Six early morning recommendations:
KCOU (Columbia, MO)
- New Heights (Visions Of Aisha Malik)-Kamaal Williams (A well-sustained seven minutes of somewhat avant garde jazzy piano, bass, and drums; an ideal middle-of-the-night tune.)
KOHO (Wenatchee, WA)
- Patience-Tame Impala (A swirling, laid-back, midtempo dance groove, with vocals over an appealing keyboard backdrop.)
WBLV (Twin Lake, MI)
- Blackbird-Stacey Kent (An appropriately sensitive, reverential vocals-and-piano rendition of the Beatles classic. The timbre of Kent's voice here reminds me of Petra Haden.)
WKSU (Kent, OH)
- Arnold Rosner: Responses, Hosanna, And Fugue: II. Allegro (The Philharmonia Orchestra/David Amos, conductor) (An intense, gripping movement for strings.)
WMOT (Nashville, TN)
- Yearnin' Learnin'-Earth, Wind & Fire (Infectious piano underscores the vocals. Boney M.'s "Daddy Cool" would sound right after this.)
- Stay Clear-Black Violin featuring Kandace Springs & Robert Glasper (An appealing midtempo dance rhythm and keyboard propel the vocals. This would segue well into Dionne Warwick's "Take The Short Way Home.")
