This installment of Notes From The Jazz Underground features the playlist based on the December 6th show.
After offering two themes in the previous week's broadcast, NFTJU host Paul Abella returns to free form no-rules jazz programming. No theme at all. Not even a little bit.
Hightlights include new(ish) stuff from Trombone Shorty and Robert Glasper and John Scofield guesting on a Wild Magnolias tune. The Dianne Reeves tune (not on Spotify… provided here as a YouTube link) is a messy trying-to-be-psychedelic-but-damn-funky version of "Tomorrow Never Knows".
J. Davis Trio is from Chicago and is one of the very few rapper over live band set ups that really sounds great. While others in the category tend to be awkward, they just nail it. The Art Ensemble tune will probably freak a few people out, as well it should.
Notes From The Jazz Underground runs Friday nights on WDCB 90.9 FM.
Complete Playlist
| TITLE | ARTIST | ALBUM |
| Vieux Carre | Trombone Shorty | Say That to Say This |
| Electric Worm | Beastie Boys | The Mix Up |
| Same Clothes, Different Day | Chris Tarry | Almost Certainly Dreaming |
| Phobos | Darcy James Argue's Secret Society | Infernal Machines |
| No More Quarrel With the Devil | Doubt | Mercy Pity Peace & Love |
| The Firm Swing | The J. Davis Trio | Vintage |
| Both Sides | Joe Marcinek Band | Both Sides |
| Earmarks | Dave Douglas Quintet | Live at the Jazz Standard |
| Waiting is Forbidden | Rudresh Mahanthappa | Gamak |
| Thank You Boys | Jane's Addiction | Nothing's Shocking |
| Revenge of the Mega Men | William Kurk | Super Pop Fiction |
| Mysterious Vibes | Blackbyrds | Action |
| C Jam Blues | Kenny Burrell | Red Hot & Indigo |
| A Go Go | John Scofield | A Go Go |
| Go Tell It On the Mountain | The Wild Magnolias | World Christmas |
| Tomorrow Never Knows | Dianne Reeves | Strawberry Fields |
| Betty Davis | Todd Clouser | Entre: Selections in Garage Jazz |
| Get Happy | Tierney Sutton | On the Other Side |
| Minors | Tortoise | Beacons of Ancestorship |
| Rock Out | Art Ensemble of Chicago | A Jackson in Your House/Message To Our Folks |
| What Are We Doing | Robert Glasper Experiment | Black Radio 2 |
| Panepha | Method of Defiance | Inamorata |
