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Friday, August 4, 2023
Playlist for 8-1-2023 WFCF - Early August!
Thursday, January 5, 2023
Playlist for 1-3-2022 WFCF - New Year New Music!
Hey Everybody - Happy New Year! For 2023's first show, we listened to music I received as presents over the holiday, as well albums I recently acquired on my own! Thanks to all who tuned in! If you don't want to miss the fun, follow me on my Mixcloud page, where I livestream live jazz on vinyl. You can chat with me, make requests or just hang out and listen/watch. May your new year be memorable, healthy and prosperous! - Kendo
Hour One:
Art Farmer Quartet - "I Want To Be Happy" - Live at the Half Note ()
3:15 Jazz Coffee Break
Cal Tjader - "Django" - Hip Vibrations (1966)
Bobby Timmons - "Travelin' Light" - Do You Know the Way? (1967)
John Patton - "Milk & Honey" - Boogaloo
Herbie Nichols - "Every Cloud" - Love, Gloom, Cash, Love (1957)
Charles Lloyd - "One For Joan" - Of Course, Of Course (1964)
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - "Breath-a-Thon" - Natural Black Inventions: Roots Strata (1971)
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - "Haunted Feelings" - Natural Black Inventions: Roots Strata (1971)
Hour Two:
Charles Lloyd - "The Things We Did Last Summer" - Of Course, Of Course (1964)
Charles Mingus - "Yesterdays" - Mingus Three (1957)
Charles Mingus - "Back Home Blues" - Mingus Three (1957)
Bill Evans - "I love You" - New Jazz Conceptions (1956)
George Grossman & Bohemian Swing - "Sidney Fandango" - Sidney Mon Ami (2013)
John Patton - "One to Twelve" - Oh Baby! (1965)
Herbie Mann - "The Ringer" - Live at the Whisky 1969 The Unreleased Masters (1969)
Kenny Burrell - "Why Did I Choose You" - Stormy Monday (1974)
Hour Three:
~ The Break Room ~
Harold Vick - "Our Miss Brooks" - Steppin' Out (1963) The Ride Home!
Harold Vick - "Trimmed in Blue" - Steppin' Out (1963)
Wes Montgomery - "S.O.S." - Full House (1962)
Charles Lloyd - "Blood Count" - Trios Volume 1: Chapel (2021)*
Miles Davis - "Speak (That's What Happened)" - Bootleg Series Vol 7 (1983)*
Hour Four:
Herbie Mann - "Tangier/If I Were A Carpenter" - Live at the Whisky 1969 The Unreleased Master (1969)
Catalyst - "Celestial Bodies" - If You're Not Part of the Solution... - Perception (1973)
Lou Donaldson - "It's Your Thing" - Hot Dog (1969)
Lonnie Smith - "Aftrodesia" - Afrodesia (197?)
Wednesday, December 28, 2022
Playlist for 12-27-2022 Jazzploration - Post-Holiday Sound Travels
Charles Lloyd - "Of Course, Of Course" - Of Course, Of Course (1965)
Duke Pearson - "Minor League" - Now Hear This (1968)
Cal Tjader - "Huracan" - Huracan (1978)
Brother Jack McDuff - "Blue Monsoon" - Magnetic Feel (1975)
Allison Paris - "Crazy He Calls Me" - Second Chances (2000)
Blue Mitchell - "Mona's Mood" - The Thing to Do (1964)
Herbie Nichols - "Beyond Recall" - Love, Gloom, Cash, Love (1957)
Modern Jazz Quartet - "Novamo" - Live at the Lighthouse (1967)
Big John Patton - "Good Juice" - Oh Baby (1965)
Cannonball Adderley - "Phases" - Pyramid (1974)
Hubert Laws - "Farandole" - The San Francisco Concert (1975)
Art Pepper - "Blues at Twilight" - The Art Pepper Quartet (1956)
Hugh Masekela - "Grazing in the Grass" - The Promise of a Future (1968)
Tony Williams - "The Big Man" - Play or Die (1980)
Herbie Mann - "Hey Pocky A-Way" - Yellow Fever (1975)
Mongo Santamaria - "Los Indios" - Afro-India (1975)
Eddie Harris - "Carry On Brother" - Live at Newport (1970)
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Playlist for 8-28-2018 WFCF - Twofers Pt II!
