Playlist for 3-7-2017 WFCF - Classical!

"Classical School" - Alan Patrick
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This week's theme is Classical Music! Sets of music composed by Bach, Satie, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy & more! With new release interludes and recordings by George Benson, Lalo Schifrin, Warne Marsh, Bud Shank, Larry Coryell, Jack McDuff and lots more! Tune in Tuesday (3/7) from 3-5pm eastern, resuming from 5:15-7pm eastern by clicking here. See you then! - Kendo




Hour One:

Emmet Cohen - "On The Trail" - Masters Legacy Series Vol 7 (2016)* [Grofé]

John Coltrane - "Vilia" - Box Set (1963) [Lehar "The Merry Widow"]

3:15 Jazz Coffee Break

Satie

George Cables - "Gymnopedie No. 1" - Looking for the Light (2003)

Herbie Mann with Bill Evans Trio - "Gymnopedie No. 2" - Nirvana

Michel Camilo & Tomatito - "Gnoissienne No.1" - Spain Forever (2016)*

Villa Lobos

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

Lalo Schifrin - " Bachianas Brasileriras No 5" - New Fantasy (1964)

Tchaikovsky

Warne Marsh - "Tschaikovsky's Opus #42, Third Movement" - Jazz of Two Cities (1956) - 4:01

Fred Hughes Trio - "Andante Cantabile" - Matrix (2016)* 

Hour Two:

Bach

Fred Hughes Trio - "Two Part Invention No 4" - Matrix (2016)*

Alfredo Rodriguez - "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" - Tocororo (2015)

Hubert Laws - "Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 3rd Movement" - The Rite of Spring (1971)  CTI Moment

Debussy

Wallace Roney - "Clair de Lune" - A Place in Time (2016)*

Ernesto Cervini - "The Engulfed Cathedral" - Turboprop (2013)

Beethoven

Lenny Marcus - "Cool Rondo" - Moving Fourths (2016)

Jim Gailloreto - "Andante" - The Insider (2003)

Roberto Occhipinti - “Opus 132-theme by Beethoven” - Stabilimento (2016)*

Alexis Lombre - "A Blues in Tyne" - Southside Sounds (2016)*

Hour Three:

~ Flagler Files ~

Steve Khan - "Latin Genetics" - Backlog (2016)* - The Ride Home 

Luke Sellick - "Brothers" - Alchemist (2016)*

Grant Green - "Mozart Symphony #40 in G Minor, K550 1st Movement" - Visions (1971)

Peter Zak - “Prelude Op. 35 #2” - The Disciple (2013) [Scriabin]

Another great Latin Jazz set from Steve!

Peter Drew - "Cumana" - Where or When (2016)*

Bud Shank - “Pavane” - Quartet featuring Claude Williamson (1956) [Ravel]

Nick Finzer - "The Silent One" - Hear & Now (2016)*

Hour Four:

Carl Saunders - “Bumble Bee Blues” - America (2013) [Rimsky-Korsakov]

Chopin

Mike Pope - “Prelude in Emin op. 28 no. 4” - Cold Heart, Warm Truth (2011)

Jack McDuff Big Band - "Prelude" - Prelude (1963) [Cm]

Jamie Ousley - "Nocturne in E Flat" - Back Home (2010)

Larry Coryell - “Improvisations on Robert De Visee's Menuet II” - The Restful Mind (1975)


Miles Davis - "Concerto de Aranjuez" - Sketches of Spain () [Rodrigo]

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Playlist for 1-31-2017 WFCF - Cast of Characters!

"Me and My Procrastination" - Renata Chekova

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This weeks show features the "Cast of Characters"! From Mr. Puffy to Mr. Clean! Super Mario, Freddie Freeloader & Mr. Baggy Pants all in the same show! Classic cuts and new releases. Should be fun! Tune in Tuesday 1/31 from 3-5pm eastern, resuming from 5:15-7pm eastern by clicking here. See you then! - Kendo

Hour One:

Fred Hughes - "Watermelon Man" - Matrix (2016)*

Grant Green - "Cantaloupe Woman" - Visions (1971)

3:15 Jazz Coffee Break

Wonderful performances on this posthumous release!

