Tom Tallitsch
Modern Jazz Radio Show

Modern Jazz Radio Show

 

Thursdays Noon-1pm. 

Hosted By Tom Tallitsch

Stream Live At WWFM JazzOn2 Here! 

Listen To Shows On Soundcloud

To be considered for The Modern Jazz Radio Show, please use a file sharing service such as Dropbox and email to tomtallitsch@gmail.com. Please include: High Quality Wav or Mp3 files, One Sheet, Description, or .pdf of the album cover and booklet. 

_______________________________________

Playlist For 6/17/21
Brian Charette – Silver Lining – Power From The Air
Chris Cheek – All Or Nothing At All – Guilty: Live At Jamboree
Kevin Hays & Lionel Louke – Violeta – Hope
Alex Sipiagin – One For Mike l – Mirages
Marc Copland – Dark Territory – Haunted Heart And Other Ballads
Lage Lund – Tokyo – Foolhardy
Dick Oats – Yesteryear – Use Your Imagination
Chris Potter – Invocation – Circuits

_____________________________________________________________

Playlist For 6/3/21
Etienne Charles – Dame Lorraine – Carnival: The Sound Of The People Vol. 1
Mike Ledonne – Lined With A Groove – Partners In Time
Trio Grande – Northbound – Trio Grande
Steve Davis – Subtlety – Correlations
Mark Turner – Where Are You – Where Are You
Brad Turner – Catastrophizer – Jump Up
Dave Hartl – Rosemary – Some Other Where

_____________________________________________________________

 

Playlist For 5/6/21

Steve Cardenas – Reflector – Blue Has A Range

Cory Weeds – Speak Softly Love (The Godfather Theme) – O Sole Mio! Music From The MotherlandOrlando Le Fleming – Struggle Session – Romantic Funk: The UnfamiliarMitch Marcus – Violet Wreath – The Invaders TrioDave Stryker – Love Dance – Baker’s CircleLuke Carlos o’Reilly – Can’t Breather (Fight Song) – I Too Sing America: A Black Man’s DiaryJochen Rueckert – Obstacles – Stars And GartersAvishai Cohen – Nature’s Dance – FloodArt Hirahara – Mother’s Song – Balance PointTivon Pennicott – Con Alma – Spirit Garden

_____________________________________________________________

Playlist For 4/22/21
Immanuel Wilkens – Grace And Mercy – Omega
Vijay Iyer – Children Of Flint – Uneasy
Seamus Blake – Way Out Willy – Live In Italy
Andy Bianco – For Those Who Battle Demons – NYC Stories
Joe Lovano – West Of The Moon – Garden Of Expression
David Gibson – Grassfed – Boom
Tony Monaco/Hendrik Meurkens – A Room Above – Strollin’
David Binney – Arc – The Time Verses

_____________________________________________________________

Playlist For 3/25/21
Caleb Wheeler Curtis – That Which Cannot Be Replaced – Ain’t No Storm
Uri Caine – Night Wrestler – Calibrated Thickness
Luke Carlos O’Reilly – Runnin’ – I Too Sing America: A Black Man’s Diary
Peter Bernstein – Empty Streets – What Comes Next
Hendrik Meurkens – Clear of Clouds – Manhattan Samba
Miguel Zenon – Toy Dance/Street Woman – Law Years: The Music of Ornette Coleman
Mike Kennedy – Super 8 – Landfall
Michael Dease – Word To The Wise – Give It All You Got
Peter Brendler – Gimme The Numbers – Message In Motion

______________________________________________________________

Playlist For 3/18/21

Kurt Rosenwinkel – The Cross – Deep Song
The Bad Plus – Commitment – Never Stop II
Tim Warfield – He Knows How Much I Can Bear – Jazzland
Larry Tamanini – Tempest – Front And Center
Jerry Bergonzi – 5th Ray: Knowledge – The Seven Rays
Darryl Yokley – Migration – Pictures At An African Exhibition
Jesse Newman And Wolf Face – Re-Translation – The World Has Time To Bloom
Franck Amsallam – Baton Rouge – Gotham Goodbye
Dave Stryker – Rush Hour – Baker’s Circle

