Seven noteworthy selections heard today:
KDHX 88.1 FM
- Kentucky Blues-Shotgun Jazz Band (An impressive Dixieland-style instrumental; it sounds like Leon Redbone should be singing over it.)
- Hol' Em Joe (Donkey Want Water)-The Sparrow (Rhythmically, this could segue with Harry Belafonte's "Jump In The Line.")
- Don't Knock-The Staple Singers (I imagine Heaven being this welcoming.)
WSIE 88.7 FM
- Higher Love-Chris Blackwell (This is exactly how I'd expect a smooth jazz, electric guitar cover of Steve Winwood's hit to sound. That's not to its detriment.)
- Dear Rudy-Terell Stafford (Sublime traditional jazz trumpet.)
- Black And Gold-Brenna Whitaker (Powerful torch-style vocals.)
- Leroy Anderson: Jazz Pizzicato (St. Louis Symphony Orchestra/Leonard Slatkin, conductor) (An approximation of how Scott Joplin's "The Entertainer" would sound, played by strings.)
