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The Sunday Jazz Brunch Presents Sunday's Playlist Air Date: 2/8/2026  on 90.5 WICN 9am-12pm ET If you miss the air date: click here for the archi ves for up to two weeks HOUR ONE: Contemplative Morning Symbiosis\Tribute to Bill Evans 2026\Suite IV Interlude Treasures Paul McCandless\Live at Kimballs East 1992\Cloudy This Morning April Varner\April 2024\Sometimes It Snows in April Stella Cole\It's Magic 2025 feat Alan Broadbent\Imagination Aaron Parks\By All Means 2025\Dense Phantasy Freddy Cole-In the Name of Love-04 In the Name of Love 2003 George Kahn Quartet-DreamCatcher-10 EVA-2020 Goldings Bernstein Stewart-Perpetual Pendulum 2022-09 Perpetual Pendulum Eddie Gomez-Next Future-03 Dreaming of You 1993 Danilo Pérez & Claus Ogerman-Across The Crystal Sea-05 If I Forget You 2008 HOUR TWO: New For You Paul Marinaro\Mood Ellington 2025\A Flower is a Lovesome Thing Dave Stryker\Blue Fire 2025\Waiting for Ruby Patricia Barber-The Cole Porter Mix-04 You're the Top 2008 April...
The Sunday Jazz Brunch Presents Sunday's Playlist Air Date: 2/1/2026  on 90.5 WICN 9am-12pm ET If you miss the air date: click here for the archi ves for up to two weeks   HOUR ONE: Contemplative Morning Joe Magnarelli\Decidedly So 2026/10th Anniversary  Dave Stryker\Blue Fire 2025\Waiting for Ruby Carmen McRae-Carmen Sings Monk -11 Still We Dream 004 Bill Coon - But Beautiful Charles Lloyd\The Water Is Wide-06 Lotus Blossom 2000 Ted Rosenthal Trio\Classics Reimagined - Improp2 2025\ Je Te Veux Tessa Souter\Shadows and Silence 2025\009 Rayga s Song (Gymnopedie No. 1) The Tiki Collective-Muse-01 I've Never Left Your Arms 2018 Lee Morgan-The Procrastinator-03 Dear Sir 1967 The Steve Kuhn Trio-Years Later-08-Silvers Serenade Libby York-Here With You 2008-02 The Day the World Stopped Turning HOUR TWO: New For You Carl Schultz\The-Road-to-Trantor 2026\Unsettled Worlds Symbiosis\Tribute to Bill Evans 2026\WAV\Time Remembered Georgia Mancio\A STORY LEFT UNTOLD 2025\Heart of Hear...
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The Sunday Jazz Brunch Presents Musician's Corner: Mafalda Minnozzi & Paul Ricci Air Date: 1/25/2026  on 90.5 WICN 9am-12pm ET If you miss the air date: click here for the archi ves for up to two weeks .   LISTEN TO THE SEGMENT HERE     Good friends of WICN-FM 90.5, vocalist Mafalda Minnozzi and her music director, producer, and guitarist Paul Ricci, will talk about their latest CD,  Riofonic,  on the next edition of the Sunday Jazz Brunch.    If you are a regular listener you might recall that  they have appeared a few times live in Studio 50, both times broadcast during the show. Now we have an audio piece produced by Mr. Ricci that will air between 10am and 11am ET during this Sunday's show.   Included will be a discussion of the different beats incorporated into some of the songs - not all of which use the famed and irresistable bossa nova beat that we all love. But here we have something that uses African rhythms, and I hope you...
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The Sunday Jazz Brunch Presents Time Traveling: Best of 2024 Air Date: 1/18/2026  on 90.5 WICN 9am-12pm ET If you miss the air date: click here for the archi ves for up to two weeks   So we're still at the beginning of 2026 and we've heard the best of 2025. The tradition on the Sunday Jazz Brunch is to revisit previous BEST OF shows, as it is a shame to only play such a show once or twice. We always want the best and these will give it to us in spades. So on the next edition of SJB we'll travel back further, to 2024, which had a whole bunch of really great releases.      Click here  for the blog entry for this show. It gives you all the info you need.    One change, though. As SJB is now a three-hour show, I had to edit the original show to fit the format. The new playlist is below.   Best,   Marty    HOUR ONE: Contemplative Morning Judy Whitmore\Come Fly With Me 2024\Moonlight In Vermont John Lee\Second Wind 2024\Why Was I Bor...
