The Sunday Jazz Brunch Presents

Time Traveling: Best of 2024

Air Date: 1/18/2026 on 90.5 WICN 9am-12pm ET
 
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 Born
Vanessa Perea\This is the Moment 2024\09 The Shadow Of Your Smile
Jun Iida\Evergreen 2024\Love Theme from Spartacus

Stacey Kent\Summer Me Winter Me 2024\A Song That Isn't Finished Yet
Christian Sands\Embracing Dawn 2024\005 Serenade of An Angel
Olivia Foschi\A Window Within 2024\Pieces of Central Park
George Benson\Dreams Do Come True 2024\Can't We Be Friends

Tierney Sutton and San Gabriel 7\Good People 2024\Autumn 
Andy Ezrin\I Was Here 2024\Never Enough
April Varner\April 2024\Dear April
Remy Le Boeuf sax\Heartland Radio  2024\Barbara feat Julia Easterlin v.

HOUR TWO: New For You

Stella Bass\Look for the Silver Lining 2024\I Believe In You
Jay D'Amico-Melodia 2024-11 Adagio In Bb Minor
Andy James\Let Me See Your Heart 2024\Photograph
Francesco Cataldo-Amaranto 2024-02 Amaranto

Tania Grubbs\The Sound of Love 2024\Duke Ellington's Sound of Love
Leslie Pintchik\Prayer for What Remains 2024\I Will
Samara Joy\Portrait 2024\05_A Fool In Love (Is Called A Clown)
Warren Wolf\History of the Vibraphone 2024\Midnight Sun

Dave Stryker\With Strings Goes to the Movies 2024\Theme from Taxi Driver
Behn Gillece\Stick Together 2024\Changing My Day 
Lori Bell Quartet-Recorda  Me, Remembering Joe Henderson 2024-03 Out of the  Night
Judy Whitmore\Come Fly With Me 2024\Beyond the Sea

HOUR THREE: Brazil/World/Groove

Eliane Elias\Time and Again 2024\A Volta
Sergio Pereira\Bossa+ 2024\Saudades
Champian Fulton\Jazz at the Ballroom Flying High 2024\Lullaby of the Leaves feat Carmen Bradford v.
Karrin Allyson\A Kiss for Brazil 2024\The Island

Jacqui Naylor\Treasures of the Heart 2024\All That We Could Be
Ronny Smith\Struttin 2024\OBO
Tony Monaco-Over and Over 2024-01 Da Daddy
Brian Landrus\Plays Ellington and Strayhorn 2024\Lotus Blossom
Richard Elliot\Straight Up Down 2024\Straight Up Down
Brian Landrus\Plays Ellington and Strayhorn 2024\Come Sunday

Streetwize-Lift Me Up 2024-08 I Like You (Happier Song)
Stacey Kent\Summer Me Winter Me 2024\Thinkin About the Rain
Win Pongsakorn\Time Has Changed 2024\Hummingbirds at Balata Garden
Marion Meadows\Just Doing Me 2024\Black Cat
 
 
 
 

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