Playlist for 9-4-2018 WFCF - 6 Year Anniversary!

A skinny younger me in Sept 2012 in the old studio!

On this show (I'm a little behind on posting!) we celebrated my 6th anniversary hosting jazz greats! We re-visited many of the albums played on that first show that aired 9/4/2012 as well as random awesome albums and new releases! Thanks to all who joined me! - Kendo


Hour One:

Bob James - "Boss Lady" - Espresso (2017)*

Hank Mobley - "Reunion" - Hank Mobley and His All Stars (1957)

Hank Mobley

            3:15 Jazz Coffee Break

Hank Mobley - "Ultra Marine" - Hank Mobley and His All Stars (1957)

Jane Monheit - "Love Me or Leave Me" - Taking a Chance on Love (2004)

Bobby Hutcherson - "Dark Side, Light Side" - Conception: The Gift of Love (1979)

Bobby Hutcherson - "Hold My Hand" - Conception: The Gift of Love (1979)

Thelonious Monk - "Bluehawk" - Alone In San Francisco (1959)

John Coltrane - "Vilia" - Both Directions at Once (1963)*

Thelonious Monk - "Blue Monk" - Alone In San Francisco (1959)

Hour Two:

Erroll Garner - "Gypsy In My Soul" - Nightconcert (1964)*

Gerry Mulligan - "Crazy Day" - Revelation (1957)

Charles Lloyd + The Marvels - "Blues for Langston and LaRue - Vanished Gardens (2017)*

Clifford Brown/Max Roach Quintet - "I Get a Kick Out of You" - (1954)

Andrea Brachfeld
photo by Maureen Plainfield

Dinah Washington with Clifford Brown - "I've Got You Under My Skin" - All Star Live Jam Session (1954)

Andrea Brachfeld - "Creating Space" - If Not Now, When? (2017)*

Stanley Turrentine with Milt Jackson - "Cherry" - Cherry (1972) CTI Moment

Stanley Turrentine with Milt Jackson - "Introspective" - Cherry (1972) CTI Moment

Hour Three:

Kamasi Washington - "Can You Hear Him" - Heaven and Earth (2018)* - The Ride Home!

Thelonious Monk - "Thelonious" - Underground ()

Dave Brubeck Quartet - "Take Five" - Time Out (1959)

Sonny Stitt and Paul Gonsalves - "S'posin" - Salt and Pepper (1963)

Jackie McLean with The Great Jazz Trio - "Appointment in Ghana Again" & "It Never Entered My Mind" - New Wine in Old Bottles (1978)

Steve Turre - "The Shadow of Your Smile" - The Very Thought of You (2018)*

Chick Corea/Return to Forever - "You're Everything" - Light as a Feather (1972)

Some great tenor playing!

Verve Jazz Ensemble - "Tangerine" - Connect the Dots (2018)*

Hour Four:

Chick Corea/Return to Forever - "500" - Light as a Feather (1972)

John Coltrane - "A Love Supreme Part 1 - Acknowledgement (1964)

Gary Burton Quartet - "Good Citizen Swallow" - Lofty Fake Anagram (1967)

Emerson Lake & Palmer - "Barrelhouse Shake-down" - Works Vol 2 (1976) for Jimmy's Pizza

Mahavishnu Orchestra - "Sister Andrea" - Between Nothingness and Eternity (1973) for Jimmy's Pizza

Paul Simon - "Questions for the Angels" - In the Blue Light (2018)*

Freddie Hubbard - "Sky Dive" - Sky Dive (1972) CTI Moment

Playlist for 3-27-2018 WFCF - 1973!