Jimmy Scott - "Folks Who Live on the Hill" - I Go Back Home (2009)*

Yelena Eckemoff - "Aunt Galya's Perfume" - Blooming Tall Phlox (2013)*

Lisa Lindsley - "Mellow Yellow" - Long After Midnight (2016)*

Gene Harris and the Three Sounds - "Caesar and Cleopatra" - Groovin' Hard (1968)* 

Carol Bach-y-Rita - "The Dry Cleaner From Des Moines" - Minha Casa/My House (2016)*

Duke Ellington - "Jack the Bear" The Best of the RCA Victor Recordings (1940)

Kristin Korb - "Traveling Groove Merchant" - What's Your Story (2012)

Kenny Burrell - "Be Yourself" - Unlimited 1 (2016)*

Hour Two:

George Cables - "Mr Baggy Pants" - Looking for the Light (2003)

Solid release - well sung and played!

Andrea Claburn - "Lionheart" - Nightshade (2016)*

Ark Ovrutski - "Mr. Hindemith" - Sounds of Brasil (2010)*

Dave Liebman - "Mr. Sandman" - Lineage (2010)

Weather Report - "Mr. Gone" - Mr. Gone (1978)

Jason Hainsworth - "Prince of Darkeness" - Third Ward Stories (2015)*

DK Anderson's Cypher - "Super Mario" - 8th Window (2016)*

John Scofield "Mr Puffy" - Past Present (2015)

Hour Three:

~ Flagler Files ~

Miles Davis - “Freddie Freeloader” - Kind of Blue (1959) The Ride Home 

Jimmy McGriff - “Mr. Lucky” - Groove Grease (1971)

Ironic title - recorded '67 & '69, released in 1978.

Mimi Jones - "Mr. Poo Poo" - Feet In the Mud (2015)

Jimmy McGriff - "Miss Poopie" - Electric Funk (1969)

Lee Morgan - "The Procrastinator" - The Procrastinator (1967)

Ryan Fourt - "Big Slick" - Big Slick (2015)

Count Basie - "Have You Met Miss Jones" - 

Hour Funk:

Charles Lloyd - "Sombrero Sam" - Dream Weaver (1966)

Eddie Henderson - "The Kumquat Kids" - Sunburst (1975)

Eddie Henderson - "Dr. Mganga" - Heritage (1976)

Great funky set from Eddie!

Billy Cobham - "Red Baron" - Spectrum 

(1973)

Tony Williams New Lifetime - "Mr. Spock" - Believe It (1975)

Egan, Latham & Hart - "Mr. Clean" - Unit 1 (2008)

Lou Donaldson - "The Kid" - Mr. Shing-a-Ling (1967)

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Playlist for 1-3-2017 WFCF - The Eyes Have It!

Today's show is "The Eyes Have It"! All the tunes will have something to do about eyes! The promo video above has a fun guessing game to challenge your jazz knowledge, which is why it's posted here! There's a LOT of variety today, as often happens with these themed episodes! Join me today (Tuesday Jan 3rd) for a fun, live show from 3-5pm eastern, and resuming from 5:15 to 7pm eastern by clicking here. See you then! - Kendo





Hour One:

John Coltrane - "The Night Has a Thousand Eyes" - Coltrane's Sound (1960)

Duke Ellington - "Pie Eye's Blues" - In Orbit ()

Duke Ellington 1956
Photo by William "Popsie" Randolph.

