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Tuesday, June 5, 2018

Playlist for 6-5-2018 WFCF - Jazz Goes to College!





Today's show will start with recordings made in the early '50s at colleges & junior colleges by Dave Brubeck and Cal Tjader. Deep cuts from Larry Young, Art Blakey, Chico Hamilton & more in the mix as well as some Charlie Parker broadcasts! Plenty more plus new jazz releases. Tune in from 3-7pm eastern (with a break at 5) by clicking here. See you then! - Kendo


Hour One:

Dave Brubeck Quartet - "Take the 'A' Train" & "The Song is You" - Jazz Goes to College (1954)

            3:15 Jazz Coffee Break

Larry Young - "Sweet Lorraine" - Groove Street (1962)



Teddy Charles - "Ol' Man River" - Trio (1951)

Dave Brubeck - "Out of Nowhere" - Jazz Goes to College (1954)

Cal Tjader Quintet - "Then I'll Be Tired of You", "Theme for Duke" & "Cuban Fantasy" - Concert on the Campus (1960)

Hour Two:

Art Blakey - "United" & "Ping Pong" - Pisces (1961)


Dave Brubeck Quartet - "Perdido" - Jazz at Oberlin (1953) request

John Proulx - "Watch What Happens" - Say It (2017)*

Charlie Parker and the All-Stars - "Anthropology" & "'Round Midnight" - Summit Meeting at Birdland (1951)

Mike LeDonne and the Groover Quartet - "Someday" - From the Heart ()*

Dave Brubeck Quartet - "I'm Afraid the Masquerade Is Over" - Jazz Goes to Junior College (1957)

Roberta Piket - "My Buddy" - West Coast Trio (2017)*

Hour Three:

            ~ Flagler Files ~


Thelonious Monk - "Well You Needn't" - Monk's Greatest Hits (recorded at Brandeis University unknown date) - The Ride Home!
Great starter!


Thelonious Monk - "Mysterioso" - Monk's Greatest Hits (recorded at Lincoln Center)

Chico Hamilton - "The Morning After" & "I Want to Be Happy" - Quintet featuring Buddy Collette (1955)

Dave Brubeck Quartet - "Sometimes I'm Happy" & "The Duke" - Jazz: Red Hot and Cool (1955)

Kenny Barron Quintet - "Blue Waters" - Concentric Circles (2017)*

Eddie Henderson - "Be Cool" - Be Cool (2017)*

J.J. Johnson - "Love Is Here to Stay" - Blue Trombone (1957)


Hour Four:

McCoy Tyner & Jackie McLean - "Spur of the Moment" - It's About Time (1985)
Great energy!


Tia Fuller - "Save Your Love For Me" - Diamond Cut (2018)*

Ralph Towner - "Oceanus" - Solstice (1974)


Bill Evans Trio, Lee Konitz & Warne Marsh -"Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" & Pensativa" - Crosscurrents (1977)


The Manhattan Transfer - "Cantaloop (Flip Out)" - The Junction (2017)*

Joe Farrell - "Disco Dust" - La Catedral Y El Toro (1977)

Steve Gadd Band - "I Know, But Tell Me Again" & "Where's Earth" - Steve Gadd Band (2017)*


Monday, February 26, 2018

Playlist for 2-27-2018 WFCF - Never!!

(and George Tucker and Jimmy Cobb...)


This week's show theme is NEVER!! I hope you read that the way I'm hearing it in my head! All the song titles have that word in them (except for a few new release features). Mostly positive vibes, oddly, with lots of standards and a few choice obscurities (Sonny Red, Gerry Gibbs, Quincy Jones) and a few all time favorites by Grant Green, Sonny Stitt & Carmen McRae. Tune in Tuesday 2/27 from 3-7pm eastern with a break at 5 by clicking here (88.5fm in St. Augustine & listening radius). See you then! - Kendo


Hour One:

Charlie Peacock - "Wendell Berry in the Fields at Night" - When Light Flashes (2017)*

Sonny Red - "Never, Never Land" - The Mode (1961)

3:15 Jazz Coffee Break

Carmen McRae - "It Never Entered My Mind" - Live at Sugar Hill (1962)

Houston Person - "Never Let Me Go" - Rain or Shine (2017)*
Brilliant and wonderfully prolific pianist!