"Street Musicians at the Harbour" - LadyCannelle
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This week's show features music recorded in the year 1973! Like last week - I searched through the playlists so I could select tracks that have never been on the show before. Lots of 'em!  In fact, with little exception, all of the 1973 recordings are new to the show! Some choice new jazz cuts in the mix as well. Tune in Tuesday 3/27 from 3-7pm eastern by clicking here. St. Augustine, Flagler Beach, Palm Coast, Green Cove Springs etc can tune in at 88.5FM. See you then! - Kendo


Hour One:

Stanley Turrentine - "Too Blue" - Don't Mess With Mr. T (1973)

Ken Fowser - " Don't Look Down" - Don't Look Down (2017)*

3:15 Jazz Coffee Break

Flora Purim - "Love Reborn" - Butterfly Dreams (1973)

Paul Desmond - "Was a Sunny Day" - Skylark (1973)

Kamasi Washington - "Desire" - Harmony of Difference (2017)*

Josh Lawrence - "Circles on Black" - Contrast (2017

Leslie Pintchick - "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes" - You Eat My Food, You Drink My Wine, You Steal My Girl! (2017)*

Sonny Stitt - "The Midgets" - The Champ (1973)

Sonny Stitt - "The Eternal Triangle" - The Champ (1973)

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

Hour Two:

Cal Tjader - "Mambo Show" - Primo (1973)

Keith Jarrett - "One for Majid" - After the Fall ()*

Mica Bethea Big Band - "Guardian of Forever" - Suite Theory (2017)*

I've posted this cover before, but I never get tired of it

Kenny Burrell - "Listen to the Dawn" - Both Feet On the Ground (1973)

Freddie Hubbard - "Spirits of Trane" - Keep Your Soul Together (1973)

Margo Rey - "Speak Low" - The Roots of Rey (2017)*

Don Sebesky - "Fly/Circles" - Giant Box (1973)

Hour Three:

~ Flagler Files ~

Ron Carter - "All Blues" - All Blues (1973)  - The Ride Home!


Ella Fitzgerald - "Miss Otis Regrets" - Carnegie Hall 1973

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

Billy Jones - "Song for Meg" - 3's A Crowd (2017)*

Flying Horse Big Band - "Batmobile to Airport" - The Bat Swings! (2017)*

Joe Mazzaferro - "In Terms Of" - In Terms Of ()*

Charles Earland - "Asteroid" - Leaving This Planet (1973)

Joe Farrell - "Geo Blue" - Penny Arcade (1973)

Hour Four:

Gary Burton - "Tying Up Loose Ends" - The New Quartet (1973)

Airto - "Romance of Death" - Fingers (1973)

Billy Cobham - "Stratus" - Spectrum (1973)

Mark Egan/Arjun Bruggeman - "Framonics" - Dreaming Spirits (2017)*

Gabor Szabo - "All Is Well" - Rambler (1973)

Idiomatiques - "Indifference" - Out on the Town (2017)*

Weather Report - "Non-stop Home" - Sweetnighter (1973)

Herbie Hancock - "Vein Melter" - Head Hunters (1973)

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Playlist for 3-13-2018 WFCF - 1971 & Kai & JJ!

Jazz Cat - Drew Lyons
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This week's show featured music from the year 1971 as well as a great featured album by J.J. Johnson & Kai Winding and new releases! Lots of CTI - it was a stellar year for the label. Thank you for joining me. Tune in every Tuesday from 3-7 eastern with a break at 5 by clicking here! Much love - Kendo

Hour One:

 Kenny Burrell - "Do What You Gotta Do" - God Bless the Child (1971)

3:15 Jazz Coffee Break

J.J. Johnson & Kai Winding - "Georgia On My Mind" - The Great Kai and J.J. (1960)

Sonny Stitt - "Cry Me a River" - Turn It On! (1971)

Gerry Mulligan - "Golden Notebooks" - The Age of Steam (1971)

Astrud Gilberto - "Brazilian Tapestry" - Gilberto with Turrentine (1971) - 5:08

Michael Dease - "Live and Let Die" - Reaching Out ()*

Esquivel - "Who's Sorry Now" - Infinity in Sound Vol. 2 (1961)

Leslie Pintchik - "You Eat My Food, You Drink My Wine, You Steal My Girl" - You Eat My Food, You Drink My Wine, You Steal My Girl ()*