3:15 Jazz Coffee Break

Jane Ira Bloom - "Other Eyes" - Early Americans (2015)

Cyrus Chestnut - "Eyes on the Prize" - Genuine Chestnut (2005)

Pee Wee Russell - "My Mother's Eyes" - New Groove (1962)

Cory Weeds - "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" - It's Easy to Remember (2016)*

Lori Williams - "Through Your Eyes (Iris) - Behind the Smiles (2016)*

Lester Young - "No Eyes Blues" - Alladin Sessions (1946)

Kristin Korb - "Jeepers Creepers" - Beyond the Moon (2016)*

Warne Marsh - "Smog Eyes" - Jazz of Two Cities (1956)

Anita O'Day - "Them There Eyes" - Anita Sings the Most (1957)

Hour Two:

Bill Evans - "Star Eyes" - A Simple Matter of Conviction (1966)

Dee Dee Bridgewater - "Pretty Eyes" - Peace and Love (1994)

Joshua Breakstone - "Soul Eyes" - 88 (2016)*

Jordan Young - "Paris Eyes" - Jazz Jukebox (2015)

Mica Bethea w/ Linda Cole - "Angel Eyes" - The Mica Bethea Big Band (2011)

Always solid, always fun - another excellent Korb cd!

Wynton Kelly - "Dark Eyes" - Piano (1958)

Mark Johnson - "The Whispering Eye"

Kristin Korb - "Right Under My Eyes" - Beyond the Moon (2016)*

Cal Tjader - "Eye of the Devil" - Solar Heat ()

 Hour Three:

~ Flagler Files ~

Chuck Mangione - "Legend of the One-eyed Sailor" - Alive! (1972) - The Ride Home! 

Louis Armstrong - "You're the Apple of My Eye" - Complete Decca (1951)

Herbie Hancock - "Eye of the Hurricane" - Maiden Voyage ()

Charlie Haden with Gonzalo Rubalcaba

Ella Fitzgerald - "I Only Have Eyes for You" - Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson (1961)

[ambient background music by Jim Driscoll Explosion]

Charlie Haden - "Nice Eyes" - Always Say Goodbye (1993)

Thelonious Monk - "We See" - Quintet ()

Cal Tjader - "Close Your Eyes" - Tjader Goes Latin (1958)

Lisa Lindsley - "Star Eyes" - Long After Midnight (2016)*

Hour Four:

Duke Pearson - "Los Ojos Alegres" - The Phantom (1968)

Gary Burton - "Arise, Her Eyes" - Throb (1969)

Bobby Watson - "Eeeyyess" - Horizon Reassembled (2004)

Jeff Rupert & Richard Drexler - "My Mistress' Eyes" - Imagination (2015)*

2 unique masters together!

Gene Ammons - "Jug Eyes" - The Black Cat (1970)

Harvey Mason - "Looking Back" - Chameleon (2014)

Norah Jones - "Flipside" - Day Breaks (2016)*

Charles Earland - "Brown Eyes" - Leaving This Planet (1972) - 11:45 DIGITAL!!

Playlist for 6-14-2016 WFCF - Flavors of Jazz!

"Buta no Kakuni Ramen" - Nicholas Dobkin
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This week's show is all about flavor! All song titles new and old are some sort of flavor and the artist lineup is rather eclectic! Quincy Jones, Larry Coryell, Ginger Baker, Charles Mingus, Eric Reed and lots more! Tune in via iHeart Tuesday 6/14 from 3-7pm eastern by clicking here. See you then! - Kendo

ps - At 5pm if you don't care to hear the Flagler files you can listen to the latest Palm Coast Podcast hosted by me - designed to fit in that slot, and then return for more Jazz Greats until 7! 


Hour One:

Ed Cherry - "Little Sunflower" - Soultree (2015)*

Karl Latham - "Cinnamon Girl" - Living Standards (2015)*

3:15 Jazz Coffee Break

Sari Kessler - "Frim Fram Sauce" - Do Right! (2014)*

Thelonious Monk - "Sweet and Lovely" - Solo Monk (1964)

Anita O'Day - "Strawberry Moon" - Lady is a Tramp (1957)

Will Bernard - "Pan Seared" - Out & About (2015)*

Donald Vega - "Mango Rengue" - With Respect to Monty (2014)

Quincy Jones - "A Taste of Honey" - Big Band Bossa Nova (1962)

