KKSF 103.7 FM Sampler for AIDS Relief, Vol. 12

Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 30, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Kksf
• ASIN: B00006599Z
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #161,826 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Take Ten - Paul Desmond

2. The Music Inside - Chuck Loeb

3. X-Ray Hip - Bona Fide

4. Just the Two of Us - Grover Washington, Jr & Bill Withers

5. Always There - Avenue Blue

6. Brooklyn Heights - Down To The Bone

7. Song for Elizabeth - Jonathan Butler

8. After All - Al Jarreau

9. Lily Was Here - Candy Dulfer

10. Kickin' It - Joel Gaines

11. Boneyism - Boney James

12. Come Rain or Come Shine - Ray Charles

13. Flyin' High - Yulara

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars KKSF Sampler for AIDS relief - 19 years of great jazz, January 24, 2011

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Bruce L. Stegner (Washington State) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: KKSF 103.7 FM Sampler for AIDS Relief, Vol. 12 (Audio CD)

I was living in San Francisco when KKSF first came on the air. At first they were trying to focus on Brazilian jazz but later became San Francisco's favorite jazz station. Someone, I don't know who for sure, had the bright idea of taking the years top 10 to 20 jazz hits, putting them on a CD and have a major chunk of the profits go towards AIDS.
I have collected them since the first ones came out. Always guaranteed to contain lots of tracks to please. Mostly instrumental and mostly contemporary (although Dave Brubeck and Take Five showed up one year). When I moved away I still followed the radio station and kept buying the sampler, as we called it.
Sadly, last year the owners sold it to someone who thought San Francisco needed another rock and roll station and that was the end of KKSF as we knew it. I think there are 19 samplers. Some are very hard to find. You can pick almost any one and you will budget for the rest. For a while I gave them as gifts until I realized I no longer had a complete set and whoever I gave them to was long gone in my life. I recently spent a fair amount of time finding copies and bringing my set up to completeness.
Some of my favorites: Mary Black singing Columbus, Marvin Gaye "Heard it on the grapevine" come to mind right away. One of the CDs is a collection of Christmas jazz songs which doesn't quite come up to the level of the other CDs, but around the holidays it is nice to have around.
KKSF is still on the internet, it just isn't a jazz radio station anymore.
Enjoy