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28 April 2007

Artists submit

Independent artists deserve to be heard, and In The Groove loves to give them the air time. Tonights show is devoted almost entirely to this effort. You will hear from the best of music recently submitted to this program. I invite all you struggling jazz cats to send in your CD's to the address above. If you can are good and your music fits our format, I'll be more than happy to give you the air (podcast) time.

Playlist
Track * Artist * Album
fear vs faith * June April * What am I?
Ever So Slow * Luma * Life Unity Music Amplified
Biarritz * The Jan Jungden Trio * Slow Ride
Piece Offering * Chris Taylor * Piece Offereng
Consumption * Reincarnation * Joy and Sorrow
Quenepa * Jason Schwartz Project * Green Horizon
Greensleeves * Greg Abate * It's Christmastime
Never Mind * Alejandro Cimadoro Quintet * The Princess and the Moonlight
Another Time Another Place * Ira Nepus & Steve Moore
** End of Part 1 **
Embraceable You * Frank Vignola * Vignola plays Gershwin
evolution * Greg Abate * evolution
Sweet Georgia Bright * Louis Hayes * Maximum Firepower
Last Minute (late again) * Bob Reynolds * Can't Wait for Perfect
Tune for Lou * Akashic Record * New Days Ahead
Word to Herb * Screaming Headless Torsos * 1995
Little Wing * Screaming Headless Torsos * 1995
Bigger than You * Julian Kasper Band * Flipping TIme
Hobroken * Johnathan Kreisberg * Unearth
Cantaloupe Island * MB3 * MB3/Jazz Hits/Vol1

22 April 2007

Island Shuffle

This podcast is inspired by the songs on my iPod Shuffle (tm) that kept me In the Groove while on vacation at Sanibel Island in Florida last week. Its an eclectic mix to be sure, but that is what the shuffle is all about. The music ranges from modern and 60's hard bop, latin, fusion, rock and even jazz influenced bluegrass... but it all swings hard.

Playlist
Track * Artist * Album
Bara-Bara * Joe Farrell * Skateboard Park
Your Everything * Mitchell Foreman * Perspectives
Planet Earth * Cannonball Adderley * In New York
The Drum Thing * John Coltrane * Crescent
This is for Albert * Jerry Gonzales and the Fort Apache Band * Rhumba Buhaina
Inca Roads * Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention * One Size Fits All
Vonetta * Tony Rice Unit * Devlin
Birds Eye View * Greg Howe, Victor Wooten, Dennis Chambers * Extraction

14 April 2007

Groovin' on the B-3

Nothing identifies with In the Groove more than the Hammond B-3 organ. This is groove music the way it was meant to be. Jimmy Smith started it all in the 1950's, and we've been groovin' ever since. Warning! This set is smokin!

Playlist
Track * Artist * Album
Organ Grinder's Swing * Jimmy Smith * Fourmost Return
Sonnymoon For Two * Jimmy Smith * Fourmost Return
Trouble Man * Dr. Lonnie Smith * Jungle Soul
Mom and Dad * Charles Earland * Front Burner
Asimov * Larry Goldings Trio * Sweet Science
Softly as in a Morning Sunrise * Larry Young * Unity
Frame for the Blues * The Jimmy McGriff and Hank Crawford Quartet * Blues Groove
Autumn Leaves * Jack McDuff * Tough 'Duff
** End of Part 1 **
Speak Low * Joey DeFrancesco * Organic Vibes
JeNeane's Dream * Joey DeFrancesco * Organic Vibes
Take Off! * Barbara Dennerlein * Take Off!
Outhipped * Barbara Dennerlein * Outhipped
Miami Blues * Akashic Record * New Days Ahead
Too Damn Hot! * Dr. Lonnie Smith * Too Damn Hot!
You Can't Hide Love * Don Braden * Workin'
Switchblade * Yaya3 * Yaya3
Brother Ray * This is the Place * Organissimo

07 April 2007

Secret Sax

Some of the best kept secrets in Jazz are the relatively unknown group of great sax players on the scene today. These cats deserve greater recognition and this show is dedicated to doing just that. Its not likely that you will hear these great sax players anywhere on commercial radio. So take note of these awesome musicians. If there is something here you like, look them up on the Net, buy their CD's. If you see them playing in your local area, check them out, tell them you heard them on In The Groove podcast. If you are a musician and you want your music heard on this radio program and podcast, send me your CD. If you can play like these cats, I'll give you plenty of airplay.

Playlist
Track * Artist * Album
Belief * Bob Reynolds * Can't Wait for Perfect
Pharaoh's Curse * Julius Tolentino * Just the Beginning
I Want To Talk About You * Julius Tolentino * Just the Beginning
Digital Robber Barrons * Marcus Monteiro * MM4
Brute Force Algorhythm * Marcus Monteiro * MM4
Welcoming * Steve Feierabend * Converging Paths
Invisible * Tim Armacost * Live At Smalls
You Don't Know What Love Is * Tim Armacost * Live At Smalls
** End of Part 1 **
Summer Pudding * Skerik's Syncopated Taint Septet * Husky
The Navigator * Joel Frahm * The Navigator
My One And Only Love * Joel Frahm * The Navigator
Dr. Jekyll/MR. Hyde * Greg Abate * Monsters In The Night
Doing The Tron * Jerry Bergonzi * Wiggy
87 North * Anat Cohen * Place and Time
Stargaze * Wallace Roney * Mystical
Dia Joy * Reincarnation * Joy and Sorrow