Playlist for 5-26-15 WFCF - Jazz Greats!

Getting back in gear with a set list established for this week's show! More birthday goodies like the Donald Byrd above, a long awaited Johnny Smith cd and a sweet Gabor Szabo 2-fer from Impulse! Some old favorites, new finds and plenty of new jazz slots. Join me online Tuesday 5/26 from 3-7pm here, or listen locally at 88.5fm St. Augustine. Say hi on twitter or Facebook and see you then! - Kendo



 


Hour One: 1967

Cal Tjader - "Blues March" - Hip Vibrations (1967)

Roland Kirk - "A Laugh for Rory" - The Inflated Tear (1967)

    3:15 Jazz Coffee Break

Norah Jones - "Come Away With Me" - Come Away With Me (2001)

Gabor Szabo - "Corcorvado" - More Sorcery (1967)

Bobby Timmons - "One Down" - Got to Get It! (1967)

Miles Davis - "Pee Wee" - Sorcerer (1967)

Stan Getz - "Litha" - Sweet Rain (1967)

Johnny Scott Quintet - "Donna Lee" - Communication (1967)

Hank Mobley - "High Voltage" - High Voltage (1967)

Pete La Roca - "Bliss" - Turkish Women at the Bath (1967)

Hour Two:

Harold Mabern - "Fools Rush In" - Afro Blue (2014)

Jason Miles/Ingrid Jensen - "Super City" - Kind of New (2014)

2 stellar outings from Johnny Smith!

Johnny Smith - "This Can't Be Love" - The Sound of the Johnny Smith Guitar (1961)

Johnny Smith - "Misty" - The Sound of the Johnny Smith Guitar (1961)

Quincy Jones - "Killer Joe" - Walking In Space (1969) CTI Moment

Jacky Terrason - "Somebody I Used To Know" - Take This (2014)

Chris Washburne & the Syotos Band  "Low Rider" - Low Ridin' (2014)

Larry Coryell - "Polished" - Heavy Feel (2014)

Donald Byrd - "Nai Nai" - Free Form (1961)

New York Jazz Ensemble - "Jungle Noon" - Gone Native (1957)

Wes Montgomery - "Con Alma" - Bumpin' (1965)

Hour Three:  

Tom Stewart - "Let It Burn" - Flyer (2012) Ride Home!

Horace Silver - "The Jody Grind" - The Jody Grind (1966)

Wayne Shorter - "Juju" - Juju (1964) 

Gonzalo Rubalcaba - "Perfidia" - Suite 4 y 20 (1992)

Pat Metheny - "Midwestern Night's Dream" - Bright Size Life (1975) request!

Modern Jazz Quartet - "Summertime" - Modern Jazz Quartet Plays George Gershwin's Porgy & Bess (1965)

Andreas Varady - "Come Together" - Andreas Varady (2013)

David Sanborn - "Can't Get Next to You" - Time and the River (2014)

Annie Lennox - "I Put a Spell On You" - Nostalgia (2014)

Hour Four:

John Scofield - "Blackout" - Bump (1999)
Herb Silverstein - "Monday Morning" - Monday Morning (2013)

Dizzy Gillespie - "One Bass Hit (Part 2) - Odyssey 1945-1952 (1946)

Highly enjoyable live performances!

Lisa Kelly - "The Very Thought of You" - By Request (1997)

Chester Thompson Trio - "Follow You, Follow Me" - Approved (2013)

Harry Allen and Friends - "Mood Indigo" - For George, Cole and Duke (2014)

Aaron Diehl - "Uranus" - Space Time Continuum (2015)
Harry Allen and Friends - "Always True to You in my Fashion" - For George, Cole and Duke (2014)
 
Stan Getz - "The Telephone Song" - Getz au Go Go (1964)

Gabor Szabo - "Lucy In the Sky with Diamonds" - More Sorcery (1967)

Playlist for 5-19-2015 WFCF - Post B-day Show!

Cal's final recording!

Just finished another rotation around the sun, and I've got presents to show for it! Once again it'll be by the seat of my pants, but we'll hear music from Jim Hall, Sonny Stitt, Flora Purim, Dexter Gordon, Joni Mitchell, Wes Montgomery... and we'll continue to work our way through the Dizzy Gillespie and Savoy box sets! Plenty of new releases as well! Tune in today (Tuesday 5/19) from 3-7pm eastern. Listen online by clicking here. See you then! - Kendo

Hour One:

Jacky Terrasson - "Kiff" - Take This (2014)

Chick Corea - "Friends" - Friends (1978)

    3:15 Jazz Coffee Break

Joni Mitchell - "You're My Thrill" - Both Sides Now (1999)

Wes Montgomery - "The Shadow of Your Smile" - Bumpin' (1965)

Flora Purim - "Dindi" - Butterfly Dreams (1973)

Esquivel - "Lullaby of Birdland" - Infinity in Sound Vol 2

Perry Joslin Project - "Here We Go" - Perry Joslin Project (2003)

One of CTI's all-time best!

