Tuesday, April 25, 2017

FM dial scan highlights LXXX

Standout tracks from recent days:

KDHX 88.1 FM
  • Beautiful View-Brookville (Atmospheric new age chords set the scene of a compellingly catchy, melancholy tune.)
  • Care Of Cell 44-The Zombies (Possibly the bounciest, most impressively layered vocals ever arranged for a tune about coming home after a rough patch in one's life.)
WSIE 88.7 FM
  • Speak Low-Eliane Elias (A cool, sly arrangement of this jazz standard, with compelling vocals from Elias and trumpet accompaniment from Randy Brecker.)
  • Summer Horns-Dave Koz And Friends (A sunny sax-drenched melody that would segue well with the Boney James/Rick Braun version of "Grazin' In The Grass.")
  • 7th Avenue South-Jonathan Butler (This guitar instrumental would segue smoothly with any number of Earl Klugh tunes.)
K297BI 107.3 FM, a.k.a. KNOU-HD2
  • Route 101-Herb Alpert (Alpert's best instrumental single, in my opinion; a great energetic melody for trumpet that should have been a bigger hit in 1982.  Kudos to "The Jazz Collective" for playing it.)