____________________________________________________________

Playlist For 3/4/21
John Ellis & Double Wide – Barbed Wire Britches – Charm
Dave Kain – Once Again – Once Again
Wolfgang Muthspiel – Clearing – Where The River Goes
Josh Lawrence – Presence – Color Theory
B.D. Lenz – Uncertainty – Sole Searching
Miguel Zenon & Luis Perdomo – Alma Adentro – El Arte Del Bolero
Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band – Broken Leg Days – Body & Shadow
Pat Bianchi – Blue Gardenia – In The Moment
Cyrus Chestnut – I Surrender All – Spirit

____________________________________________________________

·     
Playlist for 2/25/21
Orlando le Fleming – The Myth Of Progress – Romantic Funk: The Unfamiliar
Chick Corea – This Is New (Live) – Trilogy
Jeremy Pelt – Feito – The Artist
Pavel Wlosok Trio & Rick Margitza – Widow’s Walk – Story Teller
Immanuel Wilkens – Warriors – Omega
Jon Davis – Slant Six – Happy Juice
Seamus Blake – Subterfuge – Bellwether
Bill Frisell – Small Town – Americana

_________________________________________

Playlist for 2/18/21

Chris Cheek – Saturday Songs – Saturday Songs
Dave Douglas – Mandrian – Dizzy Atmosphere
Harold Mabern – Cherokee – Right On Time
Yotam Silberstein – Capricho De Espanha – Future Memories
Joe Lovano – Night Creatures – Garden Of Expression
Mike Ledonne – Saud – Partners In Time
Behn Gillece – Evening Glow – Parallel Universe
Rudy Royston – Twirler – Flatbed Buggy
Bryan And The Haggards – Trouble In Mind – Pretend It’s The End Of The World

_____________________________________________________________

Playlist For 2/11/21
Steve Cardenas – Blue Has A Range – Lost And Found
NYSQ (NY Standards Quartet) – Maze – The New Straight Ahead
Trio Grande – Upside – Trio Grande
Brad Turner – The Enthusiast – Jump Up
Cory Weeds – Torna A Surriento – O Sole Mio! Music From The Motherland
Orrin Evans – Black Elk Speaks – It Was Beauty
Mike Moreno – The Spinning Wheel – Another Way
Michael Dease – Annette’s For Sure – Father Figure
Brian Charette – Time Changes – Kurrent

_______________________________________

Playlist For 2/4/21

Dave Stryker – Tough – Baker’s Circle

JohnEllis – All Things Bright – Al Things Bright

Neil Podgurski – Bodhichitta – Nine Times One Hundred Thousand

John Scofield – Woodstock – Hudson

Nick Hempton – After You’ve Gone – Night Owl

Steve Davis – Angie’s Groove – For Real

Jochen Rueckert – Obstacles – Stars And Garters

JD Allen – Bigger Thomas – Americana: Musings On Jazz And Blues

Hendrik Meurkens – Frame For The Blues – Cobb’s Pocket

_______________________________________

Playlist For 12/19/19

A Few Miles From Memphis – Harold Mabern – Iron Man: Live At Smoke
Escalier – Yes Trio – Groove Du Jour
Gimme The Numbers – Peter Brendler – Message In Motion
Five Minds – Larry Tamanini – Front And Center
Memory Lane – John Ellis – It’s You I Like
Purring Excellence – Jochen Rueckert – Charm Offensive
Yolk – Brian Charette – Beyond Borderline
Unbound – Art Hirahara – Sunbound
Seven Seas – Dave Douglas & Uri Caine – Present Joys