Adventurous and wild! |
Hour One:
Radam Schwartz - "Heartaches" - Two Sides of the Organ Combo (2017)*
Radam Schwartz - "My Guy" - Two Sides of the Organ Combo (2017)*
3:15 Jazz Coffee Break
Gonzalo Rubalcaba - "Transparence" - Suite 4 y 20 (1992)
Gonzalo Rubalcaba - "Perfidia" - Suite 4 y 20 (1992)
Miles & Sonny! |
Miles Davis - "Oleo" - Bag's Groove (1954)
Miles Davis - "Doxy" - Bag's Groove (1954)
Herbie Nichols - "Blue Chopsticks" - The Prophetic Herbie Nichols Vol 1 (1955)
Herbie Nichols - "Step Tempest" - The Prophetic Herbie Nichols Vol 1 (1955)
Greg Fishman - "Fast Forward" - So You Say (2016)*
Hour Two:
Greg Fishman - "Nikki's Waltz" - So You Say (2016)*
Antonio Adolfo - "Pentatonica" - Encontros Orquestra Atlantica (2018)*
Antonio Adolfo - "Atlantica" -Encontros Orquestra Atlantica (2018)*
Wayne Shorter - "Speak No Evil" - Speak No Evil (1964)
Wayne Shorter - "Criancas" - Atlantis (1985)
Monk in his inventive prime! |
Thelonious Monk - "Tea for Two" - The Unique Thelonious Monk (1956)
Thelonious Monk - "You Are Too Beautiful" - The Unique Thelonious Monk (1956)
Michel Camilo - "On The Other Hand" - On The Other Hand (1990)
Michel Camilo - "City of the Angels" - On the Other Hand (1990)
Stan Getz - "Love Is Here to Stay" - West Coast Jazz (1955)
Hour Three:
Stan Getz - "Summertime" - Getz au Go Go (1964) - The Ride Home!
Miki Yamanaka - "Sea Salt" - Miki (2017)*
Miki Yamanaka - "Mr. Pancake" - Miki (2017)*
Carol Bach-y-rita - "The Dry Cleaner from Des Moines" - Minha Casa (2016)
Carol Bach-y-rita - "Nature Boy" - Minha Casa (2016)
Rhymin' Simon with some jazz legends! |
Paul Simon - "One Man's Ceiling is Another Man's Floor" - In the Blue Light (2018)*
Paul Simon - "Questions for the Angels" In the Blue Light (2018)*
Linda Cole & Joshua Bowlus - "Is You Is Or Is You Ain't (My Baby)" - What a Wonderful World (2014)
Linda Cole & Joshua Bowlus - "Night and Day" - What a Wonderful World (2014)
Jaki Byard - "Shine On Me" - The Jaki Byard Experience (1968)
Jaki Byard - "Evidence" - The Jaki Byard Experience (1968)
Hour Four:
Wes Montgomery - "Give Me the Simple Life" - One Night in Indy (1959)
Wes Montgomery - "Prelude to a Kiss" - One Night in Indy (1959)
Donald Byrd - "Perpetual Love" - Kofi (1970)
Donald Byrd - "Mr. Thomas" - Black Byrd (1972)
Rainbow Gravity - "The Sequence of Events" - Rainbow Gravity (2018)*
quite the roster! |
Rainbow Gravity - "Symbol Bells" - Rainbow Gravity (2018)
Grant Green - "The Windjammer" - Green is Beautiful (1970)
Grant Green - "Ain't It Funky Now" - Green is Beautiful (1970)
Tuesday, July 17, 2018
Playlist for 7-17-2018 WFCF - Present Participle!
Wes Montgomery - "Bumpin' On Sunset" - Tequila (1966)
Andrea Brachfeld - "Steppin'" - If Not Now, When? (2017)*
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
Playlist for 2-13-2018 WFCF - Days of the Week!