Greg Little - "Gingerman" - Dreamwalker (2003)

Cannonball Adderley - "Chocolate Shake" - Jump for Joy (1958)

Ginger Baker - "Ginger Spice" - Why? (2014)

extra cut - Tadd Dameron - "On a Misty Night" - The Magic Touch (1962)

Hour Two:

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

Gigi Gryce - "Onion Head" - Jazz Lab (1967)

Cal Tjader - "Almond Tree" - Several Shades of Jade (1963)

Cheryl Bentyne - "Black Coffee" - Lost Love Songs (2011)*

Ernesto Cervini Quartet - "Coconut Bill" - Little Black Bird (2008)

Greg Fishman - "Champagne Jane" - New Journey (2015)*

Art Blakey - "Sweet 'n' Sour" - Caravan (1962)

Charles Mingus - "Song with Orange" - Mingus Dynasty (1959)

Donald Byrd - "French Spice" - Free Form (1961)

Dave Brubeck - "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree (with Anyone Else but Me)" - Private Brubeck Remebers (2004)

Hour Three:

~ The Flagler Files ~ 

Stanley Turrentine - "Salt Song" - Salt Song (1971) - The Ride Home!

Eric Reed - "Nutty" - The Adventurous Monk (2013)

Dave Stryker - "Sugar" - Messin' With Mr. T (2014)

Duke Ellington - "Sugar Rum Cherry" - Nutcracker Suite (1960)

Chris Washburne & the Syotos Band - "Sugar Mountain" - Low Ridin' ()

The Power Quintet - "Sage" - High Art (2015)*

Cal Tjader - "Cherry" - Mambo with Tjader (1954)

Tony Lustig - "Burnin' Grease" - Taking Flight (2015)*

Hour Funk:

Gabriel Vivas - "Half the Orange" - Low Registers (2005)

Jackie Gage - "Sweet" - Siren Songs (2015)*

extra cut - Shelly Manne - "Sweets" - Shelly Manne & His Men Vol 1 (1953)

Jack McDuff - "Gin and Orange" - Gin and Orange (1969)

Jack McDuff - "Butter (for Your Popcorn) - Down Home Style (1969)

Larry Coryell - "Honey Dijon" - With The Wide Hive Players (2011)

J.D. Allen - "Sugar Free" - Americana (2016)*

Mehliana - "Sassyassed Sassafras" - Taming the Dragon (2013)

Errol Rackipov - "Dill Man" - Pictures from a Train Window (2014)

Playlist for 3-29-2016 WFCF - Old Vinyl & New Jazz!

Great 2nd album from Melissa!

Today's show is pretty much what it says on the tin: old vinyl from Gary Burton, Stanley Turrentine, Herbie Mann etc and new jazz from Jane Monheit, Melissa Aldana, Avishai Cohen and the likes! Tune in by clicking here! See you then (now) - Kendo




Hour One:

Dena DeRose - "United" - United (2015)*

Good stuff!

Scott Reeves Jazz Orchestra - "3 'n 2" - Portraits and Places (2015)*

            3:15 Jazz Coffee Break

Nancy Harms - "Prelude to a Kiss" - Ellington at Night" ()*

Wendy Pederson & Jim Gasior - "Jitterbug Waltz" - We Two (2015)*

Jane Monheit - "Somebody Loves Me" - The Songbook Session: Ella Fitzgerald (2015)*

Melissa Aldana - "Obstacles" - Back Home (2015)*

Matt Hopper - "Green Lady Low Down" - First Love (2015)*

Avishai Cohen - "Behind the Broken Glass" - Into the Silence (2015)*

Gary Burton Quartet - "General Mojo's Well Laid Plan" - Duster (1967)

Hour Two:

The Great American Music Ensemble - "In The Mood" - It's All in the Game ()*

Matt Kane - "Wheel Within a Wheel" - Acknowledgement (2014)*

With Louis Bellson on drums!