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The Sunday Jazz Brunch Presents Best of 2025 Air Date: 1/11/2026  on 90.5 WICN 9am-12pm ET If you miss the air date: click here for the archi ves for up to two weeks   Another year rolls around, and another Best Of show comes your way. Three hours of the best CDs with the best tracks, where else can you hear such a surfeit of great jazz? Tune in to the Sunday Jazz Brunch this coming Sunday and plan to hang and relax for the whole show, because I doubt you'll be able to turn it off once you hear these great songs by today's jazz artists.   I don't want to say too much here because the music speaks for itself mostly. Sure, I will guide you through during the show and I will provide the backstories and artist notes where appropriate, but make no mistake, it's all about the music.   Certainly, this list is really the Marty Friedman Best Of 2025 show, because I did not get every new jazz CD released. In fact, there are a few that I discovered I had not yet listened to by ...
The Sunday Jazz Brunch Presents Sunday's Playlist Air Date: 1/4/2026  on 90.5 WICN 9am-12pm ET If you miss the air date: click here for the archi ves for up to two weeks   HOUR ONE: Contemplative Morning Stella Cole\Till There Was You 2025 feat Alan Broadbent\The Touch of Your Lips Franck Amsallem\Out a Day  1992 Remastered\09_A Time for Love Carmen Bradford\Carmen Sings Carmen 2025\Boy Do I Have a Surprise for You Marina Pacowski-New Jazz Standards, Vol. 7- The Music of Carl Saunders 2025-04 Feels Like Home Stella Cole\Till There Was You 2025 feat Alan Broadbent\Stairway to the Stars Bob James & Dave Koz-Just Us 2025-04 All The Way Rachael & Vilray-West of Broadway 2025-10 Manhattan Serenade Antonio Adolfo-Finas Misturas [Fine Mixtures] 2013-01 Floresta Azul [Blue Forest] Meltem Ege\Solitude 2025\We Must Not Say Yes Brad Turner Quartet\It's All So 2025\Can't Know How Anaïs Reno\Lady of the Lavender Mist 2025\Poincina HOUR TWO: New For You 007 Jamile with Miki Yam...
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The Sunday Jazz Brunch Presents Goodbye 2025 Air Date: 12/28/2025 on 90.5 WICN 9am-12pm ET If you miss the air date: click here for the archi ves for up to two weeks It's the final show of the year.  In the weeks ahead, there will be time for reflection and also for putting together the 'best of' show, something I always look forward to. Meanwhile, for Sunday's show, I have  chosen some of the most beautiful music I could find. You'll hear extraordinary jazz with strings during the first hour. Steve Kuhn, one of my favorite pianists of all time, opens the show with a wonderful string orchestra. Then wait until you hear the string arrangement by Alan Broadbent for Georgia Mancio's 2025 release A Story Left Untold, listening to the title track. Then we have the young Montreal guitarist Sam Kirmayer, perhaps my favorite unsung artist. He has a fabulous tone. Paul McCandless plays oboe and I can't think of any other jazz oboists off the top of my head. His work...
The Sunday Jazz Brunch Presents Sunday's Playlist Air Date: 12/21/2025 on 90.5 WICN 9am-12pm ET If you miss the air date: click here for the archi ves for up to two weeks HOUR ONE: Contemplative Morning Brandon Sanders\Lasting Impression 2025\Soul Eyes Ted Rosenthal Trio\Ted Rosenthal Songbook 2025\Always Believe Paul Marinaro\Not Quite Yet 2022\That's All La Tanya Hall\If Not Now, When 2025\Pretty Eyes Andrew Carroll\Speaking of Gravity 2025\07 Audrey's Arabesque April Varner\Winter Songs Vol 2 2025\Sleigh Ride Rufus Wainwright Pacific Jazz Orchestra\Stranger Here Myself 2025\014 Lost In The Stars (Feat. Metropole Orkest) Vanisha Gould\Life's a Gig 2024\Aisha Noah Haidu\Standards 2023\Old Folks Samara Joy\Portrait 2024\You Stepped Out of A Dream Michael Pallas\Gateway 2024\11 Beyond(The Gateway) HOUR TWO: New For You Stella Cole\It's Magic 2025 feat Alan Broadbent\Stairway to the Stars Aaron Parks\By All Means 2025\003 For Maria Jose April Varner\Winter Songs Vol 2...
