The Needle Drop — April 12, 2026

Hosted by Derek Smith on KMHD 89.1 FM Portland

53 tracks · 52 artists

Full tracklist

2:01pm — Cliff Jordan & John Gilmore — Blue Lights
2:07pm — Stanley Turrentine & The Three Sounds — Blue Hour
2:12pm — Jimmy Smith — Prayer Meetin'
2:18pm — Yusef Lateef — The Three Faces of Balal
2:20pm — McCoy Tyner — Contemplation
2:29pm — Mongo Santamaria — Afro Blue
2:33pm — Abbey Lincoln — Love
2:36pm — Sven Wunder — Daybreak
2:39pm — Roy Eldridge and Coleman Hawkins — Sunday
2:45pm — Duke Pearson — Prairie Dog
2:51pm — Charlie Parker — April In Paris
2:54pm — Antônio Carlos Jobim — Dialogo
2:57pm — Stan Getz — Vivo Sohando
3pm — Phi-Psonics — Prelude: Expansion
3:01pm — Greg Foat & Gigi Masin — Viento Calido
3:08pm — Okonski — Runner Up
3:14pm — Blundetto — Final Goodbye (with Tommy Guerrero)
3:17pm — Alfa Mist — Dersen Cafe
3:19pm — Miles Davis — Bye Bye Blackbird
3:27pm — Milt Jackson — Afternoon In Paris
3:33pm — Monk Higgins — I Believe To My Soul
3:36pm — Asha Puthli — Let Me In Your Life
3:41pm — Johnny Griffin — Latin Quarter
3:47pm — Cannonball Adderley — Corcovado
3:54pm — Bola Sete — Wedding Bell Blues
3:56pm — Calvin Keys — You Are All I Need
4pm — Freddie Joachim — Meditation
4:02pm — Timothy McNealy — Easy, Easy, Easy
4:06pm — El Michels Affair — Yennicita
4:09pm — The Awakening — When Will It Ever End
4:16pm — Eddie Harris — Samia
4:23pm — Gianni Brezzo — Home Run
4:26pm — Leon Thomas — Let the Rain Fall On Me
4:32pm — Rudolph Johnson — Fonda
4:39pm — Eric Lau — It's Rainy
4:43pm — Aretha Franklin — If I Should Lose You
4:46pm — Dorothy Ashby — Essence Of Sapphire
4:49pm — Menahan Street Band — Everyday a Dream
4:53pm — Leroi Conroy — Shere's Theme
4:55pm — The Circling Sun — Amina
4:59pm — Piero Umiliani — Sadico Thrilling
5pm — Freddie Hubbard — You're My Everything
5:07pm — Paul Desmond — Take Ten
5:10pm — Eddie Harris — Live Right Now
5:17pm — Bolbec — Le Prof De Gong
5:19pm — Fabiano do Nascimento & Sam Gendel — Poeira
5:23pm — Rubén González — Melodía Del Rio
5:28pm — Rio 3 — Valley Samba
5:31pm — Tatsuro Yamashita — Nostalgia of Island
5:42pm — Smoke — Shelda
5:47pm — Marcos Resende and Index — My Heart
5:53pm — Felbm — Tandem
5:55pm — The Edwards Generation — YOU'RE THE ONE FOR ME

All The Needle Drop episodes → · Everything KMHD played on April 12, 2026 →

KMHD Spun is a listener-built archive tracking every song logged on KMHD 89.1 FM Portland since 2013. Explore the full site →