Laissez les bons temps rouler! I totally just copied and pasted that. Today's show is not Mardi Gras themed but instead (and for no reason at all) we're doing songs with days of the week in them. As usually happens with random, ridiculous themes, some very nice deep cuts popped up (Bobby Broom, Herbie Nichols, Hal McKusick, Tom Harrell...) and some fine recordings I wasn't really familiar with - including the opening number by Benny Golson. Should be fun! Tune in Tuesday 2/13 from 3-7pm eastern with a break at 5 by clicking here or at 88.5 FM locally. See you then! - Kendo
Hour One:
Benny Golson - "Domingo" - Horizon Ahead (2015)
3:15 Jazz Coffee Break
Frank Wess - "Monday Stroll" - Monday Stroll with Kenny Burrell (1957)
Cecile McLorin Salvant Photo by John Abbott |
Bobby Broom - "Lazy Sundays" - Upper West Side Story (2011)
Cecile McLorin Salvant - "Monday" - For One to Love (2015)
Kelly Green - "Sunday in New York" - Life Rearranged (2017)*
Hal McKusick - "Saturday Night (is the Loneliest Night of the Week) - Triple Exposure (1957)
Bruce Barth - "Tuesday's Blues" - Daybreak (2014)
Gary Burton - "Sunday's Uncle" - Guided Tour (2012)
Hour Two:
Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - "Freedom Monday" - Soul Finger (1965)
Bobby Hutcherson - "Rain Every Thursday" - Natural Illusions (1972)
Kenny Dorham - "Blue Friday" - Quiet Kenny (1959)
Herbie Nichols |
The Heavyweights Brass Band - "Hands Down Lo'" - This City (2017)*
Joe Newman - "Wednesday's Blues" - At Count Basie's (1961)
Sunny Wilkinson - "Friday Night at the Cadillac Club" - Into the Light ()*
Herbie Nichols - "Sunday Stroll" - Herbie Nichols Trio Vol 2 (1955)
Benny Golson - "Thursday's Theme" - and the Philadelphians (1958)
Hour Three:
~ Flagler Files ~
Jackie McLean - "Saturday and Sunday" - One Step Beyond (1963) - The Ride Home!
Takaaki - "Evening Glow" - New Kid in Town (2016)*
Sonny Stitt - "Sunday" - Soul Shack (1963)
Lester Young - "Sunday" - (1946)
Jason Marsalis and the 21st Century Trad Band - "Bourbon Street Ain't No Mardis Gras" - Melody Reimagined: book 1 (2016)*
Andrew Neu - "Juggernaut" - Catwalk (2017)*
Dawn Clement - "Improvisation #3" - Tandem (2017)*
Hour Four:
Miles Davis - "Wednesday Miles" (excerpt "It's About Time") - At Fillmore (1970)
Soul Mann & the Brothers - "Early Sunday Morning" - Shaft (1970)
Tom Harrell photo by Angela Harrell |
Tom Harrell - "Sunday" - Trip (2013)
Fahir Atakoglu - "Saturday" - Live at Umbria Jazz (2010)
Jack McDuff - "Yellow Wednesday" - To Seek a New Home (1970)
Wayne Krantz - "The End of Wednesday" - Greenwich Mean (1998)
Jamison Ross - "A Mellow Good Time" - All for One (2017)*
Bill Laurance - "Ready Wednesday" - Live at Union Chapel (2016)
Tuesday, February 28, 2017
Playlist for 2-28-2017 WFCF - Carnaval!
Today's show is Mardi Gras/Carnaval themed - with songs about Festivals, Parties, Brazil, New Orleans, Carnaval along with good-time selections from the new jazz shelf! Happy Fat Tuesday! Tune in from 3-5pm eastern and resuming 5:15-7pm eastern by clicking here. As always I'll be live. See you then! - Kendo
Hour One:
Ray Mantilla - "El Carnavalito USA" - The Connection (2013)
Alexis Lombre - "Shuga" - Southside Sounds (2016)*
3:15 Jazz Coffee Break
Lee Morgan - "Rio" - The Procrastinator (1967)
Charlie Parker - "Fiesta" - Alto Saxes (1951)
Allen Toussaint - "Mardi Gras in New Orleans" - American Tunes (2015)
Cal Tjader - "Morning of the Carnival" - Soña Libre (1963)
very compelling music! |
Herbie Mann - "Morning After Carnival" - My Kinda Groove (1965)
Ahmad Jamal - "Festival" - One (1978)
Carmen Lundy - "Black and Blues" - Code Noir (2016)*
Nate Najar - "Chick's Tune" - This Is Nate Najar (2015)*
Hour Two:
Ark Ovrutski - "Brasilian Carnaval" - Sounds of Brasil (2010)*
Antonio Adolfo - "Rio, Choro, Jazz" - Rio Choro Jazz ()
Stan Getz - "Fiesta" - My Foolish Heart (1975)
Wayne Brasel - "Celebration" - If You Would Dance (2009)
Roland Kirk - "Three for the Festival" - We Free Kings (1961)
Old school trad done right! |
Herbie Nichols - "House Party Starting" - The Herbie Nichols Trio (1955)
The Fat Babies - "After a While" - Solid Gassuh (2016)*
Junior Cook - "Fiesta Espanol" - Somethin's Cookin' (1981)
Jack McDuff - "The Party's Over" - Hot Barbeque (1965)
Hour Three:
~ Flagler Files ~
Stan Getz - "La Fiesta" - Captain Marvel (1972) - The Ride Home!
