Playlist for 1-24-2017 WFCF - Dude Names!

"Manteca" - John Pipere
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This week's show is the follow up to last year's "Chick Name" show - Dude names! All the tunes have a name normally associated with guys. Whatever "normally" means! New releases from Dizzy Gillespie and Michael Dease, classic cuts from Coltrane and Miles and lots of fun and goodness in between! Tune in today (Tuesday 1/24) from 3-5pm eastern and resuming from 5:15 - 7pm eastern by clicking here! See you then - Kendo

PS - I have a new Instagram page for the show! Jazz and fun randomness @jazzploration.



Hour One:

Hutcherson, Sanborn, DeFrancesco - "Teddy" - Enjoy the View (2014)

Hutcherson, Sanborn, DeFrancesco - "Don Is" - Enjoy the View (2014)

3:15 Jazz Coffee Break

George Cables - "AKA Reggie" - The George Cables Songbook (2016)* 

Warren Wolf - "Wolfgang" - Wolfgang (2013)

Joe Henderson - "Johnny Come Lately" - Lush Life (1991)

former Tower of Power & Pink Floyd horn man!

John Coltrane - "Big Nick" - (1962)

Kenny Burrell - "Blues for Wes" - Night Song (1969)

Norbert Stachel - "For Tito" - Shades of the Bay (2016)*

Hour Two:

Antonio Adolfo - "Killer Joe" - Tropical Infinito (2016)

Gil Melle - "Herbie" - Gil's Guests (1957)

Miles Davis - "Joshua" - Seven Steps to Heaven (1963)

Miles Davis - "Billy Boy" - Milestones (1958)

Dizzy Gillespie - "Darben the Redd Foxx" - Concert of the Century (1980)*

Just released 1980 concert with killer lineup!

Keith Javors - "Ian Keith" - Mo' City Jungle (2002)

Roland Kirk - "Roland's Theme" - Triple Threat (1956)

Sonny Stitt - "Jason" - Dumpy Mama (1975)

Michel Petrucciani - "Charlie Brown" - Marvelous (1994)

Hour Three:

~ Flagler Files ~

Brian Lynch - "Joshua C" - Presents Madera Latino (2012)* The Ride Home 

Jack Sheldon - "Jack Departs" - Get Out of Town (1954)

[music behind announcements by Jim Driscoll Explosion]

Joey DeFrancesco - "One for Rudy" - One for Rudy (2013)

Stellar outing featuring Kirk & Flanagan

Michael Dease - "Benny's Bounce" - All These Hands (2016)*

Roy Haynes - "Raoul" - Out of the Afternoon (1962)

Fred Hughes Trio - "Waltse for Dave" - Matrix (2016)*

Hour Four:

Jimmy McGriff - "Ode to Billy Joe" - Black Pearl (1971)

Esperanza Spalding - "Judas" - Emily's D Evolution (2015)

Organic Trio - "Johnny Young" - Saturn's Spell (2106)

Tony Williams New Lifetime - "Fred" - Believe It (1975)

Good, interesting modern organ trio!

Jeff Richman - "Jimmy Palm" - Sizzle (2016)*

John Scofield - "Carlos" - Groove Elation (1995)

Tom Stewart - "Sneaky Pete" - First Time Over (2006)

CCM Jazz Orchestra - "Chester the Pester" - In Search of Garage Mahal (2014)

Playlist for 7-19-2016 WFCF - Small Packages!

"The Seat of the Mind" - Daniël Laan
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Today's show is the followup to the "Large & In Charge" show 2 weeks ago! This week it is "Small Packages" and it certainly is all "good things"! New releases from Brad Mehldau & John Beasley, lengthy cuts from Ron Miller, Donald Byrd & Kenny Burrell along with fascinating deep cuts from John Patitucci, Bobby Hutcherson, Ron Carter, Art Farmer & more! Tune in from 3-7pm for a fun, themed show by clicking here. See you then! - Kendo



Hour One:

Dan Cray - "Small Sir" - Outside In (2015)*

Dick Sisto/Steve Alee Quartet - "For the Little Ones" - Earth Tones (2013)

          3:15 Jazz Coffee Break

Bill Evans - "Little Lulu" - Trio 64 (1963)

Michael Petrovich - "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" - Bella Luna (2012)

Makoto Ozone - "A Little Jazz Excercose" - Oscar, With Love (2015)*

Corey Kendrick Trio - "In The Wee Small Hours of the Morning" - Rootless (2016)*

Kenny Burrell - "Li'l Hankie" - All Night Long (1956)

Mike Mainieri Quartet - "Minnesota Thins" - Insight (1968?)