La Lucha - "The Way You Look Tonight" - Standards, Not Standards (2014)

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

Marcus Miller - "Xtraordinary" - Afrodeezia (2014)

Hour Two:

Collins/Shepley Galaxy - "Module 3" - Time, Space and the Blues (197?)

Collins/Shepley Galaxy - "Soft Landing" - Time, Space and the Blues (197?)`

Jim Hall - "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" - Concierto (1975)

Cal Tjader & Carmen McRae - "Heat Wave" - Heat Wave (1982)

Jamie Ousley - "Pasaje Tennessee" - Back Home (2010)

Stitt lookin' sassy in '72

Sonny Stitt - '"Speculation" - So Doggone Good (1972)

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

Sybil Gage - "Baby I Don't Cry Over You" - Requests from the Bar (2012)

Dafnis Prieto Sextet - "Triangles and Circles" - Triangles and Circles (2015)

Quincy Jones - "Dead End" - Walking in Space (1969)

Diana Krall - "California Dreamin'" - Wallflower (2014)

Hour Three: 

Flora Purim - "Butterfly Dreams" - Butterfly Dreams (1973) - Ride Home!

Harold Mabern - "You Needed Me" - Afro Blue (2014)

Dexter Gordon - "The Group" - Generation (1972)

Jason Miles/Ingrid Jensen - "Kats Eye" - Kind of New (2014)
 
Cal Tjader & Carmen McRae - "All In Love is Fair" - Heat Wave (1982)

Eliane Elias - "Brasil" - Made in Brazil (2014)

Skillful and unique!

Rez Abbasi Acoustic Quartet - "Low-Lee-Tah" - Intents and Purposes (2014) 

Sun Ra - "Where Is Tomorrow" - ? ()

Dizzy Gillespie - "Our Delight" - Odyssey 1945-1952 (1946)

Jose James - "I Thought About You" - Yesterday I Had the Blues (2014)

Hour Four:

Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - "The Egyptian" - Indestructible (1964)

Johnny Smith - "How About You" - In a Mellow Mood (1954)

Cal Tjader - "Borneo" - Several Shades of Jade (1963)

Brother Jack McDuff - "With the Wind" - Gin & Orange (1969)

Gary Burton/Keith Jarrett - "The Raven Speaks" - Gary Burton & Keith Jarrett (1970)

Thelonious Monk - "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth" - Alone in San Fransisco (1959)

Johnny Smith - "In a Sentimental Mood" - In a Mellow Mood (1954)

Quincy Jones - "Walking in Space" - Walking in Space (1969)

Good and spacey!

Playlist for 5-12-2015 WFCF - Wingin' It Again!

Wingin' it, again! Just playing the great jams today! Hope you enjoy. Tune in here! - Kendo



Hour One:

Jamie Ousley - "Hymn of the Tides" - A Sea of Voices (2012)

Jane Monheit - "Get Out of Town" - The Lovers, The Dreamers and Me (2008)

          3:15 Jazz Coffee Break

The Island Duet - "Pablo's Spanish Jam" -

Stevie Wonder - "Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing" - Innervisions ()

Scott Marischen - "The Kite" - Alligator Alley (2011)

Keith Jarrett - "Shaw 'Nuff" - Yesterdays (2001)

Jeff Berlin - "Lien On Me" - Lumpy Jazz (2004)

Harold Mabern - "The Chief" - Afro Blue (2014)

Jason Miles/Ingrid Jensen - "Super City" - Kind of New (2015)

Diana Krall - "I'm Not In Love" - Wallflower (2014)

Hour Two:

Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - "Mr. Jin" - Indestructable (1964)

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

Takuya Kuroda Sextet - "Grappa" - Six Aces (2012)

Cal Tjader - "Leyte" - Breeze from the East ()

Chaka Khan - "Goldfinger" - Classikahn ()

Bill Evans - "Emily" - You're Gonna Hear From Me (1969)

Freddie Hubbard - "Too High" - High Energy (1974)

La Lucha - "The Way You Look Tonight" - Standards, Not Standards (2014)

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

Dizzy Gillespie Sextet - "That's Earl, Brother" - Odyssey 1945-1952 (1946)

Hour Three:
 
Sonny Clark - "Royal Flush" - Cool Struttin' (1958)

