Recent
The First Instrument Jazz Show – 4/23/24 & 4/27/24
Artist – Song – Album – Label – Year
Leslie Odom Jr. – Look for the Silver Lining – Leslie Odom Jr. – S-Curve – 2016
Dena DeRose – I Have the Feeling I’ve Been Here Before – Ode to the Road – HighNote Records – 2020
Adriana Evans – Hey Now – El Camino – Expansion – 2006
Kristin Korb – Don’t Let It Bring You Down – Sweet Dreams – Double K Music – 2024
Lenora Zenzalai Helm & Tribe Jazz Orchestra – Bebop (Live) – For the Love of Big Band – Zenzalai Music – 2020
Cecile McLorin Salvant – Tell Me Why – The Window – Mack Avenue – 2018
Terri Lyne Carrington feat. Michael Mayo – Circling – New Standards Vol. I – Candid Records – 2022
Gretchen Parlato – Butterfly – In A Dream – ObliqSound – 2009
Kevin Mahogany – All Blues – Double Rainbow – Enja Records – 1993
Ian Shaw – Where Are We Now – The Theory of Joy – Jazz Village – 2016
Carmen Lundy – Jazz on TV – Modern Ancestors – Afrasia – 2019
Sammy Davis Jr. – What Kind of Fool Am I? – Sammy Davis Jr. Sings What Kind Of Fool Am I And Other Show-Stoppers – Reprise Records – 1961
Queen Esther – Paris On the Moon – Things Are Looking Up – Self Released – 2024
Andy Bey – Someone to Watch Over Me – Ballads, Blues and Bey – Evidence Records – 1996
Lia Booth – Life Can Be Beautiful – Life Can Be Beautiful – MetaJax Entertainment – 2022
Kurt Elling – After the Door – Passion World – Concord – 2015
Rosie Frater-Taylor – Crazy – Bloom – Self-Released – 2021
Camille Bertault – Enfant (Infant Eyes) – En Vie – Sunnyside – 2016
Conjunto Tierra Linda – La Casa De Mi Abuela – Conjunto Tierra Linda – Self Released – 2023
Les McCann – What’s Going On? – Live at Montreux – Atlantic – 1973
Ben Boddie On Jazz Ep 254 – 04.25.2024
TODAY’S MUSIC – RIGHT NOW!
Artist – Song Title – CD Title – Label – Year
Noon
Carl Clements – Absence Return – A Different Light – Greydisc – 2024
Anthony D’Alessandro – Outbreak – Searchin’ – Independent – 2024
Ernesto Cervini’s Turboprop – Skeletons – A Canadian Songbook – TPR – 2024
Nikos Chatzitsakos – The Windmills of Your Mind – Tiny Big Band 2 – Nikos Chatzitsakos – 2024
Geoff Stradling And The StradBand – Poinciana – Nimble Digits – Origin Records – 2024
Randy Napoleon – Motel Blues – The Door is Open: The Music of Gregg Hill – OA2 Records – 2024
Kelly Green – Lonely One – Seems – Green Soul Studios – 2024
Tom Keenlyside – Third Street Wobble – Third Street Wobble – Artist Jazz Recordings – 2024
Black Art Jazz Collective – Lookin’ For Leroy – Truth To Power – HighNote – 2024
1:00 PM
Jeremy Pelt – No A.I. – Tomorrow’s Another Day – HighNote – 2024
Nicole Glover – Inception – Plays – Savant – 2024
Vijay Iyer – Tempest – Compassion – ECM – 2024
Pierre Chambers – Afro Blue – Shining Moments – Dash Hoffman Records – 2024
Charles McPherson – Come Rain Or Come Shine – Reverence – Smoke Sessions – 2024
Wolff, Clark And Dorsey – Turn Out The Stars – A Letter To Bill Evans – Jazz Avenue 1 – 2024
Scott Dunn – Autumn in New York – I Watch You Sleep – Stunt Records – 2023
Snorre Kirk – Easy Roller – Top Dog – Stunt Records – 2023
Jim Rotondi – Ladybug – Finesse – Cellar Music Group – 2024
2:00 PM
Dan Pugach – Bella the Bear – Bianca – Outside In Music – 2024
Scott Marshall – Conversations – The Solitude Suite – Independent – 2024
Jordan VanHemert – Hard Times – Deep in the Soil – Origin Records – 2024
The Michael O’Neill Sextet – There Will Never Be Another You – Synergy – Jazzmo Records – 2024
Zach Rich – Seraph – Solidarity – OA2 Records – 2024
Monty Alexander – Jun 6 – D Day – PEEWEE! – 2024
Abena Koomson-Davis – Easy – Where Is Love – WJ3 Records – 2024
Allen Dennard – One Step Ahead – Flashback – Allen Dennard Music – 2022
Steve Ash – I’m Just A Lucky So-And-So – You And The Night – Cellar Music Group – 2024
3:00 PM
