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Friday, February 16, 2024

Jazz Divinyl 03 with DJ Kendo



Listen to delicious jazz served on warm vinyl with a side of snap, crackle and pop. Chill 70's era Buddy Rich featuring Sonny Fortune on the flute; jawdropping guitar technique and fluency from the incredibly overlooked Howard Roberts; classic and timeless cuts from Sonny Rollins and Horace Silver, irresistible funk from Patrice Rushen and large ensemble music as only innovator George Russell could present it. Variety is your key to happy ears. Enjoy in the player below and thank you for visiting! 

Originally mixed live on 2-6-2024. Image by Cottonbro Studio.




Buddy Rich - "Sierra Lonely" - Very Live at Buddy's Place (1974)

Zoot Sims - "Take Ten" - Zoot Sims and Friend (1976)

Lee Ritenour - "Dolphin Dreams" - On The Line (1983)

Howard Roberts - "If Ever I Would Leave You" - HR is a Dirty Guitar Player (1963)

Bobby Timmons - "Lorraine" - Great Jazz Artists Play Compositions Of Dizzy Gillespie (1962)

Sonny Rollins - "Blue Seven" - Saxophone Collosus (1956)

Bio Ritmo - "Chuleta" - Bionico (2008)

Patrice Rushen - "Hang It Up" - Patrice (1978)

Gabor Szabo - "Raga Doll" - Jazz Raga (1966)

George Russell Sextet - "Lydiot" - Ezz-thetics (1961)

Tony Scott - "Brother Can You Spare a Dime" - Tony Scott (1967)

Lalo Schifrin - "El Salon Mexico" - New Fantasy (1964)

Horace Silver - "The Tokyo Blues" - The Tokyo Blues (1962)

Sonny Stitt - "IT Might As Well Be Spring" - Dumpy Mama (1975)




Thursday, October 27, 2022

Playlist for Insomnia Jazz 10-27-2022




Broadcast on Mixcloud this morning pre-dawn... a set of relaxing jazz. 




Stanley Turrentine - "I Haven't Got Anything Better To Do" - Salt Song (1971)

Ella Fitzgerald - "I Concentrate On You" - Sings the Cole Porter Songbook (1956)

Donald Byrd - "Eldorado" - Blackjack (1967)

Cal Tjader - "Close Your Eyes" - Tjader Goes Latin (1958)

Lonnie Liston Smith - "Midsummer Magic" - A Song For the Children (1979)

Bill Evans - "All of You" - Sunday at the Village Vanguard (1961)

Gary Burton Quartet - "General Mojo's Well Laid Plan" - Duster (1967)

Sonny Stitt - "I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance With You" - Constellation (1972)

Ron Carter - "Blues Farm" - Blues Farm (1973)



Tuesday, February 22, 2022

Playlist for 2-22-2022 WFCF - Twosday!

 



It only happens every hundred years or so, and I just happened to be on the air. Other than that - it's just another Jazz Greats broadcast with featured albums by Gary Bartz, Milt Jackson, Wes Montgomery & Bobby Hutcherson. Found the playlist on my laptop and saw it hadn't been put here yet, so here we are 2 years later! Thanks for stopping by! - Kendo 

Hour One:

Milt Jackson - "Wonder Why" - Milt Jackson Quartet (1955)

Thelonious Monk - "Black and Tan Fantasy" - Plays the Music of Duke Ellington (1955)

            3:15 Jazz Coffee Break

Harvey Mason - "8:22 A.M." - Ratamacue (1996)

Thelonious Monk - "Mood Indigo" - Plays the Music of Duke Ellington (1955)

Duke Pearson - "Soulin'" - Prairie Dog (1966)

Modern Jazz Quartet - "Regrets" - Blues On Bach (1974)

Wes Montgomery - "Missile Blues" - Wes Montgomery Trio (1959)

Gene Ammons - "Jungle Strut" - Brother Jug! (1969)

Hour Two:

Milt Jackson - "Moonray" - Milt Jackson Quartet (1955)

Cal Tjader - "Mamblues" - Fritz the Cat Soundtrack (1972)

Sonny Stitt - "Imagination" - Mr. Saxophone (1950)

Charles Lloyd - "Slug's Blues" - Manhattan Stories (1965)

Gary Bartz' Ntu Troop - "Bertha Baptist" - Juju Street Songs (1972)

Heads of State - "Uncle Bubba" - Search for Peace (2015)

