Pheno's Lounge

Back at it again... "Expanding On The Smoothness" and keeping the groove alive. Pheno's Lounge is "Your Official Weekend Soundtrack" but that doesn't mean you can't enjoy it during the week. So, indulge your senses and invite a few friends along to groove wit 'cha - One Time! On this episode I placea spotlight on two icons of this music world, keyboardist, composer, arranger and producer Dexter Wa...

Back again friends with another episode.  Your Official Weekend Soundtrack for coolin' and groovin'.... make it a Memorial Day. Enjoy, Brian "Katzpheno" Phoenix featuring: A Tribe Called Quest - Check The Rhyme (Mr. Muhammad's Mix) Buckshot LeFonque - Try These On Taylor McFerrin - Memory Digital Carolyn Malachi - Where I Come From Victor Wooten - Get It Right Smokey Robinson - Quiet Storm (Groove...

Ahhh.... April, Spring is in the air, flowers everywhere, the days are getting longer and I haven't a care. This is the time to polish up the ride, forget about where I been, baby hop on in and let's just go cruisin'....  PS - This is a perfect soundtrack for that. Enjoy, DJ Katzpheno featuring: The Brand New Heavies - Mind Trips [BNH Remix] (1998) Frank McComb - They're Gonna Be Looking At You (2...

Yes...yes... Katzpheno is back again!  Winter was hard on a brother, cold and harsh, but the time for hibernation is ending and I have finally completed another one! This episode is full of grooves that will inspire and lift you out your blahs. Yesterday's Heaven is today's reality...on earth as it is in our dreams. Believe it and you can achieve it!! Enjoy The Mix, Brian "Katzpheno" Phoenix featu...

Don't be scared!  It's Spooky just how good this playlist really is.... enjoy it fearlessly! - Brian "Katzpheno" Phoenix  featuring: Maxi Priest - Space In My Heart (1990) Frank McComb - Reprise (2000) Herbie Hancock - Textures (1980) The Roots - Act Too, Love Of My Life (1999) Stanley Clarke featuring Q-Tip - I, 2, To The Bass (2003) Carolyn Malachi - Where I Come From (2016) Kaidi Tatham - Chui...

Happy New Year Everybody!! This is the first Pheno's Lounge episode of 2026 and on this mix I delve into a strng mix of old and new, mostly R&B, with a little funk and smooth jazz mixed in for good measure. I am looking forward to new changes for 2026 but one thing will never change... I shall PROCEED and continue to "Expand On The Smoothness". Enjoy - Brian "Katzpheno" Phoenix featuring: Step...

Wassup Y'all?? Straight from Katzpheno Studios in beautiful downtown Good Good Music Village, comes yet another episode of groove! Pheno's Lounge is dedicated to expanding on the smoothness, an hour long celebration of R&B, Soul & Smooth Jazz... and so much more. Curated for those with discerning musical taste, like Maxwell House this podcast is good till the last drop.... or at least that...

Yes, yes y'all another Lounge Mix has dropped - chock full of musical goodies designed to put a smile on your face. You got your ticket, boarding pass, and the itinerary suggests good vibes and love abound so don't be late for your journey on Astral Flight 17.  See you on the other side. - Brian "Katzpheno" Phoenix featuring: Sergio Mendes [featuring: Justin Timberlake, Pharoahe Monch & Will....

DJ Katzpheno back again with another world class groove!!  A little something, something to celebrate the end of Summer and the beginning of Fall. Just as the days now are a little less hot, but still just as sunny... falling in love in Autumn is a tad more mellow, but still just as yummy! Enjoy the mix, Brian "Katzpheno" Phoenix featuring: Michael Henderson - You're My Choice (1980) Sylvia Stripl...

