Online radio sampler highlights XXX

Six of the more interesting selections I've heard this morning:

KZSC (Santa Cruz, CA)

• E Ku'u Morning Dew-Keola Beamer (A subtle Hawaiian slack-key guitar instrumental, fit for greeting the new day; it would segue with the piece I cited on WCBN this morning.)

WBGU (Bowling Green, OH)

• The Listener-John Wojciechowski (A captivating straight-ahead jazz number for saxophone and rhythm section.)

WCBN (Ann Arbor, MI)

• The Air Of Place-Rachel Grimes (A gripping new age orchestral prelude from 2015.  "The Clearing" is an appropriate name for its CD, as it's easy to picture clouds giving way to clear skies at the end of the track.)

WERS (Boston, MA)

• Smoking Gun-Robert Cray Band (Still one of the band's most powerful tracks; with vocals and guitar work like this, it's not surprising this was the first Cray track that received widespread commercial radio airplay.)

WFDU (Teaneck, NJ)

• One Foot In The Blues-Johnny Adams with Dr. Lonnie & Jimmy Ponder (An ideal blues riff--vocals with just the right amount of emoting, backed up by shimmering organ, guitar, and saxophone.)

WPRB (Princeton, NJ)

• Gloria Coates: Perchance To Dream (Susan Allen, harp; Cotton Lytle, bowed vibraphone) (This haunting, ethereal piece would also segue well with "The Air Of Place.")