Playlist for 5-19-2015 WFCF - Post B-day Show!

Cal's final recording!

Just finished another rotation around the sun, and I've got presents to show for it! Once again it'll be by the seat of my pants, but we'll hear music from Jim Hall, Sonny Stitt, Flora Purim, Dexter Gordon, Joni Mitchell, Wes Montgomery... and we'll continue to work our way through the Dizzy Gillespie and Savoy box sets! Plenty of new releases as well! Tune in today (Tuesday 5/19) from 3-7pm eastern. Listen online by clicking here. See you then! - Kendo

Hour One:

Jacky Terrasson - "Kiff" - Take This (2014)

Chick Corea - "Friends" - Friends (1978)

    3:15 Jazz Coffee Break

Joni Mitchell - "You're My Thrill" - Both Sides Now (1999)

Wes Montgomery - "The Shadow of Your Smile" - Bumpin' (1965)

Flora Purim - "Dindi" - Butterfly Dreams (1973)

Esquivel - "Lullaby of Birdland" - Infinity in Sound Vol 2

Perry Joslin Project - "Here We Go" - Perry Joslin Project (2003)

One of CTI's all-time best!

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

Jim Hall - "Rock Skippin' at the Blue Note" - Concierto (1975) CTI Moment

Marcus Miller - "Xtraordinary" - Afrodeezia (2014)

Hour Two:

Collins/Shepley Galaxy - "Module 3" - Time, Space and the Blues (197?)

Collins/Shepley Galaxy - "Soft Landing" - Time, Space and the Blues (197?)`

Jim Hall - "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" - Concierto (1975)

Cal Tjader & Carmen McRae - "Heat Wave" - Heat Wave (1982)

Jamie Ousley - "Pasaje Tennessee" - Back Home (2010)

Stitt lookin' sassy in '72

Sonny Stitt - '"Speculation" - So Doggone Good (1972)

Sonny Stitt - "Where Is Love" - Goin' Down Slow (1972)

Sybil Gage - "Baby I Don't Cry Over You" - Requests from the Bar (2012)

Dafnis Prieto Sextet - "Triangles and Circles" - Triangles and Circles (2015)

Quincy Jones - "Dead End" - Walking in Space (1969)

Diana Krall - "California Dreamin'" - Wallflower (2014)

Hour Three: 

Flora Purim - "Butterfly Dreams" - Butterfly Dreams (1973) - Ride Home!

Harold Mabern - "You Needed Me" - Afro Blue (2014)

Dexter Gordon - "The Group" - Generation (1972)

Jason Miles/Ingrid Jensen - "Kats Eye" - Kind of New (2014)
 
Cal Tjader & Carmen McRae - "All In Love is Fair" - Heat Wave (1982)

Eliane Elias - "Brasil" - Made in Brazil (2014)

Skillful and unique!

Rez Abbasi Acoustic Quartet - "Low-Lee-Tah" - Intents and Purposes (2014) 

Sun Ra - "Where Is Tomorrow" - ? ()

Dizzy Gillespie - "Our Delight" - Odyssey 1945-1952 (1946)

Jose James - "I Thought About You" - Yesterday I Had the Blues (2014)

Hour Four:

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - "The Egyptian" - Indestructible (1964)

Johnny Smith - "How About You" - In a Mellow Mood (1954)

Cal Tjader - "Borneo" - Several Shades of Jade (1963)

Brother Jack McDuff - "With the Wind" - Gin & Orange (1969)

Gary Burton/Keith Jarrett - "The Raven Speaks" - Gary Burton & Keith Jarrett (1970)

Thelonious Monk - "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth" - Alone in San Fransisco (1959)

Johnny Smith - "In a Sentimental Mood" - In a Mellow Mood (1954)

Quincy Jones - "Walking in Space" - Walking in Space (1969)

Good and spacey!

Playlist for 1-7-2014 WFCF - Jazz Greats!

"New Year's Eve" - Manga-Vanda
painting
Visit the artist's website!

We started the New Year on an unusually cold day in St. Augustine FL! No particular agenda or theme, just a lot of good jazz from artists like Nina Simone, Louis Armstrong's Hot Five, Art Farmer and Jim Hall, Thelonious Monk, Larry Coryell & plenty more plus a special 3:15 Jazz Coffee break with a big chunk of vinyl from J.J. Johnson & Kai Winding. Wound up having a few spots with extra time - filled in the gaps with Esquivel, Anita O'day and extra new jazz tracks. Thanks for stopping by! - Kendo 

Hour One:

Bill O'Connell + The Latin Jazz All-Stars - "The Surrey With the Fringe On Top" - Zocalo (2013)

Nnenna Freelon/ John Brown Big Band - "Baby, It's Cold Outside" - Christmas (2013)