Bobby Hutcherson - "Catta" - Dialogue (1965)

Hour Three:

          ~ The Break Room ~

Lee Morgan - "The Beehive" - Live at the Lighthouse (1970)

Hank Mobley - "Advance Notion" - Hi Voltage (1967)

Charlie Earland - "Letha" - Black Drops (1970)

Wes Montgomery - "Satin Doll" - Wes Montgomery Trio (1959)

Bud Shank - "Lovin' You" - A Spoonful of Jazz (1967)

Hour Four:

Donald Byrd - "Pentacostal Feeling" - Free Form (1961)

Charlie Earland - "Sing a Simple Song" - Black Drops (1970)

Miles Davis - "Sivad" - Live Evil (1970)

Bobby Hutcherson - "Idle While" - Dialogue (1965)

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

Lou Donaldson - "Bag of Jewels" - Midnight Creeper (1968)

Tuesday, November 16, 2021

Playlist for 11-16-2021 - Jazz Greats!

The most recent pic i had lol...

I am not able to be at the station today. I pre-recorded the first hour for you guys but for whatever reason it wasn't aired. So here it is below. Thanks and hope you enjoy! - Kendo






Hour One:

Miles Davis - "Dr. Jackyl" - Milestones (1958)

Bill Charlap - "Out of Nowhere" - Street of Dreams (2021)*

          3:15 Jazz Coffee Break

Herbie Hancock - "Speak Like a Child" - Speak Like a Child (1968)

Bud Powell - "The Last Time I Saw Paris" - The Genius of Bud Powell (1951)


Charles Earland - "No Me Esqueca" - Leaving This Planet (1973)

Nina Simone - "I Loves You Porgy" - In Concert (1964)

Joe Henderson - "Lazy Afternoon" - Power to the People (1969)

Dexter Gordon - "For Regulars Only" - Doin' Allright (1961)

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

Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Playlist for 1-26-2021 WFCF - Featured Artists


 

This week we rather unintentionally had some featured artists, namely Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers, Weather Report, Amp Trio, George Kahn and George Wallington. Hope you had fun and thank you for joining me! - Kendo

Hour One:

Art Blakey - "It's You Or No One" - The Jazz Messengers (1956)

Uptown Jazz Tentet - "Uptown Bass Hit" - What's Next (2018)*

            3:15 Jazz Coffee Break

Cannonball Adderley - "Stars Fell On Alabama" - Cannonball and Coltrane (1959)

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

Wolfgang Lackerschmid & Chet Baker - "BalzWaltz" - Quintet Sessions 1979 (1979)*

Herbie Mann - "In Tangier/Paradise Beach" - Stone Flute (1969) request

Hour Two:

George Wallington - "Strange Music" - Jazz at Hotchkiss (1957)

Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five - "(Yes) I'm In the Barrel" (1925)

Art Blakey - "Carol's Interlude" - The Jazz Messengers (1956)

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

Amp Trio - "Intro - Community" - Three (2016)

Amp Trio - "Narhet" - Three (2016)

Amp Trio - "Hexed" - Three (2016)

The New Tony Williams Lifetime - "Fred" - Believe It (1975)

David Friesen - "Prelude" - Testimony (2019)*

Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - "Dream a Little Dream of Me" - 75th Birthday Celebration (1950)

Hour Three:

            ~ The Break Room ~

George Wallington - "The Prestidigitator" - The Prestidigitator (1957) - The Ride Home!

Dave Brubeck Quartet - "Take Five" - Time Outtakes (1959)*

Cannonball Adderley - "People Will Say We're In Love" - Portrait of Cannonball (1958)

Randy Weston - "Ganawa (Blue Moses)" - Blue Moses (1972) CTI Moment

Hour Four:

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - "United" - Pisces (1961)

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - "Ping Pong" - Pisces (1961)

George Kahn Quartet - "Just One of Those Things" - Dreamcatcher (2020)*

George Kahn Quartet - "I Feel Pretty" - Dreamcatcher (2020)*

Weather Report - "A Remark You Made" - Heavy Weather (1977)

Weather Report - "Teen Town" - Heavy Weather (1977)

Sonny Stitt with Jack McDuff - "All of Me" - 'Nuther 'Further (1962)

Herbie Hancock - "Vein Melter" - Head Hunters


 

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Playlist for 1-12-2021 WFCF - Music You Need To Hear!