Hubert Laws - "Brandenburg Concert No 3 3rd movement" - The Rite of Spring (1971)

J.J. Johnson & Kai Winding - "Judy" - The Great Kai and J.J. (1960)

Hour Two:

Keith Jarrett - "Moments Notice" - After The Fall (1998)*

Kenny Burrell - "Be Yourself" - God Bless the Child (1971)

J.J. Johnson and Kai Winding - "Trixie" - The Great Kai and J.J. (1960)

Johnny Hammond - "It's Impossible" - Wild Horses Rock Steady (1971)

George Benson - "The Gentle Rain" - Beyond the Blue Horizon (1971)

Tim Tamashiro - "Sunday In New York" - Drinky (2015)

Ken Fowser - "Maker's Marc" - Don't Look Down (2017)*

Professor Cunningham - "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" - Swing It Out! - ()*

Johnn Hammond - "Peace Train" - Wild Horses Rock Steady (1971)

Hour Three:

~ Flagler Files ~

George Benson - "So What" - Beyond the Blue Horizon (1971)  - The Ride Home!

The Idiomatiques - "Indifference" - Out On the Town ()*

J.J. Johnson and Kai Winding - "Theme from "Picnic"" - The Great Kai and J.J. (1960)

Peter Sommer - "Mysterioso" - Happy-Go-Lucky Locals ()*

Joe Farrell - "Sound Down" - Outback (1971)

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

Hour Four:

Jack McDuff - "Pressure Gage" - The Heatin' System (1971)

J.J. Johnson and Kai Winding - "Going, Going, Gong" - The Great Kai and J.J. (1960)

Quincy Jones - "Ironside" - Smackwater Jack (1971)

Chick Corea + Steve Gadd Band - "Serenity" - Chinese Butterfly (2017)*

Go Go Penguin - "Raven" - A Humdrum Star (2017)*

Freddie Hubbard - "Fantasy In D" - Polar AC (1971)

Randy Johnston - "Out of Nowhere" - Shockwave (2017)*

Grant Green - "More Today Than Yesterday" - Live at Club Mozambique (1971)

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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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Playlist for 2-13-2018 WFCF - Days of the Week!

Laissez les bons temps rouler! I totally just copied and pasted that. Today's show is not Mardi Gras themed but instead (and for no reason at all) we're doing songs with days of the week in them. As usually happens with random, ridiculous themes, some very nice deep cuts popped up (Bobby Broom, Herbie Nichols, Hal McKusick, Tom Harrell...) and some fine recordings I wasn't really familiar with - including the opening number by Benny Golson. Should be fun! Tune in Tuesday 2/13 from 3-7pm eastern with a break at 5 by clicking here or at 88.5 FM locally. See you then! - Kendo


Hour One:

Benny Golson - "Domingo" - Horizon Ahead (2015)

3:15 Jazz Coffee Break

Frank Wess - "Monday Stroll" - Monday Stroll with Kenny Burrell (1957)

Cecile McLorin Salvant
Photo by John Abbott

Bobby Broom - "Lazy Sundays" - Upper West Side Story (2011)

Cecile McLorin Salvant - "Monday" - For One to Love (2015)

Kelly Green - "Sunday in New York" - Life Rearranged (2017)*

Hal McKusick - "Saturday Night (is the Loneliest Night of the Week) - Triple Exposure (1957)

Bruce Barth - "Tuesday's Blues" - Daybreak (2014)

Gary Burton - "Sunday's Uncle" - Guided Tour (2012)

Hour Two:

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - "Freedom Monday" - Soul Finger (1965)

Bobby Hutcherson - "Rain Every Thursday" - Natural Illusions (1972)

Kenny Dorham - "Blue Friday" - Quiet Kenny (1959)

Herbie Nichols

The Heavyweights Brass Band - "Hands Down Lo'" - This City (2017)*

Joe Newman - "Wednesday's Blues" - At Count Basie's (1961)

Sunny Wilkinson - "Friday Night at the Cadillac Club" - Into the Light ()*

Herbie Nichols - "Sunday Stroll" - Herbie Nichols Trio Vol 2 (1955)

Benny Golson - "Thursday's Theme" - and the Philadelphians (1958)

Hour Three:

~ Flagler Files ~

Jackie McLean - "Saturday and Sunday" - One Step Beyond (1963) - The Ride Home!  

