Notes From The Jazz Underground Wings It

This installment of Notes From The Jazz Underground features the playlist based on the October 4th show.  Without an underlying theme, it still manages to feel pretty cohesive while covering a lot of ground.  Highlights from the first half include:

• One of the hottest latin jazz bands working right now, led by Conrad Herwig
• A great track from the new Elvis Costello & The Roots collaboration
• New music from the incomparable Fareed Haque
• Fugazi (!?!?!) -- yeah, what the heck

The second half had a little firmer game plan - old fusion from Return To Forever, new fusion from Jesse Fischer & Soul Cycle, and a little funkiness from Sco.  Of course, it also features some NFTJU specialty: down and dirty jazz organ versions of some rock classics - Come Together (fairly common in the jazz community) and Fairies Wear Boots (never heard in the jazz community) to go with the Sly Stone cover in the first half.  Sadly, neither tune is available on Spotify, but we found a YouTube of "Iron Man" from Casualties of Jazz's Kind of Black album which is embedded below.  The show closes by getting solidly funky. Big recommendation for Brownout, a band sure to get many more spins around here.

Notes From The Jazz Underground runs Friday nights on WDCB 90.9 FM.

Complete Playlist

Song	Artist	Album
Adam's Apple	Wayne Shorter	Adam's Apple
Petits Machins	Conrad Herwig	Another Kind of Blue
Clayland	Ben Wendel	Frame
Walk Us Uptown	Elvis Costello & The Roots	Wise Up Ghost
In Pursuit of the 27th Man	Horace Silver	In Pursuit of the 27th Man
Thank You For Talkin' To Me Africa	Steven Bernstein	MTO Plays Sly
Giant Steps	Fareed Haque	Out of Nowhere
Combination Lock	Fugazi	Red Medicine
80s	Roberto Fonseca	Yo
Song to the Pharoah Kings	Return to Forever	Where Have I Known You Before
Midnight Dancer	Jesse Fischer & Soul Cycle	Retro Future
Curtis Knew	John Scofield	Uberjam Deux
Come Together	Dick Weller	Tunes Remembered
Fairies Wear Boots	The Casualties of Jazz	Kind of Black
Yo 11	Ian Torres Big Band	January
Ayer Y Hoy	Brownout	Aguilas Y Cobras
Whatever It Is, I Can't Stop	Jamiroquai	Emergency on Planet Earth