Friends of P - Jazz & Downtempo with Kendo

 

Jazz and electronic selections that feature the letter "P" in the title; starting with a stunning and evocative tone poem from Ferde Grofe; moving on to Debussy via CTI and the insanely talented Deodato! From there on out it's jazz, funk and electronic grooves - including some lesser appreciated artists like Sonny Red, Jerome Richardson and Howard Roberts. Listen in the player below! Thank you for stopping by - Kendo

Felix Slatkin and the Hollywood Bowl Symphony "Grofe: The Painted Desert"

Deodato - "Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun" 

Hank Crawford - "Funky Pigeon"

Sarah Vaughan/Count Basie - "Perdido"

Jerome Richardson - "No Problem" 

Woody Herman - "Ponteio"

George Benson - "P Park"

Bobby Hutcherson - "Poor People's March"

Sonny Red - "Prints" 

Jack McDuff - "The Prophet"

Salidor - "Eliye"

Paul Desmond - "El Prince"

John McLaughlin - "Goodbye Pork Pie Hat"

Mongo Santamaria - "Princess"

St Germain - "Pont Des Arts"

Salidor - "The Push" 

Ahmad Jamal - "Poinciana" 

Herbie Hancock - "Palm Grease"

Bill Laurance - "The Pines" 

Larry Young - "Paris Eyes"

Spacetime Continuum - "Pod" 

Leroy Anderson - "Plink Plank Plunk" 

Twink - "Hot Popper" 

Gabor Szabo - "People"

Howard Roberts Quartet - "Pretty Butterfly" 

Opa - "Paper Butterflies (Muy Lejos Te Vas)" 

Lonnie Smith - "Play It Back"

Corbin Andrick - "Pearhofjax" 

Chemical Brothers - "Playground for a Wedgeless Firm" 

Blazer Force - "Electronic Santa" 

Yellowjackets - "Past Ports" 

Freddie Hubbard - "Povo" 

Originally mixed live and streamed on 10/7/2025.

Mannequin Cha Cha at Macy's with Kendo

 

A mix of space-age pop, muzak, easy listening and light jazz for your frazzled spirit!

What you might here in an imaginary shopping trip when your guardian is taking way too long in the most boring departments, and you start to hallucinate... or is it real?! Listen in the player below! All audio except Jobim is taken from vinyl sources. Thank you for stopping by! - Kendo

Keith Textor - "Surrey With the Fringe On Top"

Joe Harnell His Piano and Orchestra - "Senza Fine"

Percy Faith - "I'll Take Romance"

Antonio Carlos Jobim - "The Red Blouse"

Enoch Light and The Light Brigade - "You're Getting to Be a Habit With Me"

Art Mooney and His Orchestra - "Adios Amigos"

Cal Tjader - "Violets for Your Furs"

Artie Butler - "The Whiffenpoof Song"

Lonnie Liston Smith - "Quiet Moments"

Mars Broadcasting Inc - "A&P"

Morton Gould - "The Birth of The Blues"

Living Strings - "To You Sweetheart, Aloha"

Doc Severinsen - "Goin' Out of My Head"

Esquivel and His Orchestra - "Time On My Hands"

Ruth Welcome - "Does Your Heart Beat for Me"

Stanley Black and His Orchestra - "Flamingo"

Bert Kaempfert - "Lonely Is the Name"

Peter Matz - "Canadian Sunset"

Andre Previn and His Orchestra - "What's New"

Henry Mancini - "The Breeze and I"

Thad Thongs Thay Tho Much - Jazz with Kendo

 

This week we go to the sadder side of jazz, songs that at least started out sad before our intrepid musicians got a hold on them. I'm not one to be gloomy, musically, so there are some upbeat numbers for sure (and exactly 2 Motown selections). Listen in the player below, and thank you for visiting!