Quincy Jones - "I Never Told You" - Walking in Space (1969) CTI Moment 

Bill Evans - "I'll Never Smile Again" - Interplay (1962)


Ella Fitzgerald - "I'll Never Be the Same" - Hello Love (1957)

Cyrus Chestnut - "I've Never Been In Love Before" - A Million Colors In Your Mind (2014)

Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - "Nina Never Knew" - Lock, The Fox (1966) 

Alfredo Rodriguez - "Alegria" - The Little Dream (2017)*

Hour Two:

Cannonball Adderley - "Never Say Yes" - Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley (1961)

Sonny Stitt - "Never...SH!" - Now (1963)
Sonny Stitt 1963
 photo by Leo Tanner or Chuck Stewart


Ed Calle - "Until the End of Never" - 360 (2016)

Cecile McLorin Salvant - "Never Will I Marry" - Dreams and Daggers (2017)*

Mike LeDonne - "I'd Never Change a Thing About You" - That Feelin' (2016)

Dave Stryker - "Never Can Say Goodbye" - Eight Track (2013)

Dan Block - "Light Blue" - Block Party (2015)*

George Coleman - "You'll Never Know What You Mean to Me" - A Master Speaks (2015)

Grant Green - "I'll Never Fall In Love Again" - Green is Beautiful (1970)

Hour Three:

~ Flagler Files ~

Organissimo - "Never Knew Love Like This Before" - Live at the SpeakEZ ()* - The Ride Home!  

Ella Fitzgerald - "Lullaby of Birdland" & "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" - Ella at Zardi's (1956)*

Sonny Stitt - "I Never Knew" - 12! (1972)
One of the major shapers of today's jazz.


Gerry Gibbs Thrasher People - "When I Close My Eyes (And Go to a Place I've Never Been Before)" - Weather or Not (2016)

Hampton Hawes - "There Will Never Be Another You" - Four! (1958)

Jason Marsalis and the 21st Century Trad Band - "Never Forget the 23rd Letter" - Melody Reimagined Book 1 (2016)*

Hour Four:

Spin Cycle - "Nevermind" - Spin Cycle (2015)

Van Morrison - "They Can't Take That Away from Me" - Versatile (2017)*

Karl Latham - "Tomorrow Never Knows" - Living Standards (2015)

Grant Green - "Never My Love" - Shades of Geen (1971)



Randy Johnston - "Nostalgia for What Never Was" - People Music (2011)

Gary Burton - "Never the Same Way" - Common Ground (2010)

As Is - "In the Name of Love" - Here's To Life (2017)*

John Stowell/Ulf Bandgren Quartet - "Ode to Spring" - Night Visitor (2016)*


Mike Stern & Eric Johnson - "You Never Know" - Eclectic (2014)







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Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Playlist for 11-21-2017 WFCF - Pre-Thanksgiving Show!

Today's show was improvised aside from hour two - which revolved around the traditional Thanksgiving meal! Lots and lots of new releases I've wanted to get to and we also focused on the superb "The Sound of Sonny" cd! Thank you for joining me! - Kendo


Hour One:

Miles Davis - "Teo" - Someday My Prince Will Come" (1961)

 3:15 Jazz Coffee Break
Sonny Rollins - "What Is There to Say" - The Sound of Sonny (1957)

Katharine McPhee - "I'll Be Seeing You/Some Other Time" - I Fall In Love Too Easily (2017)* The Verve Jazz Ensemble - "I Cover the Waterfront" -Swing-a-Nova (2017)*
Danny Janklow - "Philafornia" - Elevation (2015)* Nestor Torres - "Memphis Underground" - Jazz Flute Traditions (2017)* Willie Jones III - "Manhattan Melodies" - My Point Is... (2016)* Hour Two: Thelonious Monk - "Stuffy Turkey" - It's Monk's Time (1964) Don Braden - "Jive Turkey (West Side)" - Luminosity (2014)
All - Stars indeed!
Quincy Jones - "Gravy Waltz" - Plays Hip Hits (1963) Mike LeDonne - "Gravy Blues" - That Feelin' (2016) Jackie McLean - "Yams" - Vertigo (1963) Lee Konitz - "Marshmallow" - Sub-Consciouslee (1949) Lee Morgan - "Cornbread" - Cornbread (1965) Yelena Eckemoff - "Apples Laid Out On The Floor" - Blooming Tall Phlox (2013)



Hour Three:

 ~ Flagler Files ~

Organissimo - "Pumpkin' Pie" - This Is the Place (2005) - The Ride Home!  