Takaaki - "Evening Glow" - New Kid in Town (2016)*

Sonny Stitt - "Sunday" - Soul Shack (1963)

Lester Young - "Sunday" - (1946)

Jason Marsalis and the 21st Century Trad Band - "Bourbon Street Ain't No Mardis Gras" - Melody Reimagined: book 1 (2016)*

Andrew Neu - "Juggernaut" - Catwalk (2017)*

Dawn Clement - "Improvisation #3" - Tandem (2017)*

Hour Four:

Miles Davis - "Wednesday Miles" (excerpt "It's About Time") - At Fillmore (1970)

Soul Mann & the Brothers - "Early Sunday Morning" - Shaft (1970)

Tom Harrell
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Tom Harrell - "Sunday" - Trip (2013)

Fahir Atakoglu - "Saturday" - Live at Umbria Jazz (2010)

Jack McDuff - "Yellow Wednesday" - To Seek a New Home (1970)

Wayne Krantz - "The End of Wednesday" - Greenwich Mean (1998)

Jamison Ross - "A Mellow Good Time" - All for One (2017)*

Bill Laurance - "Ready Wednesday" - Live at Union Chapel (2016)

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Playlist for 1-23-2018 WFCF - Zodiac Show!

This week the show features song with zodiac signs in the titles! Fun cuts from Harold Ousley, Junko Onishi, Miles Davis etc with new jazz selections mixed in here and there. Tune in Tuesday 1/23 from 3-7pm eastern with a break at 5 by clicking here. See you then! - Kendo


Hour One:

Wynton Kelly Trio - "There Is No Greater Love" - Smokin' In Seattle (1966)

3:15 Jazz Coffee Break

Sonny Stitt - "Aires" - Black Vibration (1971)

Wayne Shorter - "Virgo" - Night Dreamer (1964)

Gerald Wilson Orchestra - "Virgo" - Legacy (2011)

The latest from a jazz legend!

Liebman/Murley Quartet - "Split or Whole" - Live at U of T (2017)*

Markley & Balmer - "Softly, As In a Morning Sunrise" - Standards & Covers (2017)*

Dr. Lonnie Smith - "Up Jumped Spring" - All In My Mind (2017)*

Hour Two:

Mulgrew Miller - "Soul-Leo" - Wingspan (1987)

David K Matthews - "The More I See You" - The Fantasy Vocal Sessions ()*

Bobby Hutcherson - "Aquarian Moon" - Happenings (1966)

Oscar Pettiford - "Scorpio" - Oscar Pettiford (1955)

I'm all about the pretty colors this week...

Woody Shaw - "In a Capricornian Way" - Woody Shaw (1978)

Carlos Vega - "Taurus and Virgo" - Bird's Ticket (2015)

Jason Marsalis and The 21st Century Trad Band - "Soot Sprites" - Melody Reimagined Book 1 (2016)*

Dawn Clement - "Ablution" - Tandem (2017)*

Hour Three:

~ Flagler Files ~

Junko Onishi - "The Tropic of Capricorn" - Piano Quintet Suite (1995) - The Ride Home!  

New Faces - "Delilah Was a Libra" - Straight Forward (2017)*

The Jazz Conception Orchestra - "Gemini" - The Jazz Conception Orchestra (2008)

This pair!