Art Farmer Quartet - "Petite Belle" - Sing Me Softly Of the BLues (1965)

Art Blakey - "Wee-Dot" - A Night at Birdland Vol 1 (1954)

Hour Two:

John Patitucci - "Little Steps" - Imprint (2000)

new release features 

Brad Mehldau Trio - "Little Person" - Blues and Ballads (2014)*

Donald Byrd - "Little Niles" - Jazz Lab (1957)

Andrea Brachfeld - "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" - Lotus Blossom (2014)

Clifford Brown - "Tiny Capers" - Clifford Brown Ensemble (1954)

Stan Getz - "There's a Small Hotel" - Quartets (1950)

Ben Winkelman - "Miniature" - The Knife (2014)

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

Rob Reddy - "Petite Fleur" - Bechet Our Contemporary (2014)

Hour Three:

            ~Flagler Files~

Ron Miller - "Microcosm" - Peacock Park (2010) The Ride Home!

Jimmy Greene - "Little Voices" - Beautiful Life (2014)

John Beasley - "Little Rootie Tootie" - MONK'estra (2016)*

George Delancey - "Little Lover" - George Delancey (2013)*

Jim Seeley - Arturo O'Farrill Quintet - "Little General" - Jim Seeley - Arturo O'Farrill Quintet (2003)

Allen Toussaint - "Hey Little Girl" - American Tunes (2015)*

Benny Golson - "Three Little Words" - Horizon Ahead (2015)*

Hour Funk:

Marquis Hill - "Fly Little Bird, Fly" - The Way We Play (2016)

Gabor Szabo - "Little Boat" - The Sorcerer (1967)

Herbie Hancock - "Lil Brother" - Fat Albert Rotunda (1969)

Mark Egan - "Small Town Blues" - Direction Home (2015)

possibly the best jazz release I've heard this year!

Myriad 3 - "Little Lentil" - The Where (2014)

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

Esperanza Spalding - "Really Very Small" - Chamber Music Society (2009)

Donald Byrd - "The Little Rasti" - Ethiopian Knights (1971)

Playlist for 3-8-2016 WFCF - Track 2!!

Today's show is all about 2nd place! Except for our first 2 selections, all of the songs are the second cut on the album they come from! Why? Because the show featuring the last cut of each album is coming later this month! Tune in from 3-7pm eastern today (Tues March 8th) by clicking here. See you then! - Kendo



Hour One:

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

Larry Young - "Trane of Thought" - In Paris (1965)*

Great new music from Ed Cherry!

3:15 Jazz Coffee Break

Ed Cherry - "A New Blue" - Soultree (2015)*

Richard Howell & Sudden Changes - "All I Have to Give" - Burkina (2015)*

Miles Davis - "Eighty-One" - E.S.P. (1965)

Ian MacGillivray & George Grosman - "The Sweetest Blues" - My Song to You (2015)*

Wes Montgomery - "Dearly Beloved" - Boss Guitar (1964)

Duke Pearson - "Sudel" - Sweet Honey Bee (1966)

Ella Fitzgerald - "Don't Be That Way" - Ella Swings Brightly With Nelson (1961)

Hazel Scott - "Peace of Mind" - Relaxed Piano Moods (1955)

Hour Two:

John Coltrane - "Cousin Mary" - Giant Steps (1959)

Nancy Harms - photo Ken Shung

Nancy Harms - "Rocks In My Bed" - Ellington at Night (2015)*

Sonny Stitt & Gene Ammons - "The One Before This" - Boss Tenors (1961)

Guilherme Dias Gomez - "Flor de Agreste" - Leste Brasil* (2015)

Roland Kirk - "Meeting On Termini's Corner" - Domino (1962)

Svetlana and the Delancey Five - "Just a Sittin' and a Rockin'"*

Jim Rotundi - "BC" - Dark Blue (2015)*

Tim Tamashiro - "Sunday In New York" - Drinky* (2015)

Michel Camilo - "If You Knew..." - On Fire (1989)

Matt Kane - "Timeline (For Elvin)" - Acknowledgement (2014)*

Hour Three:

~ Flagler Files ~

Joe Farrell - "I Won't Be Back" - Upon This Rock (1973) - Ride Home! CTI Moment

Elvin Jones Jimmy Garrison Sextet - "Oriental Flower" - Illumination (1963)

Ray Vega - "Totem Pole" - Return of the East West Trumpet Summit (2014)*

Dexter Gordon - "Who Can I Turn To" - Gettin' Around (1965)

Cory Henry

Johnny Hartman - "Once In a While" - Unforgettable Songs (1966)

Cory Henry - "He Has Made Me Glad" - The Revival (2015)* 5:50 Gospel Express

Hour Four:

Fahir Atakoglu - "Sync-op" - Live at Umbria Jazz (2010)*

Julian Lage - "Persian Rug" - Arclight (2015)*

Cyrille Aimee - "There's a Lull In My Life" - Let's Get Lost (2015)*

Hendrik Muerkens - "Slidin'" - Harmonicus Rex (2010)*

John Scofield - "Chap Dance" - Past Present (2015)*

Esperanza Spalding
photo: Holly Andres

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

Jenny Maybe/Nick Philips - "You" - Haiku (2015)*

Esperanza Spalding - "Unconditional Love" - Emily's D+Evolution (2015)*

Miles Davis - "Freddie Freeloader" - Kind of Blue (1959)