Bill Evans - "Soiree" - From Left to Right (1970)
Ron Boustead - "Along Came Betty" - Unlikely Valentine (2016)*
Antonio Carlos Jobim - "Stone Flower" Stone Flower (1970)
Chris Rogers - "Six Degrees" - Voyage Home (2001)*
Lee Morgan - "Party Time" - The Procrastinator (1967)
Fun cover for a fine album! |
Eliane Elias - "Brasil (Aquarela Do Brasil)" - Made in Brazil (2014)
Doug Munro and La Pompe Attack - "Lullaby of Broadway" The Harry Warren Songbook (2016)*
Hour Four:
Noah Haidu - "Against the Sky" - Infinite Distances (2016)*
Roland Kirk - "Freaks for the Festival" - The Case of the 3 Sided Dream in Audio Color (1975)
Freddie Hubbard - "Rustic Celebration" - Skagly (1979)
Joey DeFrancesco + The People - "The Unifier" - Project Freedom (2016)*
Dylan Taylor - "Low-Lee-Tah" - Sweeter for the Struggle (2013)*
Grant Green - "Let the Music Take Your Mind" - Alive! (1970)
Excellent selections with finesse. |
Brothers Johnson - "Tomorrow" - Look Out for #1 ()
Nate Smith - "Bounce pts I & II" - Kinfolk (2015)*
John Shaw - "Trumpet Black" - War Lords (2016)*
Monday, November 28, 2016
Playlist fo 11-29-2016 WFCF - Crunching Numbers!
Hour One:
Ark Ovrutski Quintet - "2nd line/Partido Alto" - Sounds of Brasil (2010)*
Herbie Nichols - "2300 Skiddoo" - The Prophetic Herbie Nichols Vol II (1955)
3:15 Jazz Coffee Break
Duke Jordan - "Two Loves" - Trio and Quintet (1955)
Gonzalo Rubalcaba - "4 y 20" - Suite 4 y 20 (1992)
very fine release - great tone! |
Giocamo Gates - "Take Five" - Everything is Cool (2015)
Jason Hainsworth - "I Plead Da Fif" - Third Ward Stories (2015)*
Lorraine Feather - "159" - Attachments (2013)
Jim Snidero - "MD66" - MD66 (2016)*
Brian Charette - "Blues for 96" - Once & Future (2015)*
Hour Two:
Jane Bunnett and Maqueque - "Power of Two" - Oddara (2016)*
Monika Herzig - "2-Way Mirror" - The Whole World In His Hands (2014)
Stacey Kent - "Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo" - Jazz Loves Disney (2016)*
Kenny Burrell - "Fourth Dimensions" - Unlimited I (2016)*
Chico's best? With Charles Lloyd & Gabor Szabo! |
Chico Hamilton - "Man From Two Worlds" - Man From Two Worlds (1963)
Joe Lovano - "Six and Four" - Classic! Live at Newport (2005)
John Coltrane - "Fifth House" - Coltrane Jazz (1959)
Gary Burton - "One, Two, 1-2-3-4" - Duster (1967)
Carol Bach-y-Rita - "While My Lady Sleeps" - Minha Casa/My House (2016)*
Hour Three:
~ Flagler Files ~
Chick Corea - "Five Hundred Miles High" - Light as a Feather (1972) The Ride Home!