    3:15 Jazz Coffee Break

J. J. Johnson and Kai Winding - "Let's Get Away from It All" - Trombone for Two

(1955)

J. J. Johnson and Kai Winding - "Goodbye" - Trombone for Two (1955)

J. J. Johnson and Kai Winding - "This Can't Be Love" - Trombone for Two (1955)

Esquivel - "Lullaby of Birdland" - Infinity in Sound Vol. 2

Bridge Quartet - "Strode Rode" - Day (2007)

Nina Simone - "Little Girl Blue" - Little Girl Blue (1957)

Cal Tjader - "Sweet Honeybee" - Hip Vibrations (1967)

Freddie Hubbard - "Take It to the Ozone" - Super Blue (1978)

Gailloreto Quintet - "Come Sunday" - The Insider (2003)

Hour Two:

Wes Montgomery - "Watch What Happens" - A Day in the Life (1967)

Louis Armstrong Hot Five - "Cornet Chop Suey" - (1926)

Sonny Stitt - "Topsy" - Constellation (1972)

Herb Silverstein - "Blues at 75" - Monday Morning (2013)

Cannonball Adderley/Bill Evans - "Nancy (With the Laughing Face)" - Know What I Mean? (1961)

Duke Ellington - "Jack the Bear" - Best of the Centennial Edition (1940)

Ella Fitzgerald - "Cheek to Cheek" - Verve Grammy Winners (comp.)

Roy Haynes - "Sugar Ray" - We Three (1958)

Anita O'Day - "No Moon At All" - Anita (1955)

Foreign Motion in Flight - "Rise Above" - Foreign Motion in Flight (2013)

Dr. Lonnie Smith Octet - "Move Your Hand" - In The Beginning Vol 1 (2012)

Hour Three:

Art Farmer and Jim Hall- "Big Blues" - Big Blues (1978) CTI Moment

Thelonious Monk - "Dinah" - Solo Monk (1964)

John Coltrane - "I Love You" - Lush Life (1957)

Miles Davis - "Baby Won't You Please Come Home" - Seven Steps to Heaven (1963)

Dave Brubeck Quartet - "Trolley Song" - Bossa Nova USA (1963)

Bill Evans - "The Boy Next Door" - At Shelly's Manne-Hole (1963)

Cheryl Bentyne and Mark Winkley - "Senor Blues" - West Coast Cool (2013)

Airto - "San Francisco River" - Fingers (1973) CTI Moment

David Matthews - "Kyrie" - Bach 2000 (2000) - 5:50 Gospel Express

Hour Four:

Grant Green - "Ease Back" - Carryin' On (1969)

Jim Alfredson's Dirty Fingers - "String Bean" - A Tribute to Big John Patton (2013)

Stan Getz - "Sweet Rain" - Sweet Rain (1967)

Scott Sawyer - "Copperhead Stew" - Dreamers (2013)

Larry Coryell - "Spaces (Infinite)" - Spaces (1969)

Tierney Sutton - "Big Yellow Taxi" - After Blue (2013)

Naeko Fukao - "Softly, As In a Morning Sunrise" - Wonderland (2013)

Ian Hendrickson-Smith - "The Sorry For Laughing Blues" - Tonight is Now (2013)

Playlist for 12-17-2013 WFCF - Tributes!

"From a notebook, November 7" - Maria Mamczur
oil pastels
visit the artist's website!

This week's show pays tribute to over a dozen jazz musicians who left us in 2013. The intention is not to mourn, but to celebrate the gifts of beauty they provided us with. Also today is the Virgin Sacrifice - we play an unopened copy of Duke Ellington's Nutcracker Suite and play a whole side at 5:15. Sprinkle in some new jazz releases and a Christmas favorite! Also be sure to visit this month's artist at her website - beautiful visuals! Tune in from 3-7pm at 88.5FM or listen anywhere in the US via iHeart for free! Leave comments about the artists featured today at either Facebook or Twitter. See you then! - Kendo




Hour One:

Bill O'Connell - "Big Sur" - Zocalo (2013)

Bill O'Connell - "Erik's Song" - Zocalo (2013)

    3:15 Jazz Coffee Break

Johnny Smith - "Stars Fell on Alabama" - Moonlight in Vermont (1952)

Johnny Smith - "Sometimes I'm Happy" - Moonlight in Vermont (1952)

Chico Hamilton ~

    Gerry Mulligan Quartet - "Freeway" - Gerry Mulligan Quartet (1952)

    Chico Hamilton - "A Piece of Music" - 12 Tones of Love (2009)

Butch Warren ~

    Dexter Gordon - "You Stepped Out of a Dream" - A Swingin' Affair (1962)

