Jazzploration with K-K-K Kendo

 

25 relaxed and uplifting jazz from the K thru M crate plus vinyl already here in the studio with limited announcing; including a whole set of vocal jazz from Astrud Gilberto, Billie Holiday, Carmen McRae & Jean Dushon! Listen in the player below.

Jackie McLean - "Dusty Foot" - Vertigo (1963)

Barney Kessel - "Summertime" - Summertime in Montreux (1973)

Bob James and Earl Klugh - "Kari" - One on One (1979)

Harold Land - "Short Subject" - A New Shade of Blue (1971)

Kiefer - "Lift Somebody Up" - When There's Love Around (2021)

Thelonious Monk - "It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)" - Plays Duke Ellington (1955)

Hubert Laws - "Chicago Theme (Love Loop)" - Chicago Theme (1974)

Boz Scaggs - "Jojo" - Middle Man (1979)

Raymond Fol Big Band - "Winter from The Four Seasons" - Vivaldi's Four Seasons in Jazz (1965)

Ronnie Laws - "Joy" - Flame (1978)

King Kooba - "Koobesq" - Om Lounge 3 (2000)

Carmen McRae - "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" - Live at Sugar Hill (1962)

Billie Holiday - "I Cover the Waterfront" - The Complete Commodore Masters (1944)

Astrud Gilberto - "Agua de Beber" - The Astrud Gilberto Album (1965)

Jack McDuff - "Rolling Stone" - The Fourth Dimension (1974)

Soul Mann & the Brothers - "Theme from Shaft" - Shaft (1971)

Wilbert Longmire - "Starflight" - Sunny Side Up (1978)

Joao Donato/Deodato - "Nightripper" - DonatoDeodato (1973)

Wynton Marsalis - "Think of One" - Think of One (1983)

Grant Green - "Ease Back" - Carryin' On (1969)

Herbie Mann - "Turkish Coffee" - Impressions of the Middle East (1966)

Johnny McLaughlin - "My Foolish Heart" - Electric Guitarist (1978)

Pat Martino - "Starbright" - Starbright (1976)

Jackie McLean with the Great Jazz Trio - "Little Melonae Again" - New Wine Old Bottles (1978)

Manny Albam and His Orchestra - "Dream a Little Dream of Me" - I Had the Craziest Dream (1961)

Originally mixed and livestreamed on 1-21-2025

Anything Goes with Kendo

Some contortionists all love jazz...

 

A light-hearted set that's heavy on soul jazz but also with some fusion, post bop and r&b in the mix! Red Garland, John Abercrombie, Brothers Johnson, Jean Carn, Hampton Hawes, Lonnie Liston Smith and many more! Listen in the player below. Thanks for stopping by! - Kendo

Enoch Light and The Light Brigade - "Speak to Me of Love - Cha Cha" - Provocative Percussion 2 (1960)

The Jazz Crusaders - "Eleanor Rigby" - Lighthouse '68 (1967)

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

Astrud Gilberto - "To a Flame" - Gilberto with Turrentine (1971)

Pimp Rekker - "Mackzen and Relaxin" - Om Lounge 3 (2000)

Ronnie Foster - "Mystic Brew" - Two-Headed Freap (1972)

Hampton Hawes - "Web" - Northern Windows (1974)

Johnny "Hammond" Smith - "Soul Talk - 1970" - Black Feeling (1969)

Herbie Hancock - "Maiden Voyage" - Dedication (1974)

George Benson & Joe Farrell - "Beyond the Ozone" - Benson & Farrell (1976)

Mtume - "Juicy Fruit (excerpt)" - Juicy Fruit (1983)

The Brothers Johnson - "Streetwave" - Blam! (1978)

Red Garland - "Five O'clock Whistle" - Rediscovered Masters (1958)

Gateway - "Sing Song" - Gateway 2 (1977)

Miles Davis Sextet - "Dig" - Dig (1951)

Lonnie Liston Smith - "Mystical Dreamer (A Tribute to Miles Davis)" - Exotic Mysteries (1978)

Billy Cobham - "Life & Times" - Life & Times (1976)

Jean Carn - "Together Again" - Happy to Be With You (1978)

Donald Byrd - "March Children" - I'm Tryin' to Get Home (1964)