Harry Allen and Friends - "Purple Gazelle" - For George, Cole and Duke (2014)

Kermit Ruffins & The Barbecue Swingers - "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" - I'm So New Orleans (2014)

Charles McPherson - "Bud Like" - The Journey (2014)

Wes Montgomery - "Wives and Lovers" - Tequila (1966)

Dave Brubeck - "Lonesome" - Time In (1965)

Cal Tjader - "Philly Mambo" - Live at the Funky Quarters (1972)

Joshua Breakstone - "I Told You So" - With the Wind and the Rain (2013)

Hour Four:

Larry Coryell - "Wrong Is Right" - Spaces (1969)

Larry Coryell - "The Way It Was" - Heavy Feel (2014)

Lester Young - "Body and Soul" - Jazz on Savoy 1957-1962

Gary Burton & Keith Jarrett - "Fortune Smiles" - Gary Burton & Keith Jarrett (1970)

Thelonious Monk - "Everything Happens to Me" - Alone in San Francisco (1959)

Duke Ellington - "Smada" - Blues in Orbit (1959)

Johnny Smith - "Walk Don't Run" - In a Mellow Mood (1954)

Cal Tjader - "Sonny Boy" - Mambo With Tjader (1954)

Pat Martino with Jim Ridl - "Oleo" - Nexus (mid 1990s)

Playlist for 5-5-2015 WFCF - Wingin' It!

Hey y'all! I'm doing a "Wingin' It" show, today, so no pre-planned playlist. Seat o' my pants! My interview with Jose Feliciano will air at 5pm eastern on today's show, and the jazz goes to 7pm. Tune in by clicking here or locally at 88.5FM. See you there! - Kendo







Hour One:

Wes Montgomery - "Tequila" - Tequila (1966)

Wolff & Clark Expedition - "A Night in Tunisia" - Wolff & Clark Expedition 2 (2014)

          3:15 Jazz Coffee Break

Louis Armstrong - "What a Wonderful World" ()

Ron Carter - "117 Special" - All Blues (1973) CTI Moment

Chaka Khan - "Crazy" - ClissiKhan (2004)

Roy Haynes Trio - "Bright Mississippi" - Roy Haynes Trio (1999)

Harry Allen and Friends - "In A Mellow Tone" - For George, Cole and Duke (2014)

Russell Malone - "Love Looks Good On You" - Love Looks Good On You (2014)

Diana Krall - "California Dreamin'" - Wallflower (2014)

Hour Two:

Charles Mingus - "Things Ain't What They Used To Be" - Mingus Dynasty (1959)

Charles Mingus - "Far Wells, Mill Valley" - Mingus Dynasty (1959)

Cal Tjader - "Leyte" - Live at the Funky Quarters (1972)

Gary Wofsey - "Sunlit Samba" - In Stereo (2000)

Ella Fitzgerald - "Lost In Meditation" - Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook (1957)

George Cables - "Cedar Walton" - Icons and Influences (2013)

David Sanborn - "Can't Get Next To You" - Time and the River (2014)

Jose James - "Body and Soul" - Yesterday I Had the Blues (2014)

Rez Abbasi Acoustic Quartet - "There Comes A Time" - Intents and Purposes (2014)

Hour Three:

Interview with Jose Feliciano!

Jose Feliciano - "Affirmation" - Greatest Hits (1975)

Thelonious Monk - "Round Lights" - Alone in San Francisco (1959)

Soul Mann and the Brothers - "Ellie's Love Theme" - Shaft (1970)

Art Pepper - "Ophelia" - Living Legend (1975)

Ed Reed - "The Song Is You" - The Song Is You (2007)

Eliane Elias - "Voce" - Made In Brasil (2014)

Jason Miles & Ingrid Jensen - "Kats Eye" - Kind of New (2014)

Hour Four:

Jimmy Smith - "Blues For J" - Organ Grinder Swing (1965)

Ray Obiedo - "Southern Side" - There Goes That (2014)

Mel Torme - "Broadway" Sings Sunday in New York ()

Gary Burton & Keith Jarrett - "Como en Veitnam" - Gary Burton & Keith Jarrett (1970)

Jacky Terrasson - "Dance" - Take This (2014)

Dizzy Gillespie - "One Bass Hit (part one) - Odyssey (1946)

La Lucha - "Warmth of the Sun" - Standards, Not Standards (2014)

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

Charles Lloyd - "Dream Weaver" - Live at Slugs (1965)

Playlist for 5-1-15 WFCF - Jazz Highway!

blurry pic I took on way home from station in October 2014

I'm filling in for Bob Blaize on the "Jazz Highway" show today! A few Kendo favorites plus a some new jazz. Tune in here today (Friday 5/1) from 5-7 pm or locally on 88.5FM. See you then! - Kendo