Mongo Santamaria - "Sweeter Tater Pie" - Mongo Explodes (1964)

Michel Camilo - "Island Beat" - Live in London (2015)*

Sonny Rollins - "The Last Time I Saw Paris" & "Just In Time" - The Sound of Sonny (1957)

The Verve Jazz Ensemble - "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" - Swing-a-Nova (2017)*

Danny Grissett - "Woody 'n You" - Remembrance (2017)*

Blue Note All-Stars - "Message of Hope" - Our Point of View (2017)*

Hour Four:

Miles Davis - "Someday My Prince Will Come" - Someday My Prince Will Come (1961)

Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band - "Within Everything" & "Body and Shadow (noon)" - The Fellowship Band (2017)*
Mark Guiliani Jazz Quartet - "Inter-Are" - Jersey (2016)* Ernesto Cervini's Turboprop - "Rev" - Rev (2017)* Mike Stern - "Trip" & "Gone" - Trip (2017)* Donald Byrd - "Xibaba" - Electric Byrd (1970)


Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Playlist for 7-25-2017 WFCF - Hotter Than July!

July at Flagler Beach - 2011



Hi and happy Tuesday! Today's show theme is "Hotter Than July" - all the tracks (except new releases) were recorded in the month of July! We're in the dog days here in Florida and I thought it would be neat to hear music that captures the essence of midsummer. I'm sure the recording studios were stuffy at best and the walks, trains & subways to them were sweltering. Amazingly, the discomfort seems to only cause the artists to dig and search a little deeper. We'll hear a lot of music never before played on the show, along with a few classic cuts and new releases on the half hours. Tune in today (Tuesday July 25th) from 3-7pm eastern with a break at 5 by clicking here. See you then! - Kendo



Hour One:

Dave Brubeck - "Take Five" - Time Out (7-1-1959)

Wolverine Orchestra - "Royal Garden Blues" - (7-20-1924)

3:15 Jazz Coffee Break

Jim Rotundi - "Our Day Will Come" - Dark Blue (7-15-2015)

Jason Hainsworth - "Jana" - Third Ward Stories (7-15-2015)

Diana Krall - "I'm Confessin' (That I Love You)" - Turn Up the Quiet (2017)*

Louis Hayes - "St. Vitus Dance" - Serenade for Horace (2017)*
Match made in heaven...


Barbara Morrison with Houston Person - "Shiny Stockings" - I Wanna Be Loved (2017)*

Roland Kirk - "Makin' Whoopee" - Kirk's Works (7-11-1961)

Miles Davis - "Gone, Gone, Gone" - Porgy and Bess (7-22-1958)

Cal Tjader - "Sabor" - La Onda Va Bien (7 1979)

Bria Skonberg - "Sway" - With a Twist (2017)*

Hour Two:

Sarah Vaughan - "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" - After Hours (7 18 1961)

Miles Davis - "There's No You" - Blue Moods (7-9-1955)

Fats Theus - "Bed of Nails" - Black Out (7-16,22-1970) CTI Moment

Joe Farrell - "Molton Glass" - Joe Farrell Quartet - (7-1&2-1970) CTI Moment

DeJohnette, Grenadier, Medeski, Scofield - "El Swing" - Hudson (2017)*
Unusual session with Mingus, Elvin & Teddy Charles!


Terry Gibbs - "Back Home In Indiana" - 92 Years Young: Jammin' at the Gibbs House (2016)

Paul Desmond - "All the Things You Are" - Two of a Mind (7-3-1962)

Art Farmer - "Something You Got" - Something You Got (7-25&26-1977) CTI Moment

Hour Three:

~ Flagler Files ~

Miles Davis - "Footprints" - Miles Davis at Newport (7-2-1967) - The Ride Home!