Duke Ellington - "Skin Deep" - Ellington Uptown (1952)

Tim Tamashiro - "I Won't Dance" - Drinky (2015)*

Ed Cherry - "Let the Music Take Your Mind" - Soultree (2015)*

Tony Lustig Quintet - "Change is Comin'" - Taking Flight ()*

Joe Chambers - "The Outlaw" - Landscapes (2015)*

Herbie Mann - "Bang Bang!" - Waterbed (1975)

Malou Beauvoir - "Harlem Blues" - Is This Love (2015)*

Julie London - "Give Me the Simple Life" - Julie at Home (1960)

Hour Three:

            ~ The Flagler Files ~

Bobby Hutcherson - "Secrets of Love" - Highway One () Ride Home!

Jackie Gage - "That Old Black Magic" - Siren Songs (2015)*

superb fusion cd

Michael Petrovich - "Sunrise in the Land of the Pharoahs" - The Train to San Lorenzo (2004)

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

Axel Tosca - "Hollogram" - Axel Tosca (2015)*

Raul Agraza - "Obsesion" - Between Brothers (2015)*

Malou Beauvoir - "Fragile" - Is This Love (2015)*

Keith Brown - "The Biscuit Man" - The Journey (2015)*

Hour Four:

Bill Laurance - "The Pines" - Aftersun (2015)*

Excellent guitar album!

Ryan Fourt - "Big Slick" - Big Slick (2015)*

Keith Brown - "Human Nature" - The Journey (2015)*

Larry Coryell - "Ah Wuv Ooh" - Coryell (1969)

Restroy - "Uma" - Saturn Return (2015)*

Stanley Turrentine - "Two for T" - Don't Mess With Mr. T (1973) CTI Moment

Chris Ziemba - "Josie" - Manhattan Lullaby (2015)*

Christian Tamburr - "Norwegian Wood" - People Talk (2015)*

Larry Young - "Beyond All Limits" - In Paris (1965)*

Playlist for 2-2-2016 WFCF - ROYGBIV

"Gaymarker Rose" - Reetta

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This week's theme is ROYGIBIV - the colors of the prism. Thank you 9th grade earth science. Plenty of off the beaten path tracks from James Moody, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Duke Pearson + classics from Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk & more and plenty of new releases! Tune in Tuesday 2/2 from 3-7pm by clicking here. See you then! - Kendo




Hour One:

Gerald Stockton - "Simple Samba" - My Gentle Breeze (2015)*

Christian Tamburr - "Norweigan Wood" - People Talk (2015)*

    3:15 Jazz Coffee Break

Cyrille Aimee - "Live Alone and Like It" - Let's Get Lost (2015)*

Andrea Brachfeld - "A Flower is a Lovesome Thing" - Lotus Blossom (2014)*

Dr. Lonnie Smith - "For Heaven's Sake" - Evolution (2015)*

James Moody - "Darben the Redd Fox" - James Moody (1959)

Charles Mingus - "Song With Orange" - Mingus Dynasty (1959)

Cal Tjader - "Yellow Days" - Along Comes Cal (1967)

All blues from Jackie

Jackie McLean - "Cool Green" - Bluesnik (1961)

Dave Brubeck - "Blue Rondo a la Turk" - Time Out (1959)

Hour Two:

Duke Ellington - "Mood Indigo" - Meets Coleman Hawkins (1962)

Harry Allen - "Purple Gazelle" - For George, Cole and Duke (2015)

June Bisantz - "Born to be Blue" - It's Always You (2015)*

Louis Dumaine's Jazzola Eight - "Red Onion Drag" - Breaking Out of New Orleans(1927)

Sonny Stitt - "Orange Ashtray" - So Doggone Good (1972)

Duke Pearson - "Bunda Amerela (Little Yellow Streetcar)" - The Phantom (1968)

Miles Davis - "On Green Dolphin Street" - '58 Miles (1958)
 
The U.S. Army Blues - "Dance of the Stargazer" - Live at Blues Alley (2010)*

Hour Three:

~ Flagler Files ~

Greg Merritt Jazz Quartet - "Povo" - New York Sexy (2015)*

Thelonious Monk - "Blue Monk" Plays (1954) Ride Home!