Hour One:

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

Kyle Eastwood - "Summer Gone" - The View From Here (2012)

Shelly Manne - "Bleep" - Perk Up (1967)

Lambert, Hendricks and Ross - "Summertime" - Lambert, Hendricks and Ross! (1959)

Miles Davis - "Floppy" - Miles Davis Plays the Compositions of Al Cohn (1953)

Cannonball Adderley - "Two Sleepy People" - and Strings (1955)

Freddie Hubbard - "Crisis" - High Energy (1974)

Kevin Eubanks & Stanley Jordan - "Blue in Green" - Duets (2014)

La Lucha - "Lullaby Medley" - Standards, Not Standards (2014)

Dave Stryker - "In a Sentimental Mood" - Messin' With Mister T (2014)

Hour Two:

Anita O'Day - "Sweet Georgia Brown" - Jazz on a Summer's Day (1958)

Matt Kane Trio - "John McKee" - Suit Up! (2013)

Count Basie - "Have You Met Miss Jones" - High Voltage (1970)

Chick Corea - "The One Step" - Friends (1978)

Duke Ellington - "Just Squeeze Me" - (1946)

Michel Camilo - "Poinciana" - Thru My Eyes (1996)

Brother Jack McDuff - "The Electric Surfboard" - Gin and Orange (1969)

Allan Harris - "I've Got the Blues (Lester Leaps In") - Black Bar Jukebox (2014)

Eliane Elias - "Aguas de Marco (Waters of March) - Made in Brazil (2014)

Marcus Miller - "Xtraordinairy" - Afrodeezia (2014)

Playlist for 4-28-2015 WFCF - Jazz Greats!

Kenny's 1st all-originals cd!

Put this one together this morning/afternoon! I Had different ideas for the show and then bailed haha. I did keep the hour of Sonny Rollins, going out to regular listener Barry. Looking forward! Tune in from 3-7pm eastern at 88.5 in the listening area, or online anywhere in the USA by clicking here. See you then! - Kendo


Hour One:

Eliane Elias - "Brasil" - Made in Brazil (2014)

Steve Turre - "Funky Thing" - Spiritman (2014)

    3:15 Jazz Coffee Break

George Benson - "Breezin'" - Breezin' (1976)

John Scofield - "Jeep on 35" - A Go Go (1998)

Kenny Burrell - "Con Alma" - Ode to 52nd Street (1967)

Joni Mitchell - "Don't Worry 'Bout Me" - Hear And Now (1999)

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

Miles Davis - "Donna" - Young Man With a Horn (1952)

Kyle Eastwood - "Summer Gone" - The View from Here (2012)

O Som do Jazz - "Batucada" - A Kiss for Rio (2013)

Curtis Fuller - "Blues-Ette" - Blues-Ette (1959)

Hour Two:

Billie Holiday - "I Loves You Porgy" - At Storyville (1953)

Sonny Rollins - "St. Thomas" - Saxophone Colossus (1956)

Sonny Rollins - "Softly As In a Morning Sunrise" - A Night At the Village Vanguard Vol 2 (1957)

Sonny Rollins - "Where Are You" - The Bridge (1962)

Sonny Rollins - "Valse Hot" - Plus 4 (1956)

Sonny Rollins - "Will You Still Be Mine" - Freedom Suite (1958)

Sonny Rollins and Coleman Hawkins - "Summertime" - Sonny Meets Hawk! (1963)

Sonny Rollins and Thelonious Monk - "The Way You Look Tonight" - Sonny Rollins and Thelonious Monk Quartet (1954)

Hour Three:

Cal Tjader - "First There Is a Mountain" - Tjader (1970) Ride Home!

Cal Tjader - "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life" - Tjader (1970)

Kenny Garrett - "Sing a Song of Song" - Songbook (1997)

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

Jacky Terrasson - "Dance" - Take This (2014)

Jose James - "Tenderly" - Yesterday I Had the Blues (2014)

Robert Kennedy - "Long Strides" - Big Shoes (2014)

Branford Marsalis - "I Thought About You" - Random Abstract (1987)

Marcus Miller - "Xtraordinary" - Afrodeezia (2014)

Hour Four:

Clifford Brown - "Gone With the Wind" - Jazz Immortal (1954)

Art Farmer Quartet - "Sing Me Softly of the Blues" - Sing Me Softly of the Blues (1965)

Donald Fagen - "Planet D'Rhonda" - Sunken Condos (2012)

Pat Martino with Jim Ridl - "Recollection" - Nexus (mid 1990s)

Freddie Hubbard - "Ride Like the Wind" - Ride Like the Wind (1981)

Larry Coryell - "Foot Path to Oasis" - Heavy Feel (2014)

La Lucha - "Love Me or Leave Me" - Standards, Not Standards (2014)

Charles Lloyd - "Invitation" - Wild Man Dance (2013)

Playlist for 4-21-15 WFCF - Album Party!

cant wait to unwrap and play!

