900th Show – September 26, 2025 – “Legendary”

1 - Sonny Rollins - There's No Business Like Show Business - The Complete Prestige Recordings - 2024
2 - Count Basie And The Kansas City 7 - Oh, Lady Be Good - Count Basie And The Kansas City 7 - 1962
3 - Carla Bley - Baseball - 4x4 - 2000
4 - Randy Weston and Billy Harper - Blues to Senegal - Roots of the Blues – 2023
5 - Diane Schuur - Don't Touch Me - The Gathering. - 2011
6 - Phil Woods - Everything Happens To Me Bird with Strings and More – 2023
7 - Sheila Jordan - You Must Believe In Spring - Portrait Now - 2025
8 - Joe Lovano - Giving Thanks - Homage – 2024
9 - Dr. Lonnie Smith - For Heavens Sake - Evolution - 2026\
10 - Hubert Laws - Shades of Light - Laws Cause - 2005

Listen here:
https://www.mixcloud.com/neonjazzkc/neon-jazz-episode-900-32625-legendary/

899th Show – March 19, 2025

1 - Sean Nelson and the New London Big Band - About Time - Don't Stop Now – 2025
2 - Harry James - You Made Me Love You - Best of Big Band – 2004
3 - Michael Buckley - Strange Taste - Ebb and Flow – 2025
4 - George Coleman - The Sheik of Araby - My Horns of Plenty – 1991
5 - Jon Bentley - Go Ahead! - Go Ahead! - 2025
6 - Reggie Watkins - Wizards - Rivers – 2025
7 - Michelle Nicolle - All The Things You Are - The Silent Wish – 2025
8 - Lenore Raphael - My Foolish Heart - Solo – 2025
9 - Leon Anderson - Understanding - Live at Snug Harbor - 2025
10 - Shuffle Demons - Sunny Side Up - Are You Really Real – 2025
11 - Yelena Eckemoff - Village Tavern - Scenes from the Dark Ages - 2025
12 - Russ Spiegel - Soul Station - Nitty Gritty - 2025

Tune In:
https://www.mixcloud.com/neonjazzkc/neon-jazz-episode-899-31925/

898th Show – March 12, 2025

1 - Jazz Sabbath - Paranoid - Jazz Sabbath Vol 2 – 2022
2 - Roy Ayers - Reggie Of Chester - West Coast Vibes – 1963
3 - Mark Grandfield - The Street Where You Live - It's Getting Late - 2025
4 - Eddie Safranski And The Poll Cats - Sa-Frantic - Atlantic Jazz-West Coast – 2005
5 - Oh People - The Beat - Part Time Elegance - 2025
6 - John Ellis - Beautiful Day - Heroes – 2025
7 - Rachel Therrien - Beauty Free - Latin Jazz Project - Mi Hogar II - 2025
8 - Los Angeles Improvisation Ensemble - Tunisian Hookah Bar - Insubordinate Lunar Transgressions – 2025
9 - Bill Moio - 720 Berkeley  - Try This - 2025
10 - Ben Markley - Tell The Truth - Tell The Truth - 2025
11 - The Reddish Fetish - Confirmation - Llegue - 2025

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https://www.mixcloud.com/neonjazzkc/neon-jazz-episode-898-31225/

897th Show – March 5, 2025

1 - Thomas Marriott - Dexter's Tune - Screen Time - 2025
2 - Leon Brady Leads the Sumner HS KCK - Paris Festival Competition - Live – 1972
3 - Rodney Jordan - Escapatoria - Memphis Blue - 2025
4 - Harry Allen Trio - Seems To Me I've Heard That Song - It Takes Three – 2025
5 - Henry Scamurra - Urban Forum - Urban Forum - 2025
6 - Greg Abate - Growing All The Time - Positive Energy – 2025
7 - Simón Willson - Feel Love [Live] - Bet Live At Ornithology - 2025
8 - Bigger Badder Bones - Stuff Like This - Sliders – 2025
9 - Dave Potter - Straight Up  - Retro Groove 2 - 2025
10 - La Banda Ramirez - Lizzie's Lounge - Lizzie's Lounge -2025
11 - Steve Allee Big Band - Spang a Lang - Naptown Sound - 2025

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https://www.mixcloud.com/neonjazzkc/neon-jazz-episode-897-3525/

Always & Forever w/ Kansas City Jazz Orchestra Featuring Bram & Lucy Wijnands @ The Folly - 3.1.25

 

The Nick Schnebelen Band at Club 1909 @ Libations in Downtown Lee's Summit, MO - 2.26.25

 

896th Show – February 26, 2025

1 - Jonah David - The Genius - Waltz for Eli – 2025
2 - Frank Morgan - The Champ - Frank Morgan – 1955
3 - Okonski - October - Entrance Music - 2025
4 - Jon Batiste - Saturday Night Live - Saturday Night - 2024
5 - The Offline - Les cigales - Les cigales - 2024
6 - Nick Hempton & Cory Weeds - Last Train From Overbrook - Horns Locked – 2025
7 - Jack Mouse-Bob Bowman-Dan Hearle - Soul Mates - Truth of the Matter – 1999
8 - Tobias Meinhart - After The Rain - Sonic River – 2025
9 - John Lindvall Trio - End - End - 2024
10 - Ron Ledoux Quartet - UFO 60's - Views, Visions & Destinations – 2025
11 - Brent Jarvis - Edd and Flow - Dragonfly - 2025
12 - Darryl Yokley's Sound Reformation - El Pueblo - Un Mundo En Soledad - 2025

