In the Groove, Jazz and Beyond

Greg and Kenny Magic

This week's episode features the anticipated album from Greg Abate, Magic Dance, the music of Kenny Barron (with KB on piano). After Greg's release, let's hear more Kenny B in a trio and duet setting. Also featured are some great female jazz artists with Holly Hofmann and Artemis. The show concludes with a young talented guitarist, Dan Liparini. 

Playlist
Artist ~ Name ~ Album
Greg Abate ~ Innocence ~ Magic Dance
Greg Abate ~ Rain ~ Magic Dance
Kenny Barron Trio ~ In the Slow Lane ~ Book of Intuition
Kenny Barron & Dave Holland ~ Seascape ~ The Art of Conversation
Larry Young ~ Softly As In A Morning Sunrise (Remastered) ~ Unity
ARTEMIS ~ Step Forward ~ Artemis
Holly Hofmann Quartet ~ Brown Bossa (Live) ~ Live At Birdland
Dan Liparini ~ 06 Convergence ~ Tessellations

Spring 2021

Shake off those Winter doldrums and get into the feeling of Spring with this weeks playlist. We feature those Spring standards you love and some new Spring tunes you may not have heard.

Playlist
Artist ~ Name ~ Album
Freddie Hubbard ~ Up Jumped Spring (LP Version) ~ Backlash
Holographic Principle ~ Spring ~ Dance Of The Great Spirit
Joe Lovano Quintet ~ Birds Of Springtime Gone By ~ Village Rhythm
Eric Alexander ~ You Must Believe In Spring ~ Revival Of The Fittest
Toots Thielemans ~ Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most - West Coast ~ East Coast West Coast
Jack McDuff ~ April In Paris ~ Brotherly Love
Warren Byrd ~ Where Is Spring ~ Truth Raised Twice
Hank Mobley ~ This I Dig Of You ~ Soul Station
Pharoah Sanders ~ Lonnie's Lament ~ Crescent With Love (Disc 1)

Wynton, Gilbert,Dexter and more

An eclectic episode with new music, traditional, hard-bop, harp/bass duet and Indian fusion. Something for everyone?

Playlist
Artist ~ Name ~ Album
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra & Wynton Marsalis ~ Be Present ~ The Democracy! Suite
Joe Farnsworth ~ Down by the Riverside ~ Time to Swing
Gilbert Castellanos ~ Marlo ~ Underground
Rob Thorsen ~ Dexterity ~ Lasting Impression
Emmet Cohen ~ Future Stride ~ Future Stride
Dexter Gordon ~ Cheese Cake ~ Go
Dezron Douglas & Brandee Younger ~ This Woman's Work ~ Force Majeure
Zakir Hussain ~ Making Music ~ Making Music

RIP Maestro for CC

Last week we learned of the passing on of jazz master and beloved musician Chick Corea. He had a profound impact on my life, and his music was a gateway to my love of jazz music. This podcast pays homage to Armando (Chick) Corea. I don't think there is another musician who expressed so much love for music as an art form.

Playlist
Artist ~ Name ~ Album
Return To Forever ~ Captain Senor Mouse ~ Return To The 7th Galaxy - Disc 1
Chick Corea ~ Litha ~ Tone's for Joan's Bones
Gary Burton & Chick Corea ~ Crystal Silence ~ Crystal Silence
Chick Corea ~ Armando’s Rhumba (feat. The Spanish Heart Band) ~ Antidote
Stan Getz ~ La Fiesta ~ Captain Marvel
Chick Corea, Christian McBride & Brian Blade ~ 500 Miles High ~ Trilogy 2

Rock Covers and Standards

This episode begins with covers of pop tunes from Wonder and Hendrix. From there we hear interesting arrangements of standards by Dan Arcamone and Dan Pugach. Other great jazz follows to close out this week's show.

Playlist
Artist ~ Name ~ Album
ARTEMIS ~ If It's Magic (feat. Cécile McLorin Salvant) ~ Artemis
Joe Farrell ~ Too High ~ Penny Arcade
Tony Davis ~ May This Be Love ~ Golden Year
The Gil Evans Orchestra ~ Angel ~ Plays the Music of Jimi Hendrix
Dan Arcamone ~ little sunflower ~ Standards, Vol 1
Dan Pugach Nonet (feat. Nicole Zuraitis) ~ My Favorite Things ~ Single
George Duke ~ Capricorn ~ Faces In Reflection
Emmet Cohen ~ Future Stride ~ Future Stride
Hank Mobley ~ Up a Step ~ No Room for Squares

Move Up Joe

This week's episode begins in celebration of Biden's ascension to POTUS, with a track he used during the campaign. We follow with a variety of tunes, new and old. Of note are a couple duets. One with DeJohnette and John Surman, another with McPartland and Corea. The episode concludes paying tribute to the late Lee Konitz.

Playlist
Artist ~ Name ~ Album
Curtis Mayfield ~ Move On Up ~ Curtis
Matt Dwonszyk ~ Weak Incentive ~ Wonderful World
Billy Childs ~ Leimert Park ~ Acceptance
Jack DeJohnette & John Surman ~ Nestor's Saga (The Tale of the Ancient) ~ The Amazing Adventures of Simon Simon
Chick Corea & Marian McPartland ~ Spain ~ Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz Radio Broadcast (With Chick Corea)
Emmet Cohen ~ Dardanella ~ Future Stride
Lee Konitz ~ You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To ~ Motion

Goodbye 45

This music in this podcast has nothing to do with our 45th president. It is just a celebration of his leaving of office, and a hope we can someday return to "normalcy".

Playlist
Artist ~ Name ~ Album
Lakecia Benjamin ~ Pursuance ~ Pursuance : The Coltranes
Corea, Clarke & White ~ On Green Dolphin Street ~ Forever
Cannonball Adderley ~ Minority ~ Portrait Of Cannonball
Cannonball Adderley ~ Gemini ~ In New York
Dan Arcamone ~ witch hunt ~ Standards, Vol 1
Greg Abate and the Tim Ray Trio ~ Mr. Parker ~ Road to Forever
Toots Thielemans ~ Ornithology ~ East Coast West Coast
Trombeatz ~ Something New ~ A Caribbean Thing - EP

America 2021

It has been a surreal week in politics in the USA. When this happens, I usually have something to say about it. I've brought you some good jazz music too. 

Playlist 
Artist ~ Track ~ Album
Dan Arcamone ~ maiden voyage ~ Standards, Vol 1
Dan Liparini ~ Salamander ~ Tessellations
Tony Davis ~ Orange Feathers ~ Golden Year
Charlie Haden ~ This Is Not America ~ Not In Our Name
Weather Report ~ American Tango ~ Mysterious Traveller
John Coltrane Quartet ~ Africa [First Version] ~ The Complete Africa/Brass Sessions
Joel Ross ~ After the Rain ~ Who Are You?
Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke & Lenny White ~ After The Cosmic Rain ~ Forever