Saturday was Record Store Day, and against my better judgement, I splurged... including my first ever RSD 10" (see above). I'm gonna try to spin a track from every thing I bought. Titles include Brecker Brothers, Hank Crawford, Mel Tormé, Sarah Vaughan, Charlie Byrd and Ray Bryant, and we'll listen to a whole side of "Lambert, Hendricks and Ross!". Plenty of slots for new jazz releases, and a few fun things along the way. Join me for the party from 3-7pm eastern today (4/21) on WFCF. Listen online here if you live in the US. We are also on Spotify (I think!) See you then :) - Kendo




Hour One:

Art Pepper - "What Laurie Likes" - Living Legend (1975)

Harold Mabern - "Fools Rush In" - Afro Blue (2014)

    3:15 Jazz Coffee Break
 
Count Basie - "Have You Met Miss Jones" - High Voltage (1970)

Annie Lennox - "You Belong to Me" - Nostalgia (2013)

Michael Petrovich - "Sunrise in the Land of the Pharaohs" - The Train to San Lorenzo (2004)

Miles Davis - "Moon Dreams" - Birth of the Cool (1950)

Maynard Ferguson - "Olé" - "Maynard (1961)

arrangements by Slide Hampton, feat. Joe Farrell

Jamie Cullum - "Interlude" - Interlude (2014)

Lambert, Hendricks and Ross - "Charleston Alley" - Lambert, Hendricks and Ross! (1959)

Lambert, Hendricks and Ross - "Moanin'" - Lambert, Hendricks and Ross! (1959)

Lambert, Hendricks and Ross - "Twisted" - Lambert, Hendricks and Ross! (1959)

Hour Two: 

Lambert, Hendricks and Ross - "Bijou" - Lambert, Hendricks and Ross! (1959)

Lambert, Hendricks and Ross - "Cloudburst" - Lambert, Hendricks and Ross! (1959

Wolff & Clark Expedition - "1999" - Wolff & Clark Expedition 2 (2014)

Sarah Vaughan - "I Feel So Smoochie" - Sarah Vaughan (?)

Artwork for this re-release is much cooler than
the original!

Les Brown - "Just In Time" - Swing Song Book ()

Mel Tormé - "Autumn in New York" - Sings Sunday in New York (1963)

Mel Tormé - "Lullaby of Birdland" - Sings Sunday in New York (1963)

Jose James - "What a Little Moonlight Can Do" - Yesterday I Had the Blues (2014)

Charlie Byrd Trio - "In the Name of Love" - Travellin' Man ()

Charlie Byrd Trio - "I Will Wait for You" - Travellin' Man ()

Eliane Elias - "Brasil" - Brasil (2014)

Hour Three:

Charles Lloyd - "Lady Gabor" - Live at Slugs (1965) Ride Home!

Sonny Stitt - "Samba de Orpheo" - Stomp Off Let's Go (1976)

Lambert, Hendricks and Ross - "Summertime" - Lambert, Hendricks and Ross! (1959)

Johnny Smith - "Walk, Don't Run" - In a Mellow Mood (1954)

Ray Bryant Trio - "It Was a Very Good Year" - Gotta Travel On (1966)

Ray Bryant Trio - "Bag's Groove" - Gotta Travel On (1966)

Wilbur Harden & Tommy Flannigan - "Well's Fargo" - Mainstream 1958 (1958)

Brecker Brothers - "Squids" - Don't Stop the Music (1977)

Hour Four:

Gary Burton & Keith Jarrett - "Moonchild/In Your Quiet Place" - Gary Burton & Keith Jarrett (1970) - 7:19

Count Basie - "It's Alright With Me" - Broadway...Basie's Way" ()

Russell Malone - "Suite Sioux" - Love Looks Good on You (2014)

 a seriously stellar outing! Very creative :)

Slim Gaillard & His Orchestra  - "Dizzy's Boogie" - Odyssey 1945-1952 (1945)

David Sanborn - "Can't Get Next to You" - Time and the River (2014)

Hank Crawford - "Funky Pigeon" - hank Crawfords Back"

George Benson - "Affirmation" - Breezin' (1976)

Dave Stryker - "Don't mess With mr. T"  Messin' with mister T (2014)