Charles Lloyd – Monk s Dance – The Sky Will Still Be There Tomorrow – Blue Note – 2024
Lynne Arriale Trio – Heart – Being Human – Challenge Records – 2024
WJ3 All Stars – Here’s That Rainy Day – Lovers And Love Songs – Night Is Alive – 2019
Lauren White – I Have The Feeling I’ve Been Here Before – Making It Up As We Go Along – Cafe Pacific Records – 2024
Lori Bell Quartet – Shade Of Jade – Recorda Me – Remembering Joe Henderson – Lori Bell – 2023
Ruben Caban – Taino Prayer Song (Huracana Suit) – Kangana – Ruben Caban – 2024
Hazel Mitchell-Bell – I Wish You Love – Stronger Than Ever – HMB Records – 2024
Steven M Lee – Healing Heart – Send My Regards To Memphis – Lee Jazz Omega Music – 2023
Hiruy Tirfe – Second Nature – 10,000 Hours – Tirfe Records – 2024
The First Instrument Jazz Show – 4/16/24 & 4/20/24
Artist – Song – Album – Label – Year
Robert Glasper Experiment – Human – ArtScience – Blue Note – 2016
Melody Gardot and Philippe Powell – Perhaps You’ll Wonder Why (Strings Version) – The Paris Sessions EP – Decca Records – 2023
Alyssa Allgood – Burn (For Betty) – From Here – Next Records – 2024
Johnny Hartman – My Funny Valentine – For Trane – Blue Note – 1995
Dan Pugach Big Band feat. Nicole Zuraitis – Travel – Bianca: Music for Paws and Persistence – Outside in Music – 2024
Norah Jones – All This Time – Visions – Blue Note Records – 2024
Jonathan Batiste and Stay Human – Let God Lead – Social Music – Razor and Tie – 2013
Vanisha Gould and Chris McCarthy – Fall In Love With Me in Fall – Life’s a Gig – Fresh Sounds New Talent Records – 2024
Jamison Ross – Epiphany – Jamison – Concord – 2015
Mavis Staples – If It Be Your Will – Here it Is: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen – Blue Note – 2022
Jose’ James – Detroit Loveletter – Blackmagic – Brownswood Recording – 2010
Sara Gazarek – Something Good – Vanity EP – Self Released – 2022
Mark Kibble and Steve Kahn – Island Letter – Single – Blue Canoe Records – 2022
Andrea Superstein – All I Need – Oh Mother – Cellar Music Group – 2024
Natalie Cole – I’m Glad There Is You – Ask a Woman Who Knows – Verve – 2002
Abbey Lincoln – Africa (Live) – Love Having You Around (Live at the Keystone Korner) – HighNote Records – 2016
Erin Propp & Larry Roy – Give Me More – We Want All The Same Things – Chronograph – 2021
Lizz Wright feat. Meshell Ndgeocelloe and Brandee Younger – Your Love – Shadow – Blues and Greens Records – 2024
Sarah Vaughan – What Are You Doing the Rest Of Your Life? – Sassy – AudioFidelity – 1984
Bilal – All That I Am (Something for the People) – 1st Born Second – Interscope – 2001
The Jazz Disturbance – 4/20/2024, 4/22/2024
PLAYLIST
ARTIST/SONG/TITLE/LABEL
Ella Fitzgerald/Black Coffee/75th Birthday Celebration: The Original Decca Recordings/GRP [3:06]
John Minnock/What About Today/A Different Riff: Minnock Sings Shire/Dot Time [5:50]
Eki Shola/Dead End/Kaeru/Eki Shola [3:26]
Fred Hersch/Aeon/Silent, Listening/ECM [3:14]
Andy Milne and Unison/Apart/Time Will Tell/Sunnyside [6:42]
Alyssa Allgood/Above All Else/From Here/Next [3:45]
New Orleans Klezmer All Stars/Lomir Nemen a Get Tants (The “Let’s Get a Divorce Dance”)/Tipish/New Orleans Klezmer All Stars [4:15]
Christian Fabian Trio/Moanin’/Hip to the Skip/spice Rack [8:36]
Faradena Afifi, Steve Beresford & Paul Khimasia Morgan/Limbs Stretch, Wings Vibrate, Flying Into Sunshine/Bee Reiki/Discus Music [4:54]
Jacky Terrason/Love Light/Moving One/ naïve/Earth-Sounds [4:53]
Charles McPherson/Ode to Barry/Reverence/Smoke Sessions [7:00]
Truss/Stone Fruit/Truss/ Aerophonic/Driff [43:23]
Red Garland/Red’s Good Groove/Red’s Good Groove/Jazzland [8:19]
Ray Charles and Betty Carter/Everytime We Say Goodbye/Ray Charles and Betty Carter/ABC [4:41]
Ben Boddie On Jazz Ep 253 – 04.18.2024
TODAY’S MUSIC – RIGHT NOW!
