905th Show – April 30, 2025

1 - Don Byas - 1944 Stomp - Savoy Jam Party - The Savoy Sessions - 1995
2 - Ed Palermo Big Band - Black Hole Sun - Prog Vs Fusion A War Of The Ages - 2025
3 - Dave Sharp Worlds Quartet & Elden Kelly - Ducks Night Out - Catalyst (The Music Of Gregg Hill) - 2025
4 - Dave Bass - Trinkle Tinkle - Trio Nuevo, Vol. 2 – 2025
5 - Quinn Sternberg - Feedback Loop - Pleasant Returns - 2025
6 - Plantet D Nonet - Some Of This 'n' Some Of That - Planet D Presents Doctor Professor Leonard King In Tribute To Joe Williams – 2025
7 - The Quantum Blues Quartet - Swami Lama Blues  - Quantam Blues - 2025
8 - Judy Whitmore - Taking A Chance On Love - Let's Fall in Love – 2025
9 - Joseph Santa Maria and David Trachina - Hidden Lake - Oblique Rhyme - 2025
10 - Joanie Pallatto And Bradley Parker-Sparrow - Monk Is Drunk - Song – 2025
11 - Mehmet Ali Sanl kol - A Children's Song - 7 Shades of Melancholia - 2025
12 - Herbie Hancock - Riot - Speak Like a Child - 1968

Listen here:
https://www.mixcloud.com/neonjazzkc/neon-jazz-episode-905-43025-on-international-jazz-day/

Jason Vivone Live at Lotawana Brewing Company - 4.26.25

 

904th Show – April 23, 2025

1 - Sam Sadigursky - Lev's Loops (for Ljova) - The Solomon Diaries - 2025
2 - The Heath Brothers - Smilin' Billy Suite_ Part II -Strata-East Record Store Day 2025 Sampler – 2025
3 - Nathan Davis - Mister E - Happy Girl - 1965
4 - The Freedom Affair - Get My Share - The Freedom Affair - 2025
5 - Ingi Bjarni - Uplift - Hope – 2025
6 - Bill O'Connell Feat. Santi DeBriano & Billy Hart - Cay-Man - Touch – 2025
7 - Jordan VanHemert - Here and Now - Survival of the Fittest - 2025
8 - Ella Fitzgerald - Mack The Knife  - Ella in Berlin- 1960
9 - Zoo Too Trio Feat. Michael Cain, Keith Price & Pheeroan akLaff - O'Neil's Bay - Poetry Legroom - 2025
10 - Kristina Koller - What the World Needs Now - Walk on By - 2025
11 - Shelley Yoelin and Gabriel Datcu Quintet - Rojo - Rojo - 2025
12 - Chad Lefkowitz-Brown - Danny Boy -Time in a Bottle - 2025

Listen here:
https://www.mixcloud.com/neonjazzkc/neon-jazz-episode-904-42325/

Announcing the Action Packed 2nd Annual Lee’s Summit Jazz Fest – June 28, 2025

 

903rd Show – April 16, 2025

1 - The Wes Montgomery Trio - The End Of A Love Affair - The Wes Montgomery Trio – 1960
2 - Johnny O'Neal -Destination Moon - Everybody Loves Johnny O'Neal – 2025
3 - Igmar Thomas Revive Big Band - Speak No Evil - Like a Tree It Grows - 2025
4 - Gerald Clayton - Angels Speak  - Ones and Twos – 2025
5 - Jackie Myers - Brown Dirt Shuffle - What About the Butterfly – 2025
6 - Medler Sextet - Night Party - River Paths – 2025
7 - Bobby Selvaggio - Four Past Midnight (feat. Tony Spicer & Theron Brown) - Stories Dreams Inspirations for my Boy – 2025
8 - Nancy Kelly - Be Bop Lives (Boplicity) - Be Cool – 2025
9 - Jed Levy - St. Simons - Faces and Places - 2025
10 - Charlie Ballantine - Storyteller - East by Midwest - 2025
11 - CCCN Jazz Orchestra and Hendrik Meurkens - Brigas Nunca Mais - Big Band Brasil - 2025

Listen here:
https://www.mixcloud.com/neonjazzkc/neon-jazz-episode-903-41625/

The Bob Bowman Quartet featuring Legendary Bobby Watson - The Blue Room - KCMO - 4.12.25

 

Veteran KC Musician Brody Buster Live at Transparent Brewery - 4.11.25

 

902nd Show – April 9, 2025

1 - Lonnie McFadden - El Montecristo - Live at the Green Lady – 2018
2 - Bennie Moten - The Count - Moten Swing – 2016
3 - Daggerboard & Erik Jekabson Orchestra - Solstice Blues - The Axes, Vol. 2 Summer Solstice - 2025
4 - Rufus Reid - It's the Nights I Like - It's the Nights I Like – 2024
5 - Jeff Libman -  A Sleepin' Bee - Feet off the Ground - 2025
6 - Monty Alexander - Mack the Knife (Swing - Jazz Secrets) (Short Cut - Monty Alexander piano solo into end theme) – 2024
7 - George Freeman - It Was a Very Good Year (Live) - George freeman with Charlie Earland Live - 2014
8 - Peter Smith - Road Song - Smitty Straightens Out – 2025
9 - Silvano Monasterios - Ambar's Courage -The River - 2025
10 - Ermelinda Cuellar - Morning -Under a Lavender Sky – 2025
11 - Trilogy - Hi-Fly - The Slow Road - 2025
12 - Ben Neill - Sweetness and Light - Horizontal – 2025

Listen here:
https://www.mixcloud.com/neonjazzkc/neon-jazz-episode-902-4925/

901st Show – April 2, 2025

1 - Count Basie Orchestra with Carmen Bradford - Honeysuckle Rose - All About that Basie - 2018
2 - Frank Sinatra and Count Basie - Fly Me To The Moon - It Might As Well be Swing - 1964
3 - James Zito - Bird In The Wind - Zito's Jump! - 2025
4 - Kenny Barron - Well You Needn't - The Source – 2023
5 - Mark Scott III - The Sun Behind the Cloud - Soft Light - 2025
6 - Harold Mabern - Boogie For Al McShann - Live at Smalls – 2013
7 - Mitch Towne - Wolverine - Refuge - 2025
8 - Eddie Henderson - Dflat Mood - Eddie Henderson & Friends Play the Music of Amit Golan – 2012
9 - The Dave Robbins Big Band - Happy Faces - Happy Faces - 2025
10 - Jeffrey Gimble - Somebody Groovy - Brand New Key – 2025
11 - Phil Brown - In Stride - Rule Of Three - 2025
12 - Zhengtao Pan - City Machine - Scenery in my Story - 2025

Listen to the show:
https://www.mixcloud.com/neonjazzkc/neon-jazz-e/

Catch 90 Years of Count Basie’s Swing at The Music Hall in KCMO on April 30, 2025