyl on 3-12-2024. Listen in the player below! Much love - Kendo

Willie Bobo - "The Thrill is Gone" - Do What You Want to Do (1971)

Stan Getz/Charlie Byrd - "Baia" - Jazz Samba (1962)

Miles Davis - "All of You" - 'Round About Midnight (1956)

Eric Gale - "She Is My Lady" - Ginseng Woman (1977)

Herb Ellis - "You Better Be Ready" - Softly, But With that Feeling (1961)

Chick Corea and Return to Forever - "You're Everything" - Light as a Feather (1972)

Walt Dickerson - "Elizabeth" - This Is Walt Dickerson! (1961)

Bill Evans Trio - "Gloria's Step" - Sunday at the Village Vanguard (1961)

Charles Earland - "I Wish" - Revelation (1977)

Al Di Meola - "I'll Follow the Sun" - Across the Universe (2020)

Chet Baker - "What'll I Do" - She Was Too Good to Me (1974)

Afro Mystik - "Tidepools" - Om Lounge 2 (1999)

Zoot Sims - "Willow Weep for Me" - Zoot Sims and friend... (1976)

Jack DeJohnette's Directions - "Flying Spirits" - Untitled (1976)

Larry Coryell - "Chris" - Spaces (1969)

Images from the livestream on 3-12-2024.

I Do What I Want with DJ Kendo

 

Episode 2

Welcome to another "I Do What I Want" show where jazz occasionally plops right down next to exotica, lounge, muzak, bachelor pad, electronica, funk and just plain weirdness; all for your fun and enjoyment. This episode has a theme and even visuals! When you get to the song "Choo Choo" by Twink, start the video that's just below the audio player. Originally mixed and streamed live on Mixcloud 3-9-2024. Thank you for listening and have a wonderful day! - Kendo

Peter Matz - "Chatanooga Choo Choo" - Patterns in Sound Vol 2 (1967)

Oscar Peterson - "Happy Go Lucky Local" - Night Train (1962)

Johnny Hammond - "Peace Train" - Wild Horses/Rock Steady ()1971

Twink - "Choo Choo" - The Broken Record (2005)

Modern Jazz Quartet - "Don't Stop This Train" - Blues on Bach (1973)

John Coltrane - "Blue Train" - Blue Train (1957)

George Benson - "Little Train" - White Rabbit (1971)

Herb Alpert - "The Trolley Song" - Herb Alpert's Ninth (1967)

Milt Jackson + Count Basie + The Big Band - "9:20 Special" - Vol. 2 (1978)

Dave Hamilton - "Late Freight" - Blue Vibrations (1963)

Gerry Mulligan - "Engine Engine #9" - If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em (1965)

Kenyon Hopkins/Creed Taylor - "Take the 'A' Train' - Sound of New York (1959)

Ray Brown Trio - "Take the 'A' Train' - Soular Energy (1984)

Jazz Divinyl 04 with DJ Kendo

 

After one of my obligatory faux pas (the beginning of the Dave Bailey cut is silent) this show takes off with fun juxtapositions like Gary Burton to Rudolph Johnson to Claude Bolling. Listen in the player below. Thanks to the folks in the room who kept me company! Come hang out with us on Tuesdays from 5:00 to 6:30pm eastern with occasional pop-up shows on Saturdays around 11am.

Maynard Ferguson - "All God's Children Got Rhythm" - The Big Horn (1955)

John Coltrane - "Soul Eyes" - Coltrane (1962)

Dave Bailey - "Comin' Home Baby" - Two Feet In the Gutter (1961) [first minutes silent]

Cannonball Adderley Quintet - "Phases" - Pyramid (1974)

Sonny Clark - "Nica" - Sonny clark Trio (1960)

Gary Burton - "On, Two, 1-2-3-4-" - Duster (1967)

Rudolph Johnson - "Mr. TJ (Single Edit) - Spring Rain (1971)

Claude Bolling/Jean-Pierre Rampal - "Baraque and Blue" - Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano Trio (1975)

Rusty Bryant - "Soul Liberation" - Soul Liberation (1970)

Al Cohn - "The Things I Love" - Cohn on the Saxophone (1956)

Ray Bryant - "Gotta Travel On" - Gotta Travel On (1966)

James Moody and His Modernists - "Tin Tin Deo" - James Moody And His Modernists With Chano Pozo (1948)

Cal Tjader - "Soul Bird (Tin Tin Deo)" - Soul Bird: Whiffenpoof (1965)

Louis Bellson Quintet - "The Song Is You" - Raincheck (1978)

Johnny Hammond Smith - "Black Feeling" - Black Feeling! (1969)

Ron Carter - "Epistrophy" - Yellow & Green (1976)

George Benson - "Jackie, All" - Tell It Like It Is (1969)

Mixed live and streamed on 3-5-2024

Top image by Cottonbro Studio.