Jazz Connection 11/22/09

Congrats to the Luther College Jazz Orchestra on a great concert this afternoon!

Here's the playlist for tonight. No show next week, but I'll be back the week after with Holiday Jazz favorites for all of my favorite listers. Thanks, as always, for listening.

Take care.

1. James Booker - Junco Partner - Junco Partner
2. Sophie Milman - Take Love Easy - Love for Sale
3. Roy Haynes - Love Letters - Love Letters
4. Regina Carter - Paganini: After A Dream - Oblivion
5. Stephane Grappelli, Joe Pass, and NHOP - Live at Tivoli Gardens - Crazy Rhythm
6. Dana Hall - Into the Light - For Rockelle
7. Darryl Harper - Stories in Real Time - Pressing
8. Holland/ Rubalcaba/ Potter/ Harland - The Monterey Quartet Live at the 2007 Monterey Jazz Fest - Veil of Tears
9. James Weidman - Three Worlds - Joshua Fit The Battle of Jericho

Jazz Connection 11.15.09

Playlist for this evening. Thanks for listening!

1) Allen Toussaint - The Bright Mississippi - Egyptian Fantasy
2) Diverse - Diverse - Sojorner
3) Bug - The Gadfly - Wishful Thinking
4) Joe Martin - Not By Chance - Far
5) David Widelock Trio - Skating on the Sidewalk - Little Orphunk Annie
6) John Wojciechowski - Lexicon - Jazz Folk Song
7) Bill Frisell - Have a Little Faith - The Open Prairie
8) Bill Frisell - Have a Little Faith - Street Scene in a Frontier Town
9) John Coltrane - Side Steps - Under the Paris Skies feat. Ray Draper (tuba)
10) Plunge - Falling With Grace - Mungo
11) Gretchen Parlato - In A Dream - On The Other Side
12) Roberta Gambarini - So In Love - This Is Always
13) Mike Rinta - Eponymous - Don't Burn The Roux
14) Roy Hargrove Big Band - Emergence - Tschapiso
15) Fahir Atakoglu - Faces and Places - NY Retrospective
16) Q'd Up - Quintessence - Beyond Your Wildest Dreams
17) AJ Kluth Quintet - Twice Now - Red
18) Jon Irabagon - The Observer - Closing Arguments

Jazz Connection 11/8/09

Hey KWLC fans. Thanks for tuning in to jazz programing on 1240am and kwlc.luther.edu

70 degrees here in Decorah. Just thought I'd let you know.

Here's the playlist for tonight.

1. Eldar Djangirov - Virtue - Estate
2. Ricky Sweum - Pulling Your Own Strings - Hot Sunny Day
3. Dee Dee Bridgewater - Live @ Yoshi's - (I'd Like To Get You On A) Slow Boat to China)
4. Michael Brecker - Nearness of You - My Ship
5. Kenny Garrett - Standard of Language - Chief Blackwater
6. Vijay Iyer Trio - Historicity - Galang => Helix
7. Tony Bennett - All Time Greatest Hits - Love Look Away
8. Anne Drummond - Like Water - Afoxamba
9. Luther College Jazz Quintet + Pete Russella - Jon Ailabouni's Senior Trumpet Recital - Miles Runs the Voodoo Down

Jazz Connection 11/1

Happy Sunday everyone. Super cool progressive play list tonight. Thanks for listening.

1) Ulf Wakenius - Love is Real - Dodge The Dodo
2) Mike Stern - Big Neighborhood - Check One
3) Taylor Eigsti - Let It Come To You - Less Free Will
4) Brian Blade and The Fellowship Band - Season of Changes - Stoner Hill
5) Dave Holland, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Chris Potter, Eric Harland - The Monterey Quartet: Live at the 2007 Monterey Jazz Festival - Otra Mirada
6) The Bad Plus - Blunt Object: Live in Tokyo - Heart of Glass
7) Bill Anschell and Brent Jensen - We Couldn't Agree More - You and the Night and the Music
8) Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet - Tabligh - Caravan of Winter

Extra Brian Blade footage

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Jazz Connection 10.25.09 (2wice as long)

Hey jazz fans. Here is the playlist for this special 2-hour long program.

