Jazzploration with Kendo - Jazz, Lounge and Disco

George Shearing - "Undecided" - A Shearing Caravan (1955)

Roy Ayers - "The Ringer" - Virgo Vibes (1967)

Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers - "Naima" - Yaina (1971)

Dinah Washington - "Cottage for Sale" - Dinah! (1955)

Ronnie Laws - "Living Love" - Flame (1978)

Eddie Henderson - "This Band is Hot" - Runnin' To Your Love (1979)

Roberta Flack - "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" - Quiet Fire (1971)

Lonnie Liston Smith - "Get Down Everybody (It's Time for World Peace)" - Reflections of a Golden Dream (1976)

Eddie Jefferson - "Jeanine" - The Main Man (1977)

Modern Jazz Quintet - "Vendome" - Pyramid (1959)

Herbie Mann - "Bird in a Silver Cage" - Bird in a Silver Cage (1976)

Wilbert Longmire - "Funshine" - Champagne (1979)

Anita O'Day - "You Came a Long Way from St. Louis" - All the Sad Young Man (1961)

Harvey Averne and Group Therapy - "Micro Mini" - Viva Soul (1968)

Dave Brubeck Quartet - "Take Five" - 25th Anniversary Reunion (1976)

Rickie Lee Jones - "Chuck E's In Love" - Rickie Lee Jones (1978)

Nancy Wilson - "Let's Fall In Love All Over" - Now I'm a Woman (1970)

Diana Krall - "Peel Me a Grape" - Love Scenes (1997)

Tadao Sawai et al - "Itsuki no Komoriuta" - Jazz Funk (1973)

Wes Montgomery & Jimmy Smith - "Night Train" - The Dynamic Duo (1966)

Dinah Washington - "Manhattan" - What a Diff'rence a Day Makes (1959)

Mixed and streamed live on 6-4-2024.

Playlist for 4-14-2020 Home - Shorty Show!

This week we delve into my vinyl collection alphabetically and listen to the shortest track of each album; making for good variety, interesting deep cuts and hitting up overlooked or forgotten albums. You can listen in the audio player above. Hope you enjoy - would love some feedback on this idea, whether I should continue with it! Stay safe - Kendo


John Abercrombie - "Reminiscence" - Gateway II (1977)

The lineup with Victor Felman

Cannonball Adderley Quintet - "What Is This Thing Called Love" - At the Lighthouse (1960)

Cannonball Adderley Quintet - "Sticks" - Mercy, Mercy Mercy! (1966)

Cannonball Adderley Quintet - "Walk Tall (Baby, That's What I Need" - 74 Miles Away (1967)

Cannonball Adderley Quintet - "Somewhere" - Swingin' In Seattle (1967)

Nat Adderley Quintet - "The Fifth Labor of Hercules" - Blue Autumns (1983)

Airto and his freaky album covers

Airto - "Ruas do Recifie" - Promises of the Sun (1976)

Mose Allison - "Saturday" - Back Country Suite (1957)

Mose Allison - "Spring Song" - Back Country Suite (1957)

Gene Ammons & Sonny Stitt - "Walkin'" - Boss Tenors in Orbit (1962)

Gene Ammons (Howard McGhee and The Blazers) - "Muggin' McGhee" - Heavy Sax (1962)

Roy Ayers - "Don't Hide Your Love" - No Stranger to Love (1979)

And then there's this

Dave Bailey Quintet - "Comin' Home Baby" - Two Feet In the Gutter (1961)

Chet Baker - "What'll I Do" - She Was Too Good To Me (1974) CTI Moment

Chet Baker - "You Can't Go Home Again" - You Can't Go Home Again (1977)

Gary Bartz Ntu Troop - "Africans Unite" - Juju Street Songs (1972)

Count Basie - "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and OUt" - Basie Picks the Winners (1965)

Count Basie - "Help" - Basie's Beatle Bag (1966)

Count Basie - "Hello Young Lovers' - Broadway Basie's... Way (1966)

Not to be outdone... Joe
amps up the freakage game.

Count Basie - "In The Still of The Night" - Hollywood... Basie's Way (1967)

Count Basie - "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" - High Voltage (1970)

Joe Beck - "Cafe Black Rose" - Beck (1972)