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 ...

Playlist for 7-30-2019 WFCF - Fistful of Vinyl 2019

A little Record Store Day find courtesy of Jim Driscoll!

Today I just brought a big stack of vinyl from the A-C crate of my library and mixed in a few choice cds and music from the new jazz shelf! Had fun! Thanks for tuning in! - Kendo

Hour One:

Fuse One - "To Whom All Things Concern" - Fuse One (1980) CTI Moment

Jimmy Giuffre 3 - "Train and the River" - Jazz on a Summer's Day (1958)

Donna with the mystery last name/
Guess what I paid for this!

            3:15 Jazz Coffee Break

Yinon Muallem - "Back Home" - Back Home (2019)*

Freddie Hubbard - "Misty" - Sweet Return (1983)

Fuse One - "Taxi Blues" - Fuse One (1980) CTI Moment

Cal Tjader - "Afro Blue" - Soul Sauce (1964)

Branford Marsalis - "Broadway Fools" - Random Abstract (1987)

Anita O'Day - "Tea for Two" - Jazz On a Summer's Day (1958)

Hour Two:

Espoo Big Band - "Quiet Flows the Aspen River" - Espoo Suite (2018)*

Fun straight-ahead session with a 19 year old Nash.

Ron Carter - "Blues Farm" - Blues Farm (1973) CTI Moment

Gary Burton & Steve Swallow - "Hotel Overture + Vamp/Hotel Hello" - Hotel Hello (1974)

Verve Jazz Ensemble - "Drumorello" - Night Mode (2019)*

Philip Bailey - "Once In a Lifetime" - Love Will Find a Way (2019)*

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

Hour Three:

            ~ Flagler Footnotes ~

George Benson - "Summertime" - In Concert Carnegie Hall (1975) - The Ride Home!

Anita O'Day - "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" - Anita Swings Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hart with Billy May (1959)

Lots of heavy cats on this one.
Side note - I want that jacket.

Kenny Burrell - "In a Mellow Tone" - Ellington Is Forever Vol 2 (1977)

Kenny Burrell - "Solitude" - Ellington Is Forever Vol 2 (1977)

Anita O'Day - "I Get a Kick Out of You" - Anita Swings Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hart with Billy May (1959)

Count Basie Orchestra - "If I Were A Bell" - High Voltage (1970)

Count Basie Orchestra - "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" - High Voltage (1970)

Linda Cole/Altamonte Jazz Ensemble - "I Wish You Love" - Presents "The Baron" (2001)

Victor Gould - "Thoughts Become Things" - Thoughts Become Things (2018)*

Hour Four:

Cannonball Adderley - "Sticks" - Swingin' In Seattle (1966)

Chet Baker - "My Ideal" - Chet Baker Sings (recorded 63 years ago today on 7/30/1956)

Cannonball Adderley - "The Morning of The Carnaval" - Swingin' In Seattle (1966)

Lauren Henderson - "Something Bigger" - Alma Oscura (2018)*

CTI All-Stars - "Inner City Blues/What's Going On", "California Dreamin'" & "First Light" - CTI Summer Jazz at the Hollywood Bowl Vol One (recorded 47 years ago today on 7/30/1972) CTI Moments

Playlist for 5-21-2019 WFCF - More Birthday Goodies!

Fascinating cross-section of the commercial side of Verve jazz.

For this show we listened to more birthday haul, in particular a great deal from the Verve Singles Collection box set, along with great cuts from Don Scaletta, Hubert Laws, Jerome Richardson, Bunky Green and Pat Metheny, plus some great new releases! Thanks for joining me! - Kendo



Hour One:

Jazz at the Philharmonic All-Stars - "Perdido Pts 1 & 2" - Verve The Singles Collection (1947)

Catherine Russell - "You Turned the Tables On Me" - Alone Together ()*'

3:15 Jazz Coffee Break

Mid-70's McGriff

Jimmy McGriff - "Misty" - The Main Squeeze (1974)

Astrud Gilberto - "Agua de Beber" - Verve The Singles Collection (1965)

Kenny Burrell - "Loie" - Verve The Singles Collection (1964)

Larry Coryell - "Blues for Django and Stephane" - Spaces Revisited (1997)

Juan Alamo & Marimjazzia - "El Morro" - Ruta Panoramica (2016)*

Various Artists - "Doin' the Thing" - Flutes and Reeds (1955)

Jerome Richardson - "Up At Teddy's Hill" - Roamin' with Richardson (1959)

Hour Two:

Jerome Richardson - "Poinciana" - Roamin' with Richardson (1959)

Don Scaletta Trio - "Summer Samba" - Sunday Afternoon at the Trident (1967)

Mingus at the legendary but short-lived club!

