Jazzploration with Kendo - Love Show

 

An uninterrupted mix of jazz tracks focused on love; from classic tracks to hidden gems! Listen in the player below and thank you for visiting! (Tips welcome - venmo @kendo66) 

Chet Baker - "Like Someone In Love" - Chet Baker Sings (1954)

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

Miles Davis - "I Loves You Porgy" - Porgy and Bess (1958)

Grant Green - "Never My Love" - Shades of Green (1971)

Wes Montgomery - "What the World Needs Now Is Love" - Tequila (1966)

Carmen McRae - "Let There Be Love" - Live at Sugar Hill San Francisco (1962)

Gerry Mulligan - "Can't Buy Me Love" - If You Can't Beat 'Em Join 'Em! (1965)

Hubert Laws - "Where Is the Love" - Morning Song (1972)

Hubert Laws - "The Chicago Theme (Love Loop)" - The Chicago Theme (1975)

Billie Holiday - "Love Is Here to Stay" - All or Nothing At All (1957)

Quincy Jones - "Peace and Love" - Walking In Space (1969)

Sarah Vaughan - "Just a Little Lovin'" - Feelin' Good (1971)

George Benson - "When Love Has Grown" - Body Talk (1973)

Aretha Franklin & George Benson - "Love All the Hurt Away" - Love All the Hurt Away (1981)

Stanley Turrentine - "I'm In Love" - Pieces of Dreams (1974)

Stanley Turrentine - "Rocket Love" - Wonderland (1986)

Ella Fitzgerald - "Love Me or Leave Me" - Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson (1961)

Bobby Timmons - "This Guy's In Love With You" - Do You Know the Way? (1968)

Wilbert Longmire - "Love Why Don't You Find Us" - Sunny Side Up (1978)

Sonny Red - "If There Is Someone Lovelier Than You" - Breezing (1960)

Kiefer - "When There's Love Around" - When There's Love Around (2021)

Malou Beauvoir - "Is This Love" - Is This Love (2016)

Eric Gale - "Holding On to Love" - Part of You (1979)

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

Originally mixed and streamed live on Tuesday 8-13-2024.

Jazz Di-Vinyl 08 with Kendo

 

An uninterrupted blend of classic era jazz: hard bop, post-bop and vocal! Listen in the player below and thank you for stopping by!

Donald Byrd - "Eldorado" - Blackjack (1967)

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

Gene Ammons/Sonny Stitt - "Long Ago and Far Away" - Boss Tenors in Orbit (1962)

Sonny Clark - "Sonia" - Sonny Clark Trio (1960)

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

Billie Holiday with Teddy Wilson & Orchestra - "I'll Never Be the Same" (1937)

Bobby Hutcherson - "Little B's Poem" - Components (1965)

Red Garland - "A-Tisket a-Tasket" - Rediscovered Masters (1958)

John Coltrane - "After the Rain" - Impressions (1963)

Johnny Hodges & Wild Bill Davis - "Stolen Sweets" - Mess of Blues (1963)

Jon Eardley - "Leap Year" - Jon Eardley Seven (1956)

Sarah Vaughan - "It's Easy to Remember" - Wonderful Sarah (1957)

Lou Donaldson - "Blues Walk" - Blues Walk (1958)

Dave Brubeck - "Sometimes I'm Happy" - Jazz, Red Hot and Cool (1955)

Anita O'Day - "No Moon at All" - Anita (1955)

Walt Dickerson - "Evelyn" - This is Walt Dickerson (1961)

Count Basie - "Moten Swing" - Basie Jam #3 (1976)

originally mixed and streamed live on Saturday 8-10-2024.

Jisco Dazz - Disco Tracks by 1970s Jazz Musicians with Kendo

 

A fun set of authentic era disco tracks performed by jazz artists of the day mixed with a bit of downtempo for variety! Listen in the player below and follow me on Mixcloud for future jazz vinyl livestreams!

Idris Muhammad - "Baia" - House of the Rising Sun (1975)

Manhattan Transfer - "Twilight Zone" - Extensions (1979)

Joe Farrell - "Night Dancing" - Night Dancing (1978)

Quincy Jones - "Stuff Like That" - Sounds... and Stuff Like That (1978)

Quincy Jones - "Mellow Madness" - Mellow Madness (1975)

Return to Forever - "Jungle Waterfall" - No Mystery (1975)

Freddie Hubbard - "Rainy Day Song" - Bundle of Joy (1977)

Lalo Schifrin - "Towering Toccata" - Towering Toccata (1976)

Patrice Rushen - "Play" - Patrice (1978)

Bob James - "Heads" - Heads (1977)