As always, listen to kwlc.luther.edu every weekday night from 10p-1a (starting at 9p on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday) at all day Saturday and Sunday (7a-1a)

Artist - Album - Song
1) Diane Schuur and The Count Basie Orchestra - Deedles' Blues
2) Gretchen Parlato - In a Dream - I Can't Help It
3) Benny Reid - Escaping Shadows - Always and Forever
4) Vijay Iyer Trio - Historicity - Mystic Brew
5) Gerald Wilson Orchestra - Jazz: The 60's Volume II - Pacific Jazz - Lighthouse Blues
6) Tony Foster - In Between Moods - Take The 'A' Train
7) Christian McBride and Inside Straight - Kind of Brown - Used 'ta Could
8) Sidney Bechet - Sidney Bechet - On The Sunny Side of the Street
9) Tatum, Hampton, Rich - Tatum, Hampton, Rich...again - Prisoner of Love
10) Serge Gainsbourg - Du jazz dans le ravin - Black Trombone
11) Josh Moshier and Mike Lebrun - Joy Not Jaded - Avocado Soul
12) Edward Ratcliff - Those Moments Before - March for a Lost Cause
13) The Roy Hargrove/ Christian McBride/ Stephen Scott Trio - Parker's Mood - Laird Baird
14) Medeski Martin and Wood - Radiolarians III - Undone
15) Jim Hall - By Arrangement - Django
16) Plunge - Falling with Grace - Beneath The Wheel
17) B.D. Lenz - Hit It and Quit - Hit It and Quit
18) Stefon Harris and Blackout - Urbanus - Minor March
19) The RH Factor - Hard Groove - I'll Stay
20) Stanley Clarke, Al DiMeola, Jean-Luc Ponty - The Rite of Strings - Renassaince
21) Von and Chico Freeman - Fathers and Sons - Jug Ain't Gone

Jazz Connection 10-11-09

Good evening everyone. Here's the playlist from tonight's program.

Artist - Album - Song
1) Roy Hargrove Big Band - Emergence - Mambo for Ray
2) John Patitucci Trio - Remembrance - Blues For Freddie
3) Eldar - Virtue - Lullaby Fantazia
4) David Holland Quartet - Conference of the Birds - Four Winds
5) Jeff "Tain" Watts - Watts - Katrina James
6) Abdullah Ibrahim - Water from an Ancient Well - Manenberg Revisited
7) George Shearing Trio - Getting In The Swing of Things (Featuring Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen and Louis Stewart) - My Little Anna
8) John Wojciechowski - Lexicon - You Want What You Can't Have
9) Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers - Mirage - Ugh!

Thanks for listening! Any requests for the next few weeks, feel free to leave them here or email them to russpe01@luther.edu .

Jazz Connection 10/4

I've recently spent far too much money on Amazon.com. For what it's worth, I did it for you. All of you jazz fans in North Eastern Iowa...I've brought in a shipment that will substantially increase my record collection, and you'll get to hear snippets of it over the next few weeks.

Anyway, here's the play list for this evening. Hope you liked the program.

1) Poncho Sanchez - Psychedelic Blues - Psychedelic Blues
2) Bobby Broom - Plays for Monk - Lulu's Back in Town
3) Tigran Hamasyan - Red Hail (Aratta Rebirth) - Love Song
4) Ginger Baker Trio - Going Back Home - Rambler (link isn't the same song, but its close)
5) Dave Douglas Brass Ecstasy - Spirit Moves - Twilight of the Dogs
6) Dexter Gordon - More Power! - Fried Bananas
7) Dexter Gordon - Blues Walk! - Blues Walk
8) Rebirth Brass Band - The Main Even: Live at the Maple Leaf - It's All Over Now
9) Stanton Moore Trio - Emphasis on Prenthesis - (Late Night at the) Maple Leaf

Don't forget, Jazz airs on KWLC 1240 am and kwlc.luther.edu every Sunday from 630p-930p, Mondays from 10p-1a, and Saturday mornings at 7a and 9a. Tune in. Learn more about America's artform.

Also, go see Waiting for Godot at the Jewel Theatre on Luther Campus this weekend Oct 8th, 9th, and 10th.