The Supremes - "Come See About Me"

Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven - "Willie The Weeper"

Wes Montgomery - "Willow Weep for Me"

Sarah Vaughan - "Rainy Days and Mondays"

Clark Terry/Bob Brookmeyer Quintet - "Weep"

Hubert Laws - "Fire and Rain (live)"

Lynne Arriale - "Something I Can Never Have"

The Jazz Crusaders - "Eleanor Rigby"

Cal Tjader - "She's Leaving Home"

Al Di Meola - "Dear Prudence" (request)

Bunky Green - "Yesterday"

General Music Project II - "It Was a Very Good Year"

Grant Green - "Walk On By"

Grant Green - "Born to Be Blue"

Kiefer - "Crybaby"

Bud Powell - "I Want to Be Happy"

Ian Martin/Marty Gold - "Cinderella"

Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - "Tears of a Clown"

Frank Sinatra - "Once I Loved"

Idris Muhammad - "The Saddest Thing"

Sonny Stitt & Red Holloway - "Forecast: Sonny & Red"

Henri Rene - "Don't Cry Joe"

Mel Torme & Buddy Rich - "Here's That Rainy Day"

Herbie Mann - "A Theme from Cries and Whispers"

Thelonious Monk - "Blue Monk (Live at Newport)"

Chet Baker - "Autumn Leaves"

Count Basie - "When Sunny Gets Blue"

Brother Jack McDuff - "Cry Me a River"

McCoy Tyner Quartet - "Manha de Carnaval"

Jackie McLean - "Where Is Love"

John McLaughlin & The 4th Dimension - "Gaza City"

Bucky and John Pizzarelli - "Triste"

Dexter Gordon - "If You Could See Me Now"

Patrice Rushen - "Wishful Thinking"

originally mixed and streamed live on 9/20/2025.

Beachy Keen - Jazz and More with Kendo

Beach and sun themed show for those who like the beach and the prospect of an endless summer bliss. Anything Goes show with jazz and dabs of this and that... grab your imaginary beach blanket and listen in the playlist below! - Kendo

Seven Octaves - "Sunrise In Your Dream Apartment"

George Duke - "Dawn"

Kenny Barron - "Dawn"

Al Di Meola - "Here Comes the Sun"

Eddie Henderson - "Sunchaser"

Michel Camilo - "Suntan"

Gentle Giant - "As Old As You're Young" (for the Kaneadian's birthday)

Mark Egan - "Summer Fun"

Jack McDuff with David Newman - "Sunny"

Jack Sheldon - "Beach-wise"

Ronnie Foster - "Summer Song"

Stanley Clarke - "Hot Fun"

Beach Boys - "Do It Again"

Grover Washington Jr. - "Maracas Beach"

Michael Henderson - "in The Summertime"

Stan Getz/Joao Gilberto - "The Girl from Ipanema"

Gary Wofsey - "Sunlit Samba"

Zot Theatre - "Schoolhouse Avant-Garde Rock"

Andy Caldwell - "Tropicalis"

Eddie Henderson - "Sunburst"

Modern Jazz Quartet - "Sun Dance"

Kevin Eubanks - "The Sundance Began"

Jack McDuff - "The Electric Surfboard"

Ekseption - "Sunny Revival"

Pat Boone - "Love Letters In the Sand"

Weather Report - "Nubian Sundance"

Miles Davis - "Fisherman, Strawberry and Devil Crab"

Kenyon Hopkins - "Santa Monica Blues"

Donald Byrd - "Hello Bright Sunflower"

Howard Roberts Quartet - "Wave"

Johnny Hartman - "The Summer Wind"

Wilbert Longmire - "Funshine"

Tito Puente's Golden Latin Jazz All Stars - "Sunflower"

Stanley Turrentine - "Blanket on the Beach"

Originally mixed and streamed live on 9-23-2025. 

A Day In The Life Of The Sun

 

A little light theme for some shadowy days... sun jazz from Django Reinhardt, Coleman Hawkins, Thom Rotella, Al Cohn, Joey DeFrancesco, The Family of Mann, Michael Petrovich, Art Pepper and lots more! Listen in the player below and thank you for coming by - Kendo

Django Reinhardt- "The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise"     

Coleman Hawkins - "Almost Dawn"

Thom Rotella - "Dawn Is Here"

Al Cohn - "Softly As In A Morning Sunrise" 

Joey Defrancesco - "Arizona Sunrise"

The Family of Mann - "Sunrise Highs"

Michael Petrovich - "Sunrise In the Land of the Pharoahs"