    Jackie McLean - "Lost" - A Fickle Sonance (1961)

Jim Hall ~

    Jim Hall - "I Hear a Rhapsody" - Live (1975)

    Jimmy Giuffre 3 - "Crazy She Calls Me" - Jimmy Giuffre 3 (1957)

Hour Two:

Art Blakey Quintet - "Quicksilver" - A Night at Birdland (1954)

Frank Capek - "Common Sense" - Frank Capek Quartet (2011)

Mulgrew Miller ~

    Mulgrew Miller - "Leilani's Leap" - Hand in Hand (1992)

    Wallace Roney - "Blue in Green" - Verses (1987)

Ben Tucker ~

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

    Grant Green - "Grant's Dimensions" - Green Street (1961)

Frank Wess - "Say It Isn't So" - Magic 101 (2011)

Frank Foster & Frank Wess - "Up and Coming" - Frankly Speaking (1984)

Hour Three:

Tim Warfield - "Caroling Caroling" - Jazzy Christmas (2013)

New York Voices - "We Three Kings" - Let It Snow (2013)

Duke Ellington - "Overture" - The Nutcracker Suite (1960)

Duke Ellington - "Toot Toot Tootie Too" - The Nutcracker Suite (1960)

Duke Ellington - "Peanut Brittle Brigade" - The Nutcracker Suite (1960)

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

Duke Ellington - "Entr'acte" - The Nutcracker Suite (1960)

Cedar Walton ~

    Art Blakey - "Pensativa" - Free for All (1964)

    Bobby Hutcherson - "Clockwise" - Conception (1979)

Marian McPartland - "A Fine Romance" - A Fine Romance (1978)

Marian McPartland - "Send in the Clowns" - A Fine Romance (1978)

Hour Four:

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

Peter Appleyard - "Strike Up the Band" - The Vibes Sound of PA ()

George Duke ~

    Cal Tjader - "Corine" - Amazonas (1975)

Walter Bishop Jr. ~

    Miles Davis - "Compulsion" - Collectors' Items (1953)

    Miles Davis - "Denial" - The New Sounds (1951)

Donald Byrd - "Fancy Free" - Fancy Free (1969)

Donald Byrd/Gigi Gryce - "Speculation" - Jazz Lab (1957)

Donald Byrd - "I Love the Girl" - Fancy Free (1969)

Playlist for 3-12-2013 WFCF - Jazz Greats

recorded in 1969 - this album was produced by George Martin
of Beatles fame.

Wes Montgomery (in honor of the late Melvin Rhyne), John Scofield, Art Farmer and Jim Hall, an Oscar Peterson classic + we began examining our new featured album "So Near, So Far (Musings on Miles)" by Joe Henderson! It was a nice relaxed show, lots of 70's in the 2nd hour - just the way I like it! A real pleasure also was listening to Joe's show following mine on the drive home! Don't forget to get hooked into the Facebook page - giveaways coming soon! Thanks for tuning in/stopping by! - DJ Kendo

Hour One:

Wes Montgomery - "Lolita" - Portrait of Wes (1963)

Chris Walden Big Band - "People Will Say We're In Love" - No Bounds (2006)

along with leading his Big Band, Chris Walden has done
arrangements for grammy winning albums by Arturo
Sandoval and Paul McCartney, to name a few!

3:15 Jazz Coffee Break

Joe Henderson - "Miles Ahead" - So Near, So Far (1992)

Mark Barrios - "Café con Leche" - West Tampa Style

Oscar Peterson - "Night Train" - Night Train (1962)

Joe Henderson - "Joshua" - So Near, So Far (1992)

Michael Leasure - "Days of Grace" - Collection No. 1 (1998)

Michael Royal - "For Heaven's Sake" - Transition (2008)

Charlie Parker - "My Little Suede Shoes" - South of the Border (recorded 62 years ago today on 3/15/1951)

Wynton Marsalis - "Fuschia" - Think of One (1983)

Hour Two:

John Scofield - "Chank" - A Go Go (1998)

Jason Marsalis Vibes Quartet - "Louisiana Gold" - In a World of Mallets (2013)

Chick Corea with Return to Forever - "500 Miles High" - Light as a Feather (1972)

Part of John Scofield's illustrious career
was being a member of Miles Davis'
band from 1982-1985!

Gail Yvon - "All of Me" - Gail Yvon (2012)

Stan Getz - "Cecelia" - Marrakesh Express (1969)

Larry Coryell - "The Lift" - The Lift (2013)

Art Farmer and Jim Hall - "Big Blues" - Big Blues (1978) CTI Moment

Terri Lyne Carrington - "Fleurette Africain" - Money Jungle (2013)

Charles Lloyd and Jason Moran - "Pretty Girl" - Hagar's Song (2013)

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