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Tuesday, March 28, 2017

Playlist for 3-28-2017 WFCF - City Names!



"Lake Shore Drive" - Jeremy Lampkin
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This week's show features songs about cities - NYC, Chicago, Paris, New Orleans and lots more along with tunes that are about towns & villages in general. New music from Peter Erskine & Chaise Lounge along with classics from Miles, Kenny Burrell, Duke Ellington, Grant Green & plenty more! Should be fun! Tune in today (Tuesday 3/28) from 3-5pm eastern, resuming from 5:15-7pm by clicking here. See you then! - Kendo




Hour One:

Eliane Elias - "Copacabana" - Dance of Time (2016)*

The US Army Blues Swamp Romp - "Milenburg Joys" - Voodoo Boogaloo (2016)* 

3:15 Jazz Coffee Break

Nate Najar - "Sidewalks of New York" - This Is Nate Najhar (2015)*

Miles Davis - "The Maids of Cadiz" - Miles Ahead (1957)

Billy Cobham - "Savannah The Serene" - Crosswinds (1974)

Jordan Young - "Sao Paulo Nights" - Jazz Jukebox (2015)
Another stunning set from Eliane!


Larry Young - "Paris Eyes" - Into Something (1964)

Duke Ellington - "East Saint Louis Toodle-o" - (1927)

Johanna Sillanpaa - "Woodstock" - From This Side (2016)*

Doug Munro & La Pompe Attack - "Nagasaki" - The Harry Warren Songbook (2016)*

Hour Two:

Michel Petrucciani - "Manhattan" - Marvellous (1994)

Adam Smale - "NYC Love Affair" - Out of the Blue (2012)

Michael Dease - "Downtown Chi-Town" - All These Hands (2016)*

Lambert, Hendricks & Ross - "Going to Chicago Blues" - Sing Along With Basie (1958)

Dizzy Gillespie - "Siboney" - Diz and Getz (1953)
Very appealing album - nice band!


Grant Green - "Granada" - The Latin Bit (1962)

Tom Dempsey/Tim Ferguson - "All Across the City" - Waltz New (2015)*

Tom Dempsey/Tim Ferguson - "Village Waltz" - Waltz New (2015)*

Hour Three:

~ Flagler Files ~

Miles Davis - "Hackensack" - Newport Jazz Festival (1955) - The Ride Home! 

Bobby Hutcherson - "Montara" - Montara (1975)

Larry Coryell - "Ann Arbour" - The Restful Mind (1975)
Not too shabby of a lineup!


Peter Erskine - "Dreamsville" - Second Opinion (2016)*

Chaise Lounge - "A Cold Day in New Orleans" - The Lock & The Key (2016)*

Patrick Arthur, Dana Fitzsimons & Chris Otts - "Ithaca" - The Cheap 3nsemble (2016)*

Hour Four:

Joe Farrell - "Great Gorge" - Moon Germs (1972) CTI Moment

Steve Khan - "Our Town" - Backlog (2016)*

Gerry Gibbs - "Teen Town" - Weather or Not (2016)*

Cal Tjader - "Mambo in Miami" - In a Latin Bag (1961)
Glad this one finally got released on cd!


Kenny Burrell - "Sausalito Nights" - Up The Street, 'Round the Corner, Down the Block (1974)

Idris Muhammad - "Theme for New York City" - House of the Rising Sun (1975) CTI Moment

Grant Green - "Flood in Franklin Park" - Live at the Lighthouse (1972)



Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Long-Ass Car Ride Review! - Nate Najar, Tom Lagana

New feature on this blog! The long-ass car ride review: I take long-ass car rides, I listen to albums, I let you know if they're worthwhile.

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This week by coincidence I grabbed 2 cds from the unlistened to jazz shelf with very similar intents: Brazilian jazz headed up by acoustic guitarists who aren't Brazilian. The approaches to the music are extreme, with subsequently extreme results. One works, one irks.



Nate Najar - Aquarela do Brasil (2013) 3/10
This will hardly be a review, since the album both annoyed me and frequently blended into the road noise. There is no lack of talent here, Nate is a fantastic guitarist. There is just an air of pretension & pedantry that turned me off: "we are about to show you how Brazilian music is done". In addition - not that I follow Harry Allen that much, but he conjures up Getz here to a degree I'm not comfortable with. The best tracks are "Canto de Ossanha" and the title track, (known to the rest of us simply as "Brazil"). Bassist Tommy Cecil's "Samba for Felix" also has it's moments. As I mentioned - the cd annoyed me, but not enough to make me shut it off. I think there are plenty of jazz lovers out there who will love it to pieces.


Tom Lagana Group featuring George Garzone - Vol. 1 (2013) - 7/10

The approach to Brazilian on this album is very casual and relaxed. Occasionally this results in overly long ballads. By and large though, this is a highly listenable album with quality sound and performances. There are just a few legit Brazilian numbers (Jobim's "Outra Vez" is a nice opener, Ary Barroso's "Para Machucar Meu Coracao" is lovely but very long) along with a few originals, the best being bassist Tom Baldwin's "Bossa Moderna"; and pleasant standards ("The Shadow of Your Smile", "Moonlight in Vermont" and in particular the duo version of "Nature Boy" are all very worthwhile listens). Baldwin and drummer Dominic Smith provide appropriately minimal support for this setting with enough pep to prevent boredom. The whole show is Lagana - who plays with heart and very little pretense, and Garzone - whose tone is lovely as %^&* and who is in a very subdued mode, for the most part. I have not heard him play this way - it's awesome. The best track is a simple reading of Chick Corea's "Armando's Rhumba", with Garzone waking things up on soprano.