The Sunday Jazz Brunch Presents Sunday's Playlist Air Date: 12/14/2025 on 90.5 WICN 9am-12pm ET If you miss the air date: click here for the archi ves for up to two weeks HOUR ONE: Contemplative Morning Alan Pasqua-Northern Lights 2017-06 Hope  Michael Ragonese-Stracci 2023-07 I'll be Seeing You Kenny Burrell-Love Is the Answer 1998-11 Love Suite- First Movement, Love Is the Answer, Pt. 1 (Reprise) Linda Purl\This Could Be the Start 2023\Dream Dancing Ivan Lins\My Heart Speaks 2023\Rio De Maio Don Braden-Earth Wind And Wonder Volume 2 2023-05 Send One Your Love Chris Keefe\Opening 2023- Along Came Betty  Chiara Civello-The Space Between-06 Without Him 2007 Jackie Allen-Rose Fingered Dawn-10 Steal The Night 2017 Jacky Terrasson-Smile-04 Sous le ciel de Paris 2002 Jamie Cullum-Twentysomething-01 These Are The Days 2004 Jenna Mammina & Rolf Sturm-Spark-03 Talk To Me 2015 HOUR TWO: New For You Stella Cole\It's Magic 2025 feat Alan Broadbent\As Time Goes By Franck Amsallem\G...
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The Sunday Jazz Brunch Presents Support Public Radio Air Date: 12/7/2025 on 90.5 WICN 9am-12pm ET If you miss the air date: click here for the archi ves for up to two weeks . This Sunday we'll be taking your pledge during the Sunday Jazz Brunch, to support this kind of music. I hope you value what we do here at 90.5 WICN and I look forward to hearing from you during our pledge drive. Call this Sunday,  12/7 , between 9am - 12pm: 508-752-0700. Alternatively, during that time you can visit our website and pledge online by clicking here . Thanks for your support. Without you, our valued listeners, we would not exist. Best, Marty 
The Sunday Jazz Brunch Presents Sunday's Playlist Air Date: 11/30/2025 on 90.5 WICN 9am-12pm ET If you miss the air date: click here for the archi ves for up to two weeks . HOUR ONE: Contemplative Morning Susan Krebs With Mixed Remotions-Daybreak 2021-04 Inside A Silent Tear Ted Rosenthal Trio\Classics Reimagined - Improp2 2025\09. Salut D'Amour - Elgar feat Sara Caswell v. Stella Cole\It's Magic 2025 feat Alan Broadbent\Fools Rush In Lauren Henderson-Conjuring 2023-10 I Wish You Love (Featuring Joel Ross, Sean Mason, Eric Wheeler & Joe Dyson) Joshua Redman\where are we 2023\007 Joshua Redman Featuring Gabrielle Cavassa - Manhattan Brad Turner Quartet\It's All So 2025\It's All So Judy Whitmore\Come Fly With Me 2024\Autumn in New York Peter Bernstein\Better Angels 2024\Hazel Eyes Affinity Trio\New-Outlook 2025\Shadow Catcher feat Eric Jacobson tpt. Alberto Pibiri Trio\Stardust 2022\Moomlight in Vermont Tania Grubbs\The Sound of Love 2024\Duke Ellington's Soun...
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The Sunday Jazz Brunch Presents Musician's Corner: Ted Rosenthal Air Date: 11/16/2025 on 90.5 WICN 9am-12pm ET If you miss the air date: click here for the archi ves for up to two weeks .   LISTEN TO THE SEGMENT HERE   Regular listeners of the Sunday Jazz Brunch know how much I like a good piano trio. There something very elegant and pure about these three instruments playing together.  This year we have a bounty of material from pianist Ted Rosenthal and his trio. It is not often that we encounter an artist who has four simultaneous releases. I must admit that I was confused initially when I heard about his follow-on project to a CD released in 2010 called Impromptu , in which Mr. Rosenthal arranges classical works for jazz piano trio. The new CD, titled Impromp2 , continues the work crossing over between classical and jazz.  However, when I got his 'new CD,' it had a different title! So here are the four releases: Classics Reimagined: Impromp2 The Ted Rosenthal Son...