Art Farmer - "Loads of Love" - Interaction (7-25,29-1963)

Thelonious Monk - "Ask Me Now" - Genius of Modern Music (7-23-1951)


Joris Teepe & Don Braden - "Humpty Dumpty" - Conversations (2016)*

The New Vision Sax Ensemble - "Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey?" - Musical Journey Through Time (2017)*
Great session & fun artwork!


Mike Ledonnne - "Put On a Happy Face" - I Love Music (2013)

Bill Evans - "I'll Never Smile Again" - Interplay (7-16-1962)

Flying Horse Big Band - "Move, Move, Move" - Big Man On Campus (2016)*

Hour Four:

Fats Theus - "Bed of Nails" - Black Out (7-16&22-1970) CTI Moment

Miles Davis - "Saeta" - Sketches of Spain (1959) Request

John Abercrombie - "Nexus" - Gateway 2 (7-1977)

Greg Skaff - "Fleurette Africaine" - Soulmation (2016)*


Bobby Hutcherson - "Ummh" - San Fransisco (1970 7 15)

Tony Williams New Lifetime - "Red Alert" - Believe It (7-1975)

Some of Stanley's finest playing, Deodato arranging!


Weather Report - "Forlorn" - Night Passage (7-12-1980)

Stanley Turrentine - "Storm" - Salt Song (7-7&13-1971) CTI Moment




Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Playlist for 12-20-2016 WFCF - New Jazz, Old Jazz & Christmas!

Jim Carey and Agent 99 have a gropey Christmas... or something.


This year's Christmas show has new jazz, really really old jazz, and, you know... Christmas jazz! Tune in from 3-7pm eastern with a break at 5 by clicking here. See you then! - Kendo


Hour One:

Roberto Fonseca - "Afro Mambo" - ABUC (2016)*

Michel Camilo - "Manha de Carnaval" - Spain Forever (2016)*

3:15 Jazz Coffee Break

Jack McDuff & John Hart - "Winter Wonderland" - A Concord Jazz Christmas Vol 3 ()
A very alluring set of Christmas sounds!


Leslie Odom Jr - "My Favorite Things" - Simply Christmas (2016)*


Gene Harris - "I'll Be Home for Christmas" - 4:48


Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five - "Muskrat Ramble" - (1926)

George Cables - "Traveling Lady" - The George Cables Songbook (2016)

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

Stu Harrison - "Cheek to Cheek" - Volume 1 ()* - 2:57

Kristin Korb - "Midnight Sun" - Beyond the Moon (2016)*

Agunako - "Santa Baby" - Latin Jazz Christmas in Havana ()*

Original Tuxedo Jazz Band - "Original Tuxedo Rag" (1925)

[bedding music for announcements by Jim Driscoll Explosion]

Hour Two:

Ark Ovrutski - "SOB" - Sounds of Brasil (2010)*

The NOLA Players - "I Heard the Bells" - Christmastime in New Orleans ()*
Wolverine Orchestra with Bix!


The Wolverine Orchestra with Bix Beiderbecke - "Royal Garden Blues" (1924)

Kait Dunton - "Misty" - Casual (2016)*

Roy Hargrove - "Frosty the Snowman" - Holiday Jazz (comp.)

Kenny Burrell - "The Little Drummer Boy" - Have Yourself a Soulful Little Christmas (1966)


Brian Lynch - "Sweet Love of Mine" - Madera Latino (2012)

Joshua Breakstone - "Moe Is On" - 88 (2016)*

King Oliver & His Dixie Syncopators - "Showboat Shuffle" - (1927)

Ella Fitzgerald/Frank DeVol - "The Christmas Song" - Holiday Jazz (comp.)

Jane Lynch - "A Swingin' Little Christmas" - A Swingin' Little Christmas (2016)


Hour Three:

~ Flagler Files ~

Band of Other Brothers - "Bar Fight" - City of Cranes (2015) - The Ride Home!
Look at that band! Great set...albeit stuck in the '60s.