Allison Paris - "Mood Indigo" - Second Chances (2003)

The 14 Jazz Orchestra - "U.M.M.G." - Nothing Hard is Ever Easy (2015)*

Marlene Ver Planck - "The Mood I'm In" - The Mood I'm In (2015)*

Rez - photo by Stefe Jiroflee

Pixel - "Arp" - Golden Years (2015)*

John Coltrane - "Violets for Your Furs" - Coltrane (1957)

Rez Abbasi - "Red Baron" - Intents and Purposes (2014)

Hour Four:

Gabriel Vivas - "Half the Orange" - Low Registers (2005)

Cal Tjader - "Song of the Yellow River" - Several Shades of Jade (1963)

Jacky Terrason - "Blue in Green" - Take This! (2014)

Steve Khan - "Blue Subtext" - Subtext (2014)

Jack DeJohnette - "Indigo Dreamscapes" - Parallel Realities (1990)

Peter Erskine - "Hawaii Bathing Suit" - is Dr. Um (2015)*

Amazing drummer!

Joey DeFrancesco - "Traffic Jam" - Trip Mode (2015)*

Freddie Hubbard - "Red Clay" - Red Clay (1970)

InstaCollection - Jazz Inspired By Trains!

InstaCollection! - start or freshen up your jazz collection with DJ Kendo recommendations! Buy downloads for your phone/pc using the handy links below or just load the titles into your favorite music streaming service!

Trains have been inspiring composers since their invention; from the first chugs away from the station to the repetitive, clackity rhythms down the line, or a distant, lonesome whistle. Add to that the relaxed, hypnotic passenger ride and the far-away places the bobbing cars take you to, and you have instant mood-setters that are romantic and fascinating to just about every human on the planet.

Jazz is no exception, with some of its most familiar titles referencing trains: "Blue Train", "Take the 'A' Train" & "Night Train" - heard here as a rocking version by Jimmy Smith & Wes Montgomery, with a glorious Oliver Nelson big band arrangement. (This tune is supposedly an un-credited composition of Duke Ellington!)

Brilliant saxophonist Jeff Rupert's catchy "The Southern Norfolk RR" portrays the driving motion of a train as well as a youthful excitement about all things locomotive. Kenny Drew Jr.'s energetic performance on piano supplies forward motion and spark. Jimmy Giuffre's creative "The Train and the River" is also exuberant with a storytelling, down-home feel featuring Jim Hall on guitar.

"Take the 'A' Train", Billy Strayhorn's fantastic subway tribute, is heard in the swinging version that made it famous - by the Duke Ellington Orchestra in 1941. The Monkees' hit "Last Train to

Clarksville" gets a good-natured turn from George Benson, in prime form on an early CTI recording that features harmonica and country groove. James Moody's "Last Train from Overbrook" from 1958 is forward thinking and appealing with an almost film noir, late-night feel.
 
And finally it's tough to choose between Frank Sinatra's lonelier "Blues in the Night" and Rosemary Clooney's classic recording, so I'll let you decide! Johnny Mercer's lyrics reference a late night train evocatively:


"Now the rain's a-fallin'
Hear the train a-callin'
"Whoo-ee!"(My mama done told me)
Hear that lonesome whistle
Blowin' 'cross the trestle
"Whoo-ee!"(My mama done told me)
A-whooee-ah-whooee
Ol' clickety-clack's
A-echoin' back
The blues in the night."

Whatever your own iron horse dreams might be here are seven tracks for your digital jazz collection that are not only innovative classics but will mix so well with the rest of your library. Enjoy! - Kendo

Tune in this Tuesday (10/6/15) at 3pm eastern to WFCF on iHeart for an hour of train inspired jazz, including the titles mentioned above; plus an extra hour of train songs at 6pm eastern! Listen by clicking here. The show broadcasts every Tuesday from 3-7pm eastern!