There was no theme for this show per se, just some seriously solid tracks I've been wanting to spin your way for a while now, and this was the day to do it! Hope you enjoyed and thanks for tuning in! - Kendo


Hour One:

Richard Howell - "Moon Over Tiburon ()*

Charlie Apicella - "Four" - Classic Guitar (2020)*

            3:15 Jazz Coffee Break

Johnny Smith - "Sophisticated Lady" - Walk, Don't Run (1954)

Freddie Hubbard - "Brigitte" - Keep Your Soul Together (1973) CTI Moment

Miles Davis - "Bag's Groove" - Bag's Groove (1954)

Jesse Ryan - "Big Ole Shoes" - Bridges (2019)*

Larry Young - "Moontrane" - Unity (1965)

Hour Two:

Pat Metheny Dave Holland Roy Haynes - "All The Things You Are" - Question and Answer (1989)

Johnny Smith - "I'll Remember April" - Walk, Don't Run (1954)

Anita O'Day/Cal Tjader - "It Shouldn't Happen To A Dream" - Time for 2 (1962)

Art Farmer - Benny Golson - "Mox Nix" - Meet the Jazztet (1960)

Dave Brubeck Quartet - "Three to Get Ready" - Time Outtakes (1959)*

Jan Johansson - "Vem kan segla forutan vind" - Musik genom fyra sekler med (1968)

Jan Johansson - "Herr Peder och Malfred" - Musik genom fyra sekler med (1968)

Jan Johansson - "Vi ska stalla till en roliger dans" - Musik genom fyra sekler med (1968)

Jan Johansson - "Ack hogaste himmel" - Musik genom fyra sekler med (1968)

Bud Powell - "Marmalade" - Time Waits (1958)

Wolfgang Lackerschmid & Chet Baker - "Rue Gregoire du Tour" - Quintet Sessions 1979 (1979)*

Hour Three:

            ~ The Break Room ~

Charles Lloyd - "Slugs' Blues" - Manhattan Stories (1965) - The Ride Home!

Jimmy Giuffre - "Syncopate" - New York Concerts (1965)

Jimmy Witherspoon - "Money's Gettin' Cheaper" - Walk on the Wild Side

Sonny Stitt & Jack McDuff - "Sunday" - Soul Shack (1963)

Quincy Jones - "Happy Faces" - The Birth of a Band (1959)

Hour Four:

Freddie Hubbard - "Whistling Away the Dark" - Sweet Return (1983)

Hampton Hawes - "Hip" - For Real! (1958)

Lenny White - "Prince of the Sea" - Venusian Summer (1975)

Doug Carn - "Dimensions" - Jazz Is Dead 5 (2020)*

Scott Routenberg - "Intro (enter)" & "Light Smasher" - (Inside) (2020)*

Gil Melle - "Four Moons" - (1952)

Lonnie Smith - "Dancin' In An Easy Groove" - The Lost Grooves (1969)



Wednesday, April 15, 2020

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)




Tuesday, January 2, 2018

Playlist for 1-2-2018 WFCF - Happy New Year!




Happy New Year! Spinning a few Christmas acquisitions (thanks Jimmy & Rob!) on vinyl and some serious randomness otherwise. Hour Four is all recordings from the year 1969. You can tune in here 3-7 eastern. See you there! - Kendo

Hour One:

Sonny Stitt - "Calling Card" - Black Vibrations (1971)

Miles Davis - "Old Devil Moon" - Blue Haze (1954)

            3:15 Jazz Coffee Break

Sonny Stitt - "There Are Such Things" - Black Vibrations (1971)

Miles Davis - "When Lights Are Low" & "Smooch" - Blue Haze (1953)


Charles Earland - "Songbird" - Whip Appeal (1990)

Lee Konitz - "Subconscious-Lee" - Subconscious-Lee (1949)

James Moody - "Moody's Mood for Love" - James Moody Quintet (1949)

Barbara Carroll - "You're Driving Me Crazy" - Live at Birdland (2003)

John Coltrane -"Violets for Your Furs" - Coltrane (1957)

Hour Two:

Sonny Clark - "Minor Meeting", "Nica", "Sonny's Crip" & "Blues Mambo" - Sonny Clark Trio 1960 Time Sessions

Billie Holiday/Stan Getz - "Lover Come Back to Me" - Dynamic Duos comp. (1951)

Ella Fitzgerald/Chick Webb - "Undecided" - Dynamic Duos (1939)

Cal Tjader - "Bernie's Tune" - Mas Ritmo Caliente (1954)