Art Pepper - "When the Sun Comes Out" - Winter Moon

Gerry Niewood - "Sun Glow" - Share My Dream

UKO - "Sun Beams"

Dominick Farinacci - "Sunshine of Your Love"

Lonnie Liston Smith - "Sunbeams"

Takuya Kuroda - "Everybody Loves The Sunshine"

Benny Golson - "High On Sunshine"

Paul Desmond - "Was a Sunny Day"

Scott Hamilton - "East of the Sun"

Ramsey Lewis - "Sun Goddess" 

Victor Feldman - "Sunshine Superman"

Freddie Hubbard - "Sunshine Lady"

Ashleigh Smith - "Sunkissed"

Susan and Bob - "One of These Things"

Stanley Turrentine - "Sunshine Alley"

Twink - "Sun Drizzle" - Dust Bunnies

Woody Shaw - "Sunshowers"

Gato Barbieri - "Sunride"

Isaac Hayes - "Driving in the Sun"  

People Under the Stairs - "Sunroof"

Leo Addeo - "Sunny Side Up"

Cal Tjader - "Solar Heat"

Herbie Mann - "Sunbelt - Mulher Rendeira (Weaver Woman)" 

Bucky Pizzarelli with Bud Freeman - "At Sundown"

Jimmy McGriff - "Canadian Sunset"

Rough Guide to Tahiti - "Song for the Sea at Sunset"

Shopping with Mom at Korvettes - Muzak with Kendo

 

I indulged in some major nostalgia for this set. Namely; being in the back seat with Mom driving to and then shopping in some department store - and the musical style we were subjected to for both! Back then it could be mind numbing or even torturous, but now I find it kind of fun! Listen in the player below and thank you for visiting! - Kendo

Bernie Green and His Orchestra - Futura

Percy Faith - "Clair"

Dan & Dale - "Two Sleepy People"

Al Hirt - "Java"

Leo Addeo and His Orchestra - "On The Sunny Side of the Street"

Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops - "Up, Up and Away"

Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass - "A Taste of Honey" (request)

Billy Vaughn - "Moon River"

Henry Mancini - "Mr. Lucky"

Boots Randolph - "These Boots are Made for Walking"

The Hollyridge Strings - "Mrs. Robinson"

Dick Hyman and His Orchestra - "Cumana"

Henry Mancini/Doc Severinsen - "Theme for Doc"

Ferrante and Teicher - "I've Got Rhythm"

Artie Shaw and His Orchestra - "Frenesi"

Frank Sinatra - "Strangers In the Night"

Mixed and streamed live on 9-6-2025.

You Will Eat Leftovers and You Will Like Them! - Jazz with Kendo

 

Leftover jazz selections from the recent Safari and 80's shows proved to be quite tasty and fulfilling; followed by new themes: first a brief duck theme (in lieu of all the rain we had in Florida last week) and then a trip down the Amazon river! Many tracks never heard before on any of my shows! Listen in the player below and thank you for visiting! - Kendo

Nord Deutches Symphony - "Chase and Kill from 'Safari'"

Mandrill - "Funky Monkey"

Gil Melle - "A Lion Lives Here"

Fila Brazillia - "President Chimp Toe"

Mark Egan - "Jungle Walk"

The Young Lions - "Breakin'"

Sonny Stitt - "The Night Has A Thousand Eyes"

Cal Tjader - "Naima"

Freddie Hubbard - "Dual Force"

Stanley Turrentine - "Plum"

Dave Valentin with Angela Bofill - "Can't Change My Heart"

Oscar Peterson - "Lulu's Back in Town"

Michel Camilo - "On The Other Hand"

Itzhak Perlman Andre Previn Shelly Manne et al - "The Five of Us"

Miles Davis - "Tutu"

Tom Scott - "Chunk O' Funk"

Tony Williams - "Para Oriente"

The Forty-Niners - "Ducks On Parade" (Storytime)

Lemon Jelly - "Nice Weather for Ducks"

Rusty Bryant - "Cold Duck Time"

Clare Fischer Latin Jazz Big Band - "La Mucura"

Johnny Smith - "Jaguar"

Gabor Szabo - "Amazon"

Cal Tjader - "Amazon"

Miles Davis - "The Little Blue Frog (alternate take)"