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Sunday, October 30, 2016

Kendo's Top 55 Jazz Tracks for 2016

It's Halloween! Time for my fourth annual list of the Top 55 Jazz Tracks; covering the last 12 months (Oct 2015 - Oct 2016). Selecting tracks was much more difficult since I became jazz director at WFCF St. Augustine, simply because I get exposed to way more music; and so many highly enjoyable
Show time - my favorite day of the week!
releases came out this year! 


Be aware it's a highly personal list, and does not reflect airplay tallies at WFCF. Music was chosen for the following: memorability, originality, interpretation/arrangement, execution or for just being plain good radio! 
(Links for titles go to the selection at Amazon.com, when available.) 

To hear a countdown of many of these tracks, tune in Tuesday Nov 1st to WFCF on iHeart from 3-5pm eastern, and resuming from 5:15-7pm eastern by clicking here.

Also - below the main list are my choices for Top 12 Jazz Albums of 2016. These were selected for their through and through listenability and enjoyment. So much good music came out this year! Hope you enjoy the lists and thanks so much for stopping by. - Kendo


Top 55 Jazz Tracks for 2016

1. Jackie Gage - "That Old Black Magic" - Siren Songs

2. Ashleigh Smith - "Love Is You" - Sunkissed

3. Jackie Gage - "Mine" - Siren Songs

4. Marquis Hill - "Moon Rays" - The Way We Play

5. Ed Calle - "Until the End of Never" - 360

6. Jordan Young - "Time in a Bottle" - Jazz Jukebox

7. Todd Hunter - "Snake in the Bottle" - Eat, Drink, Play

8. Reginald Cyntje - "Spiritual" - Spiritual Awakening

9. Metalwood - "Bodybeard" - Twenty

10. Jane Ira Bloom - "Song Patrol" - Early Americans

11. Brian Charette - "Falling Fourth" - Once & Future

12. Christian Tamburr, Takana Miyamoto, Keita Ogowa - "Norwegian Wood" - People Talk

13. Joe Policastro - "More Than a Woman" - Pops!

14. Ken Peplowski - "An Affair to Remember" - Enrapture

15. Keith Brown - "Human Nature" - The Journey

16. Alfredo Rodriguez - "Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring" - Tocororo

17. Tim Tamashiro - "I Won't Dance" - Drinky

18. Ryan Fourt - "Air-Gun (Daisy's Revenge)" - Big Slick

19. Theo Croker - "Transcend" - Escape Velocity

20. Kait Dunton - "Chrysocolla" - Kait

21. Allison Adams Tucker - "A Thousand Years" - Wanderlust

22. Dena DeRose - "I'm Glad There Is You" - United

23. Charles Lloyd & The Marvels - "Of Course, Of Course" - I Long to See You

24. Leslie Odom Jr. - "Look for the Silver Lining" - Leslie Odom Jr.

25. Karl Latham - "Tax Man" - Living Standards

26. Nancy Harms - "Lush Life" - Ellington at Night

27. Gerry Gibbs Thrasher Dream Trio - "The Summer Knows" - Live in Studio

28. Joey Alexander - "Criss Cross" - Countdown

29. Jacob Collier - "Flintstones" - In My Room

30. Jordan Young - "Son of Icebag" - Jazz Jukebox

31. Oleg Kireyev & Keith Javors - "Estate" - The Meeting

32. Matt Kane - "In Case You Missed It" - Acknowledgement

33. Tom McCormick - "South Beat" - South Beat

34. Corey Christiansen - "Old Joe Clark" - Factory Girl 

35. Greg Fishman - "Dahlia" - New Journey

36. Esperanza Spalding - "Unconditional Love" - Emily's D Evolution

37. Badbadnotgood - "Speaking Gently" - IV

38. Acme Jazz Garage - "Mr. G.P."

39. Branford Marsalis & Kurt Elling - "Doxy" - Upward Spiral

40. Jake Shimabukuro - "6/8" - Nashville Sessions

41. Ron King - "Perfect Day" - Triumph

42. Alex Tosca - "3rio" - Tosca 

43. Kyle Eastwood - "Caipirinha" - Time Pieces

44. Chris Ziemba - "Manhattan Lullaby" - Manhattan Lullaby

45. Sari Kessler - "After You've Gone" - Do Right