Mike LeDonne - "Fly Little Bird Fly" - That Feelin'! (2016)*

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

Lou Rawls - "Christmas Is" - Holiday Jazz (comp.)

Louis Armstrong - "Cornet Chop Suey" (1926)

Ramsey Lewis - "Merry Christmas Baby" - Sound of Christmas (1961)

Chet Baker - "Winter Wonderland" - Holiday Jazz (comp.)

Hour Funk:

Duke Pearson - "Sleigh Ride" - Merry Ole Soul ()

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

Kazumi Watanabe - "Wonder Land" - Milky Shade (1976)
I spin "Sleigh Ride" every year. I Can't resist!!


Rufus Thomas - "I'll Be Your Santa Baby" - Holiday Treats (comp.)

Juan Torres - "Pueblito de Belem" - Holiday Treats (comp.)

Ramsey Lewis - "Here Comes Santa Claus" - SOund of Christmas (1961)

Louis Armstrong - "Struttin' With Some Barbecue" - (1927)

Takuya Kuroda - "R.S.B.D." - Zigzagger (2015)*

Wynton Marsalis - "We Three Kings" - God Rest Ye Merry Jazzmen ()

Monday, November 21, 2016

Playlist for 11-22-2016 WFCF - Stevie Songs!


"Stevie Wonder" - OilBigBrozer
Ink, Paint & Graphite
Visit the artist's website!



This week's theme is Stevie! 28 songs composed by Stevie Wonder performed by great jazz musicians like Joe Henderson, Freddie Hubbard, Christian McBride & Jack McDuff, along with new releases from Kait Dunton, Dave Stryker and Abbey Lincoln. Tune in Tuesday (11/22) from 3-5 eastern and then resuming at 5:15-7pm by clicking here.
See you then!




Hour One:

Abbey Lincoln - "Love Having You Around" - Love Having You Around (1980)*

Kait Dunton - "Isn't She Lovely" - tirokait Casual (2016)*

3:15 Jazz Coffee Break

Grant Green - "If You Really Love Me" - Shades of Green (1971)
This session features pop/rock songs done up Kait style!


Freddie Hubbard - "Black Maybe" - High Energy (1974)

Stanley Turrentine - "Evil" - Pieces of Dreams (1974)

Phineas Newborn - "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" - Look Out Phineas is Back (1976)

Cedar Walton - "Another Star" - Animation (1978)

Mike LeDonne - "Do I Do" - I Love Music (2013)

Joe Policastro - "Creepin'" - Pops! (2016)*

Hour Two:

Gerry Gibbs Thrasher Dream Trio - "Living for the City/Overjoyed" - We're Back (2014)

Lori Williams - "Overjoyed" - Behind the Smiles (2016)*

Joe Henderson - "My Cherie Amour" - Black Miracle (1975)
Great mix of selections and strong vocals!


Shelly Berg - "Blame it On The Sun" - Blackbird (2003)

Mike LeDonne - "I Love Every Little Thing About You" - I Love Music (2013)

Dave Stryker - "Superwoman" - Eight Track (2013)

Theo Croker - "Visions" - Afro Physicist (2011)

Hour Three:

~ Flagler Files ~

Johnny Hammond - "Higher Ground" - Higher Ground (1973) - The Ride Home!

Dave Stryker - "Send One Your Love" - Eight Track II (2016)*

Dave Stryker - "Signed, Sealed, Delivered" - Eight Track II (2016)*

Mark Gross - "Knocks Me Off My Feet" - Blackside (2012)

Stanley Turrentine – "Bird of  Beauty" - Wonderland (1986)

Christian McBride - "Summer Soft" - Family Affair (1998)

Hour Four:

Ben Paterson - "Golden Lady" - Essential Elements (2013)

Jacob Collier - "You and I" - In My Room (2016)*
Stanley did a whole album of Stevie songs!


Stanley Turrentine – "Rocket Love" - Wonderland (1986)

Ray Baretto - "Pastime Paradise" - La Cuna (1979) CTI MOMENT

Jack McDuff - "All Is Fair In Love" - The Fourth Dimension (1974)

Russell Malone - "You Will Know" - Look Who's Here (1995)

Freddie Hubbard - "Too High" - Gleam (1975)