Playlist for 4-18-2017 WFCF - The "In Crowd"!

This week we have The "In" Crowd - all the songs have the word "in" in the title. The broad scope gave us some choice selections with new cuts by Terence Blanchard, Heads of State and Mark Murphy; along with some fine discoveries from Hampton Hawes, Jackie McLean, Joe Newman, Keith Jarrett & lots more! Tune in today (Tues 4/17) from 3-5pm eastern, resuming from 5:15-7pm by clicking here! See you then! - Kendo

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Hour One:

Peter Drew - "Basie's Back in Town" - Where and When (2016)*

Terence Blanchard - "Jackie in the Rain" - The Comedian Soundtrack (2016)*

The latest from a great musician!

3:15 Jazz Coffee Break

Brad Meyers - "In From Somewhere" - Sanguinaria (2016)*

Michel Camilo - "In Love" - On Fire (1989)

Bud Powell - "Dusk in Sandi" - Bud Powell's Moods (1951)

Joe Roccisano - "So In Love" - Nonet (1998)

Joe Newman with Billy Byers - "Dialogue in F" - New Sounds (1956)

Kurt Rosenwinkel - "Interscape" - Caipi (2016)*

Shelly Manne - "In the Still of the Night" - Hot Coles (1975)

Dexter Gordon - "Three O'Clock In the Morning" - Go! (1962)

Thelonious Monk - "Hornin' In" - Blue Note (1952)

Hour Two:

Colorado Jazz Repertory Orchestra - "With a Song in My Heart"- Invitation (2016)*

Eddie Harris - "A Nightengale Sang in Berkely Square" - Tender Storm (1966)

Art Blakey - "In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning" - Caravan (1962)

a favorite at the station!

Johanna Sillanpaa - "In My Dreams" - From This Side (2016)*

Stockton Helbing - "Swimming in Place" - Swimming in Place (2016)*

Freddie Hubbard - "In a Mist" - Sky Dive (1972) CTI MOMENT

Bill Evans - "I Believe in You" - Empathy (1962)

Larry Ham Woody Witt Quartet - "You Must Believe In Spring" - Presence ()*

Count Basie - "Strangers in the Night" - Hollywood Basie's Way ()

Jackie McLean - "Blues In a Jiff" - Vertigo (1962)

Hour Three:

~ Flagler Files ~

Ramsey Lewis Trio - "The "In" Crowd" - The In Crowd (1965)  - The Ride Home!

Heads of State - "Four In One" - Four In One (2016)*

Mark Murphy - "Blues in the Night" - Wild and Free (1980)*

Fascinating music - talented drummer!

Hank Mobley - "The Best Things In Life are Free" - Workout (1961)

Oscar Peterson - "Lulu's Back in Town" - My Favorite Instrument (1980)

Thelonious Monk - "In Walked Bud" - Complete Blue Note (1947)

Hampton Hawes - "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams" - For Real (1958)

Hour Four:

Keith Jarrett - "Inflight" - Back Hand (1974)

Paul Bley - "Not Zero - In One Part" - Not Two Not One (1998)

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

He might have appreciated that I programmed
 a 58 second song from this one!

Jack DeJohnette - "Jack In" - Parallel Realities (1990)

Gerry Gibbs & Thrasher People - "Only In Dreams" - Weather or Not (2016)*

Herbie Mann - "Blues in the Closet" - My Kinda Groove (1965)

Jimmy McGriff - "Red Sails in the Sunset" - Groove Grease (1971)

Grant Green - "A Day in the Life" - Green is Beautiful (1970)

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Playlist for 11-8-2016 WFCF - Broadway!

"Broadway Nights" - stumpyxetta
photograph
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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 5-12-2015 WFCF - Wingin' It Again!