46. Catherine Russell - "Harlem On My Mind" - Harlem On My Mind

47. Fahir Atakoglu - "Sync-op" - Live at Umbria Jazz

48. Lonnie Smith - "Straight No Chaser" - Evolution

49. Cyrille Aimee - "Lazy Afternoon" - Let's Get Lost

50. Carol Bach-y-Rita - "'Tis Autumn" - Minha Casa/My House

51. Melissa Aldana & Crash Trio - "My Ship" - Back Home

52. Addison Frei - "Good Morning Heartache" - Transit

53. Oran Etkin - "After You've Gone" - What's New

54. Jimmy O'Connell - "Gray Matter" - Arrhythmia

55. Behn Gillece - "Signals" - Dare to Be



Top 12 Albums

1. Theo Croker - "Escape Velocity

1. Marquis Hill - "The Way We Play"

3. Jackie Gage - "Siren Songs"

4. Ed Calle - "360"

5. Joshua Breakstone - "88"

6. Kait Dunton - "Triokait"

7. Jordan Young - "Jazz Jukebox"

8. Antonio Adolfo - "Tropical Infinito"

9. Todd Hunter - "Eat, Drink, Play"

10. Tom Tallitsch - "Gratitude"

11. Carol Bach-y-Rita - "Minha Casa/My House"

12. Ron King - "Triumph"

honorable mention: Albare - "Dreamtime"





Classic!

Best Album Cover - Tim Tamashiro "Drinky"

Worst Album Cover - there are a few but I'm going with Diane Witherspoon


Scariest Jazz Moment - Kevin Ma...... "Michael Bublé"

Most covered non-standard - "Pure Imagination" (5), "Shenandoah" (4)


Most fun musician name to announce - Ugonna Okegwo

Monday, October 24, 2016

Playlist for 10/25/2016 WFCF - Numbers Game

many excellent tracks on this one!



This week's theme is "Numbers Game"! All the titles have a number in them - excluding the number '3', which will have it's own show thanks to a myriad of tunes featuring that numeral. This week - lot's of new releases as well as classic performances from Jimmy Smith, Lee Morgan, Wes Montgomery & Sonny Rollins! Tune in Tuesday (10/25) from 3-5 and resuming 5:15-7pm eastern by clicking here. See you then! - Kendo


Hour One:

Joshua Breakstone - "Eighty-Eight" - 88 (2016)*

Ed Calle - "360' - 360 (2016)*

3:15 Jazz Coffee Break

Carol Saboya - "1 X 0" - Carolina (2016)

John Scofield - "Jeep On 35" - A Go Go (1998)
a fun live recording!


Allison Adams Tucker - "A Thousand Years" - Wanderlust (2016)*

The BBB featuring Bernie Dresel - "Five Spot" - Live N' Bernin' (2016)

Wes Montgomery - "Four on Six" - Smokin' at the Half Note (1965)

Lee Morgan - "Twice Around" - Tom Cat (1964)

Donald Byrd - "6 M's" - Royale Flush (1961)

Hour Two:

Ray Obiedo - "Four Square" - There Goes That ()

Ernie Watts - "Fourth Dynasty" - Planet Love (1969)

Brian Charette - "Falling Fourth" - Once & Future (2015)*
very fine solo debut from Ernie!


Lenny Marcus - "Moving Fourth" - Moving Fourth (2016)*

Gary Burton - "Four or Less" - The New Quartet (1973)

BadBadNotGood - "IV" - IV (2016)*

J.J. Johnson - "Opus V" - Modern Jazz Trombones (1949)

Miles Davis - "Two Bass Hit" - Miles & Coltrane (1958)

Todd Hunter "Lucky Number 7" - Eat, Drink, Play (2016)*

Gil Melle - "Mark One" - Primitive Modern (1956)

Hour Three:

~ Flagler Files ~

Metalwood - "Track 9" - Twenty (2016)*- The Ride Home!

Jimmy Smith - "My One and Only Love" - Plain Talk (1960)
Great release!


Sonny Rollins - "Four" - A Night at the Village Vanguard 1 (1957)

Chico Hamilton - "The Second Time Around" - Passin' Thru (1962)

Charles Earland - "My Two Sons" - Front Burner (1988)

Tim Ray - "12 x 7" - Windows (2014)*

Steve Fidyk - "High Five" - Allied Forces (2016)*

Hour Funk:

Takuya Kuroda - "Thirteen" - Zigzagger (2015)*

Takuya Kuroda - "Think Twice" - Zigzagger (2015)*

Keith Brown - "4G" - The Journey (2015)

Tony Williams - "Hittin' On 6" - The Joy of Flying (1978)

Nathan Peck - "5 Speed Blues" - Top Dead Center (2015)
Forward thinking jazz from a fine trumpeter!


