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NY Standard – Episode 140 – Winter Songs

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Since I’ve been penned up for the last 30 hours or so, I decided to bring a different show than usual to you.

It’s a blizzard here in NYC!  They’re expecting about 20 inches of snow or more by the time it’s over!

So, let’s let the music follow, right?  Most of this music is soft & snowy, too.  But, some simply evokes the spirit of the day. A snow day!  Remember a “snow day?”

Enjoy!

NY Standard – Episode 139 – Downward Dogs

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This week’s show is a bit on the downside, but in a lovely way.

Last week, we lost a musical legend & within the confines of this show – and its idiom – I attempt to bring you something of a tribute to David Bowie.

Enjoy!

NY Standard – Episode 138 – 7 Minutes In Heaven

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This show is all about songs – jazz & standards – that are all at least 7 minutes long & no longer than 7:59.

While this was intended to be an “easy” show to produce & record – which it was – it also comes in just under 3 hours.  That’s what happens when you play twenty 7 minute songs, I s’pose!

ENJOY!

NY Standard – Episode 137 – Les Jours du Soleil

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Happy New Year!

This week’s show is dedicated to the New Year & a new day.  Thus, the entire show is sun songs…

Rage against the dying of the light…

Enjoy!

  • The Beatles
  • Jimi Hendrix
  • Carmen McRae
  • Lionel Hampton
  • Frank Sinatra
  • Grant Green
  • Charlie Parker
  • Mel Tormé
  • Lester Young
  • Paul Chambers
  • Ella Fitzgerald
  • Jonathan Edwards
  • The Smithereens
  • Alabama Shakes
  • Split Single
  • U2
  • The Bothy Band
  • Villagers
  • Gordon Lightfoot
  • Mark Lanegan
  • Sunny Day Real Estate
  • Les Paul
  • Glenn Miller
  • Etta James
  • Johnny Hartman
  • Mel Tormé
  • The Dorsey Brothers
  • Walter Jackson
  • Big Joe Turner
  • Cannonball Adderley
  • Nat “King” Cole
  • Bob Mould

NY Standard – Episode 136 – Happy & Merry 2015

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This year’s Christmas show is unique & yet, a lot of it is the same.  You can still hear the entire original Nat King Cole Christmas record – long since out of print – in its entirety here.  You can also hear some lovely singer/songwriters do their takes on more modern winter songs & a few of my choice Irish traditional Christmas music, too.

But, as it is, week-in week-out, this show is mostly dedicated to traditional Christmas music from my childhood.

I love them all & I hope you do, too.

May you ALL have a Happy & Merry season!

NY Standard – Episode 135 – Lush & Lovely – Thanksgiving 2015

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This week’s show is dedicated to the most beautiful music you’ve ever heard.  Long, lush lines of music…

It is built to set & forget so you can press play & go about your day as you cook, bake, clean or entertain.

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Enjoy!

 

NY Standard – Episode 134 – #JeSuisParis

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This week’s episode is dedicated to the people of Paris & to everyone else in this world who seeks peace in this world.

 

NY Standard – Episode 133 – In A Sentimental Mood

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With the sun leaving us alone a few more hours than Spring or Summer this weekend, I decided to do a show that saluted the more thoughtful autumn.  Ballads to be sure, but a few mid-tempo numbers too…

Enjoy!

NY Standard – Episode 132 – Batch of Basie & The Hartmans

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This week’s show is an up & mid-tempo tempo romp that takes us thorough Basie, Eckstine & my two favorite Hartmans (even if one of them is ‘dressed’ as Troy McClure!).

Enjoy!

  • Ann Hampton Callaway
  • Anita O’Day
  • Fletcher Henderson
  • Coleman Hawkins
  • Billy Eckstine
  • Bobby Darin & Johnny Mercer
  • Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys
  • The Dorsey Brothers
  • Bud Powell
  • Sonny Rollins
  • Cannonball Adderley
  • Johnny Hartman
  • Phil Hartman (as Troy McClure!)
  • Ella Fitzgerald
  • Pippin
  • Sammy Davis Jr. & Paula Wayne (from ‘Golden Boy’)
  • Charlie Palmieri
  • Lester Young & Oscar Peterson
  • Count Basie
  • Helen Merrill
  • Nat King Cole
  • Oscar Peterson & Nelson Riddle
  • Van Morrison & Chet Baker

NY Standard – Episode 131 – Lester Leaps Into Autumn

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This week’s show features a solid chunk of Lester Young plus some other amazing artists & a closing tribute to autumn.