________________________________________

Playlist For 11/28/19
Presence – The Captain Black Bigband – Presence
Isn’t That So – Dayna Stephens – Reminiscent
The Windup – Julian Lage – Love Hurts
The Edenist – Mark Turner – Lathe Of Heaven
Paradox – Shai Maestro – Road To Ithaca
Pro Zeca – Jared Gold – Intuition
Party – Mike Pohjola – Announcement
Disneyland In Hamtramck – Nick Millevoi – Desertion 

_______________________________________

Playlist For 11/07/19
Skyviews – Lucas Brown – Skyviews
Hurricane Birds – The Bad Plus – Never Stop II
Sofa Song – Seamus Blake – Superconductor
Frenzy – Michael Dease – Never More Here
Floor Phase – Vinnie Sperrazza – Apocryphal
Future Memories – Yotam Silberstein – Future Memories
Lennie’s Pennies – Mark Turner/Gary Foster – Mark Turner Meets Gary Foster
Descargando – Manuel Valera And The New Cuban Express – In Motion

 

_________________________________________

 

Playlist For 9/12/19
I Remember Malady’s – Nick Hempton – Night Owl
One Man’s Idea – Avishai Cohen – Introducing Triveni
What If – Edward Simon/Scott Colley/Brian Blade – Steel House
Everywhere – Bill Frisell – Harmony
Metropolis – Greg Ward – Rogue Parade
Mag’s Groove – Akiko Tsurga – Equal Time
Cliff Tone – Chris Cheek – FOX
Candid Camera – Jon Davis – One Up Front
Charms Of The Night Sky – Dave Douglas – Charms Of The Night
Sky

________________________________________

Playlist For 9/5/19
View From Moscow – Kurt Rosenwinkel – The Remedy: Live At The Village Vanguard
Lined With A Groove – Mike Ledonne – Partners In Time
Dublin – Tom Harrell – Infinity
Gsus – JD Allen – Barracoon
Julia – Vic Juris – Two Guitars
Unbound – Art Hirahara – Sunward Bound
Pressed For Time – Chris Potter – Circuits

________________________________________

Playlist For 3/7/19

The Contender – Greg Ward – Rogue Parade
Concentric Drift – Wayne Escoffery – Live At Smalls
Behind The Broken Glass – Avishai Cohen – Into The Silence
Break The Ice – Behn Gillece – Parallel Universe
Sweet Sid – Orrin Evans – The Evolution Of Oneself
Thin King – Rez Abbasi – Unfiltered Universe
Roach – Larry Goldings – In My Room
The Trickster – Aaron Parks – Little Big

 

________________________________________

 

 

Playlist For 2/28/19
Taipei Personality – Jon Irabagon – Dr. Quixotic’s Traveling Exotics
Spiral – Brad Mehldau – Seymour Reads The Constitution
Klepto – Ravi Coltrane – Spirit Fiction
Threshold – Mike DiRubbo – Threshold
Six Gnossiennes No. 1 – Kirk Knuffke / Jesse Stacken – Satie
Eye Contact – Vic Juris – Eye Contact
People Be Talking – Jon Lundbom & Big Five Chord – harder On The Outside

________________________________________

 

Playlist For 1/31/19
We Are The Drum – Kendrick Scott Oracle – We Are The Drum
You And The Night And The Music – Fred Hersch – Floating
A Side Order Of Hijiki – Kenny Garrett – Pushing The World Away
In Your Own Sweet Way – Hendrik Meurkens – Harmonicus Rex
Kolga – Lage Lund/ Agnar Mar Magnussen – Hending
Eyes of Argus – David Gibson – Boom!
The Undaunted – Tim Warfield – Eye Of The Beholder
Flipside – John Abercrombie – Up And Coming
Behind The Sky (Hawks And Arrows) – Jon Irabagon – Behind The Sky
Blessed Assurance – Cyrus Chestnut – Spirit

________________________________________

 