Paul Giallorenzo Trio - "A Way We Go" - Flow ()*

Ernest McCarty Jr & Jimmy Smith - "Gemini" - Reunion Tribute to Erroll Garner (2016)

Chick Corea/Steve Gadd Band - "Like I Was Sayin'" - Chinese Butterfly (2017)*

Hour Four:

Harold Ousley - "Little VIrgo" - The People's Groove (1972)

Sean Jones - "Piscean Dichotomy" - Live From Jazz at the Bistro (2015)

Charles Earland - "Aquarius" - Black Talk (1969)

Snarky Puppy - "Gemini" - Culcha Vulcha (2016)

Actually, I'm always about the pretty colors...

Miles Davis - "Capricorn" - Water Babies (1967)

Julian Lage - "Look Book" - Modern Lore (2017)* - 3:01

Van Morrison - "The Party's Over" - Versatile (2017)*

Carlos Vega - "Taurus On the Run" - Bird's Ticket (2015)

Playlist for 1-9-2018 WFCF - North South East West!

Today's theme is "North South East West"! All song titles will have one of those directions in them. Vinyl from Paul Desmond, MJQ, Donald Byrd & Stan Kenton; some ancient jazz, a few classics from Wes and Trane and lots more! Tune in today (Tuesday 1-9-18) from 3-7pm eastern with a break at 5 by clicking here. See you then! - Kendo


Hour One:

Farnell Newton - "Road to the South" - Back to Earth (2016)

Paul Desmond - "North by Northeast" - Summertime (1968) 

3:15 Jazz Coffee Break

Joey DeFrancesco - "Way Out West" - One For Rudy (2013)

King Oliver - "West End Blues" - (1928)

Michael Petrovich - "South Beach Samba" - Bella Luna (2012)

Airto - "Lucky Southern" - Free (1972) CTI Moment

Stan Getz - "East of the Sun (And West of the Moon)" - West Coast Jazz (1955)

Ty Cooper - "On a Slow Boat to China" - I'm All For You (2017)*

Jack Sheldon - "Pardon My Southern Accent" - Hollywood Heroes (1987)

Jeff Rupert - "The Norfolk Southern RR" - From Memphis to Mobile (2009)

Tom McCormick - "South Beat" - South Beat (2016)

Hour Two:

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

Sonny Stitt - "Eastern Style" - In Style (1981)

Stan Kenton - "Southern Scandal" - In Hi-Fi (1956)

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Thelonious Monk - "North of the Sunset" - Solo Monk (1964)

Wes Montgomery - "West Coast Blues" - The Incredible Jazz Guitar (1960)

Sonny Rollins - "Far Out East" - And the Big Brass (1958)

Donald Byrd - "West of the Pecos" - Blackjack (1967)

John Coltrane - "Central Park West" - Coltrane's Sound (1960)

John Scofield - "Southern Pacific" - A Go Go (1998)

Vincent Herring - "Eastern Joy Dance" - Hard Times (2017)*

Hour Three:

~ Flagler Files ~

Grant Green - "Hey Western Union Man" - Alive! (1970) - The Ride Home!  

Liebman/Murley Quartet - "Off a Bird" - Live at U of T (2017)*

Verve Jazz Ensemble - "This I Dig of You" - Swing-a-Nova (2017)*

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Paul Chambers - "Eastbound" - Chambers Music (1956)

Modern Jazz Quartet - "Two Degrees East, Three Degrees West" - At Music Inn (1956)

Dave Zinno - "South End Blues" - River of January ()*

Leslie Pintchik - "True North" - True North (2015)

Hour Four:

Bobby Hutcherson - "Goin' Down South" - San Fransisco (1970)

Tom Tallitsch - "Northeast" - Gratitude (2015)

Bobby Broom - "Upper West Side Story" - Upper West Side Story (2011)

James Farm - "North Star" - City Folk (2014)

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John Scofield - "How the West Was One" - Who's Who (1979)

Greg Skaff - "Somewhere in the Middle East" - Soulmation (2016)

Larry Coryell - "Westerly Wind" - Fallen Angel (1993) CTI Moment

Peter Erskine - "Northern Cross" - Is Dr. Um (2015)