Sample Playlists from my radio show, “Jazz Straight Ahead,” at KRML AM & FM

I possess an almost lifelong passion for jazz and can trace back my interest to my pre-teens, starting with hearing the Benny Goodman Carnegie Hall Concert LPs from 1938.

Today, I am a very lucky girl.  I have a jazz program at a well-known and highly respected jazz station in the Monterey Bay area of California, KRML,  1410 AM &  94.7 FM.  The great news is that if you can read this blog, you most probably can listen to the best in jazz 24 hours a day by clicking on “Listen Here” at KRML’s website.   Thanks to technology, we have listeners all over the world!

So, if your busy schedule permits, you folks not living in the Monterey Bay/Carmel, CA area can tune in via the internet, any time of the day or night and listen to what I call “jazz ’round the clock” on KRML!

As promised, here’s a couple of playlists.  If you like what you see, please join me every Sunday evening from 5 – 7 p.m. west coast time/8 – 10 p.m. east coast time and thanks in advance for listening!  Also, please feel free to leave a comment after you’ve had the opportunity to listen in!

Sample Playlist #1:

hour 1

Artist:  Louie Bellson and the Big Band Explosion
Track:  Intimacy of the Blues
Album:  The Art of the Chart(Concord)

Artist:  Count Basie-Oscar Peterson
Track:  I’m Confessin’ (That I Love You)
Album:  The Time Keepers (Pablo)

Artist:  Terry Gibbs-Buddy DeFranco
Track:  In a Mellow tone
Album:  Air Mail Special (Contemporary)

Artist:  Pepper Adams
Track:  Better Get Hit In Your Soul
Album:  Plays Charles Mingus (Fresh Sounds)

Artist:   Hod O’Brien
Track:   Some Other Spring
Album:   Have Piano Will Swing (Fresh Sound)

Artist:  Clifford Brown
Track:  Carvin’ the Rock
Album:  Memorial Album (Blue Note)

Artist:  Ernestine Anderson
Track:  I Let a Song Go Out of my Heart
Album:  Live at the 1990 Concord Jazz Festival – Third Set (Concord)

Artist:  Brian Bromberg – Wood
Track:  Wha’s Happ’nin
Album:  Hey Baby! (Riverside)

Artist:  Jimmy Raney
Track:  Everything I Love
Album:  Wisteria (Criss Cross)

hour 2

Artist:  The Great Jazz Trio
Track:  Sometimes I’m Happy
Album:    Flowers for Lady Day (Evidence)

Artist:  David Fathead Newman
Track:  Karen My Love
Album:  Keep the Spirits Singing (High Note)

Artist:  Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers
Track:  Alamode
Album:  Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers (Impulse)

Artist:  Sammy Davis, Jr. & the Buddy Rich Big Band
Track:  Please Don’t Talk About Me When I’m Gone
Album:  Sounds of ’66 (Reprise)

Artist:  Greg Cohen
Track:  East of the Sun
Album:  Moment to Moment (DIW)

Artist:  Bill Pierce
Track:  What’s New
Album:  Equilateral (Sunnyside)

Artist:     Eddie Davis/Johnny Griffin
Track:  Intermission Riff
Album:  Tough Tenors Back Again (Storyville)

Artist:  Bill Mays
Track:  I Let A Song Go Out Of My Heart
Album:  An Ellington Affair (Concord)

Artist:  Bill Cunliffe
Track:  Stolen Moments
Album:  Blues and the Abstract Truth – Take 2 (Resonance)

Artist:  Roy Hargrove
Track:  Once In Awhile
Album:  Public Eye (Novus)

Sample Playlist #2

PROGRAM 7-HOUR 1-JAZZSTRAIGHT AHEAD-MARLA KLEMAN-airdate 6/14/10

LONG INTRO

1)CEDAR WALTON-AFTERNOON IN PARIS
2) REBECCA PARRIS and the KENNY HADLEY BIG BAND-ALL MY TOMORROWS
3) THE JAZZTET-BLUES ON DOWN
AFTER 3
4)GRANT GREEN-EXODUS
5)EDDIE HARRIS-AUTUMN IN NEW YORK
SHORT STATION ID
6)JIMMY HEATH-LITTLE MAN BIG BAND
AFTER 6
7)DAVE YOUNG-NASCIMENTO
8) CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE-USED ‘T COULD
9)RENE THOMAS-GREEN STREET SCENE
AFTER 9

PROGRAM 7 – HOUR 2 – JAZZ STRAIGHT AHEAD – MARLA KLEMAN-airdate 6/14/10

LONG INTRO
1)RAY VEGA/THOMAS MARRIOTT-IT’S A NEW YORK THING
2)BOB SNEIDER/PAUL HOFMANN-HIGH PEAKS
AFTER 2
3) DR. LONNIE SMITH-MELLOW MOOD
4) TOM HARRELL-AGUA
AFTER 4
5) CHAMPIAN FULTON-LAND’S END
6) JOE LOCKE- I MISS NEW YORK (WHEN I BEEN GONE TOO LONG)
SHORT STATION ID
7)CYRUS CHESTNUT/ERIC REED-PLENTY SWING, PLENTY SOUL
AFTER 7
8)PETER SPRAGUE AND THE PETER SPRAGUE STRING CONSORT -THE DUKE
9) JOE CHAMBERS-ECAROH
AFTER 9
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Oh, and by the way, I play classic, straight ahead jazz such as Stan Getz, Sarah Vaughan, Charlie Parker, Hank Mobley, Art Blakey, Bill Evans, Basie, Duke, Woody Herman, Buddy Rich, Lee Morgan, Ray Brown and I also enjoy playing new releases and everything in between!  Three young, up ‘n comers I’ve been listening to recently are Joe Alterman (piano), Champian Fulton (piano/vocal), Yotam Silberstein (guitar) and Jason Palmer (trumpet).  Jason has the newest release (Criss Cross) and I had the pleasure of hearing Jason live at Berklee College of Music in Boston last week and he blew me away.  He was in the company of jazz heavyweights - saxophonist Bill Pierce and drummer Lewis Nash and I know they also enjoyed his musicianship.

‘Til the next time,

Marla

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