Wingin' it, again! Just playing the great jams today! Hope you enjoy. Tune in here! - Kendo



Hour One:

Jamie Ousley - "Hymn of the Tides" - A Sea of Voices (2012)

Jane Monheit - "Get Out of Town" - The Lovers, The Dreamers and Me (2008)

          3:15 Jazz Coffee Break

The Island Duet - "Pablo's Spanish Jam" -

Stevie Wonder - "Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing" - Innervisions ()

Scott Marischen - "The Kite" - Alligator Alley (2011)

Keith Jarrett - "Shaw 'Nuff" - Yesterdays (2001)

Jeff Berlin - "Lien On Me" - Lumpy Jazz (2004)

Harold Mabern - "The Chief" - Afro Blue (2014)

Jason Miles/Ingrid Jensen - "Super City" - Kind of New (2015)

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

Hour Two:

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - "Mr. Jin" - Indestructable (1964)

Bud Powell - "The Last Time I Saw Paris" - The Genius of Bud Powell ()

Takuya Kuroda Sextet - "Grappa" - Six Aces (2012)

Cal Tjader - "Leyte" - Breeze from the East ()

Chaka Khan - "Goldfinger" - Classikahn ()

Bill Evans - "Emily" - You're Gonna Hear From Me (1969)

Freddie Hubbard - "Too High" - High Energy (1974)

La Lucha - "The Way You Look Tonight" - Standards, Not Standards (2014)

Brother Jack McDuff - "Channel One" - Gin and Orange (1969)

Dizzy Gillespie Sextet - "That's Earl, Brother" - Odyssey 1945-1952 (1946)

Hour Three:
 
Sonny Clark - "Royal Flush" - Cool Struttin' (1958)

Harry Allen and Friends - "Purple Gazelle" - For George, Cole and Duke (2014)

Kermit Ruffins & The Barbecue Swingers - "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" - I'm So New Orleans (2014)

Charles McPherson - "Bud Like" - The Journey (2014)

Wes Montgomery - "Wives and Lovers" - Tequila (1966)

Dave Brubeck - "Lonesome" - Time In (1965)

Cal Tjader - "Philly Mambo" - Live at the Funky Quarters (1972)

Joshua Breakstone - "I Told You So" - With the Wind and the Rain (2013)

Hour Four:

Larry Coryell - "Wrong Is Right" - Spaces (1969)

Larry Coryell - "The Way It Was" - Heavy Feel (2014)

Lester Young - "Body and Soul" - Jazz on Savoy 1957-1962

Gary Burton & Keith Jarrett - "Fortune Smiles" - Gary Burton & Keith Jarrett (1970)

Thelonious Monk - "Everything Happens to Me" - Alone in San Francisco (1959)

Duke Ellington - "Smada" - Blues in Orbit (1959)

Johnny Smith - "Walk Don't Run" - In a Mellow Mood (1954)

Cal Tjader - "Sonny Boy" - Mambo With Tjader (1954)

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

Playlist for 4-21-15 WFCF - Album Party!

cant wait to unwrap and play!

Saturday was Record Store Day, and against my better judgement, I splurged... including my first ever RSD 10" (see above). I'm gonna try to spin a track from every thing I bought. Titles include Brecker Brothers, Hank Crawford, Mel Tormé, Sarah Vaughan, Charlie Byrd and Ray Bryant, and we'll listen to a whole side of "Lambert, Hendricks and Ross!". Plenty of slots for new jazz releases, and a few fun things along the way. Join me for the party from 3-7pm eastern today (4/21) on WFCF. Listen online here if you live in the US. We are also on Spotify (I think!) See you then :) - Kendo




Hour One:

Art Pepper - "What Laurie Likes" - Living Legend (1975)

Harold Mabern - "Fools Rush In" - Afro Blue (2014)

    3:15 Jazz Coffee Break
 
Count Basie - "Have You Met Miss Jones" - High Voltage (1970)

Annie Lennox - "You Belong to Me" - Nostalgia (2013)

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

Miles Davis - "Moon Dreams" - Birth of the Cool (1950)

Maynard Ferguson - "Olé" - "Maynard (1961)

arrangements by Slide Hampton, feat. Joe Farrell

Jamie Cullum - "Interlude" - Interlude (2014)

Lambert, Hendricks and Ross - "Charleston Alley" - Lambert, Hendricks and Ross! (1959)

Lambert, Hendricks and Ross - "Moanin'" - Lambert, Hendricks and Ross! (1959)

Lambert, Hendricks and Ross - "Twisted" - Lambert, Hendricks and Ross! (1959)

Hour Two: 

Lambert, Hendricks and Ross - "Bijou" - Lambert, Hendricks and Ross! (1959)

Lambert, Hendricks and Ross - "Cloudburst" - Lambert, Hendricks and Ross! (1959

Wolff & Clark Expedition - "1999" - Wolff & Clark Expedition 2 (2014)

Sarah Vaughan - "I Feel So Smoochie" - Sarah Vaughan (?)