Listen here:
https://www.mixcloud.com/neonjazzkc/neon-jazz-episode-896-22625/

894th Show – February 19, 2025

1 - David Watson's Re-Birthing the Cool, Bebop N Beyond - Fat Cat - The Ludlow Affair – 2020
2 - Herbie Mann - Consolation Consolacao - Do the Boss Nova – 1965
3 - Jenna McLean - The Girls of Summer - For Your Love - 2025
4 - Yellowjackets - Swingmeister General - Fasten Up – 2025
5 - Nanami Haruta - Woodpecker - The Vibe - 2025
6 - Marius Van Den Brink - In Greece We Drink - Live at Dizzys – 2025
7 - Caili O'Doherty - Struttin' With Some Barbecue - Bluer Than Blue - 2025
8 - George Colligan - New York In The 90s - You'll Hear It – 2024
9 - Bennett Roth-Newell - It'll Always Work Out - It'll Always Work Out – 2025
10 - McCoy Tyner - Have You Met Miss Jones - Reaching Fourth - 1963
11 - Tom Wakeling - Lotus Blossom (Kenny Dorham) - West By Northwest (Live) - 2025

Listen here:
https://www.mixcloud.com/neonjazzkc/neon-jazz-episode-895-21925/

Sunday Afternoon with Deborah Brown with George Colligan at Upscale Piano Craft in KCMO - 2.16.25

 

The Wire Town CD Release Gig at Green Lady Lounge - 2.16.25

 

894th Show – February 12, 2025 – “Kosher Jammers Hour”

1 - Benny Goodman - You Turned the Tables on Me - 1936
2 - Max Kaminsky - Dipper Mouth Blues – 1944
3 - Mickey Katz - Where Is My Pants - The Most Mishige – 1958
4 - George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue Debut – 1945
5 - Bix Beiderbecke with Frank Trumbauer & Izzy Friedman - When - 1936
6 - Ziggy Elman - Fralich in Swing – 1938
7 - Terry Gibbs Quartet with Terry Pollard - Gibberish - Tonight Show - 1956
8 - Mezz Mezzrow - Gone Away Blues – 1945
9 - Artie Shaw  - Beguin The Beguine - 1935
10 - Vic Berton - Devils Kitchen – 1935
11 - Art Hodes - I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter - Keepin out of Mischief Now - 1995
12 - Ted Lewis - Poor Papa – 1926
13 - Bud Freeman - Another Sunday - Complete Bud Freeman – 2022
14 - Rube Bloom - That Futuristic Rag – 1928
15 - Al Jolson - My Mammy - 1946
16 - Bill Charlap - Pure Imagination - All Through the Night - 1998

Listen here:
https://www.mixcloud.com/neonjazzkc/neon-jazz-episode-894-21225-kosher-jammers-hour/

893rd Show – February 5, 2025

1 - Wire Town - In a Pile Over the Fence - Riffin' on Grand – 2025
2 - Jim Rotonda - Designated Hitter - Finesse – 2024
3 - Russ Anixter's Hippie Big Band - Into The Mystic - What Is - 2025
4 - Illyes Ferfera Quartet - Love Letters - Tawazûn – 2025
5 - Tomas Martin Lopez - Blue Monday - Right Here - 2024
6 - Donald Vega - ¡Baila! Dance Like No Ones Watching - As I Travel – 2023
7 - Dan Moretti & Brazilia - Yes Or No - Live At The Pump House Celebrating Wayne Shorter - 2025
8 - Elaine Dame - Tell Me Something Good - Reminiscing – 2025
9 - Rebecca Coupe Franks - Castle Rock - Landscape Suites For Trumpet – 2025
10 - Dave Damiani & The No Vacancy Orchestra - Rich Girl - Heart to Heart - 2025
11 - Steve Smith -Jave And a Nail - Vitalive - 2025

Listen here:
https://www.mixcloud.com/neonjazzkc/neon-jazz-episode-893-2525/

Re-Birthing the Cool: Bebop N Beyond with David Watson at Westport Coffeehouse - 1.30.25

 

892nd Show – January 29, 2025

1 - Carl Allen - Happy Times - Tippin – 2025
2 - Sonny Rollins - I Can't Get Started  - Live At The Village Vanguard – 1957
3 - Eldad Tarmu - Opus De Funk - Silver on Aluminum – 2025
4 - Benny Green - Central Park South - Bennys Crib – 2020
5 - Blue Jitters - Jazz (Ain't Nothing But Soul) - Blue Jitters – 2025
6 - Billy Higgins - Easy Walker - The VIP Trio Standards – 2026
7 - Michel Petrucciani Trio -  Someday My Prince Will Come - Jazz Club Montmartre - CPH 1988 [Live] [Disc 2] – 2025
8 - Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers Blues March - Compact Jazz – 1958
9 - Ebo Taylor, Adrian Younge, Ali Shaheed Muhammad - Get Up - Ebo Taylor JID022 – 2025
10 - Charlie Parker - Perdido (Live) - Bird in Kansas City – 2024
11 - Hans Luchs - Your Truth Or The Truth - The Spell is Broken – 2025
12 - Hank Jones w Mad Vinding and Billy Hart - Love Is A Many Splendored Thing - Great Jazz Trio – 2024