Branford Marsalis - "Snake Hip Waltz" - The Secret Between the Shadow and the Soul (2018)*

Herlin Riley - "Touched" - Perpetual Optimism (2017)*

Bunky Green - "My Man's Gone Now" -Playin' for Keeps (1967)

Bunky Green - "The Shadow of Your Smile" - Playin' for Keeps (1967)

Ella Fitzgerald - "Stairway to the Stars" - Verve the Singles Collection (1957)

Nancy Kelly - "Again" - Remembering Mark Murphy (2017)*

Charles Mingus - "Serenade in Blue" - Mingus at the Bohemia (1955)

Hour Three:

~ Flagler Footnotes ~

Lisa Maxwell's Jazz Orchestra - "Shiny!" - Shiny! (2018)* - The Ride Home!

Ella Fitzgerald/Louis Armstrong - "Stars Fell on Alabama" - Verve the Singles Collection (1956)

Unique release from Hubert with Orchestra

Bing Crosby - "Mountain Greenery" - Verve the Singles Collection (1956)

Ella Fitzgerald - "Manhattan" - Verve the Singles Collection (1956)

Jimmy Smith/Kenny Burrell - "What'd I Say" - Verve the Singles Collection (1963)

Jimmy Smith - "Theme from Any Number Can Win" - Verve the Singles Collection (1963)

Bobby Hutcherson - "Ruth" - Spiral (1968)

Louis Armstrong - "Makin' Whoopee" - Verve the Singles Collection (1957)

Hour Four:

Beata Pater - "Little Sunflower" - Tet (2019)*

Pat Metheny - "Watercolors" - Watercolors (1977)

Hubert Laws - "Equinox" - Wild Flower (197?)

Wes Montgomery - "Chim Chim Cheree" - Goin' Out of My Head (1965)

The live side of McDuff with the classic quartet

Larry Coryell - "Spaces Revisited" - Spaces Revisited (1997)

Wes Montgomery - "Bumpin' on Sunset" - Verve the Singles Collection (1966)

Astrud Gilberto - "Dindi" - Verve the Singles Collection (1965)

Willie Bobo - "Evil Ways" - Verve the Singles Collection (1967)

Brother Jack McDuff - "Vas Dis" - 

Playlist for 11-8-2016 WFCF - Broadway!

"Broadway Nights" - stumpyxetta
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Last week's show was Broadway themed. I had just come back from vacation - so I'm a little behind in posting this. Hope you enjoyed the show! - Kendo



Hour One:

Branford Marsalis/Kurt Ellings - "There's a Boat Dat's Leaving Soon for New York" - Upward Spiral (2016)*  [Porgy and Bess 1935]

Kenia - "Summertime" - On We Go (2016)*  [Porgy & Bess 1935]

3:15 Jazz Coffee Break

Gabor Szabo - "People" - More Sorcery (1967)  [Funny Girl 1963]

Jimmy Giuffre - "Mack the Knife" - The Easy Way (1959)  [Three Penny Opera 1928]

Melissa Aldana - "My Ship" - Back Home (2015)*  [Lady In the Dark 1941]

Ben Paterson - "I've Never Been In Love Before" - Essential Elements (2011)  [Guys and Dolls 1950]

Ella Fitzgerald - "The Gentleman is a Dope" - Ella Swings Brightly With Nelson (1961)  [Allegro 1947]

Stan Kenton - "Baubles, Bangles and Beads" - The Stage Door Swings (1958)  [Kismet 1953]

The Mastersounds (Montgomery Brothers) - "Not Since Nineveh" - Kismet (1958)  [Kismet 1953]

Ross Tompkins - "Stranger in Paradise" - The Ross Tompkins Trio (1963)   [Kismet 1953]

Hour Two:

Ernie Watts - "Knowing When to Leave" - Planet Love (1969)  [Promises Promises 1968]

Grant Green - "I'll Never Fall in Love Again" - Green Is Beautiful (1970)  [Promises, Promises 1968]

Fred Hersch - "I Have Dreamed" - Sarabande (1986)  [The King and I 1951]

Jill Allen Wofsey - "Getting to Know You" - I'm Flying (2005)  [The King and I 1951]

Keith Jarrett - "Tonight" - Somewhere (2009) [West Side Story 1957] 

Maynard Ferguson - "Maria" - Maynard 1962 (1961)  [West Side Story 1957]

Cal Tjader - "America" - West Side Story (1960) [West Side Story 1957]

Jane Ira Bloom - "Somewhere" - Early Americans (2015)  [West Side Story 1957]

Johnny Scott - "Something's Coming" - Communication (1967) - [West Side Story 1957]

Annie Ross w/ Gerry Mulligan - "I Feel Pretty" - Sings a Song with Mulligan! (1957)  [West Side Story 1957]

Hour Three:

~ Flagler Files ~

Bill Frisell - "On the Street Where You Live" - Bill Frisell Ron Carter Paul Motian (2005)  [My Fair Lady 1956] The Ride Home!