Artwork for this re-release is much cooler than
the original!

Les Brown - "Just In Time" - Swing Song Book ()

Mel Tormé - "Autumn in New York" - Sings Sunday in New York (1963)

Mel Tormé - "Lullaby of Birdland" - Sings Sunday in New York (1963)

Jose James - "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" - Yesterday I Had the Blues (2014)

Charlie Byrd Trio - "In the Name of Love" - Travellin' Man ()

Charlie Byrd Trio - "I Will Wait for You" - Travellin' Man ()

Eliane Elias - "Brasil" - Brasil (2014)

Hour Three:

Charles Lloyd - "Lady Gabor" - Live at Slugs (1965) Ride Home!

Sonny Stitt - "Samba de Orpheo" - Stomp Off Let's Go (1976)

Lambert, Hendricks and Ross - "Summertime" - Lambert, Hendricks and Ross! (1959)

Johnny Smith - "Walk, Don't Run" - In a Mellow Mood (1954)

Ray Bryant Trio - "It Was a Very Good Year" - Gotta Travel On (1966)

Ray Bryant Trio - "Bag's Groove" - Gotta Travel On (1966)

Wilbur Harden & Tommy Flannigan - "Well's Fargo" - Mainstream 1958 (1958)

Brecker Brothers - "Squids" - Don't Stop the Music (1977)

Hour Four:

Gary Burton & Keith Jarrett - "Moonchild/In Your Quiet Place" - Gary Burton & Keith Jarrett (1970) - 7:19

Count Basie - "It's Alright With Me" - Broadway...Basie's Way" ()

Russell Malone - "Suite Sioux" - Love Looks Good on You (2014)

 a seriously stellar outing! Very creative :)

Slim Gaillard & His Orchestra  - "Dizzy's Boogie" - Odyssey 1945-1952 (1945)

David Sanborn - "Can't Get Next to You" - Time and the River (2014)

Hank Crawford - "Funky Pigeon" - hank Crawfords Back"

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

Dave Stryker - "Don't mess With mr. T"  Messin' with mister T (2014)

Playlist for 10-14-14 WFCF - Jazz Greats Alive!

"In Concert" - Thomas Lange
oil on canvas
Visit the artist's website!

The theme for this week's show is "Alive". All of the cuts we'll here (except for some of the selections from the new jazz shelf) will be live recordings. For the 2nd hour we'll cruise over to the Blue Note in Chicago to catch most of the first set of Duke Ellington & his Orchestra on a fine night in 1959. The whole broadcast is made up of some juicy, lengthy performances you're bound to get caught up in and lose yourself for a moment or two! Tune in Tuesday 10/14 from 3-7pm Eastern. Listen online for free via iHeart or Spotify. See you then! - Kendo




Hour One:

Joshua Redman - "Soul Dance" - Trios Live (2013)

Diva - "Pennies from Heaven" - A Swingin' Life (2012)

    3:15 Jazz Coffee Break

Miles, Tony & Ron

Miles Davis - "Autumn Leaves" - Miles in Berlin (1964) 
Art Blakey - "Ugetsu" - Ugetsu (1963)

Weather Report - "Port of Entry" - Night Passage (1980)

Jack Sheldon - "Who Can I Turn To" - Live at Don Mupo's Gold Nugget (1967)

Sonny Stitt - "Everything Happens to Me" - Just In Case You Forgot How Bad He Was (1981)

Hour Two:

Duke Ellington - "Take the A Train" - Live at the Blue Note (1959)

Duke Ellington - "Newport Up" - Live at the Blue Note (1959)

Duke Ellington - "Haupe (Polly's Theme)" - Live at the Blue Note (1959)

Duke Ellington - "Flirtibird" - Live at the Blue Note (1959)

what a show!

Duke Ellington - "Pie Eye's Blues" - Live at the Blue Note (1959)

Duke Ellington - "Almost Cried" - Live at the Blue Note (1959)

Duke Ellington - "Duael Fuel (Duel Filter) - Live at the Blue Note (1959)

John Webber Quartet - "Look Love Away" - Down for the Count (2014)

Hiromi - "Seeker" - Alive (2014)

Hour Three:

Stan Getz - "Litha" - Live at the Left Bank (1975)

Charles Mingus - "Nostalgia in Times Square" - Jazz Portraits (1959)

Keith Jarrett - "Days of Wine and Roses" - At the Blue Note (1994)

Shelly Manne & His Men - "What's New" - At the Black Hawk 2 (1959)

Hour Four:

good stuff from 1959!