Playlist For 1/24/19
The Jupiter Line – Seamus Blake – Live In Italy
Blues Etude – Emmet Cohen – Infinity
Pin Yin – J.D. Allen – The Matador And The Bull
Newborn – Daisuke Abe – Another Journey
Overcooked – Something Blue – Maximum Enjoyment
It Never Entered my Mind – Steve Nelson – Brothers Under The Sun
Magic Trick – Joe Magnarelli – Magic Trick
The Clock Killer – Will Vinson – Perfectly Out Of Place

_________________________________________

 

Playlist For 1/3/19

Clearing – Wolfgang Muthspiel – Where The River Goes

Everything means Nothing To Me – John Ellis – It’s You I Like

Cheryl – Kevin Hays – Live At Smalls Jazz Club

Threshold – Mike DiRubbo – Threshold

Icicles – Uri Caine – Calibrated Thickness

Something, Sometime – Kurt Rosenwinkel – Star Of Jupiter

Flying Red – Jerry Bergonzi – Shifting Gears

Eight Counts For Rita – Jordan Young – Jazz Jukebox

________________________________________ 

 

Playlist For 12/27/18
Half Moon – Brad Goode – That’s Right
Elucidation (Previously Unreleased From The Next Generation Recording Sessions 2004 Mack Avenue- Gary Burton – Take Another Look: A Career Retrospective Box Set
Fifth Movement – Kenny Werner – The Space
Playing With The Wind – Misha Tsiganov – Playing With The Wind
Worried Woman – Andrew Cyrille – Ledroba
Freeway – Peter Brendler – Outside The Line
Luaty – Aaron Goldberg – At The Edge Of The World
It’s A Hard World For Little Things – Nick Millevoi – Midtown Tilt
North Star – James Farm (Joshua Redman, Aaron Parks, Matt Penman, Eric Harland – City Folk

________________________________________

Playlist For 11/29/18 (Replay From 9/20/18)

Oska T – Tim Warfield – Spherical

April In Paris – Mike Moreno – 3 For 3

Temporary Kings – Mark Turner Jazz & Ethan Iverson – Temporary Kings

The Phoenix – Theo Hill – Promethean

Landmarks – Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band – Landmarks

They Left Fred Out – Brian Charette – Alphabet City

Yemen Suite – Omer Avital – New Song

Lament – Chris Potter Underground Orchestra – Imaginary Cities

________________________________________

 

Playlist For 11/22/18
Halfway To Hartford – Noah Preminger – Genuinity
Nardis – Pilc Moutin Hoenig – Threedom
Queen B – Ron Miles – Quiver
Requiem – Roy Hargrove Big Band – Emergence
My Heart Belongs To Daddy – Bill Carrothers – Home Row 
Prisoner Of Love – JD Allen – Love Stone
Molten Sunset – Dave Douglas – High Risk

________________________________________

 

Playlist For 11/15/18
The Humanity Quartet – A Good Thing – The Humanity Quartet
Kid – Aaron Parks – Little Big
1974 Blues – Chris Cheek & Seamus Blake – Reeds Ramble
Ten Tune – Brad Mehldau – Seymour Reads The Constitution
Down And Up – Antonio Hart – Blessings
Triple Water – Lauren Sevian – Bliss
Tokyo Cookie – Gilad Hekselman – Ask For Chaos

________________________________________

 

Playlist For 11/8/18
Into The Silence – Avishai Cohen – Into The Silence
The Birthday Song – Colin Stranahan – Life Condition
Brain Damage – Seamus Blake, Sam Yahel, Mike Moreno, Ari Hoenig – The Jazz Side Of The Moon
Walk Of Fire – Behn Gillece – Walk Of Fire
One Way – Branford Marsalis & Joey Calderrazzo – Songs Of Mirth & Melancholy
Medieval Genius – Ralph Alessi – Wiry Strong
That’s Not Your Donut – Champian Fulton – Speechless
Handsome Eddy – Mostly Other People Do The Killing – Shamokin

