In the Groove, Jazz and Beyond

• Opening Day Baseball 2025

  One of my favorite days of the year is Opening Day for the Baseball season. It signifies the start of spring and the joys of America's greatest pastime. Here we celebrate baseball with a jazz twist. Playlist Artist ~ Name ~ Album Joey DeFrancesco ~ Take Me out to the Ballgame ~ Joey D! The Les Brown Orchestra & Betty Bonnie ~ Joltin' Joe DiMaggio ~ Baseball! The Ultimate Collection Vol. 2 Nina Simone ~ Baseball Boogie ~ A Single Woman Count Basie ~ Did You Ever See Jackie Robinson Hit That Ball? ~ The Count Basie Story Alan Pasqua ~ Take Me Out to the Ball Game ~ Baseball's Greatest Hits: Take Me Out to the Ball Game & Other Sports Classics Carla Bley ~ Baseball ~ 4 X 4 George Carlin ~ Baseball and Football ~ Carlin on Campus Michael Franks ~ Baseball ~ One Bad Habit Vince Guaraldi Trio ~ Baseball Theme ~ A Boy Named Charlie Brown Jeremy Pelt ~ Labyrinth ~ Woven Keith Jarrett ~ The Old Country ~ The Old Country (Live at the Deer Head Inn)

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• Vinyl Record Fair

  This show reviews some recordings I picked up at a vinyl fair in San Diego recently. It is a mixture of 70's prog-rock and jazz music. This music will take you back to the great music being created in this era of rock, fusion and free jazz. Playlist Artist ~ Name ~ Album Tower Of Power ~ Only So Much Oil In the Ground ~ Urban Renewal Stanley Clarke ~ Sea Journey ~ Children of Forever Steely Dan ~ Home at Last ~ Aja The Doors ~ Break On Through ~ The Doors John Coltrane Quartet ~ Transition ~ Transition The Oscar Peterson Big 4 ~ Night Child ~ Freedom Song

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• Episode March 16 2025

  A varied playlist for this week's podcast beginning with Kurt Rosenwinkel and Artemis. Later in the set we hear from piano masters Kenny Barron, Chick and McCoy. We conclude the show with alto genius Cannonball. Playlist  Artist ~ Name ~ Album Kurt Rosenwinkel & Jean-Paul Brodbeck ~ Hungarian Dance No. 1 ~ The Brahms Project ARTEMIS ~ Komorebi ~ ARBORESQUE Sullivan Fortner ~ Tres Palabras ~ Southern Nights Rob Thorsen ~ Bohemia After Dark ~ Moon Ray Kenny Barron & Dave Holland ~ In Walked Bud ~ The Art of Conversation Chick Corea ~ Folk Song ~ Three Quartets McCoy Tyner ~ Contemporary Focus ~ Today and Tomorrow Cannonball Adderley Quintet ~ Star Eyes ~ The Quintet Plus

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• Episode Mar 9 2025

  A playlist starting with the great Cannonball Adderley and concluding with honoring the late pioneer of Acid Jazz, Roy Ayers.  Playlist  Artist ~ Name ~ Album Cannonball Adderley Quintet ~ Arriving Soon ~ The Quintet Plus Cannonball Adderley ~ One For Daddy-O ~ Somethin' Else Sphere ~ Dual Force ~ Sphere: Live On Tour ARTEMIS ~ Footprints ~ ARBORESQUE Mackenzie Leighton ~ Pm/Am ~ I Remember Andrew Wilcox ~ Old Devil Moon ~ Dear Mr. Hill Out Of/Into ~ Gabaldon’s Glide ~ Motion I  Roy Ayers Ubiquity ~ Everybody Loves the Sunshine ~ Everybody Loves the Sunshine

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• Episode March 2 2025

  This episode begins by paying our respects to Roberta Flack, who passed away last week. The recording featured here is my favorite track by Ms. Flack. Following that is new music by another fine vocalist Nicole Zuraitis. We have more great jazz in the following tracks. The podcast concludes with a live recording from 70's fusion band Weather Report. Playlist  Artist ~ Name ~ Album Roberta Flack ~ Compared to What ~ First Take Nicole Zuraitis ~ ode to billie jo ~ siren songs volume 1 Wynton Marsalis ~ Black Codes ~ Black Codes (From The Underground) Miles Davis ~ All Blues ~ My Funny Valentine: In Concert Joe Farnsworth ~ Someday We'll All Be Free ~ In What Direction Are You Headed? Kurt Rosenwinkel ~ Minor Blues ~ The Next Step Weather Report ~ A Remark You Made ~ 8:30

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