Listen here:
https://www.mixcloud.com/neonjazzkc/neon-jazz-episode-892-12925/

891st Show – January 22, 2025 - "A David Lynch Tribute"

1 - Dann Zinn Featuring Rachel Z, Omar Hakim And Jeff Denson - Pros And Cons - Two Roads - 2024
2 - Angelo Badalamenti - Dance of the Dream Man (Solo Sax) - Twin Peaks – 1991
3 - Jacob Wutzke -  Pee Wee - You Better Bet - 2025
4 - Kusan Belgrave - Stepback - Dual Citizen – 2025
5 - Eugenie Jones - Sinnerman - Eugenie – 2025
6 - Liz Cole - Lobo Bobo - I Want To Be Happy – 2025
7 - Neff Irizarry - Adelante (Come Forward) - -Cambio - 2024
8 - Bruce Harris and Ehud Asherie - Sphere - Thank You Barry Harris – 2025
9 - Maria Puga Lareo - The Song is You - My Universe - 2024
10 - Steve Smith - Moanin' - Live on Tour, Vol. 1 – 2025
11 - Dennis Mitcheltree & Johannes Wallmann -Liberty Hop - Holding Space - 2025
12 - Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks Theme Song - Soundtrack – 1991

Listen here:
https://www.mixcloud.com/neonjazzkc/neon-jazz-episode-891-12225-a-david-lynch-tribute/

890th Show – January 15, 2025

1 - Holman Alvarez - Hidden Objects - Hidden Objects. - 2024
2 - Theoretical Planets - Blues for Total Insanity - Zero – 2025
3 - Carn Davidson 9 - Just Because - Reverence – 2024
4 - Groovology - Groovology - Almost Home – 2024
5 - Don Paul And Rivers Answer Moons - Something YOU GOT - Louisiana Stories – 2024
6 - Igor Wilcox Quartet - Red Planet - Time Traveler – 2025
7 - Steve Sieck - We Can Get Together Again - Crazy that Way - 2024
8 - Jerry Kalaf -Perspectives - Safe Travels – 2025
9 - Yulia Musayelyan - Futurism - Strange Times - 2024
10 - Joe Elefante - Bad Dancing - Joe Elefante's Wheel Of Dharam - 2025

Listen here:
https://www.mixcloud.com/neonjazzkc/neon-jazz-episode-890-11525/

889th Show – January 8, 2025

1 - George Cables - Echoes - I Hear Echoes – 2024
2 - Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Are You Real - Moanin – 1959
3 - Angell & Crane - Unearth - Angell & Crane – 2024
4 - Brad Goode - Pentacles - Polytonal Big Band The Snake Charmer – 2025
5 - Joe Syrian Motor City Jazz Octet -Night And Day - Secret Message - 2024
6 - Peter Erskine & JAM Music Lab All-Stars - Old Spanish Song - Vienna to Hollywood Impressions of E.W. Korngold & Max Steiner – 2025
7 - Thelonius Garcia - Marche Nocturne - Marche Nocturne. – 2024
8 - Renee Rosnes - Frevo - Crossing Paths – 2024
9 - Rick Roe - Elden's Bop - Tribute - 2025
10 - Ryan Middagh Jazz Orchestra featuring Jeremy Wilson - This Time The Dream's On Me - Tenor Madness - 2024
11 - Roberto Magris - Freedom is Peace - Freedome is Peace - 2024

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https://www.mixcloud.com/neonjazzkc/neon-jazz-episode-889-1825/

The Jeff Shirley Quartet at The Black Dolphin in Downtown Kansas City - January 3, 2025

 

888th Show – January 1, 2025

1 - Bennett Wood - Catamaran - Space in Time – 2024
2 - Towner Galaher Organ Group - Brothers - Brothers – 2024
3 - Johnny Costa - Won't You be My Neighbor - Single -1986
4 - Dave Stryker - Cinema Paradiso - Main Theme - Stryker With Strings Goes to the Movies – 2024
5 - Jacqui Dankworth -The Windmills Of Your Mind - Windmills - 2024
6 - Allegra Levy -Are You Real - Out of the Question – 2024
7 - Irv Grossman Sextet - For The Moment - Sound Advice - 2024
8 - Brent Laidler - Gemani - Featuring Ned Boyd - Hidden Gems – 2024
9 - Samara Joy - A Fool In Love (Is Called A Clown) - Portrait - 2024
10 - Jessica Jones Quartet - Manhattan - Edible Flowers - 2024
11 - Jackson Potter - Mr. M - Small Things - 2024

Listen here:
https://www.mixcloud.com/neonjazzkc/neon-jazz-episode-888-1125/