________________________________________

 

Playlist For 11/1/18
Folklore – Brian Blade – Fellowship
Anabis – Chucho Valdes – Live At The Village Vanguard
Pannonica – Peter Bernstein – Signs Live
Point In Time – Fred Hersch – Point In Time
June Song – The Wolfe Brothers – Duets Vol. 1
Surreality – Dave Liebman Group – Expansions Live
Flatbed Buggy – Rudy Royston – Flatbed Buggy

________________________________________

 

Playlist For 10/25/18
Presence – Josh Lawrence – Color Theory
Greedy SIlence – Antonio Sanchez – Migration
No Road – Greg Tuohey & Jerome Sabbagh – No Filter
The Sky Above Her – Dave Allen – The Sky Above Her
Juggernaut – Andrew Neu – Catwalk
Bywater Beauty – Reverand Chris – End Of Love
Pearls – Michael Dease – Bonafide
Cabin In The Sky – Hendrik Meurkins & Bill Cunliffe – Cabin In The Sky
We Used To Dance – Joel Frahm – We Used To Dance

 

Note: There was a glitch in the first break after the first song. There is a bit of silence that you will need to fast forward over to get to the Antonio Sanchez track. Sorry about that. I record the show ahead of time and am not sure how that happened. 

_________________________________________

 

Playlist For 10/18/18
Brooklyn Express – Art Hirahara – Sunward Bound
Santo Spirito – David Binney – Anacapa
Timing Out – Matt Davis Aerial Photograph – Before The Stars Burn Out
One Wish – Jon Irabagon – Behind The Sky
The Dream Take – Shai Maestro – The Dream Thief
Ritual Of Take – Fresh Cut Orchestra – From The Vine
Last Trane To Georgia – Doug Webb – Fast Friends
Jolene – John Scofield – Country For Old Men

________________________________________

 

Playlist For 10/11/18
Pulsion – Dave Allen – The Sky Above Her

The Heavyweight Champion – Jaleel Shaw – Perspective
Elvira – Brian Charette – Music For Organ Sextet
Vicissitudes – Dave Holland – Critical Mass
Water Mile – Chris Cheek – A Girl Named Joe
Sir Dude – Jon Davis – One Up Front
Blues For McCoy – Mike Ledonne – The Groover

________________________________________

 

Playlist For 10/4/18
We Make The Rules – Jochen Rueckert – We Make The Rules
Gracia – Seamus Blake – Superconductor
Super 8 – Mike Kennedy – Landfall
In Your Own Sweet Way – George Garzone – Crescent
Absalom – Adam Rogers – Art Of The Invisible
Family – Vinnie Sperrazza Apocryphal – Hide Ye Idols
The Holy Men – World Sax Quartet – Metamorphosis
The Inside Track – Phil Degreg – Down The Middle
Renew – Ike Sturm + Evergreen – Shelter Of Trees

___________________________________________

 

Playlist For 9/27/18
The Cross – Kurt Rosenwinkel – Deep Song
Bagatelle No. 2 – Jesse Stacken – Bagatelles For Piano
It’s Alright With Me – Will Vinson – It’s Alright With Three
Children Of The Light – Perez, Patitucci, Blade – Children of The Light
Jawn Henry – JD Allen – Graffiti
Common Ground – Zach Brock – Almost Never Was
Drop The Mittens – Peter Brendler – Outside The Lines
Underground City – Donny McCaslin – Fast Future

___________________________________________

 

Playlist For 9/20/18
Oska T – Tim Warfield – Spherical
April In Paris – Mike Moreno – 3 For 3
Temporary Kings – Mark Turner & Ethan Iverson – Temporary Kings
The Phoenix – Theo Hill – Promethean
Landmarks – Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band – Landmarks
They Left Fred Out – Brian Charette – Alphabet City
Yemen Suite – Omer Avital – New Song
Lament – Chris Potter Underground Orchestra – Imaginary Cities