Marcus Roberts Trio with Wynton Marsalis - "Giant Steps" - Together Again (2007)

James Leary - "Remember to Smile" - Together (1980)

Stryker Slagle Band - "Mozone" - Live at the Jazz Standard (2005)

Michel Petrucciani - "September Second" - Trio in Tokyo (1997)

Charlie Haden/Jim Hall - "In The Moment" - Charlie Haden - Jim Hall (1990)

Chick Corea - "This Is New" - Trilogy (2013)

Playlist for 6-11-2013 WFCF - Jazz Greats!

It's been a Jack McDuff kinda week for me (understatement - I had a 48 hour McDuff-fest). We heard 2 top-notch tracks by Brother Jack; some new music in my personal collection from Joe Farrell and Gil Melle, and two tracks from an album that's quickly becoming a go-to disc - "Guitar Forms" by Kenny Burrell. Some fine stuff from the new jazz shelf (plus one clinker). Fun as ever - thanks for tuning in!! - DJ Kendo

Hour One:

Jack McDuff – “Blue Monsoon” – Magnetic Feel (1975)

Barbara Morrison - "Sunny Side of the Street" - A Sunday Kinda Love (2013)

    3:15 Jazz Coffee Break

O Som Do Jazz – “Batucada” – A Kiss For Rio (2013)

Cannonball Adderley – “Two Sleepy People” – Cannonball Adderley and Strings (1955)

MJQ – “Summertime” – The MJQ Play GG’s Porgy & Bess (1965)

David Bixler – “Aiding and Abetting” – Call It a Good Deal (2006)

Dizzy Gillespie – “Good Bait” – Something Old, Something New (1963)

Sonny Rollins – “Valse Hot” – Plus Four (1956)

Kenny Burrell – “Loie” – Guitar Forms (1965)

Hour Two:

Roy Haynes Trop – “Question and Answer” – Roy Haynes Trio (1999)

Joe Farrell – “Hurricane Jane” – Penny Arcade (1973) CTI Moment

Dexter Gordon – “Daddy Plays the Horn” – Daddy Plays the Horn (1955)

Roy Haynes 1999

Larry Coryell & Kenny Drew Jr. – “A Silent War” – Duality (2011)

The Chick Corea New Trio – “Jitterbug Waltz” – Past, Present & Futures (2001)

Pat Metheny - "Tharsis" - Tap (2013)

Jason Marsalis - "Louisiana Gold" - In A World of Mallets (2013)

Keith Jarrett - "Stars Fell on Alabama" - Somewhere (2009)

Lynn Jolicoeur and the Pulse - "East of the Sun" - World Behind Your Eyes (2013)

Hour Three:

Jack McDuff – “Loose Foot” – Moon Rappin’ (1969)

Lynn Baker Quartet - "Home of the Whopper" - LectroCoustic (2013)

Cannonball Adderley - "I've Never Been in Love Before" - Cannonball and Strings (1955)

Kenny Burrell – “Greensleeves” – Guitar Forms (1965)

Ornette Coleman – “Chronology” – The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959)

Kermit Ruffins - "I Guess I'll Get the Papers and Go Home" - We Partyin' Traditional Style (2013)

Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers – “DEO X” – Hard Drive (1957)

Raquel Cepeda - "Chega de Suadade" - I'm Confessin' (2012)

Miles Davis – “Will You Still Be Mine” – Musings of Miles (1955)

Freddie Hubbard – “Windjammer” – Windjammer (1976)

New Jazz

Art Blakey 1955

Hour Four:

Gil Melle – “Tomorrow” – Gil’s Guests (1956)

Gary Burton Quartet – “I’m Your Pal” – Lofty Fake Anagram (1967)

Ron Miller – “Sun Child” – Peacock Park (2010)

Cal Tjader – “Fried Bananas” – Solar Heat (1968)

Bob Hamilton Trio – “Albino Frankie” – WixWax (2007)

Bill Prince – “Samba De Oro” – Happy Thoughts ()

Jeff Berlin - "E.S.P" - Low Standards (2013)

Jacob Varmus - "Slide Rules" - Terminal Stillness (2013)

Below are Amazon links to some choice selections from today's playlist. Each one a winner, but most of them are out of print. Look for a great deal!