Jane Bunnett and Maqueque - "25 New Moves" - Oddara (2016)*
Brad Mehldau - "26" - Ode (2011)
Good sounds and fun! |
Ryan Fourt - "And the Two Are Left" - Big Slick (2015)
Ray Obiedo - "Ten Thirty" - There Goes That ()
Sonny Stitt - "12" - 12! (1972)
Steve Wilson - Lewis Nash - "Row Twelve" - Duologue (2013)
Hour Funk:
Todd Hunter - "210 to the 15" - Eat, Drink, Play (2016)*
Jordan Young - "Eight Counts for Rita" - Jazz Jukebox (2015)*
Keith Brown - "Ten Years of Turnmoil" - The Journey (2015)
quality playing! |
Space Orphan - "Cuatro de Marzo" - Shut Up About the Sun (2016)*
Charles Earland - "Warp Factor 8" - Leaving This Planet (1973)
Bobby Hutcherson - "Highway One" - Highway One (1978)
Afro Bop Alliance Big Band - "Family of Four" Revelation (2015)*
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
Sarah still at the top of her game on this 1978 set! New from Resonance records. |
Hour One:
James Moody and His Modernists - "Cu-ba" (1948)
Thelonious Monk - "Four in One" - Genius of Modern Music (1951)
Miles Davis - "Chance It" - Young Man With a Horn (1952)
3:15 Jazz Coffee Break
Sarah Vaughan - "I'll Remember April" - Live at Rosy's (1978)* - 3:45
Sarah Vaughan - "I Fall In Love Too Easily" - Live at Rosy's (1978)*
Sarah Vaughan - "Band Intros" - Live at Rosy's (1978)*
Sarah Vaughan - "East of the Sun (and West of the Moon)" - Live at Rosy's (1978)*
Sarah Vaughan - "A Lot of Livin' to Do" - Live at Rosy's (1978)*
Sarah Vaughan - "Time after Time" - Live at Rosy's (1978)*
JJ Johnson 1960 |
Sarah Vaughan - "Somebody Loves Me" - Live at Rosy's (1978)*
Tim Tamashiro - "Sunday in New York" - Drinky (2015)*
Art Blakey Quintet - "Split Kick" - A Night at Birdland (1954)
J.J. Johnson - "Too Marvelous for Words" - The Eminent, Vol 2 (1954)
Hour Two:
Tom Keenlyside - "Brejeiro" - Musica Brasileira (2015)*
Cheryl Bentyne - "Black Coffee" - Lost Love Songs (2011)*
Alfredo Rodriguez - "Chan Chan" - Tocororo (2015)*
Herbie Nichols - "Step Tempest" - The Prophetic Herbie Nichols (1955)
Paul Chambers - "Stablemates" - Chambers' Music (1956)
Sari Kessler - "Why Don't You Do Right" - Do Right (2015)*
John Coltrane - "Lazy Bird" - Blue Train (1957)
Freddy Cole - "Easy to Remember" - He Was the King (2015)*
very fine debut from a real-deal vocalist! |
Sonny Rollins - "Old Devil Moon" - A Night at the Village Vanguard (1957)
Roxy Coss - "Push" - Restless Idealism (2014)*
Hour Three:
~ Flagler Files ~
Cannonball Adderley - "Autumn Leaves" - Somethin' Else (1958)
Eli Degibri - "Even Bees Do It" - Cliff Hangin' (2014)*
Kenny Burrell - "Autumn In New York" - Blue Lights (1958)
Bud Powell - "Monopoly" - Time Waits (1958)
Will Bernard - "Homebody" - Out & About (2015)*
Donald Byrd - "Gate City" - Byrd in Flight (1960)
Jackie McLean - "Enitnerrut" - A Fickle Sonance (1961)
Hour Four:
Hiromi - "Take Me Away" - Spark (2015)*
Bill Evans & Jim Hall - "I Hear a Rhapsody" - Undercurrent (1962)
more drama and astounding technique from Hiromi! |
Dexter Gordon - "Shiny Stockings" - Gettin' Around (1965)
Brother Jack McDuff - "Oblighetto" - Moon Rappin' (1969)
Grant Green - "Ain't It Funky Now" - Green Is Beautiful (1970)
Benny Green Trio - "Ain't She Sweet" - That's Right (1992)
Gonzalo Rubalcaba - "Joan" - Inner Voyage (1998)