Artist – Song Title – CD Title – Label – Year
Noon
Altin Sencalar – Maiden Voyage – Discover The Present – Posi-Tone Records – 2024
Allen Dennard – Unexplained – Flashback – Allen Dennard Music – 2022
Monty Alexander – Restoration – D Day – PEEWEE! – 2024
Abena Koomson-Davis – Everyday I Have The Blues – Where Is Love – WJ3 Records – 2024
Mike Clement – Hittin’ It – Hittin’ It – Cellar Music Group – 2024
Brian Bromberg – Nardis – LaFaro – Be Squared Productions – 2024
Kelly Green What To Do – Seems Green – Soul Studios – 2024
Ken Peplowski – Love Walked In – Unheard Bird – Abors Records – 2024
Rachel Z – What About The Kids – Sensual – Dot Time – 2024
1:00 PM
Ron Rieder – From Dawn To Dusk – Latin Jazz Sessions – Ron Rieder – 2024
Jordan VanHemert – Call to Order – Deep In The Soil – Origin Records – 2024
Jeremy Pelt – Basquiat – Tomorrow’s Another Day – HighNote – 2024
Lizz Wright – Sparrow – Shadow – Blues & Greens Records – 2024
Dayna Stephens – ESP – Closer Than We Think – Cellar Music Group – 2024
Simon Lasky Group – The Outsiders – For The Dreamers – Ubuntu Music – 2024
Chuck Owen & Resurgence – Magic Light – Magic Light – Origin Records – 2024
Geoff Stradling And The StradBand – Don’t Shoot the Messenger – Nimble Digits – Origin Records – 2024
Steven M Lee – Healing Heart Send – My Regards To Memphis – Lee Jazz Omega Music – 2023
2:00 PM
Nicole Glover – Blues For Mel – Plays – Savant – 2024
Nick Finzer – Fatback – Legacy – Outside In Music – 2024
Noah Haidu – After You’ve Gone – Standards II – Sunnyside Records – 2024
The Michael O’Neill Sextet – Autumn Leaves – Synergy – Jazzmo Records – 2024
Tony Monaco – One For Pat (Martino) – Over And Over – Chicken Coup – 2024
David Schumacher – Smoke In The Sky – Smoke In The Sky – Cellar Music Group – 2024
Queen Esther – Detour Ahead – Things Are Looking Up – Queen Esther Music – 2024
Idit Shner & Mhondoro – Conestoga – Ngatibatanei / Let Us Unite! – OA2 Records – 2024
Brandon Goldberg – Compulsion – Live At Dizzy’s – Cellar Music Group – 2024
3:00 PM
Brenan Brothers – Rosewood – Valley Of Silence – Death Defying Records – 2024
Sean Fyfe – See Ya! – Stepping Stones – Cellar Music Group – 2024
Caesar Frazier – You Don’t Know What Love Is – Live At Jazzcup – Stunt Records – 2023
Tierney Sutton & San Gabriel Seven – Good People – Good People – JRL – SGS Records – 2024
Hendrik Meurkens – Meurks’ Mood – The Jazz Meurkengers – Cellar Music Group – 2024
One For All – Chainsaw – Big George – Smoke Sessions – 2024
Pierre Chambers – The Nearness Of You – Shining Moments – Dash Hoffman Records – 2024
Albare – Ladino Jazz – Beyond Belief – AlFi Records – 2024
Marius Van Den Brink – New York Knock – New York Knock – Highline Music NYC – 2023