Horace Bray - "3 4 5" - Dreamstate (2016)

Andy Narell - "Dis 1 f Raf" - Dis 1 4 Raf (2015)*

Sunday, December 7, 2014

Playlist for 12-9-14 WFCF - Rescue Show!



"Band Practice" - Michael Wheeler
acrylic on canvas
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Rescue show! Every few months the jazz director sets out boxes of cds that did not get added to our library for anyone to cull through. The rest get tossed. That's the harsh reality of jazz in the new millennium. So many people are making albums, some of them great, some of them not so great (lots of them not so great, truthfully...). Each time I leave the station with arms full. Last week was one of those days, so this week I'm playing tracks from some of these "rescues". The result is a show that is largely recent releases. I'm down with that! We'll also dig on a Christmas jazz cut here and there. I'm actually in the 'spirit' this year! w00t! All that and plenty of brand new releases. Tune in from 3-7pm EST on WFCF 88.5FM or listen online for free on iHeart. See you then! - Kendo



Hour One:


Gerry Gibbs Thrasher Dream Trio - "Fantasy" - We're Back (2014)

Steve Heckman Quintet - "Fungii Mama" - Search for Peace (2009)

    3:15 Jazz Coffee Break

Elias Haslanger - "Watermelon Man" - Live at the Gallery (2013)
soulful swing...


Kenny Burrell - "Little Drummer Boy" - Have Yourself a Soulful Little Christmas (1966)

J.J. Johnson - "Pennies From Heaven" - The Eminent Volume Two (1955)

Jae Sinnett - "Sunny" - Subject to Change (2014)

Jerry Bergonzi - "Marshland" - Intersecting Lines (2012)

Joshua Breakstone - "LaVerne Walk" - With the Wind and the Rain (2013)



Bonzo Dog Band - "Tuba's In the Moonlight" - Tadpoles (196?)

Hour Two:


Bill Goodwin Quartet - "Fee Fi Fo Fum" - Raise Four (2010)

Roberto Fonseca - "El Soñaor esta Cansado" - Yo (2011)
old school swingin'!


Shorty Baker & Doc Cheatam - "Chitlin's" - Shorty & Doc (1961)

Jimmy Smith - "Jingle Bells" - Christmas '64 (1964)

Rod McGaha - "Inner Courage" - The Black Flower Project (2014)

Eric Johnson & Mike Stern - "Wishing Well" - Eclectic (2014)

Hazel Scott - "The Jeep is Jumpin'" - Relaxed Piano Moods (1955)

Joe Farrell - "Times Lie" - Moon Germs (1972) CTI Moment

Hour Three:


Bud Shank - "Theme" - Bud Shank Quartet featuring Claude Williamson (1956)

Ron Miller - "Soulbod" - Peacock Park (2010)

Cedar Walton - "Midnight Waltz" - Reliving the Moment (1978)
the long-awaited!


Ben Paterson - "Around the Block" - Essential Elements (2013)

La Lucha - "Lovefool" - Standards, Not Standards (2014)

Chico Hamilton - "Mallet Dance" - Man From Two Worlds (1963)

Jason Marsalis Vibes Quartet - "Nights in Brooklyn" - The 21st Century Trad Band (2014)

Houston Person - "They All Laughed" - The Melody Lingers On (2014)

Hour Four:

Andreas Varady - "Come Together" - Andreas Varady (2013)

Donald Byrd - "House of the Rising Sun" - Up with Donald Byrd (1964)

Roberto Fonseca - "Rachel" - Yo (2011)

Kris Bowers - "Wonderlove" - Heroes + Misfits (2012)
how'd I miss this one?


Kris Bowers - "Forever Wonder" - Heroes + Misfits (2012)

Dexter Gordon "The Christmas Song" - The Panther (1970)

Peter Zak - "The Loop" - The Disciple (2013)

Andy Bey - "Lover Come Back to Me" - Pages from an Imaginary Life (2014)

Thomas Marriott - "Mo-Joe" - Urban Folklore (2013)

Chico Hamilton - "Forest Flower Sunrise/Sunset" - Man From Two Worlds (1963)