Episodes
Sunday Dec 03, 2023
As Seen on Jazztodon
Sunday Dec 03, 2023
Sunday Dec 03, 2023
The bulk of this podcast episode is picks from Jazztodon.com. A jazz centric social media service that I post to exclusively. You can learn more about that through this episode while listening to some great tunes.
Playlist
Artist ~ Name ~ Album
Michel Pérez ~ Falling In Love With Love ~ Toujours
John Coltrane Quartet ~ Wise One ~ Crescent
John Zorn ~ Piopio ~ O'o
Soft Machine ~ Other Doors ~ Other Doors
The Dave Brubeck Quartet ~ These Foolish Things ~ Live from the Northwest, 1959
Joe Farrell ~ The Jazz Crunch ~ Sonic Text
Weather Report ~ Boogie Woogie Waltz ~ Sweetnighter
Sunday Nov 26, 2023
Hard Bop to Prog Rock
Sunday Nov 26, 2023
Sunday Nov 26, 2023
We've got hard bop from the 60's to Prog Rock of the '70s represented in this episode.
Playlist
Artist ~ Name ~ Album
Sonny Rollins ~ Alone Together ~ Sonny Rollins and the Contemporary Leaders
Toots Thielemans ~ Speak No Evil ~ Only Trust Your Heart
Hank Mobley ~ If I Should Lose You ~ Soul Station
Freddie Hubbard ~ Arietis ~ Ready For Freddie
McCoy Tyner ~ Sama Layuca ~ Quartet
John McLaughlin ~ Friendship ~ Electric Guitarist (Remastered)
Santana ~ Flor de Canela ~ Borboletta
Santana ~ Promise of a Fisherman ~ Borboletta
Sunday Nov 12, 2023
Autumn Celebration
Sunday Nov 12, 2023
Sunday Nov 12, 2023
We are right in the middle of Autumn, and this episode celebrates my favorite season. Great renditions of this season's classics by Hollyday, Sharpe and Kessel. Something new from Joey Alexander, something old from Herbie, and much more.
Playlist
Artist ~ Name ~ Album
Christopher Hollyday ~ Autumn in New York ~ Telepathy
Avery Sharpe Trio ~ Autumn Moonlight ~ Autumn Moonlight
Barney Kessel ~ Autumn Leaves ~ Autumn Leaves
Manuel Valera ~ Mov III -- Fall ~ The Seasons
Miles Davis ~ Fall ~ Nefertiti
Joey Alexander ~ Blue ~ Continuance
Herbie Hancock ~ Oliloqui Valley ~ Empyrean Isles
Cannonball Adderly Sextet ~ Unit 7 ~ Jazz Workshop Revisited
Sunday Sep 03, 2023
Honoring WS and 0 Gravity
Sunday Sep 03, 2023
Sunday Sep 03, 2023
This week's episode honors a recently released biopic on Wayne Shorter entitled Zero Gravity. The three part series is perhaps the best of it's kind I have ever seen. Also are some discoveries from jazztodon.com (a jazz-centric social media platform) from guitarist John Pizzarelli and drummer Johnathan Blake. The show ends with classic tunes from Nelson and Hubbard.
Playlist
Artist ~ Name ~ Album
Wayne Shorter ~ Black Nile ~ Night Dreamer
Wayne Shorter ~ Infant Eyes ~ Speak No Evil
Wayne Shorter ~ Footprints (Live) ~ Footprints Live!
John Pizzarelli ~ James ~ Better Days Ahead
Johnathan Blake ~ Tears I Cannot Hide ~ Passage
Oliver Nelson ~ Stolen Moments ~ The Blues And The Abstract Truth
Freddie Hubbard ~ Red Clay ~ Red Clay
Sunday Jun 25, 2023
Mostly Trumpet
Sunday Jun 25, 2023
Sunday Jun 25, 2023
Classic jazz trumpet dominate this week's Jazz and Beyond episode. Freddie, Kenny, Miles (with Cannonball) are all represented here. Add to that San Diego's premier trumpeter Gilbert Castellanos to highlight today's show.
Playlist
Artist ~ Name ~ Album
Stanley Turrentine ~ Sugar ~ Sugar
Freddie Hubbard ~ Gibraltar ~ Born to Be Blue
Kenny Dorham ~ Sao Paulo ~ Una Mas
Gilbert Castellanos ~ New Delhi ~ Espérame En El Cielo
The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble ~ Omnificent ~ Step Down
Charles McPherson ~ Well You Needn't ~ First Flight Out
Cannonball Adderley ~ One For Daddy-O ~ Somethin' Else
Sunday Jun 04, 2023
Episode June 4 2023
Sunday Jun 04, 2023
Sunday Jun 04, 2023
The first set is from San Diego cats Hollyday, Castellanos and Borgo. From there, classics by Hubbard, Trane, Kessel and Dizzy. Wrap it up with new music from Artemis and Walter Smith III.
Playlist
Artist ~ Name ~ Album
Christopher Hollyday ~ Kiss Me Right ~ Dialogue
Gilbert Castellanos ~ Espérame en el Cielo ~ Espérame En El Cielo
David Borgo ~ Yet Another Year ~ Cautiously Optimistic
Freddie Hubbard ~ Open Sesame ~ Open Sesame
John Coltrane Quartet ~ Lonnie's Lament ~ Crescent
Dizzy Gillespie ~ On The Sunny Side Of The Street ~ Sonny Side Up
Barney Kessel ~ The Look of Love ~ Autumn Leaves
ARTEMIS ~ Empress Afternoon ~ In Real Time
Walter Smith III ~ REVIVE ~ return to casual
Sunday Apr 16, 2023
Herbie at 83
Sunday Apr 16, 2023
Sunday Apr 16, 2023
It's Herbie Hancock's birthday celebration podcast episode. We've got him on the first four tracks of this podcast, in different settings. Certainly he is a living legend on the jazz scene today at 83 years of age.
Playlist
Artist ~ Name ~ Album
Herbie Hancock ~ Actual Proof ~ Thrust
Herbie Hancock ~ One Finger Snap ~ Empyrean Islands
Freddie Hubbard ~ The Intrepid Fox ~ Red Clay
Lee Morgan ~ Mr. Kenyatta ~ Search for the New Land
Gilbert Castellanos ~ Big P ~ Espérame En El Cielo
Bill Evans ~ Soiree ~ From Left To Right (Expanded Edition)
Isaiah J. Thompson ~ The Soul Messenger ~ The Power of the Spirit
Sunday Apr 09, 2023
Spring 2023
Sunday Apr 09, 2023
Sunday Apr 09, 2023
This is the spring edition of In The Groove. It is also the birth date of trumpeter Freddie Hubbard. We celebrate both of these with this week's podcast. Also of note is the release of harpist Brandee Younger with a featured track from her album Brand New Life. Saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin's latest release Phoenix wraps up this episode.
Playlist
Artist ~ Name ~ Album
Kneebody ~ The Trip ~ Chapters
Emmet Cohen ~ Venus de Milo ~ Uptown in Orbit
Brandee Younger ~ Running Game ~ Brand New Life
Freddie Hubbard ~ UK Forty One ~ UK Forty One EP
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers ~ Up Jumped Spring ~ 3 Blind Mice, Vol. 1
Milt Jackson ~ Sunflower ~ Sunflower
Joel Frahm ~ Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most ~ We Used To Dance
Lakecia Benjamin ~ Jubilation ~ Phoenix