Freddie Hubbard - "From Now On" - Bundle of Joy (1977)

Herb Alpert - "Rise" - Rise (1979)

Herbie Hancock - "Go For It" - Monster (1980)

Benny Golson - "Blues March" -I'm Always Dancing To the Music (1978)

Al Jarreau - "Boogie Down" - Jarreau (1982)

The Brothers Johnson - "Ain't We Funky Now" - Blam! (1978)

Patti Austin - "Razzamatazz" - The Dude (1981)

John Klemmer - "Forest Child" - Barefoot Ballet (1976)

Herbie Mann - "Etagui" - Super Mann (1978)

Don Sebesky - "Skyliner" - The Rape of El Morro (1976)

DJ Cam Miles Davis - "In a Silent Way" - Pantalassa (1999)

Maynard Ferguson - "Primal Scream" - Primal Scream (1975)

Player audio begins at the first Quincy Jones selection. Originally mixed and streamed live on 8-6-2024.

Jazzploration with Kendo - R-O-Y-G-B-I-V part 1

 

Hitting up the jazz spectrum and starting with Red, Orange & Yellow tracks. Red inspired a lot of vibrancy, Orange was a little under-represented but seemed to evoke inner reflection and Yellow was a bit of everything! Listen in the player below and thank you for stopping by! - Kendo

John Coltrane - "Miles Mode (The Red Planet)" - The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Sessions (1961)

Jimmy Smith - "(My Little) Red Top" - It's Necessary (1977)

Freddie Hubbard - "Red Clay" - The Best of FH Live and In Studio (1980)

Billy Cobham - "Snoopy's Search/Red Baron" - Spectrum (1973)

Jimmy McGriff - "Red River Blues" - Bag Full of Soul (1966)

Jimmy McGriff - "Red Beans" - Red Beans (1976)

Antonio Carlos Jobim - "The Red Blouse" - Wave (1967)

The New Tony Williams Lifetime - "Red Alert" - Believe It! (1975)

Brother Jack McDuff - "Gin and Orange" - Gin and Orange (1969)

Weather Report - "Orange Lady" - Weather Report (1971)

Charles Mingus - "Song with Orange" - Mingus Dynasty (1959)

Junko Onishi - "Orange Was the Color of Her Dress, Then Blue Silk" - Piano Quintet Suite (1995)

Cal Tjader - "Yellow Days" - Along Comes Cal (1967)

Cal Tjader - "Song of the Yellow River" - Several Shades of Jade (1963)

Herbie Mann - "Mellow Yellow" - London Underground (1973)

Herbie Mann - "Yellow Fever" - Yellow Fever (1979)

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

Herbie Hancock - "Butterfly" - Thrust (1974)

originally mixed and streamed live on 7-23-2024.

Anything Goes with Kendo - Inner City Blues

A mostly chill blend of soul jazz, straight-ahead, lounge, disco and sound theater. The second half of the mix is themed "Inner City Blues", sound pictures of crime and poverty ridden city life in the 1970s from the people who lived it. Plenty of groove and intrigue... listen in the player below. Thanks for stopping by! - Kendo

The Grand Award All Stars - "This Can't Be Love" - brass, bongos, flutes, and guitars (1961)

Tony Williams - "Tony" - The Joy of Flying (1978)

Harry Connick Jr. - "Anything Goes" - True Love (2019)

Horace Silver - "Sister Sadie" - Blowin' the Blues Away (1959)

Cassandra Wilson - "The Mood I'm In" - Coming Forth By Day (2014)

Baby Face Willette - "Something Strange" - Face to Face (1961)

Mark Johnson - "Pool Party Boogaloo" (2019)

Cal Tjader - "Round Midnight" - Along Comes Cal (1967)

Count Basie/Sarah Vaughan - "You Turned the Tables On Me" - count Basie/Sarah Vaughan (1961)

Chico Hamilton - "Transfusion" - Drumfusion (1962)

David Dann - "Tourist Trap (excerpt)" - Kojak (1977)

Walter Murphy - "Slaughter on Tenth Ave" - Rhapsody In Blue (1977)

Grover Washington Jr. - "Inner City Blues" - Inner City Blues (1971)

Sarah Vaughan - "Inner City Blues" - A Time In My Life (1971)

Ramsey Lewis - "Living for the City" - Sun Goddess (1974)

Kenyon Hopkins - "The Watery Grave" - Nightmare! (1962)

Herbie Mann - "Hijack" - Discoteque (1975)

Wayne Shorter - "Mack The Knife" - Introducing Wayne Shorter (1959)

Donald Byrd - "Street Lady" - Street Lady (1973)

Jack McDuff - "The City Bump" - The Fourth Dimension (1974)

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

Stan Getz - "Nitetime Street" - Reflections (1963)

Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - "Petty Larceny" - Pisces (1961)

The Crusaders - "So Far Away" - Crusaders I (1972)

originally mixed and streamed live on 7-16-2024.