Chet Baker - "I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face" - Plays the Best of Lerner and Loew (1959)  [My Fair Lady 1956]

Sonny Rollins - "Till There Was You [take 4]" - Freedom Suite (1958)  [The Music Man 1957]

Michael Dease - "Marian the Librarian" - Father Figure (2015)*  [The Music Man 1957]

Michael Davis - "Crb's 76 Trombones" - Hip-Bone Big Band (2016)*  [The Music Man 1957]

Tim Davies Big Band - "Conceivilization" - The Expensive Train Set (2015)* request

Hour Four:

Danny Zeitlin - "You and the Night and the Music" - Slick Rock (2003)  [Revenge with Music 1934]

Sonny Rollins - "You Do Something to Me" - The Bridge (1962)  [Fifty Million Frenchmen 1929]

Woody Herman - "Aquarius" - Heavy Exposure (1969) [Hair 1967]

Quincy Jones - "Walking in Space" - Walking in Space (1969)  [Hair 1967]

Johnny Hammond - "I Don't Know How to Love Him" - WIld Horses Rock Steady (1971)  [Jesus Christ Superstar 1971] CTI Moment

John Coltrane - "My Favorite Things" - My Favorite Things (1960) [The Sound of Music 1959]

Playlist for 4-28-2015 WFCF - Jazz Greats!

Kenny's 1st all-originals cd!

Put this one together this morning/afternoon! I Had different ideas for the show and then bailed haha. I did keep the hour of Sonny Rollins, going out to regular listener Barry. Looking forward! Tune in from 3-7pm eastern at 88.5 in the listening area, or online anywhere in the USA by clicking here. See you then! - Kendo


Hour One:

Eliane Elias - "Brasil" - Made in Brazil (2014)

Steve Turre - "Funky Thing" - Spiritman (2014)

    3:15 Jazz Coffee Break

George Benson - "Breezin'" - Breezin' (1976)

John Scofield - "Jeep on 35" - A Go Go (1998)

Kenny Burrell - "Con Alma" - Ode to 52nd Street (1967)

Joni Mitchell - "Don't Worry 'Bout Me" - Hear And Now (1999)

Gary Burton Quartet - "Good Citizen Swallow" - Lofty Fake Anagram (1967)

Miles Davis - "Donna" - Young Man With a Horn (1952)

Kyle Eastwood - "Summer Gone" - The View from Here (2012)

O Som do Jazz - "Batucada" - A Kiss for Rio (2013)

Curtis Fuller - "Blues-Ette" - Blues-Ette (1959)

Hour Two:

Billie Holiday - "I Loves You Porgy" - At Storyville (1953)

Sonny Rollins - "St. Thomas" - Saxophone Colossus (1956)

Sonny Rollins - "Softly As In a Morning Sunrise" - A Night At the Village Vanguard Vol 2 (1957)

Sonny Rollins - "Where Are You" - The Bridge (1962)

Sonny Rollins - "Valse Hot" - Plus 4 (1956)

Sonny Rollins - "Will You Still Be Mine" - Freedom Suite (1958)

Sonny Rollins and Coleman Hawkins - "Summertime" - Sonny Meets Hawk! (1963)

Sonny Rollins and Thelonious Monk - "The Way You Look Tonight" - Sonny Rollins and Thelonious Monk Quartet (1954)

Hour Three:

Cal Tjader - "First There Is a Mountain" - Tjader (1970) Ride Home!

Cal Tjader - "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life" - Tjader (1970)

Kenny Garrett - "Sing a Song of Song" - Songbook (1997)

Art Blakey & the New Jazz Messengers - "My Romance" - Buttercorn Lady (1966)

Jacky Terrasson - "Dance" - Take This (2014)

Jose James - "Tenderly" - Yesterday I Had the Blues (2014)

Robert Kennedy - "Long Strides" - Big Shoes (2014)

Branford Marsalis - "I Thought About You" - Random Abstract (1987)

Marcus Miller - "Xtraordinary" - Afrodeezia (2014)

Hour Four:

Clifford Brown - "Gone With the Wind" - Jazz Immortal (1954)

Art Farmer Quartet - "Sing Me Softly of the Blues" - Sing Me Softly of the Blues (1965)

Donald Fagen - "Planet D'Rhonda" - Sunken Condos (2012)

Pat Martino with Jim Ridl - "Recollection" - Nexus (mid 1990s)

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

Larry Coryell - "Foot Path to Oasis" - Heavy Feel (2014)

La Lucha - "Love Me or Leave Me" - Standards, Not Standards (2014)

Charles Lloyd - "Invitation" - Wild Man Dance (2013)

Playlist for 2-17-2014 WFCF - Mardi Gras!