Sonny Stitt/Bud Powell - "I Want to Be Happy" (1950)

Eddie Harris - "It Was a Very Good Year" - Mean Greens (1966)

Astrud Gilberto - "Traveling Light" - Gilberto with Turrentine (1971) CTI Moment

Stanley Turrentine - "Vera Cruz" - Gilberto with Turrentine (1971) CTI Moment

Hour Three:

John McLaughlin & The 4th Dimension - "Miles Beyond" & "Gaza City" - Live at Ronnie Scott's (2017)

Barbara Carroll - "Do I Hear a Waltz/Jitterbug Waltz" - Live at Birdland (2003)


Eric Dolphy - "Les" - Outward Bound (1960)

David "Fathead" Newman - "Skylark" - Straight Ahead (1960)


Miles Davis - "I'll Remember April" - Blue Haze (1954)

Ella Fitzgerald - "Cheek to Cheek" - Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook (1958)


Hour Four:

Charles Earland - "More Today Than Yesterday" - Black Talk (1969)

Grant Green - "Upshot" - Carryin' On (1969)

Jimmy McGriff - "Chris Cross" - Electric Funk (1969)

Herbie Mann - "Muscle Shoals Nitty Gritty" - Muscle Shoals Nitty Gritty (1969)

Kenny Burrell - "Just a-Sittin' and a-Rockin'" - Night Song (1969)

Bill Evans - "Soiree" - From Left to Right (1969)

Hank Mobley - "The Flip" - The Flip (1969)



Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Playlist for 7-18-2017 WFCF - Chunks of Vinyl & New Releases!

Fun cover from band that's anything but robotic!



On the air playing big chunks of albums on vinyl and plenty of new releases as well! Tune in Today (Tuesday 7/18) from 3 - 7pm eastern with a break at 5 by clicking here. See you then! - Kendo




Hour One:

Ed Thigpen - "Elbow and Mouth" & "Heritage" - Out of the Storm (1966)
Fascinating music - great lineup!


3:15 Jazz Coffee Break

Ron King - "Celtic Horizon" - Triumph (2016)

Harvey Mason - "8:22 A.M" - Ratamacue (1996)

Mica Bethea Big Band - "Love is Here to Stay" - Stage 'n Sound (2016)*

Walt Weiskopf - "Close Enough for Love" - Fountain of Youth (2016)*

Grant Green - "Take These Chains From My Heart" & "I Wanna Be Loved" - Am I Blue ()

Hour Two:

Ray Mantilla - "Cedar's Blues" - High Voltage (2017)*

B.J. Jansen - "Brandon's Blues" - Common Ground (2016)*

Sarah McKenzie - "When In Rome" - Sarah McKenzie (2016)*
Nice cover & these two sound great together!


Sonny Stitt with Red Holloway - "The Way You Look Tonight" & "Forecast" - Forecast: Sonny & Red (1976)

John Patitucci Trio - "Messaien's Gumbo" - Remembrance (2008)

Farnell Newton - "Arielas" - Back to Earth (2016)*

Wynton Kelly Trio/Wes Montgomery - "West Coast Blues" - Smokin' in Seattle (1966)*

George Benson - "Bayou" & "Hammond Bossa Nova" - Benson Burner (1966)

Flying Horse Big Band - "Raincheck" - Big Man on Campus (2016)*

Hour Three:

~ Flagler Files ~

Stanley Turrentine - "I Haven't Got Anything Better To Do" & "Salt Song" - Salt Song (1971) - The Ride Home!  

Ron Carter - "Epistrophy" - Yellow & Green (1976) - CTI Moment & Virgin Vinyl Sacrifice
Sealed before today's show!


Carlos Vega - "Bird's Up" - Bird's Up (2016)*

Abelita Mateus - "Discussao-Brigas Nunca Mais" - Vivenda (2016)*

Ed Thigpen - "Struttin' With Some Barbecue" - Out of the Storm (1966)

Hour Four:

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

Hiroe Sekine - "Sunshine" - One World One Sun (2017)*

John McLaughlin - "New York On My Mind" & "Friendship" - Electric Guitarist (1978)

Robotman - "The Chase" - Robotman (2017)*

Dylan Taylor - "The One of the Nine" - One In Mind (2015)*

Charnett Moffett - "Music From Our Souls" - Music From Our Souls (2016)*

Dave Liebman & Joe Lovano - "Ole" - Compassion (2007)*

This was a fun one to spin unheard, today!