 

Jazzploration with Kendo - Jazz, Funk and Soul Jazz

 

A mix of soul jazz, lounge, funk and straight-ahead with an emphasis on fun and groove! Limited announcements... listen in the player below.

Rita Ford - "Mandolin Mazurka" - Music Boxes in Hi-Fi (1963)

Weather Report - "Cucumber Slumber" - Mysterious Traveller (1974)

Carmen McRae - "Old Devil Moon" - with Mat Mathews Quartet (1955)

Kai Winding - "Sunrise, Sunset" - Dirty Dog (1966)

Wilbert Longmire - "Diane's Dilemma" - Champagne (1979)

Dave Brubeck Quartet - "Swanee River" - Gone With the Wind (1959)

John Scofield - "Chank" - A Go Go (1999)

The Brothers Johnson - "Ride-0-Rocket" - Blam! (1978)

The Manhattan Transfer - "Shaker Song" - Live (1978)

The Crusaders - "That's How I Feel" - Crusaders I (1972)

Herb Alpert - "Wild Romance" - Wild Romance (1985)

Billie Holiday - "Love Is Here to Stay" - The Silver Collection (1957)

Cootie Williams et al - "I'm Beginning to See the Light" - The Big Challenge (1957)

Grover Washington - "Winelight" - Winelight (1980)

Kenyon Hopkins - "The Loft" - Nightmare ()

Joe Henderson - "Black Narcissus" - Black Narcissus (1974)

Cal Tjader - "Canto de Ossanh" - Hip Vibrations (1967)

Sarah Vaughan - "Whatever Lola Wants" - Wonderful Sarah (1957)

Reuben Wilson - "Hot Rod" - Love Bug (1969)

CLark Terry & Bob Brookmeyer - "Dancing on the Grave" - The Power of Positive Swinging (1965)

Gabor Szabo - "Gypsy 66" Gypsy '66 (1965)

Originally mixed and livestreamed on 7-9-2024.

Jazz Divine-L 07 with Kendo

 

An uninterrupted two hour mix of jazz, lounge, soul jazz and light fusion featuring Sonny Clark, Ray Charles, Art Blakey, Billy Cobham, Sarah Vaughan, Duke Ellington, Rusty Bryant, lots more!
Listen in the player below and thank you for stopping by - Kendo

Episode 07

Sonny Clark - "Nica (Take 4)" - Sonny Clark Trio (1960)

Johnny Hammond Smith - "Black Feeling" - Black Feeling! (1969)

Sea Level - "Had to Fall" - Cats on the Coast (1977)

Art Blakey & The New Jazz Messengers - "My Romance" - Buttercorn Lady (1966)

George Benson & Joe Farrell - "Flute Song" - Benson & Farrell (1976)

Sarah Vaughan - "East of the Sun" (1950)

Gabriel Rene with Nicole Weisberg - "Don't You Cry" (2000)

Ray Bryant - "Midnight Stalking" - Gotta Travel On (1966)

Freddie Hubbard - "Theme from Summer of '42 (The Summer Knows) - Skagly (1979)

Cal Tjader - "Los Bandidos" - Along Comes Cal (1967)

Ray Charles - "Unchain My Heart" (1961)

Lauren Henderson - "Something Bigger" - Alma Obscura (2019)

Billy Cobham - "Heather" - Crosswinds (1974)

Howard Roberts Quartet - "Li'L Darlin'" - H.R. is a Dirty Guitar Player (1963)

Jack McDuff - "The Prophet" - The Heatin' System (1971)

Lena Horne & Gabor Szabo - "Watch What Happens" - Lena & Gabor (1969)

Dizzy Gillespie - "Baby Ain't I Good to You" - New Wave! (1962)

Allison Paris - "Crazy He Calls Me" - Second Chances (2003)

Duke Ellington's Orchestra - "Stompy Jones" - Historically Speaking - The Duke (1956)

Bing  Crosby and Rosemary Clooney - "Slow Boat to China" - Fancy Meeting You Here (1958)

Shirley Caesar - "Gotta Serve Somebody" - Rejoice (1980)

Red Garland - "Blues in the Closet" - Rediscovered Masters (1959)

Rusty Bryant - "The Ballad of Oren Bliss" - Soul Liberation (1970)

J & K - "Recollections" - Stonebone (1969)