________________________________________

 

Playlist For 9/13/18
VBlues – Gilad Hekselman – Ask For Chaos
The Edenist – Mark Turner Quartet – Lathe Of Heaven
Come In And Pray – Larry Goldings – Sweet Science
Little Dirty – Bruce Barth – Live At The Village Vanguard
The Ruby And The Pearl – Branford Marsalis – Eternal
Tactics – Steve Davis – For Real 
H&H – David Kikoski – Kayemode
A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall – Scofield, Dejohnette, Medeski, Grenadier – Hudson

___________________________________________

 

Playlist For 9/6/18

Play On Words – Rudy Royston – 303

Artlessness – Bridges Trio & Chris Cheek – South Lamar Boulevard

In The Fall – Nuphar Fey Trio – Nuphar Fey Trio EP

Entranement – Ben Schachter – Entranement

Tales From A Stranger – B.D. Lenz – Manifesto

Maurice & Michael (I’m Sorry I Didn’t Say Hello) – Ambrose Akinmusire – A Rift In Decorum (Live At The Village Vanguard)

Autumn In New York – Joe Lovano – Joyous Encounter

___________________________________________

 

Playlist 8/30/18

Tumbleweed – Michael Brecker – Pilgrimage 

Mindset – Behn Gillece – Mindset

The Pond – John Von Ohlen – The Pond

Beyond The Wall – Kenny Garrett – Beyond The Wall

You Don’t Know What Love Is – Ed Cherry – It’s All Good

The Lady Wants To Know – Cory Weeds – Dreamsville

Miller Time – Black Art Jazz Collective – Armor Of Pride

Sunset Greg Snyder – The State Of Nature – Greg Snyder

Bluocracy Part 2 – World Saxophone Quartet – Political Blues

___________________________________________

 

Playlist 8/23/18

Corner Tavern – Dave Douglas & Joe Lovano Soundprints – Scandal
The Architect – The Next Step Quintet Featuring Tivon Pennicott – Album 2
Just For Fun – Jon Davis – Changes Over Time
Memorial Day – Russ Nolan – Sanctuary From Ordinary
Don’t Be Sad – Brad Mehldau – Highway Rider
Inter-Are – Mark Giuliana – Jersey
Friday The 13th – Tim Conley – MAST Thelonious Monk
Sno Peas – Michael Stephans – Open Spaces
Bemsha Swing – Monkadelphia – Crepescule
All Up In The Aisles – John Ellis Double Wide – Dance Like There’s No Tomorrow

___________________________________________

 

Playlist 8/16/18

Subterfuge – Seamus Blake – Bellwether 
Central Line – Art Hirahara – Central Line 
Miss The Mississippi And – You Bryan And The Haggards – Pretend It’s The End Of The World 
Let Loose – Peter Bernstein – Let Loose
After Again-  Rick VanMatre – Lines Above
Next Stop-Tsukiji – Alex Sipiagin – Destinations Unknown 
Put On A Happy Face – JD Allen – Love Stone 
The Robots – “The bad plus” – It’s Hard 
Grove’s Groove – Michael Dease – Decisions

 

 

___________________________________________

Playlist 8/9/18
Vicious – Jerome Sabbagh & Greg Tuohey – No Filter
Parasitosis – Jochen Rueckert – Charm Offensive
Broken Branch – Mike Kennedy – Landfall
Hope – Mike Mike DiRubbo – Live At Smalls
Catfish Sandwich – Brian Charette and Kurrent – Kurrent
Red – Josh Lawrence – Color Theory
Afternoon – Hendrik Meurkens & Bill Cunliffe – Cabin in The Sky
Segment – Fred Hersch – Alive At The Vanguard
Gathering Call – Matt Wilson Quartet + John Medeski – Gathering Call

 

___________________________________________