The Iceman Cometh.... this time with a soulful, bluesy groove...just in time to cool you off during these blistering summer days and nights. Enjoy, Brian "Katzpheno" Phoenix featuring: Legally Blynd - Nena (2015) Kendra Morris - As Long As I've Got You (2013) Prince - Feel Good, Feel Better, Feel Wonderful (2009) Little Jackie - 28 Butts (2008) Donny Osmond - Would I Lie To You? (2000) Rod Wave -...

Hey Gang!! DJ Katzpheno Back 2 U with more groove for your mind, body and soul. New music from Lalah Hathaway, Norman Brown and a whole lot more! So go ahead get your groove on... it's all on me and it's all free...like Donny Hathaway said "...someday you'll see we'll all be free..." Enjoy, Brian "Katzpheno" Phoenix featuring: Lalah Hathaway - Mood For You (2024) Boney James - I Wanna Show U Sumth...

What Up Y'all??  Your friendly neighborhood DJ is on the scene, laying in the cut with a gangster lean. Katzpheno here, bringing you a playlist set for Spring! The April showers are falling and will surely to bring us May flowers. Just as the musical rain of this podcast is sure to take away all your pain. I titled this one "Take It Slow", because those seeds/resolutions you planted in your subcon...

My Life, My Life, My Life.... In The Sunshine! With those 6 words an artist sealed his status in African -American Pop Culture. Roy Ayers was born in South Central LA on September 10th, 1940 and began his career as a post bop jazz artist, releasing several Jazz oriented studio albums with Atlantic Records, before his tenure at Polydor Records beginning in the 1970s, during which he helped to pione...

The icons are passing.  It feels like the moorings are coming loose and the foundational elements I so steadfastly relied upon are no longer there. You know my love of music goes deep, like cradle deep. My older brother, older by a full 11 years, used to tell the story of how he would place my baby crib in front of the family stereo and play his latest 45 rpm singles. He said he knew a song was a...

As all lovers of Good Good Music know, there was and always will be only one Quincy Jones aka The Dude.  Quincy Jones transitioned from this earthly plane on November 3rd, 2024 at the ripe young age of 91!! Along his spectacular journey he created a creative legacy that is unsurpassed in the world of music. First as a Jazz trumpeter playing in Lionel Hampton's Big Band, then as a leader of his own...

This episode celebrates the Spanish/Cubano/Brazilian/African diaspora or as we call Latino music!  The title of this episode refers to the Portuguese name for an African deity... Anganju the GOD of the volcanoes and deserts. So you know this show is full of pressure and hot lava which could erupt at any moment!!!  So be careful... Enjoy, Brian "Katzpheno" Phoenix featuring:  Khari Cabral & Jiv...

This episode is all about a one of a kind singer/songwriter, a man straight out of the soul tradition, a modern day crooner, who sang from his heart.  The one and only Frankie Beverly.  With his band Maze they blazed a string of unforgettable songs, albums and live concert recordings that had every backyard cookout and college campus ablaze. Songs of love, songs of joy, songs of pain, songs of soc...

"...'Cause it's a bittersweet symphony, that's life Tryna make ends meet, you're a slave to money then you die. I'll take you down the only road I've ever been down, you know the one that takes you to the places where all the veins meet, yeah No change, I can change...." - lyrics from Bittersweet Symphony - The Verve It be's that way sometimes.... life can be bitter and it can be sweet, all at the...

"The more we see, the less we open our eyes and we sometimes forget who we are." - Incognito from the song "Yesterday's Dreams" (2000) Here is a reminder... you are a child of the most high, the great I AM, and as such you are more beautiful, complex, capable and powerful that you can possibly imagine. Yesterday's dreams make tomorrow's paradise! Get Busy! Enjoy the mix, Brian "Katzpheno" Phoenix...

Spring has sprung! Yay!  Spring always feels special after our crummy days of winter, although to be perfectly frank, spring didn't start off very springy, I mean how strange, why on April 8th, we even had a total solar eclipse! Haven't seen that in the US since 2017. But now that the moon has had its 15 minutes of fame during daylight hours, the sun now resumes its place of daytime dominance (asi...