"Mardi Gras" - Stephen Clements
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This week's show falls on Fat Tuesday - so we'll listen to a mess of artists who are from the Crescent City, as well as songs about it. Louis Armstrong, Wynton Marsalis, Branford Marsalis, Harry Connick Jr. & Nicholas Payton are just some of the artists featured today. Tune in on Tuesday 2/17 from 3-7pm for all this plus new releases. You can listen online here. See you then! - Kendo






Hour One:

Calvin Keys - "Blues for Ahmed" - Close Enough for Love (2013)

Jason Marsalis - "Blues for Now" - The 21st Century Trad Band (2014)

    3:15 Jazz Coffee Break

Jack Sheldon - "Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans" - Live on the Pacific Ocean (2001)

Sybil Gage - "NOLA Calling" - NOLA Calling (2011)

Gregorie Howard - "Green Dolphin Street" - Gregorie Howard (2009)
Wynton Marsalis - "Phryzzinian Man" - Black Codes from the Underground (1985)

2001 release

Louis Armstrong - "Keepin' Out of Mischief Now" - (1932)

Nicholas Payton - "It Could Happen to You" - From This Moment (1994)

Preservation Hall Jazz Band - "Careless Love" - Shake That Thing (2001)


Allen Toussaint - "Lipstick Traces" - Songbook (2009)

Hour Two:

Craig Handy - "Minor Chant" - Craig Handy & 2nd Line Smith (2011)

Jason Marsalis Vibes Quartet - "Louisiana Gold" - In a World of Mallets (2012)

Sybil Gage - "Honey Chile" - NOLA Calling (2011)

Piron's New Orleans Orchestra - "New Orleans Wiggle" - (1923)

Dave Brubeck Quartet - "Basin Street Blues" - Gone With The Wind (1959)

Bucky Pizzarelli - "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans" - Buck & Bud (1976)

Branford Marsalis - "LonJellis" - Random Abstract (1987)

Sam Morgan's Jazz Band - "Everybody's Talking About Sammy" - (1927)
 
Kermit Ruffins - "Guess I'll Get the Papers and Go Home" - We Partyin' Traditional Style! (2013)

Sam Most - "Scatasplangalang" - New Jazz Standards (2013)

Gabriel Espinosa/Hendrik Meurkens - "Samba Little Samba" - Samba Little Samba (2013)

Hour Three:

the patriarch

Ellis Marsalis - "Some Monk Funk" - A Night at Snug Harbor, New Orleans (1989) RIDE HOME

Louis Armstrong - "Struttin' (With Some Barbecue) - (1927)

Harry Connick Jr. - "Cry Me a River" - Come By Me (1998)

Gregorie Howard - "Black Bart" - Gregorie Howard (2009)

Idris Muhammad - "The Saddest Thing" - The Power of Soul (1974) CTI Moment

Sybil Gage - "Give Me a Pigfoot" - Requests from the Bar (2012)

Rebirth Brass Band - "Rebirth Makes You Dance" - Move Your Body (2014)

Diana Krall - "I'm Not In Love" - Wallflower (2014)

Jamie Cullum - "Don't You Know" - Interlude (2014)

Eli Bennett - "Upside Swagger" - Breakthrough (2014)

Hour Four:

Herbie Mann - "New Orleans" - Memphis Underground (1969)

Marcus Roberts - "A New Orleans Parade" - From Rags to Rhythm (2013)

Louis Armstrong - "Cornet Chop Suey" - (1926)

Louis Prima - "Just One of Those Things" - (1962)

great box set with the sam morgan & Piron cuts

Terence Blanchard - "??" -  ()

King Oliver - "Showboat Shuffle" - (1927)

Al Hirt - "Java" - Honey in the Horn (1963)

Rez Abbasi Acoustic Quartet - "Low-Lee-Tah" - Intents and Purposes (2014)

Quincy Davis - "Ponder This" - Songs in the Key of Q (2012)

Annie Lennox - "I Put a Spell On You" - Nostalgia (2014)

Piron's New Orleans Orchestra - "Bouncing Around" - (1923)

Miles Davis - "Basin Street Blues" - Seven Steps to Heaven (1963)